mainstream music
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
the song at the top of this week's iTune's list is Carly Ray Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe". the song itself is pretty cute, just about a girl trying to flirt with this other guy, but the music video is HILARIOUS. i can't... i mean, she does all of this crazy stuff to get his attention, and the guy turns out to be gay! well, i guess it would be funnier if the guy himself wasn't so good looking., but it was still pretty funny. she's fanning herself at the window, singing to him in the end, and trying to get his attention by washing her car like three feet away from him. i didn't like the song very much before, but after seeing the video, i might have fallen in love with it - and Carly.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Because
"somebody that I used to know" is STILL the top song in iTunes, I’m
going to be writing about the second best song out right now, called “Payphone”
by maroon 5. The song is about a breakup between two people who though they had
it all. You know, a typical heartbreak song. They talk about how they miss what
they once were, but cant go back to it because it wouldn’t work. So basically,
just another sob story about how fairy tales are “total bullsh*t” because they didn’t
get one. Sorry if I sound like it’s a bad song. The song’s great, but when
seven out of the ten top songs on iTunes are either about love or heartbreak,
the stories start to repeat themselves. The music video is pretty cute though. It
shows how the couple was so perfect together but now they don’t have that
paradise. You see pictures in black and white of them so in love but when the screen
goes back to color, you see how sad the two people are. Eventually though, they
throw away the pictures and walk away on an old road. I’d definitely recommend the
song if you haven’t had enough of that breakup young love music on your iPod by
now.
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Somebody That I Used to Know" is a song by artist and songwriter Gotye. The song was written by Gotye himself, about his past relationship with a girl that broke his heart. You hear both sides of the story as the singers sing to each other why they fell out of love and that they're glad they did. The man (Gotye) seems heartbroken in the song while his ex girlfriend explains why she ended it with him. It was released on July 6, 2011 as the lead single and most popular song off his album "Making Mirrors".
The video takes place in a room full of painted triangles, as the singers sing the song to each other.....naked...and blend into the wall themselves. They begin without anything on them, and as the song progresses, the paint on the walls begin to come onto the singers until they are almost impossible to see.
It is Gotye's most successful song and his first #1 song. "Somebody That I Used To Know" is also his first song to make the top 100 in the United States. It has been played in the TV series "90210", "Gossip Girl", and "Glee".
Following "Somebody That I Used To Know" is "We Are Young" buy Fun, which was the number one song for a few weeks until this song passed it.
Monday, April 2, 2012
"We Are Young" is a song by the band "fun". it was released on September 11, 2011. the song was the band's first singe from their latest album "Some Nights". it originally became popular online, but its fame increased when the hit show "Glee" covered it in its episode "Hold On to Sixteen". by February 2012, it hit the top of the iTunes list, was passed for a few days by Justin Bieber's song "boyfriend", but got ahead yet again and became one of the most mainstream songs in the time being. it is the most popular song on iTunes and number 12 on the Billboard hot 100. Fun is doing great, but has only released two albums since 2009. it consists of three current members; Jack Antonoff, Andrew Dost, and Nate Ruess. Ruess formed the band with the other two when he broke up with his original band "The Format" in 2008. since then, he has been hugely successful with his current band and his biggest hit, We Are Young. the music video has been a huge success as well, taking place at a bar in which a riot breaks out. in the beginning, you see a girl texting someone, in which the message reads NOW! assuming this is supposed to trigger the riot. people and object fly across the bar, showing just how young a wild the band really is.
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