You Need Some Music
And I'm going to give it to you.
Xochitl is a super strong contender for the laptop, though Kolomiyka is not out of the running. I feel like I'm having a baby, jeez. I'm all naming it before it gets here and trying to decide if I can give it two names. Rachel was even like, "Man, you're gonna call it something all classy, and I'd just be like 'Your name is Bob the Pink,' or 'Charlie' or something." Clearly, I am a woman long overdue for a new machine. It has ONE HUNDRED TIMES the harddrive space that my current one has, holy fuck.
Anyway, this actually is not a post about my not-laptop it is a post about MYOO-ZIX. I concede that I may have stretched that a little.
FIRST, some Ruslana, because it's not an LYX music post without Ruslana, Eurovision or both. (Guess what kind of entry this one will be?)
Pivnichna is not as action-y as Wild Dances or Wild Energy, or even Kolomikya, but it has a great forceful chorus. It's not one of Ruslana's freak slow songs, which are just ballad-y for some reason, but one that still feels like people dance to it in the mountains of Ukraine. She also does a few of her trademark long 'HAAAAEEEEYYYY!'s in this one which makes it a winner in my book.
Silent Angel is from Ruslana's Wild Energy album, which seems to be a bit of a misnomer. Aside from Wild Energy itself, and like two others, I'm not sure she got what she wanted. Silent Angel doesn't have much if anything in the way of ethnic mountain dancing, in fact I'd say it's almost pure pop. It's actually even a little emo, but I do enjoy something about it. I question whether that would be so if it were sung by someone not Ruslana though.
Okay, done with Ruslana.
Love Etc is by the Pet Shop Boys and ... I guess it might be dance music, but it's... not. It's kind of echo-y and a little weird. That doesn't do much to differentiate it from anything else these guys have ever made, dammit. Really cool chorus on this one, especially with the guys half-chanting. Doesn't fuck around with making you wait for the chorus, it almost dumps it on you right away, which I think it pretty awesome. The video for this song is all graphic shapes and animated line drawings that are a design student's dream. The hands animating the skulls and the flying dudes in suits are enough to make it worth a watch.
Mamo was this year's Russian Eurovision entry. I didn't think anything of it in the pre-selections, but when I saw it performed, I had to have it. It's a very Russian-sounding almost-ballad sung from a daughter to a mother. (Mamo being 'mom' or 'mother') Apparently, it's about how regretful this girl is that she didn't take her mother's advice. The singer, Anastasiya Prihodko seems to progressively, and elegantly somehow, break down during the course of the song. She's really in anguish by the end. The performance of this is worth tracking down on YouTube is you pretend she isn't wearing a shower curtain dress. Or maybe because she is.
From the country that brought you Wild Dances and Shady Lady comes 'Be My Valentine (Anti-Crisis Girl)' as Ukraine's entry into Eurovision this year. I have to be honest - I hated this when it was announced. I don't know what she did to her performance from then until now to not suck completely, but I saw it live and had to have it. Especially for the Anti-Crisis Girl parts, which in their quieter incarnations sound uncannily like 'Anti-Christ is Bon-Bon.' It's very much like Shady Lady - so it's a woman, it's sexy, it's fast, it's dance-y, and it might have a little weird English/unintelligible parts. The chorus far outshines the rest of the song, but I think that's typical of like, everything.
I have been singing 'La, La, La' for the past four days. It won Eurovision for Spain in 1968. It's very dramatic in it's verses, and the singer seems to have some mad potential in her voice, and then it is inexplicably super upbeat and happy when it hits the chorus. I can't understand a damn word of the verses, but luckily the chorus is ENTIRELY la, la, la! You seriously need to check this out. Or watch the video on YouTube in which she appears to be wearing a giant pink doily.
L' Oiseau et l' Enfant won Eurovision in 1977 for France and is really great. It meanders along in French, slowing increasing in volume and intensity until she's really belting it out. It's a good solid rhythm and flow and I really appreciate its existence. This is like the last outpost before the 80s and the Eurovision videos impressed little upon me but the size of their shoulder pads.
Have I uploaded 'This Is Our Night'? It was Greece in Eurovision this year and ... damn. The video needs to be watched really, to see the full scope of manliness that Sakis Rouvas worked into this. His chest is pulsating the whole time, he jumps off things, and his stage opens up into what can only be described as a Grecian stapler. That said, it is a bit like 'Yassou Maria', but less Latin-dance and more 'la la la BAM la la'. Not an actual lyric, but really.
La noche es para mí was what Spain did instead of Uh La La this year, which I actually grew mad fond of come Eurovision day. It's all 'damn, I'm sexy, look at me. Give me everything.' She feels like Shady Lady too, I guess, in that respect. It's very 'bambam BAMBAM Ba-BAM!' That's not quite it. It's dance-y and catchy. It's standard 'LYX owns this' except it's in Spanish and not in German or Uzbek or something.
Cipela means 'Shoe' in Serbian, and is performed by a man with Shepherd-Book-Sans-Ponytail Hair and a dude with an accordion. It is very traditional sounding, but in a very awesome boogieing the fuck out kind of way. His chorus makes me want to join some kind of hora or something.
Aaaannnd, I think that's enough for now because I am really hungry.
