Sarah's History of Music
My first music obsession was N*SYNC. Of course I regret that now. I was totally out of love with them before they even broke up. After, I got kind of upset. I realized that all pop music was the same: All speedy songs were about sex or something stupid. All slow songs were about cheating.
So I started to rebel, listening to Disturbed and other such emo/hard rock bands. Then I realized I didn't really them much; the singing was not the pop I had been used to. I cursed myself for liking it too much. So I dabbled a bit before I eventually found the pop/alternative rock genre, listening to Barenaked Ladies and Weezer and the like.
One fine afternoon at VCU, I'm speeding along in the backseat of a tiny Honda (Hyundai?) with my fellow animation classmates and our babysitter when she (the babysitter) lets us choose a CD. It's between Instrumental Metallica and a mix between Tenacious D and OK Go. My vague liking of Tenacious D and vague recognition of the name OK Go wins, and, upon listening to the CD I find that I can somewhat sing along. Of course I didn't, being in public and all...
Fast forward a few weeks when I get home. I'm casually flipping through the channels when I come upon VH1's Top 20 list and they're in the middle of playing this wacked out video. It's four guys dancing on treadmills! Crazy! Then, at the end of the video, I see it's this OK Go.
So I check it out on youtube, and of course it's more awesome. So I watch it again and again and again... And then I decide to listen to more of their music. It's not until I hear Get Over It that I realize I have, in fact, heard of them.
Back in my days of iMesh (2002/2003), I somehow came upon this video. At the time, it was the greatest video I'd ever seen. Of course, this was before my computer crashed for the first time, so I lost it.
After this discovery, I become obsessed. Oh, the lost time! That November, I attended my first concert and fell in love with them.
Christmas comes and goes and I enter 2007 bored of the inactivity. Linkin Park's new CD comes out (in Febuary, if I remember correctly) and while picking it up at Best Buy I randomly decide to get The Killers' new CD. Minutes to Midnight paled in comparison to Sam's Town. I totally opened my eyes to The Killers and found Hot Fuss somewhere in the back of my [sparce] CD collection. Loved it.
After a few months, I decided to check Ticketmaster to see if they were coming nearby anytime soo. Nope. Poo...
So I look up a few more bands, but nothing. Finally, I check Incubus, a band I never really heard but kind of liked. Why, whaddya know? They're here! So I go with some friends and...
They suck. I paid $50 for my ticket and they only played an hour. Seriously, a band that's been around for 12 years should at least play an hour and a half! When I went to see OK Go, they did and they've only got 25 songs! Ugh, they just had no energy. They just played their music, no connection to the audience whatsoever! The only highlight was their opening band, called The Bravery.
I'd heard a few songs by The Bravery before but never really looked into them. After their pretty awesome performance (although, thinking about it, The Backstreet Boys would've been better than Incubus), I decide to check them out. Um, love them!
Then at the beginning of October, I see a Myspace bulletin about this Fujifilm Launch Party in NYC featuring the performance of The Bravery and some band called Locksley.
I went and it was pretty much awesome. I got to stand right infront of the stage. :D I discovered Locksley, this band from Wisconsin that relocated to Brooklyn in 2003, and have since remained completely unsigned. Ugh they're so amazing, you have to check them out!
And their guitarist, who I was standing right in front of is pretty gosh darn hot.
Mmmhmmm. Imagine the rest of the band :]
The Bravery = Awesome. They have so much energy and they're just so entertaining to watch and you can't help but shout along and jump around. Ugh, and they're so freaking hot. Never a bad thing. ;)
Why yes, that is how close I ACTUALLY got to him. I didn't touch him though. I'm not really sure what the etiquette is as far as touching performers; too low could lead to tickling and giggling while singing, or your fingers could get stomped, while too high could lead to groupie status. And I can at least be legal when/if that happens...
But anyway, I looked up Locksley and saw that they had also opened for OK Go and We Are Scientists. OK Go, duh, awesome, but I'd only heard of WAS, so I decided to look them up. And yeah, they're amazing as well.
