Music News for the Week of Feb.3 – Feb.10
This Thursday's posts are little more opinionated, so drop me a comment below and tell me what you think. (Also please excuse my bad grammar.)
- Super Bowl Flub-Bubs
- Aguilera’s National Anthem Fail
O’ say can you say choke!!! Christina Aguilera, botched a few of the words in the national anthem at this past Sunday’s, Super Bowl 2011. Now I am not going to bash or scrutinize her for flubbing the national anthem, because not too long ago my man, Mike Eli from the Eli Young Band, messed up the words to the national anthem. When Mike Eli stumbled over the words, I heard comments like, “How can you not know the words to our country’s national anthem?” or “Singing and performing is his job. How can he not get that right?” Well, it’s true that singing and performing is his job as it's Christina Aguilera's job and that they both should know the national anthem. There’s no doubt in my mind that they do know the national anthem, but let’s put it this way. You’re performing in front of thousands of people in a stadium with all eyes on you and millions watching on their TV’s at home, bright lights in your eyes and the heat off the lights burning on your cheeks. That wouldn’t make things nerving wracking at all. You wouldn’t let your mind go blank and skip a word or add an extra word. Nope! Not at all would you? I think we should quit ridiculing artists like Mike Eli and Christina Aguilera for butchering, “The Star-Spangled Banner”, because they already feel horribly embarrassed. However, even if Christina Aguilera was caught up in the moment like she said, maybe she would have done a lot better if she hadn’t put so much focus and emphasis on her “fa, la, la, ha, ha's”.
- Half-time Show Joke
What a joke! The Black Eyed Peas, Slash, and Usher’s performance at the Super Bowl half-time show was too similar to a train derailing off a track and crashing into a dark bottomless pit. All I can say is if you are always auto-tuned when you sing then you can’t perform live shows. Therefore, you should not perform LIVE at the Super Bowl. From now on the NFL needs to get a real LIVE band for the half-time shows. They need to have a band that is used to performing live shows and not having their voices auto-tuned, because this year’s Super Bowl half-time show was atrocious. It is sad to say, but the only thing that saved the performance is when Usher jumped in the air and landed doing the splits.
- Man in Black, Back from the Grave
Johnny Cash may have passed away about 8 years ago, but his music still lives on, literally. A new interactive website called The Johnny Cash Project has taken the final studio recording, “Ain’t No Grave” and made it into a digital art music video. Johnny Cash fans can get on the website and design a digital art frame that will be added somewhere into the music video. To date, over 250,000 fans from 172 countries have participated in this online project. I checked this project out and it’s pretty sweet. Check out the Youtube video below and you can see the music video so far. Also I provided the website link so you can design a digital art frame if you want too.
- Are the Civil Wars Losing Their Edge?
Joy Williams and John Paul White make up the dark and edgy duo the Civil Wars. I discovered this band not too long ago and I absolutely loved their music. It was deep, soulful, and it kind of had a haunting hush to it. I totally loved it, but now I feel like they’re drifting too mainstream and Taylor Swift, miss cute and innocent has taken them under her wing to promote them and is going to overshadow their deep emotional vibe. I read an article on CMT.com on how Taylor Swift is a mega superfan of the Civil Wars. She went to one of their recent concerts in Nashville and bought a t-shirt, which oh, my goodness that just screams superfan, right? Though after the concert she went home and tweeted about how “exquisite” the duo is. Excuse me, “exquisite”?! Come on, now. That’s just too cutesy of a word, “exquisite”?! The Civil Wars are definitely NOT cutesy. Their music is about real emotional dark places that people go when their alone. Taylor Swift’s music is not emotionally dark and do not argue that, “Back to December” and “White Horse” are dark and emotional songs, because they're not. No, her music is all about love and only love and also her songs have the musical styles of what I like to call bubblegum pop. This is for a lack of a better word, but their crap. She wouldn’t know what a soulful, dark, edgy song was even if she tried to write what she thinks is a dark emotional song. Maybe that’s why she stated that she still is trying to get used to the Civil Wars’ haunting sound.
Check out the Civil Wars:
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thecivilwars
Youtube Video: Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thecivilwars
Youtube Video: Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars
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