Music junkie.
Had a great day today with my friend Ayinsan. I converted her to Hiddlestology by exposing her to Thor 1 and she has taken quite well to it. XD We hope to see Thor 2 at some point, and also the Avengers, but for now, funny videos of TH doing impressions will do.
Ayinsan also bought Lady Gaga's new album (she let me burn it to my mp3 player), and I have to say...I'm disappointed. It's interesting, and I like a few of the songs - my favorite being 'Applause' - but a lot of it is either ear-jarring filler (there's only so many times I can stand to hear a record scratch or techno groove, especially at a near earsplitting volume...*sigh* I must be getting old... ) or the same word/verse repeated over and over and over and over and...you know. It's like she's trying too hard, which she doesn't need to do because she's really a good singer/performer. But I was really looking forward to this one, since I liked 'Born This Way' so much, and ARTPOP fell kinda flat. Ah well, nobody's perfect. And you gotta give Gaga credit for trying to make it interesting, at least. I don't think she has any specific aim in mind, she just throws things all together and leaves the audience/listeners to make what they will of it. Using that approach, sometimes you end up with a winner...and sometimes, you get a big 'ol gloppy mess.
Also got to hear Katy Perry's new album, which is better than the Gaga but still not as good as her previous one. The change is pretty noticeable though - on Teenage Dream Katy was all naughty-and-nice party-girl; on Prism she does the requisite 'adult' introspection which was probably inspired by her divorce. And for the most part it's not bad, but it does kinda get boring after a while. My favorite song is 'Birthday' but the feminist in me dislikes how the whole song is basically about being a man's 'entertainment'. Like I said, nobody's perfect. :/ (I just try to tell myself it's in the context of cheering up a loved one and that helps ease the pangs of resentment. I can admit that there's tunes I like by artists whose background is less than ideal. *COUGHbritneyspearsearly80'smichaeljacksonandthatone'Forever'songbyChrisBrownwhoisinarguablyatotaldickweedCOUGH*)
I still want to get Michael Buble's newest album (the special edition, with the three extra songs), and also his Christmas album (the Christmas shit is out full-bore, as usual), and I also want Gloria Estefan's Standards. I haven't bought anything by her since 1998's Gloria! because her stuff hasn't been so great, but I heard this one on Amazon and I like it - she did a better job with the older songs than she did on the first oldies album she made in 1995. And I still want to eventually get Owl City's The Midsummer Station, Flo Rida's Wild Ones, P!nk's The Truth About Love, and Maroon 5's Overexposed, to name a few. Most of these I was able to get mp3s of or loaned CDs, but I want to actually own the sucker as part of my collection. (I'm a believer in having that tangible physical media, not just the digital.)
Sting also has a new album out, but I doubt I'm going to buy it, at least not unless I run across it secondhand and the price is good. I listened to that one on Amazon too and only like a couple of songs, and not enough to justify spending full price on it (not that I have the money to). Which is also kind of a shame because I like Sting and own most of his music (excepting his days with the Police), but tastes change. He's into different stuff and so am I.
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Really do wish I could afford my own place, because lately the folks (read: my dad) and I have been clashing, and I'm fast getting to the point where I feel I'm going to explode. I have many thoughts on this and the direction of my life, but I'm not sure I can cobble them all together to put up here. Suffice to say that my state of mind these days isn't in a good place, and it's starting to show. I hate feeling trapped like this.
Ayinsan also bought Lady Gaga's new album (she let me burn it to my mp3 player), and I have to say...I'm disappointed. It's interesting, and I like a few of the songs - my favorite being 'Applause' - but a lot of it is either ear-jarring filler (there's only so many times I can stand to hear a record scratch or techno groove, especially at a near earsplitting volume...*sigh* I must be getting old... ) or the same word/verse repeated over and over and over and over and...you know. It's like she's trying too hard, which she doesn't need to do because she's really a good singer/performer. But I was really looking forward to this one, since I liked 'Born This Way' so much, and ARTPOP fell kinda flat. Ah well, nobody's perfect. And you gotta give Gaga credit for trying to make it interesting, at least. I don't think she has any specific aim in mind, she just throws things all together and leaves the audience/listeners to make what they will of it. Using that approach, sometimes you end up with a winner...and sometimes, you get a big 'ol gloppy mess.
Also got to hear Katy Perry's new album, which is better than the Gaga but still not as good as her previous one. The change is pretty noticeable though - on Teenage Dream Katy was all naughty-and-nice party-girl; on Prism she does the requisite 'adult' introspection which was probably inspired by her divorce. And for the most part it's not bad, but it does kinda get boring after a while. My favorite song is 'Birthday' but the feminist in me dislikes how the whole song is basically about being a man's 'entertainment'. Like I said, nobody's perfect. :/ (I just try to tell myself it's in the context of cheering up a loved one and that helps ease the pangs of resentment. I can admit that there's tunes I like by artists whose background is less than ideal. *COUGHbritneyspearsearly80'smichaeljacksonandthatone'Forever'songbyChrisBrownwhoisinarguablyatotaldickweedCOUGH*)
I still want to get Michael Buble's newest album (the special edition, with the three extra songs), and also his Christmas album (the Christmas shit is out full-bore, as usual), and I also want Gloria Estefan's Standards. I haven't bought anything by her since 1998's Gloria! because her stuff hasn't been so great, but I heard this one on Amazon and I like it - she did a better job with the older songs than she did on the first oldies album she made in 1995. And I still want to eventually get Owl City's The Midsummer Station, Flo Rida's Wild Ones, P!nk's The Truth About Love, and Maroon 5's Overexposed, to name a few. Most of these I was able to get mp3s of or loaned CDs, but I want to actually own the sucker as part of my collection. (I'm a believer in having that tangible physical media, not just the digital.)
Sting also has a new album out, but I doubt I'm going to buy it, at least not unless I run across it secondhand and the price is good. I listened to that one on Amazon too and only like a couple of songs, and not enough to justify spending full price on it (not that I have the money to). Which is also kind of a shame because I like Sting and own most of his music (excepting his days with the Police), but tastes change. He's into different stuff and so am I.
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Really do wish I could afford my own place, because lately the folks (read: my dad) and I have been clashing, and I'm fast getting to the point where I feel I'm going to explode. I have many thoughts on this and the direction of my life, but I'm not sure I can cobble them all together to put up here. Suffice to say that my state of mind these days isn't in a good place, and it's starting to show. I hate feeling trapped like this.