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Friday, December 23, 2011

Songs of the Week

Been quite a while since I last did this. Heard a few really nice songs lately so here I am. This can be good practice for my album review post too haha.

1. 林育羣 - 人海中遇见你

Heard it as my brother was playing the soundtrack of the movie 那些年，我們一起追的女孩. His voice is amazing. After reading the movie production book, I found out this song is a cover and the original version is so obscure that a google search gives near to zero results. Despite not hearing the original version, I feel 林育羣's voice is a good fit for the song, not considering the emotion component of his rendition. Overall, I love it.

2. Adele - Set Fire to the Rain (Live at Royal Albert Hall)

I first saw the performance on Youtube. This song never really grew on me. Until this performance. The first thing that attracted me deeply was how they filmed the video and the effects applied. The first point pertained to the camera filming candid shots of the audience singing along, with brilliantly chosen angles. One of my favourite shots is at 2:28. Dunno why. The second point about effects apply to the few times they decide to show some of Adele's gestures in slow motion. Allows you to observe her expressions well. Love it. Love the gestures when she sang the words "burn", "flames"at the end of the lines. And also, the way she sang the word "watch". Haha, very unique. All in all, i started to love this song after watching the video. This came in a very near second as 人海中遇见你 is supported by the movie, which I really love.

3. Christina Perri - A Thousand Years

Yesterday, I saw a video shared by my one of my friends on Facebook. It was about a creative marriage proposal, by the co-founder of Nuffnang. Very nicely done video, with the song being the most outstanding part in my opinion. The song choice was brilliant, and carried the mood really well. I was very soothed yet becoming slightly emotional as the song progressed. Christina Perri's voice is very special and I really can't put a finger on how is it so. Got the urge to find the song after watching the video.

4. Kelly Clarkson - Why Don't You Try

Well, for this song, I shall retain my comments for the album review post, which should be completed ideally by tml. =P

5. Jennifer Lopez - Papi

This song reminds me of the Batam trip I went on a while back. For the 3 days there, I can't remember how many times did I watch the music video already. Haha it's a rather silly video with the rather lame storyline. But the dances in the video were impressive. They were rather well-executed throughout and the clapping in the video, which was sadly not in the original song, made the melody even more catchy. The main attraction of this song for me is the melody. Highly catchy. Now that I think of it, I can't remember why did I suddenly listen to this song again.

Yup, so those were my choices of the week. Anyway, I was mulling over this random thought that came into my mind. Where you encounter a song, does it matter to how much you would like the song? This popped up in my head as I was writing the part for Christina Perri's A Thousand Years. I think this is very true in the case of romantic movies/videos/scenarios etc. It pretty much links up with my previous point about knowing the story behind a song.

Well the train of thought kind of stopped there. Haha, other things came to my mind suddenly.

有时事情演变的速度真是令人感到有点措手不及，但又觉得好无奈。

rotted-11:42 PM