Thread: Music: Cutting Edge and What You Are Listening To?

Rihanna is easily one of my favourite mainstream modern pop/RnB artists. Eminem isn't my favourite rapper of all time, but I do think he's pretty good. (Although the tendancy of some rappers to make bad puns annoys me... "now you get to watch her leave out the window, guess that’s why they call it window pane"... COME ON!)

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

(Although the tendancy of some rappers to make bad puns annoys me... "now you get to watch her leave out the window, guess that’s why they call it window pane"... COME ON!)

Nooooooooooooooooooo... that is one of my FAVORITE lines in the song!! My daughter also likes "you don’t get another chance, life is no nintendo game"

I posted the song "Airplanes" earlier by B.O.B and there is another line like that..." But I ain't have neighbors, that's why they call it hood." I thought that was a good one too, why DO we call it the hood?

So the latest song that I have been in love with is "Secrets" by OneRepublic. It is interesting that this song came out first in Germany and Australia but not in other countries, so Bitpicker, you may have heard this one on the radio long before we did. For us in the States, this song came to our attention with LOST and the movie "The Apprentice" and it was finally released in June as a single. It is in my head as I write which is sometimes very annoying as I can't focus but it goes along with the current part of the storyline that I am writing!

Song: Secrets
Artist: OneRepublic
Album: Waking Up
Composer: Ryan Tedder
Year: 2009/2010

Lyrics:
I need another story
Something to get off my chest
My life gets kinda boring
Need something that I can confess
Til' all my sleeves are stained red
From all the truth that I've said
Come by it honestly I swear
Thought you saw wink, no
I've been on the brink, so

Tell me what you want to hear
Something that were like those years
Sick of all the insincere
So I'm gonna give all my secrets away
This time, don't need another perfect line
Don't care if critics never jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

My god, amazing how we got this far
It's like we're chasing all those stars
Who's driving shiny big black cars
And everyday I see the news
All the problems that we could solve
And when a situation rises
Just write it into an album
Singing straight, too cold
I don't really like my flow, no, so

Tell me what you want to hear
Something that were like those years
Sick of all the insincere
So I'm gonna give all my secrets away
This time, don't need another perfect line
Don't care if critics never jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

Oh, got no reason, got not shame
Got no family I can blame
Just don't let me disappear
I'mma tell you everything

So tell me what you want to hear
Something that were like those years
Sick of all the insincere
So I'm gonna give all my secrets away
This time, don't need another perfect line
Don't care if critics never jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

Oh... the other one that is creeping in my head while I'm writing this current scene is the new Bruno Mars song... "Just the Way You Are" It is his first single from his debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans. The video was released this month and the effects they use for the cassette tape are cool. That is for those of you old enough to remember cassette tapes!

Song: Just The Way You Are
Artist: Bruno Mars
Album: Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Composer: Cain, Khari; Lawrence, Philip; Levine, Ari; Mars, Bruno; Walton, Khalil
Year: 2010

Lyrics:

Her eyes, her eyes
make the stars look like they're not shining
Her hair, her hair
falls perfectly without her trying
She's so beautiful
And I tell her everyday (yeahh)

I know, I know
When I compliment her she won't believe me
And it's so, it's so
Sad to think that she don't see what I see
But everytime she asks me "Do I look okay?"
I say

When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
'Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
'Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are

Her lips, her lips
I could kiss them all day if she let me
Her laugh, her laugh
she hates but I think it's so sexy
She's so beautiful
And I tell her everyday

Oh you know, you know, you know
I'd never ask you to change
If perfects what you're searching for
Then just stay the same
So don't even bother asking if you look okay
'Cause you know I'll say

When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
'Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
'Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are

The way you are
The way you are

I am showing my age here again but I remember when this song first came out and I first time I heard it. I even have the original ALBUM, yes folks an LP! I fell in love with it then, still like it and often quote it.

"I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boom Town Rats.

Who would have thought that 30+ years later the lead singer, Bob Geldof, would go on to be knighted, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the world's biggest political activists. He is also known for playing the role of Pink in Pink Floyd's 1982 film Pink Floyd The Wall.

In this day and age of autotune, backup singers and fake this and that... here is an old live performance that he did with just a piano to back him up and it is probably my favorite version of the song. The way he paces the song, times each syllable, his mannerisms. Even the audience is spellbound, you could hear a pin drop.

Even if you have heard the song, you may not know that it was based on an actual event that took place in California. I Don't Like Mondays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Song: I Don't Like Mondays
Artist: Boom Town Rats
Album: The Fine Art of Surfacing
Composer: Bob Geldof
Year: 1979

Lyrics:
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna go to school today
She’s gonna make them stay at home
And daddy doesn’t understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be show-ow-ow-ow-own?

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-woo-woo-woo-oot the whole day down

The Telex machine is kept so clean
And it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked
Father’s world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain’t that peachy keen
Now that ain’t so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
'Cuz there are no reasons
What reasons do you need?
Oh Oh oh whoa whoa

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-woo-woo-oot
The whole day down, down, down, shoot it all down

And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with the toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain tackles
(With the problems of the how's and why's)
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die?
Oh Oh Oh

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like
I don’t like (Tell me why)
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like
I don’t like (Tell me why)
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-woo-woo-woot the whole day down



I forgot... we have a number of "House" fans on the forum and it was used in an episode and this is a great fan video!