Music Every day

We all spend our lives with music despite the differences in how we live.

Splendour in the grass

So the Splendour in the Grass lineup was announced this week and it simply looks amazing. Mumford and Sons, Frank Ocean, Of Monsters and Men are just a few of the main headlining acts.
The three day festival takes place annually on the east coast of Australia. It has a tradition of festival-goers camping on site for the three days enjoying the atmosphere. This year it is expected that 25,000 people will attend the festival.

Create an good environment for efficient working?

When I was younger, I enjoyed  listening to music when I was doing my study. It helped me to concentrate on my work in a more efficient way regardless of the types of music.

With aging, I found I cannot concentrate on the work I did with listening to music. I pay attention to the lyrics  of the song and the rythm. It is no more a way for my deep thinking. Instead, my thoughts are distracted by the music and the work was not done by time with music.

I am not too sure whether this happen to everyone or it just happened on me. I still find people doing great with music in the library,in the cafe ect. . It is such a pity for me not being able to enjoy music while I am working.

Justin Timberlake - Senorita

With Justin Timberlake's new album that released this year, I decided to take a trip down memory lane and listen to one of my favourite artist's first singles when he went solo after *NSync.

Revisiting this song really brought back some good memories. I've always been a fan of JT, and I think that this is definitely one of the songs that explains why. Despite being in a boy band which carries a cookie-cutter, manufactured and unoriginal stigma, Justin Timberlake broke away from that and developed his own music and brand.

Compared to his new singles, you can see how his sound really grew and matured over the years, and in my opinion, it's still worth listening to. After going back to listen to one of my favourite singles, I'm definitely even more inclined to go and purchase the 20/20 Experience and the second part coming later this year.

Society?

Sometimes I can't help but wonder if people today take music way too seriously. Adopting an acronym from a song and using it as something to live by in our daily lives; is this something that we've always done? Or this this a new phenomenon? It seems like people these days look up to celebrities, singers in this case, and take what they say a lot more to heart than they really should.

I always thought that music was for entertainment, whether the lyrics of a song were inspiring or not. I'd never thought that people would not only enjoy the music an artist puts out, but hang on their every word and adopt it as their own.

With this, however, and the rate at which music spreads these days combined with the wonders of the internet, brings forward a lot of not-so-favourable attention too.

It's interesting to see that something as simple as a song can cause such a ripple amongst people all over the world.

Is this a new thing? Have people always had this form of "celebrity worship"? Either way, people are connecting and forming their own groups just based on the kind of music they listen to or don't listen to. You can talk to people on another side of the globe and be friends with someone starting from the comments section of a YouTube video of your favourite song.

Best Video Game Soundtrack Ever?

According to CVG (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/345195/features/video-game-soundtracks-the-100-best-themes-of-all-time-part-1/), it's anything that ranges fromSonic the Hedgehog to Katamari to Bully, with Final Fantasy having more than a few mentions.

Much to my surprise, there were no mentions of three of my favourite games and soundtracks as a child that I thought would at least have one mention; Crash Bandicoot, Spyro (especially Gateway to Glimmer), and Jet Set Radio.

In my opinion, these games have some really awesome soundtracks with some great instrumentation that really suit the theme of the levels in the game. It's a bit of a shame these were left off the list, but nonetheless it's worth checking out since there are some really solid tracks listed in their top 100.

Harlem Shake

The Harlem Shake, before it became an internet phenomenon, on Youtube, was a song by Baauer. It was interesting to see the rapid rise and fall of the Harlem Shake videos. I was happy to see it not stick around as long as Gangnam style. But I will admit (shame fully) that I took part in the shooting of a Harlem Shake video , after much coercion by my friends.

Confusing at first sight, interesting in the next few and annoyed at everything after, those sum up my feelings towards this trend. But hey, if it was good enough for YouTube to create an easter egg on their site for it, it did have some sort of relevance (even if only for a brief period).

The song it self, makes me feel that I am in a club which is on steroids and as I continue to listen to the song, it makes me slightly dizzy. I can only imagine what effects this song would have in an actually club ( not being into the clubbing scene, I have not experienced this). This songs relies on beats and is meant to represent the mix of hip hop/bass. Personally, in simple words for myself, not a fan. But the phenomenon certainly made the song a little enjoyable and unmissable.