Next Sunday the next season of Australian Idol kicks off here and as much as I love the show and it’s car crash moments, I wonder why they are bothering. Each year the winner has been less successful than the previous year to the point where last year’s winner, Natalie Gauci released her winners single and has never been heard of again. I know they chose to let her record and release and album of new material instead of rushing out a winners album, but surely the moment has passed and no one gives a rats arse any more
After the wardrobe malfunction fiasco that was my Tarzan Routine for aerials class I launched a search to find some music suitable for a routine. It had to be slower than the tarzan routine but still with moments of drama and variation. It’s been decidedly more difficult than I thought but I think I’m going to work up a routine to “Roxanne de Tango” from Moulin Rouge. This video has more dialogue and extra bits than the audio I tracked down. It still might be a bit much but for this term I think that’s what I’m going to focus on.
Not long after Shortbus came out I emailed Jay Brannan asking to do an interview for the blog. He was very polite and flattered but declined saying he’d rather let his music speak for itself. Speak for itself it certainly does. This is his new song “Body’s a temple” and it’s a beautiful song with a simple and beautiful video.
A few months ago I was one of four people in a music video that was a pretty wild and sexy afternoon. It was also very messy. The video we shot will apparently never make it to air on television because it’s a bit too racy for the music label execs. If my mother ever saw this video she would be torn between happiness and shock. Happy because I’m kissing a girl and licking her nipples etc, but sad because a) I’m doing the same to another guy as well, and b) because I’m doing it publicly. Oops.
Update: Someone has deleted it from Youtube or flagged it as inappropriate. I’ve put it on to dailymotion. We’ll see what happens now.
The other day I posted about doing my silks routine at the end of term to Shakespeare’s Sister. That’s all out the window for now. I still think it would work really well and may aim to do it at another point but as a class group a decision was made to have a theme for all our performances. That theme is Animal Kingdom. So I’m doing my routine as Tarzan using the song “Jungle Boogie” from Pulp Fiction. I think it will be cool. It’s in another 3 weeks, so I have until then to track down a loin cloth and I might have to get some of the animal print undies from aussieBum. I’ll video the performance too.
A while ago I posted about having a bit of a retro moment and downloading songs from my teenage years. This song by Shakespeare’s Sister, a side project of one of the girls from Bananarama in 1992, always appealed to me in a bonkers tale of good versus evil, love conquering death kinda way and it’s dark and brooding love story. After listening to it several times over the last couple of weeks I thought it would make a cool song to do an aerial silks routine. Some good contrasts in it and dramatic moments to time with a cool drop trick. What do we think?
At dinner the other night for a friend’s birthday, a girl asked the question “What happened to the slowdance?” Remember when you were at the school dance at the end of the night there was always a slow dance and everyone would be pashing (snogging) their boyfriends/girlfriends and dancing that awkward teenage side shuffle with their arms around each other. Even in movies from the 80’s they would show slow dances at the end of the night in nightclubs.
Where did the slow dance go? Did drugs kill the slow dance because no one can actually slow down? Are gay men capable of the slow dance? My theory is that yes, drugs mean people can’t physically stop themselves dancing, or there’s no room for two in a K hole. The other theory is that if gay men slowed down on a dance floor and stopped waving their hands in the air like they just don’t care, then the groping would start and the slow dance would end up quite horizontal with 100 participants.
Yesterday afternoon I spent some time downloading songs that I loved in my teens. I was in a nostalgic mood and I tracked down a few of my all time favourites. The first one I wanted to find was this one. Lisa Stansfield’s “All around the world”. Sadly youtube doesn’t have a version of the official video to embed here but this is a live performance. I can listen to this song for hours.
Now I don’t know if the 80’s fashion revival thing is happening all over the world, but surely videos like this with the guy in the multi-coloured panelled jacket should have put us off bringing it back at all?
David Cook has just taken out American Idol 7, in what could be seen as a bit of an upset win over David Archuleta, but if he’s going to sing as well as this all the time, he’s going to be great. It’s a brave man that tackles a U2 number. U2 fans are very passionate purists and don’t like people messing with their stuff, but I think he did a great job.
I am a total sap and happy to admit it. I’ve found myself crying my way through Biggest Loser, Oprah and all sorts of things lately but this just made me do it at the office! I found it on The Mangina Monologues, who found it on Towleroad.
This is an acoustic version of “All I see”, Kylie’s first single off X in the U.S. The original version for me was just watered down R’n'B lite. This version appears to be from a rehearsal for her upcoming tour. I think it’s a much nicer version, very sweet.
So I’ve just watched the new video for “4 minutes” and I have to say I really like it. This is what happens when you put two of the best dancers in the Pop industry together, who also happen to be two of the blackest white folk around. No matter how much work she has/hasn’t had done on her face, that bod is pretty killer for someone who’s knocking 50 this year. And JT is just smooth. Sometimes I think he looks hot, others not so much but he’s got style.
You know when you were a kid, you always wanted to have a food fight but knew you’d get in too much trouble? Well yesterday I got to have one and at first it was hilarious fun but after a few hours of being caked in chocolate mousse, ice cream, whipped cream, pasta, having a paw-paw mashed in your face etc, it gets a little tiring. This was for the music video we shot yesterday. It got pretty raunchy too and I can’t wait to see the final result. My clothes are in the wash now. Fingers crossed it all comes out. In the photos above, the little girls on the right have about the same coverage, the two in the middle aren’t even trying.
Today is going to be a bit different for me and I’m a little excited. It’s going to be lots of fun, hopefully. I’m going to be in a music video for Seany B today. I won’t tell you what we are doing but will save that for when the video comes out. Let’s just say that it involves 3 guys and 3 girls.
Seany B is probably best known (so far) for being the vocalist for the TV Rock song, Flaunt It. Check out that video, below.
Every now and then you listen to something and it raises a question or two. Nothing earth shattering but more like a little statement or something that just niggles at you.
Madonna, Justin and Timbaland. Three of music’s powerhouse figures at the moment. With that much power and cred why did they call the song “4 minutes to save the world” and then release a radio edit that is 3 minutes and 12 seconds?
The Carly Simon classic “You’re so Vain” has always annoyed me. “You probably think this song is about you, don’t you?” Well clearly it is about him. Duh. If you are going to write a song about someone, don’t get stroppy with them if they think it actually is about them.
Leona Lewis is a new face/voice on the scene, but her song “Bleeding love” has been played to death here on the radio, and I wanna know just how long someone can keep hemorrhaging and still have the strength to sing about it?
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