Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

2017/02/18

Musicality

So I randomly came across to this web and challenged myself for those not-so-special compatibility test. It's personality based on music taste, like what I'm listening to, what kind of preferences I like. It's one of those average tests that lets you choose between options but the weight of your results actually lies behind every options. And truth be told, I'm pretty much skeptical about these kinds of tests. But since it's about music, I'm in.

The results are interesting. And surprisingly, they're mostly right about my personality. I'm mostly categorized as a liberal person, enjoy fine arts and indie/foreign films, and a creative person.

It's quite fun. Try it out here yourself if you haven't.

And as you can see, I enjoy rap and hip-hop a lot haha. I find something calming in raps, not the other way round. Folk music or jazz indeed have these vibes that makes you feel relaxed, like your problems are postponed within the hour. On the contrary to what I feel, rap/hip hop music always have strong lyrics and rappers have their own rhythms and pitches, like somehow I feel special listening to what kind of message they're trying to send across. I know you might not understand what I'm talking about, but it feels like that to me. I'm blessed with sharp ears, so I can distinct various voices if I have listened to them enough. And just like that, I can differ many rappers' voices.

Rock music will always be a part of my musical genre history. I started to like boybands when I was 5 or 6, I remembered getting two copies of Westlife albums. But when I turned 10, especially when I start to learn classical guitar, I found instruments were interesting. I remember finding Arctic Monkeys before they get super famous, before they even released their debut album. Then there were Panic at The Disco, Orson, The Servant, Franz Ferdinand, a lot more, they were in my playlist (I didn't have an iPod, instead I had this red music player with a small screen, which Dad got me from Germany if I'm not mistaken). Back when people were not used to with social media profiles, I used Myspace regularly to find new artists or just for new updates. Things like Spotify wasn't a thing back then, so I usually bought the physical albums. Mostly in cassettes, I was a 13 year old students so I had no money to buy the CD version. I carried my Sony walkman to school. It took an hour journey to go to school so I always listened to music, one artist per day. The old feeling of rewinding the tapes when you're done with one side, is hard to explain. Due to excessive listening to loud music, my eardrums were infected. It was a fun memory. Except that I got told off a lot. 

Now my musical genres are getting more varied, but I still use my old boombox to play cassettes and CDs. I subscribe to Spotify premium as well, but there's just something about collecting physical albums. My collections are not that much but they're all my selected favourites, based on the albums's songs and the albums' art. I like the feeling that I collect music but also collecting the art of the album itself. Okay, that would be all. Didn't realise I wrote this much. Have a good day!





2011/12/09

Serge♥


I can never tell how much I love Sergio Pizzorno aka Serge. For some reason I like Italian names, specially as guys' last names. Italian last names are sexy. I feel like, it sounds really good in my eardrums (exaggeration alert). There are three main reasons why you just can never resist Serge. He's mixed Italian-British, then he's a talented musician, and you get the result of a multicultural son: beautiful eyes, strong cheekbones and facial hairs! But I didn't become a huge fan of Kasabian because of Serge's physical appearance, I was attracted to Tom (back when he had A LOT of facial hairs). Then I realize that Serge made some of the songs. So I become a fan of him. He's just too handsome to be a boyband member with his pointy nose. I put Serge's photo on the sidebar, hoping I could see him live one day. One day in a Kasabian concert.
Recently I just don't like his haicut. It makes him looks weird, but still sexy. The second picture is a scene from "Days Are Forgotten" (just check it on YouTube, the concept of the video was some of Serge's idea. He really is smart, I can see, but he needs to cut his  hair. It looks like he's been in somewhere he didn't belong so much. It looks the judges like in the 18th century. Well, at least with his weird hair, he got a really nice wig which didn't get much bees to fight sith us. 

2011/11/15

new boy






























Well, I just randomly ran into this guy's video called "You Need Me, I Don't Need You" and I was blown away by its decency of black and white music video. The guy doing mimics of what the lyrics are saying, but he doesn't move his mouth, that's what I love the most. The guy was expressionless but I, understand what he's trying to say, sort of.

So, move to the guy who sings the song. His name is Ed Sheeran (he's not the one who's in the video, it's a different person, I can tell). I was kind of a bit curious just so I typed his name on Google and I found out that he's born in 1991 just like me. And I was like, 'whaaaat....?? He doesn't look like twenty at all!' His physical appearance looks like Rupert Grint, specifically by his strawberry-blonde hair (he even has the same hairstyle!) I like his voice, he doesn't sound like what he looks like. If you haven't seen his appearance and you listen to his songs, you might project your own sight of his appearance of a tall guy with beards and pointy nose and probably a pair of grey eyes (or green, whatever). Just like Jens Lekman or that other guy besides Erlend Øye in Kings of Convenience. But despite of all the things (mainly his strawberry-blonde hair), I like him. New boy crush! And he's british, I can faint listening to his accents. His gigs were slightly a lot more than James Morrison's and that what made him changing labels from indie to major. Some people compare him to Just Jack. And I have to agree on that though their genres are well, a bit different. But what matters the most, I have something to listen to! 





PS: Today I ate a big burger just because I just watched the episode of How I Met Your Mother where Marshall is on search of his greatest burger on earth in New York. I just couldn't stand Barney's face so I called a delivery of burger with fries and coke. Ain't my fault, right? And also, I watched too much Beyoncé videos until my YouTube account was bored with it.

2011/10/02

beyoncé

recently i'm getting slightly obsessed with this diva. not in a weird way, it's just, she's too cool to be true. i mean, she's got the body, the skin, the voice, the hair, and mostly the dance moves. i'm learning her dance moves since few weeks ago (pretty much an exhausting thing to do) and my current project is the 'run the world' dance moves. speaking of which, i just listened to her new album '4' and turns out that the photoshoot for the album is beautiful. here's a few that i love.