What music are you listening to right now?

[gnuyork]

I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble… Uh sorry. Heard this at a wedding this weekend, and it's infectious. Stuck in my head, can't get it out.

[Jeannie]

I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble… Uh sorry. Heard this at a wedding this weekend, and it's infectious. Stuck in my head, can't get it out.

I think it's cute. But they play it too much.

Jeannie

[gnuyork]

I think it's cute. But they play it too much.

Jeannie

Well lucky for me I never listen to pop music on the radio.

[ilitig8]

But they play it too much.

An example of a great tune that was WAY overplayed but like gnuyork I don't listen to pop stations so it never hit me as overplayed.

Pharrell and Happy

[ilitig8]

Since we are poppy for the moment this is one of my guilty pleasure artists, I would never wish it on anyone but the songs she wrote while she was in pain were great.

Adele Someone Like You

[OhDark30]

Oddly enough that was the first recommendation to come up for me when I signed up to Deezer today.
After I'd liked/disliked a bunch of artists/composers/performers.
Liked it. No idea who Adele is, but seems to come from somewhere pretty real

[Der Amf]

Since we are poppy for the moment this is one of my guilty pleasure artists, I would never wish it on anyone but the songs she wrote while she was in pain were great.

Adele Someone Like You

Oddly enough that was the first recommendation to come up for me when I signed up to Deezer today.
After I'd liked/disliked a bunch of artists/composers/performers.
Liked it. No idea who Adele is, but seems to come from somewhere pretty real

I have to admit that my favourite of that Amy Winehouse - Lily Allen - Adele generation was Lady Sovereign, an opinion I wouldn't ever attempt to justify . I won't bother giving a link either. Her producer was Prokofiev's grandson FACT

Right now, I'm listening to a classic 80s hip hop track I'm ashamed to admit I only learnt about few years ago, Young MC's Know How. Nothing like walking home from the Tube station late at night on a damp London street listening to this. Makes you walk like a nutter, but ph'kit

[ilitig8]

Oddly enough that was the first recommendation to come up for me when I signed up to Deezer today.
After I'd liked/disliked a bunch of artists/composers/performers.
Liked it. No idea who Adele is, but seems to come from somewhere pretty real

The song I linked was part of her second album written after the breakup with her boyfriend and is a treatise on loss, for me possibly the most cutting full album ever. Interestingly her US fame was delayed because she cancelled her 1st US tour to be with the previously mentioned boyfriend. Sarah Palin then launched her US career... odd huh. Adele happened to be the musical guest on SNL during the 2008 US election cycle when SNL was killing the ratings with Tina Fey's parodies of Palin the night Adele was on Palin was on the show as well so the exposure was huge and her US career was sealed.

This got me thinking about two more tunes, first in the cover of Hurt by Johnny Cash... haunting

[ilitig8]

The second is another female pop artist I really like, though she scares me a little, who happens to be one of Adele's insprirations. Pink is a monster on stage doing things most artists couldn't do WHILE lipsynching something Pink is 100% against. Not a great quality recording but this gives you a feeling of how Pink performs on stage WHILE singing. Skip the intro and go to about 3:15 for the beggining of the show.

[Jeannie]

I love Pink. She's my favorite young artist.

Jeannie