The Voice

So my little brother is pretty into The Voice, X-factor, and American Idol back when it was still relevant. I can't watch them until they pass their audition or my brother recommends them because I get second hand embarrassment for a lot of the people who audition. I just cringe and I get goosebumps and its not the good kind.

Anyways, I really like The Voice because its different from any other singing competition shows where there are a few judges and they vote if you can keep going. They have four judges who sit in a chair and if they want you on their team so they can coach you then they will turn around. If no one turns around then you go home. If more then one judge turns around you can pick one! It's a much easier and funner process. (Is funner even a word idk man) I also really like the show because I have discovered some of my favorite singers.

• #1 Dia Frampton 

I have blogged about her before but she was one of the first people I ever liked on the voice and I will always remember how her covers didn't let you know what song it was until she sang the chorus.

Seriously didn't even know this was by Kanye West.

• #2 Mackenzie Bourg

Not my absolute favorite artist but I love his style and his voice is pretty sweet. Also +1 for liking Harry Potter and wearing elbow patches and suspenders. 

Tbh I like it better when he sings with other people.

• #3 Melanie Martinez

I love love loveee her! Her voice isn't a powerhouse but it has that dreamy off in another world sound. I love every song she's sang on the Voice and her personality! 

Loved her audition! It was such a mellowed out version.

I love both of their voices in this one! Cat sounds like Florence and the Machine and she's just being her!

My favorite song done by her! I love the song already but after she covered it, I felt torn between the two.

                                                                                                           

This is Spinal Tap

First I would like to say that this is a bittersweet post. I loved the class but I hated the blogs and now I am doing my very last one. I will miss waking up in the middle of the night and my first thought being "OH SHIT MY BLOGS!!!!!11"

Anywho on to what we were watching! I think they are hilarious! I laughed at pretty much everything that they said and all the little things that would happen to them. My favorite scene has got to be when the 18 inch Stonehenge replica came floating down. I think I snorted at that point. I also really liked when they were at that reunion/party/dance? thing and the guy was like "play a few slow ones so we can dance" then gilligan cut to them playing 'Sex Farm'.

I'm still laughing.

Dapper Dans

I was totally feeling the Disney magic this week and decided to watch every single clips my dad has of my family at Disneyland. I heard the Dapper Dans a couple of times throughout my dad's videos and I thought it would be perfect to blog about!

They are a barbershop quartet which I totally have a soft spot for. They make me swooon. I remember last summer when I was in Disneyland with Kinzy, we set like fifty alarms and try to go find them and we couldn't find them until the last day we were there. DEDICATION. On the last day we finally got a picture with all the Dappers Dans! Which is super exciting and I would put a picture here but I lost my camera there so fml. I also had footage of them but ):

I love everything about them! Their outfits, their instruments they sometimes have and especially their voices! They blend beautifully and they switched songs every thirty seconds which kept me on my toes! Ahhh I am just in love. I'll let the videos do the talking.

Okay I tried to add the video but I couldn't find the video so I'll just link it here. It's the closest thing to what I had recorded on my camera!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Iuj4jzz7c

and here's just a video of the DisneyWORLD Dapper Dans singing my absolute favorite Disney song.

Gorillaz

So I heard the cover of it in class and I was like whaaaat is this?  I know this song but I don't know this song? But then I was like awww yeaaah fifth grade memories. Then I decided I would blog about the Gorillaz!

My abso-freaking-lutely favorite song by them is Clint Eastwood. It might be because it brings back good memories from 6th and 7th grade. I just love the beat of it and whenever he sings the chorus I'm like love love lovee! I also like that one part where he whispers "that it's all in your head."

I also like Rhinestone Eyes. It's a very chillaxing song that I listen to a lot when I do my homework. It's very electronic compared to Clint Eastwood but it helps me do my homework and that's fine by me!

I would blog about more songs I like but I always keep things in 3s and I wanted to show you this Gorrillaz mashup with the Killers! It's so legit!

Holy shit this is good right? I found it when I was on tumblr and I feel in love. 

The Great Gatsby

I am totally and utterly in love with The Great Gatsby soundtrack. This movie is made so much better with the soundtrack. It made me love characters that I hated in the book and it made the movie more up to date and modern.

I'm starting with my favorite song from the album. Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey! This song played several times throughout the movie and every time it played I cried. The song fits so perfectly with the relationship between Jay and Daisy. The first time it played was when Daisy was reading the letters from Jay on the day of her wedding to Tom. All the scenes where they played this song fit so perfectly. You have to watch the movie to understand.

Also this played when Daisy and Gatsby reunited and had a blast the entire day they were at the mansion and everyone was happy and smiling and you know it wouldn't last but you hope it would anyways. Well that made me cry as well. (Basically I cried throughout the movie lol)

Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?

When they played the reprise version of this at the end and the irony that went along with it made me bawl my eyes out. Gatsby loves Daisy and thinks she will love him back through everything but in the end she takes the easy way out and doesn't even pay a visit to Gatsby's funeral.