Xochitl is a super strong contender for the laptop, though Kolomiyka is not out of the running. I feel like I'm having a baby, jeez. I'm all naming it before it gets here and trying to decide if I can give it two names. Rachel was even like, "Man, you're gonna call it something all classy, and I'd just be like 'Your name is Bob the Pink,' or 'Charlie' or something." Clearly, I am a woman long overdue for a new machine. It has ONE HUNDRED TIMES the harddrive space that my current one has, holy fuck.
Anyway, this actually is not a post about my not-laptop it is a post about MYOO-ZIX. I concede that I may have stretched that a little.
FIRST, some Ruslana, because it's not an LYX music post without Ruslana, Eurovision or both. (Guess what kind of entry this one will be?)
Pivnichna is not as action-y as Wild Dances or Wild Energy, or even Kolomikya, but it has a great forceful chorus. It's not one of Ruslana's freak slow songs, which are just ballad-y for some reason, but one that still feels like people dance to it in the mountains of Ukraine. She also does a few of her trademark long 'HAAAAEEEEYYYY!'s in this one which makes it a winner in my book.
Silent Angel is from Ruslana's Wild Energy album, which seems to be a bit of a misnomer. Aside from Wild Energy itself, and like two others, I'm not sure she got what she wanted. Silent Angel doesn't have much if anything in the way of ethnic mountain dancing, in fact I'd say it's almost pure pop. It's actually even a little emo, but I do enjoy something about it. I question whether that would be so if it were sung by someone not Ruslana though.
Okay, done with Ruslana.
Love Etc is by the Pet Shop Boys and ... I guess it might be dance music, but it's... not. It's kind of echo-y and a little weird. That doesn't do much to differentiate it from anything else these guys have ever made, dammit. Really cool chorus on this one, especially with the guys half-chanting. Doesn't fuck around with making you wait for the chorus, it almost dumps it on you right away, which I think it pretty awesome. The video for this song is all graphic shapes and animated line drawings that are a design student's dream. The hands animating the skulls and the flying dudes in suits are enough to make it worth a watch.
Mamo was this year's Russian Eurovision entry. I didn't think anything of it in the pre-selections, but when I saw it performed, I had to have it. It's a very Russian-sounding almost-ballad sung from a daughter to a mother. (Mamo being 'mom' or 'mother') Apparently, it's about how regretful this girl is that she didn't take her mother's advice. The singer, Anastasiya Prihodko seems to progressively, and elegantly somehow, break down during the course of the song. She's really in anguish by the end. The performance of this is worth tracking down on YouTube is you pretend she isn't wearing a shower curtain dress. Or maybe because she is.
From the country that brought you Wild Dances and Shady Lady comes 'Be My Valentine (Anti-Crisis Girl)' as Ukraine's entry into Eurovision this year. I have to be honest - I hated this when it was announced. I don't know what she did to her performance from then until now to not suck completely, but I saw it live and had to have it. Especially for the Anti-Crisis Girl parts, which in their quieter incarnations sound uncannily like 'Anti-Christ is Bon-Bon.' It's very much like Shady Lady - so it's a woman, it's sexy, it's fast, it's dance-y, and it might have a little weird English/unintelligible parts. The chorus far outshines the rest of the song, but I think that's typical of like, everything.
I have been singing 'La, La, La' for the past four days. It won Eurovision for Spain in 1968. It's very dramatic in it's verses, and the singer seems to have some mad potential in her voice, and then it is inexplicably super upbeat and happy when it hits the chorus. I can't understand a damn word of the verses, but luckily the chorus is ENTIRELY la, la, la! You seriously need to check this out. Or watch the video on YouTube in which she appears to be wearing a giant pink doily.
L' Oiseau et l' Enfant won Eurovision in 1977 for France and is really great. It meanders along in French, slowing increasing in volume and intensity until she's really belting it out. It's a good solid rhythm and flow and I really appreciate its existence. This is like the last outpost before the 80s and the Eurovision videos impressed little upon me but the size of their shoulder pads.
Have I uploaded 'This Is Our Night'? It was Greece in Eurovision this year and ... damn. The video needs to be watched really, to see the full scope of manliness that Sakis Rouvas worked into this. His chest is pulsating the whole time, he jumps off things, and his stage opens up into what can only be described as a Grecian stapler. That said, it is a bit like 'Yassou Maria', but less Latin-dance and more 'la la la BAM la la'. Not an actual lyric, but really.
La noche es para mí was what Spain did instead of Uh La La this year, which I actually grew mad fond of come Eurovision day. It's all 'damn, I'm sexy, look at me. Give me everything.' She feels like Shady Lady too, I guess, in that respect. It's very 'bambam BAMBAM Ba-BAM!' That's not quite it. It's dance-y and catchy. It's standard 'LYX owns this' except it's in Spanish and not in German or Uzbek or something.
Cipela means 'Shoe' in Serbian, and is performed by a man with Shepherd-Book-Sans-Ponytail Hair and a dude with an accordion. It is very traditional sounding, but in a very awesome boogieing the fuck out kind of way. His chorus makes me want to join some kind of hora or something.
Aaaannnd, I think that's enough for now because I am really hungry.