Rap

I feel like the genre of rap/hip hop is taking over my generation. Almost everyone I know listens to mostly rap. It seems to be a very popular genre, and personally, I don't really understand why. I do not like rap. Some of the old rap is good, but I feel like every rapper now just talks about smoking weed, doing drugs and having sex. I just don't enjoy. Most rap songs have no deeper meaning, at least no meaning that I can pick out. I know a lot of people could say the same thing about my music, my screamo, but I don't know, I just don't see why people like rap. In my opinion rap is going downhill. I mean it's going up in popularity but it's going down in good content. The one nice thing I do like about rap is the beat and bass. I love a good strong bass.

Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is pretty good musically. I think the singer is pretty good and the instrumentals are pretty good. They're not really a band I would put on my IPod and listen to albums. My favorite song by them is probably one of the most "mainstream" of them, Evenflow. I think I first heard it on Guitar Hero, the video game. I know my mom used to be in love with them, but me, not so much. I thought the videos were funny, when one of the guys was being a monkey and jumping into the crowd, they seemed to put on a good performance.

Avalanche Tour

On Sunday I'm going to see Shinedown! It's called the Avalanche tour and it's featuring 6 other bands! It's at the Verizon Theater in Grand Praire, I'm really excited! The bands are: Shinedown, Papa Roach, Stone Sour, In This Moment, Hell Highwater, Escape the Fate, and Otherwise. The one I'm probably the most excited for In This Moment, they're one of my favorite bands at the moment and I think it'll be so awesome! My mom is coming with me and my sister, and she does not like this type of music, I think it'll be funny to see her reaction to it. I'm pretty excited for Papa Roach and Shinedown too, but I've never heard of Hell Highwater, Escape the Fate or Otherwise, but I'm assuming they're pretty good if they're touring with these other groups. The tickets were $35, which I think it's pretty cheap since there's going to be 7 bands preforming, so it's like $5 a band! But yeah I'm super excited for this concert, I think it'll be really cool!

Nirvana and Wilco Movies

I didn't really like either of these movies, I thought they were kind of boring (I'm not really a movie person), but out of the two, I liked the Wilco movie better. I liked it more because it was kind of funny, and I liked the people in it, and the story line was pretty cool. The Nirvana unplugged movie was just them playing most of the time and I didn't like it that much, and the band was so unorganized they were like what should play next? Hmm I don't know. Should we play this song as a band or should I do it alone? I just didn't enjoy it very much.

The Band Perry

The Band Perry is releasing a new album, which I think might be good! I've listened to one song that is sooo good, it's called Better Dig Two. It's basically about a woman who loves her husband so much that if he does first or if he falls in love with another woman that she'll kill herself. It's kind of morbid, I like it. I absolutely love Kimberly Perry's voice it's so beautiful and cool sounding. My favorite part is when she says :

"It won't be whiskey, it won't be meth
It'll be your name on my last breath
If divorce or death ever do us part,
The coroner will call it a broken heart"

The rhymes are so clever and they fit so perfectly! Talk about good song writing. I totally recommend this if you listen to country like Carrie Underwood or Lady Antebellum. 


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIdCo_QAz_E

N.W.A and Beastie Boys

I did not like NWA. I don't really like rap or hip hop so it's not really my kind of music. I think it was funny how they cussed a lot, and I liked the lyrics when you read them, but I couldn't really understand what they were saying so I just have it. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't good either. But I love the Beastie Boys. I don't know why I like them so much, they're rap-ish but I think they're funny and I enjoy listening to them. I can't figure out why. But my favorite song by then is probably most people's favorite, Fight For Your Right, I love it, it's funny!

The Downtown Fiction

I was exploring music on my pandora when I came across the band, The Downtown Fiction.
I've only heard one song and I've been meaning to look up more, but the song I know is called I Just Wanna Run. The Downtown Fiction is kind of a boy band and I usually do not like boy bands, but for some odd reason I really like this song. I guess I really like the melody of it. For me, it's one of those songs that gets stuck in your head really easily. The singers voice is kind of squeaky, like really high pitched I think after a while of listening to it, It would get really annoying. But for some reason I really like this song. I hope I don't get it stuck in your head, but if I do, don't get mad at me!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HrWnfx8uRPw

U2 video

I though the U2 video was kind of boring, I think I spaced out during most of it. But I do know that in the first part of the movie at the first concert they opened with a cover of helter skelter, which was okay, obviously not as good as The Beatles, but still pretty good. They also played the song that goes like, I still haven't found what I'm looking for, they played it at what looked kind of like a church and they had a choir song with them, I really liked that one, I thought they sang it really beautifully and the choir was awesome. Those were the only two parts I can really remember but those two parts were really good, so I guess if I watched the whole movie again then maybe it would be good.