 I've seen the world
Done it all
Had my cake now
Diamonds, brilliant
In Bel Air now
Hot summer nights, mid July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child

The part I like to pretend Daisy sang after Gatsby's death while she went on vacay.

There was also a lot of rap music in the movie that people hated but I found a really good post on why it was a good choice. Someone on tumblr said that if they did indeed use jazz music or any other music of the time it would feel normal or old because we've heard it all before but if we use the newest music and rap right now it would be like jazz back in their day. It's cutting edge and hip to us which is what jazz was to them at the time.

ALSO LEO AS JAY GATSBY A++++++++

Massive Attack

I really liked every song we listened to by Massive Attack. I especially liked listening to Massive Attack in the dark with the visualizer. It was a totally chill class. At one point this old guy walked in and I think he was like what is this trippy shit.

                                                           wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 Any who the song that stuck out to me the most was Inertia Attack. I can't exactly explain it, but it was the only song that I shazamed. ( I actually made PJ do it but shhh) I don't know how to really describe a song like that but all I can say is that it was gooooooood.

I also liked Teardrop and everyone said it was the House theme song but I've never watched House before so I think I heard it from a trailer or an ad or something.

HELLOOOOO

oh my jebus that song by Lionel Richie has got to be one of the funnest things I have ever seen! Never have I cracked up so much at anything! I love how creepy he is with the blind girl. He follows her everywhere and calls her at night with one line before hanging up. "HELLOOO IS IT ME YOUR LOOKING FOR" Also I love how shes blind but she sculpted his face perfectly.(PLOT TWIST SHES NOT REALLY BLIND AND SHE SEES HIM CREEPING ON HER) If I was at ACL this year I would rage so hard at his stage. (lol because im actually serious)

I hope when he's at ACL he comes out of the stage ceiling and starts dancing on it. That would be the perfect entrance.

Toby Turner

Okay so the guy I will be blogging about today does vlogs, let's plays and songs. I will be talking about the songs.(duh?)

So I discovered this guy in 8th grade. He wasn't as popular back then but his literal trailers would always make Youtube's front page. So one day I saw 'Literal Trailer: Harry Potter'. I thought it was soooo clever. I rewatched it over and over until I was sick of it.(I was an intense Harry Potter fan back then) I totally subscribed. Then a while later I saw the Literal Trailer for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. HOLY MACKEREL. It was the best thing my 8th grade mind has ever see. I then started to watch his other stuff after that video.
Toby actually has a pretty awesome voice that you don't really get to experience unless you listen to his Dramatic Song or vlogs. I mean you can tell he has a good voice but it's more of a talk-sing in his literal trailers.

Epic Rap Battles

What has my life come to that I have to blog about ERB. Rockkkk botttomm. Me and Kinzy would memorize every line to the raps in 8th grade and rap it at random times and use the lines in everyday conversations. Anyways ERB is just these two guys who dress up like characters and rap. It's not like really shitty dress up and really shitty lines. They go all out and they are actually pretty clever. My three favorite raps of all time are 'John Lennon vs Bill O' Riley' , 'Justin Bieber vs Beethoven' and last but not least 'Gandalf vs Dumbledore.'

I'll write about Gandalf and Dumbledore first. How do I even begin? I like both Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter but I have to admit that Gandalf won. I don't really like their costumes in this one but their lyrics are THE BEST. I would put a video here but I can't from my phone so you're just going to have to imagine it. (or I'll just put it in when I get home lol)

Second is John Lennon vs Bill O Riley. This one made me laugh so hard. The costumes and the lyrics were so accurate. Also when John Lennon started out with HELPPPP, I knew it would be a good one. AND IT IS.

Lonely Island and why my blogs are shit

It's 8:10 and I am currently in Saturday School trying to blog from my phone. So if my two blogs are crap this week I'm sorry in advance. Also I don't remember what we learned on Tuesday and wasnt here on Thursday so my both my blogs will be irrelevant.

This week I will be talking about Lonely Island. I freaking love them and not just for 'Dick in a Box'. Although I love that song too. My favorite songs by them are definitely Natalie's Rap, No Homo, Shy Ronnie 2 and Jack Sparrow. (I have so many more favorites but that would take a while to write about them ALL.)

I like Natalie's rap because it's Natalie Portman rapping! What more can you ask for? I like it that she's usually a classy person and then BAM! She's rapping about taking shits on people's faces and smoking when she was in Yale. Also bonus points for when a Mini Queen Amedila (how do I even spell that idk man) asked for an autograph and she threw away the paper and cracked a bottle over her head.

For No homo, they have some really clever lines that I can't quite remember now. This song speaks to me. I see no homo everywhere and I'm just like ugh. Also I like how it starts out fairly normal and then near the end it's like "no homo but today I came out the closet."

Last one I will write about is Jack Sparrow. Oh this one started out with two puns in the first sentence that I didn't catch until like 50 million times later. "I wrote this big sexy Hooker that I think you guys will Dig." So awesome. I also like all the movie references and Micheal Bolton!