Ugh, I love that short dance part. OK Go has opened my mind to choreographed dancing. :)
And so, that is how Sarah went from N*SYNC to the real music she now knows. And, she also got a really nice discount on a camera from the launch party :D
So I started to rebel, listening to Disturbed and other such emo/hard rock bands. Then I realized I didn't really them much; the singing was not the pop I had been used to. I cursed myself for liking it too much. So I dabbled a bit before I eventually found the pop/alternative rock genre, listening to Barenaked Ladies and Weezer and the like.
One fine afternoon at VCU, I'm speeding along in the backseat of a tiny Honda (Hyundai?) with my fellow animation classmates and our babysitter when she (the babysitter) lets us choose a CD. It's between Instrumental Metallica and a mix between Tenacious D and OK Go. My vague liking of Tenacious D and vague recognition of the name OK Go wins, and, upon listening to the CD I find that I can somewhat sing along. Of course I didn't, being in public and all...
Fast forward a few weeks when I get home. I'm casually flipping through the channels when I come upon VH1's Top 20 list and they're in the middle of playing this wacked out video. It's four guys dancing on treadmills! Crazy! Then, at the end of the video, I see it's this OK Go.
Click to viewSo I check it out on youtube, and of course it's more awesome. So I watch it again and again and again... And then I decide to listen to more of their music. It's not until I hear Get Over It that I realize I have, in fact, heard of them.
Back in my days of iMesh (2002/2003), I somehow came upon this video. At the time, it was the greatest video I'd ever seen. Of course, this was before my computer crashed for the first time, so I lost it.
After this discovery, I become obsessed. Oh, the lost time! That November, I attended my first concert and fell in love with them.
Christmas comes and goes and I enter 2007 bored of the inactivity. Linkin Park's new CD comes out (in Febuary, if I remember correctly) and while picking it up at Best Buy I randomly decide to get The Killers' new CD. Minutes to Midnight paled in comparison to Sam's Town. I totally opened my eyes to The Killers and found Hot Fuss somewhere in the back of my [sparce] CD collection. Loved it.
After a few months, I decided to check Ticketmaster to see if they were coming nearby anytime soo. Nope. Poo...
So I look up a few more bands, but nothing. Finally, I check Incubus, a band I never really heard but kind of liked. Why, whaddya know? They're here! So I go with some friends and...
They suck. I paid $50 for my ticket and they only played an hour. Seriously, a band that's been around for 12 years should at least play an hour and a half! When I went to see OK Go, they did and they've only got 25 songs! Ugh, they just had no energy. They just played their music, no connection to the audience whatsoever! The only highlight was their opening band, called The Bravery.
I'd heard a few songs by The Bravery before but never really looked into them. After their pretty awesome performance (although, thinking about it, The Backstreet Boys would've been better than Incubus), I decide to check them out. Um, love them!
Then at the beginning of October, I see a Myspace bulletin about this Fujifilm Launch Party in NYC featuring the performance of The Bravery and some band called Locksley.
I went and it was pretty much awesome. I got to stand right infront of the stage. :D I discovered Locksley, this band from Wisconsin that relocated to Brooklyn in 2003, and have since remained completely unsigned. Ugh they're so amazing, you have to check them out!
And their guitarist, who I was standing right in front of is pretty gosh darn hot.
Mmmhmmm. Imagine the rest of the band :]
The Bravery = Awesome. They have so much energy and they're just so entertaining to watch and you can't help but shout along and jump around. Ugh, and they're so freaking hot. Never a bad thing. ;)
Why yes, that is how close I ACTUALLY got to him. I didn't touch him though. I'm not really sure what the etiquette is as far as touching performers; too low could lead to tickling and giggling while singing, or your fingers could get stomped, while too high could lead to groupie status. And I can at least be legal when/if that happens...
But anyway, I looked up Locksley and saw that they had also opened for OK Go and We Are Scientists. OK Go, duh, awesome, but I'd only heard of WAS, so I decided to look them up. And yeah, they're amazing as well.
Ugh, I love that short dance part. OK Go has opened my mind to choreographed dancing. :)
And so, that is how Sarah went from N*SYNC to the real music she now knows. And, she also got a really nice discount on a camera from the launch party :D