Music Which few songs are you currently listening to the most? For me: The Killers - Runaways One Republic - Feel Again The Wanted - Chasing The Sun Train - Drive By Shwayze - Get U Home Labrinth - Treatment
Blue October - Hate Me Green Day - Give Me Novacaine O.A.R - Shattered Gravity - Embrace Dishwalla - Somewhere in the middle
Great video still missing from "our" collection [video=youtube;ghb6eDopW8I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I[/video]
Add them to http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php/15969-I-really-like-this-music-(video)
More 'for the archive' [user friendly style: no memory hogging embedding] Bonus (unofficial cover art from flickr)
Feel free to add (as long as it's no run of the mill boy/girl band nonsense ; that means 'it sucks' in a nice way but I guess you can still add it anyway as this is what the thread is for and there is no accounting for taste)
Linking to it would be useful yeah [was supposed to have been included in last month's update already anyway ]
Just who I was thinking of after reading the below article ... (in the link). Still a great/nice song above, everytime I hear/play it though "AndAnotherThing... 14 minutes agoI want to defend 2NE1 just a little, they've been openly called the ugliest girl group in Korea for their not so conventional looks, and they've been one of the few groups to confront the issue of beauty standards head on with their song "Ugly". From an outsider's perspective, I have to say I respect the K-pop artists who are honest about their surgeries. That's hard to do, so I can understand why some want to keep quiet on it. American singers who've had work done keep it quiet, too. No one's pretending Park Bom hasn't had work done, and the Brown Eyed Girls have all admitted it (and did a satirical "Poker Face" parody about it for SNL Korea). I think it's more harmful to pretend this "perfection" comes naturally. Admitting to plastic surgery and airbrushing, etc is a better jumping off point." Comment on: I Can’t Stop Looking at These South Korean Women Who’ve Had Plastic Surgery http://jezebel.com/5976202/i-cant-stop-looking-at-these-south-korean-women-whove-had-plastic-surgery?utm_source=gizmodo.com&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=recirculation&post=56291224] Also reminds me of some comedic column or whatever about plastic surgery, calling it what it is: false advertising .
Update: 02/2013 ladies day! * Wildcard of the week and your free complimentary bonus video of the week : [video=youtube;GRPUD8Wuwkc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPUD8Wuwkc[/video]
Update 03/2012: Eurovision 2013 Bringing you 4 songs from Eurovision semi-final #1 Starting off with the big favorite (apparently; personally: not as good as the hype would have you believe beforehand imo ) Denmark Followed by the song that put The Netherlands in the final for the first time in 9 years Netherlands Our oddity of the year, failed to qualify (quite like the chorus myself ) Montenegro And finishing off with my personal SF1 fav Moldova
SF2 underway as we speak, performances finished and waiting for the votes. Only just started watching and another supposedly favorite, Norway, sounding a bit boring in the recap (not bad though) ... Just heard something indescribable pass by . Will update tomorrow in a special category *the horror* Eugh, can't even vote today
It may be the view from this side of the Atlantic, but do Europeans really see the Eurovision Song Contest as the apogee of their continent's cultural achievements? Democracy? The Magna Carta? Notre Dame cathedral? The printing press? Caesar salad? Do these fade to nothingness in the shadow of the massive cultural accomplishment of a pretty Scandanavian girl chirping out a catchy tune? :-/ -------- Well, we North Americans can't be hypocrites. We say we spend our college vacations in Europe to soak up the history and culture... but we are really just there to watch pretty Scandanavian girls, too. ;-)
Guys, do you know the song played in the All England 2011 match between Peter Gade versus Taufik Hidayat during the entrance ?
Apparently it was originally envisioned as a show to bring more unity to Europe (and behind the scenes to test live broadcasting technology). Each country goes about it their own way in picking out their entries; some hold a contest just for this, some send the winner of *insert talent show* winner, some simply have some sort of panel that pick out an artist (willing) to represent them, etc. etc. As for the songs: a wild mix of traditional to experimental (ABBA - Waterloo) to traditional meets modern . But it's not as popular as made out to be or at least not as "big a deal", just some nice entertainment and friendly rivalry . Regarding that last aspect: Norway has it's act together Match no existe (use shazam?)
So 4 more picks from me of the second semi-final (which should probably be called/I should probably have called second qualification group since some countries were directly entered into the final) Starting off with the other aforementioned favorite (which I'm starting to like more and more ) Norway Next up Iceland ... because Icelandic is a beautiful language ... Iceland Some entertainment value in line with my favorite last year (coincidentally from Moldova) Greece And last but not least, yet missed out on the final ... Israel And lastly, not to forget, as promised: *the horror* and it actually made the final (reminds me of those performers in Singapore or Malaysian idols trying to impersonate Michael Jackson). Thought it couldn't be as bad as the 5 second re-cap and it thankfully isn't Romania
