Just a quickie this time. On my needles is a scarf in Araucania Aysen and I'm crocheting a bag with Drops Eskimo, due to be surrendered to the washing machine and hopefully felted to perfection (pictures due soon).
Musically, here are three tracks that are currently on my radar:
1. Love: Kanye West- All of The Lights. Killer drum machine beat and a list of guests as long as your arm. Rihanna is the obvious one, doing the bridge and chorus. Elly Jackson (of La Roux) is also there but is almost drowned out by Alicia Keys. On the male side Elton John tinkles the ivories and sings (can't hear him) and there's lots of others, mostly American guys, notably Charlie Wilson formally of The Gap Band.
2. Hate: The Wanted. I couldn't remember what the song was called as I have just heard it on the radio but I knew that Gold/Golden features in the title. However, after a quick peruse on their website I have found that it is called 'Gold Forever' and it is the official Red Nose Day single. Bad choice. Whoever wrote this song should have given it to female vocalists because I find that hearing men describing themselves and their beloved as butterflies flying in the sky or some other such insipid, cliched phrase just wrong.
3. Guilty pleasure: JLS feat. Tinie Tempah- Eyes Wide Shut. This song represents everything I hate about the current dancepoprandb that seems to be the norm right now but try as as I might I cannot hate it.
Just because they are called The Wanted does not mean they are actually wanted in any concrete sense by anybody. I wish someone somewhere would stop trying to make them 'relevant'.
ReplyDelete