DJ Earworm Mashup – United State of Pop 2013 (Living the Fantasy)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Seems Lorde was the musical highlight of the year.
Category: music
68 hit 2013 songs …
Pop Danthology crams 68 of this year’s Billboard chart-toppers into one remix.
I’m vaguely familiar with about 6 of them.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
… seems I didn’t miss much. 😦
(via Mashable)
Lorde is cool
Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O’Connor (born 7 November 1996), known by her stage name Lorde is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. …
Click PLAY or watch her biggest hit on YouTube. (100 million views)
… reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2013, making her the first New Zealand solo artist to have a number one song in the United States. …
Click PLAY or watch Tennis Court on YouTube.
Some talent. 🙂 She’s still in High School.
related – Faster Louder – Lorde – Pop’s new ruler
Olivia Wise – Roar
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Now available on iTunes. All proceeds go to the LivWiseFund.com
Olivia Wise has Brain Cancer. She came into a recording studio for her first time and recorded the Katy Perry song Roar. She couldn’t walk or stand, she didn’t have her full breath or the energy she used to, and she was managing her new pains and new limitations. While her physical condition was rapidly fading, her spirit remained untouched. …
Jeff
To donate to the Liv Wise Fund: livwisefund.com
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
James linked to the dance stylings of David Byrnes in … Once In A Lifetime (VIDEO).
That got me searching for Life During Wartime.
Click PLAY or watch the Stop Making Sense version on YouTube.
Stop Making Sense (1983) and Prince’s Sign o’ the Times (1987) are my two favourite concert documentaries.
“Life During Wartime” is a song by the American New Wave band Talking Heads, released as the first single from their 1979 album Fear of Music …
Its official title as a single, “Life During Wartime (This Ain’t No Party… This Ain’t No Disco… This Ain’t No Foolin’ Around)”, make it one of the longest-titled singles. …
… included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
Virgin America Safety Video
Virgin is cool.
… Director Jon M. Chu, Choreographers Jamal Sims and Christopher Scott, Virgin America teammates, and dance stars like Todrick Hall and Madd Chadd to give our safety video a new song and dance — literally. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Dvora Meyers)
… in December 2002, The Economist had quoted an expert as claiming that “No large airliner has ever made an emergency landing on water” in an article that goes on to charge, “So the life jackets … have little purpose other than to make passengers feel better.”
This idea was repeated in The Economist in September 2006 in an article which reported that “in the history of aviation the number of wide-bodied aircraft that have made successful landings on water is zero.”
Of note is the 15 January 2009 ditching of US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 narrow-body jet, which successfully ditched in the North River section of the Hudson River …
All on board survived, showing that inflatable slide rafts and life jackets can sometimes serve their purposes, although photographs from the incident show that very few passengers were wearing life jackets. …
My Prairie Home – Rae Spoon
Dubbed as a “documentary-musical,” filmmaker Chelsea McMullan profiles Canadian indie singer-songwriter Rae Spoon through an intimate series of interviews, where she opens up candidly about growing up with strict evangelical Christian parents, feeling like a socially-awkward outcast, and her recent life-affirming process of living as a transgender person.
Cameras also roll as Spoon creates her most personal and introspective album to date — a project that takes her back to her sleepy hometown of Calgary.
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.
a song for Syria
Ellie Goulding’s “I Know You Care.”
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
It’s highly unlikely that dropping bombs on these people will HELP the kids.
Donate to Save The Children or another charity working with Syrian refugees.
walk the Louvre
A women walks in the Musée du Louvre, alone.
The museum is completely empty.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
Music : Sigur Rós
Stairways to Heavens
Ann and Nancy Wilson at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The surviving members of Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant) were there.
Click PLAY or watch Foo Fighters goof it on YouTube.
Thanks Tom.
