Adele for Vogue March 2012 Cover

Thanks to Twitter for keeping me updated, real-time, with the Grammys yesterday while I’m stuck at work. I have learned that Adele won a total of 6 Grammy’s and my girl Taylor Swift won 2 grammy friends!

While my timeline was buzzing with grammy updates, grammy red carpet blogs, and jeje-wars between @jiritajackson of chuvaness.com and her “trolls”because she doesn’t like/get Adele, I too have quite a similar feeling towards Adele years ago.

While some celebrities were gushing how they love Adele, I find Adele OK but her music is amazing. I got into Adele when she first released her album, 19 . I was hooked on “Chasing Pavements” and downloaded the song only to find my self craving for more. I posted before asking anyone if they know Adele and her any other good songs and I got a response from a former colleague based back in US who recommended “Make you feel my love” (that’s when I found my wedding march song! Dibs! Haha!) while saying “ oh is Adele finally a trend back in PI?”

I didn’t know that Adele was a trend.

But now, after her second album 21, and after bagging 6 Grammy’s, Adele is definitely not a trend.  I know people who loves the songs “Rolling in the deep” and “Someone like you” and gushes that I should listen to the song, but my favorite is really the “Turning Tables”.

And it’s very timely that she’s the Cover Girl of Vogue. Thanks again to Twitter and the “new layout” that even if I wasn’t planning on reading stuff during the first hour of work, here I am blogging about Adele. She looks really good in this magazine, don’t you think? I love how her face-shot resembles those of Audrey Hepburn’s in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. 

All image source found  here

Congrats Adele! And as I write this entry today, I’ve already been hearing a whole lot of Adele songs. 

Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)

 I actually loved the Last Friday Night song when I first listened to the entire list of songs in Katy Perry's Teenage Dream album. I was not expecting that the creative team behind this (Music video by Katy Perry performing Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.). Producer: John Winter. Production Company: Rockhard Films. Director: Marc Klasfeld & Danny Lock) would come up with this funny video!

I love it that it's sooo funny and like this Yahoo Article said:

Set in the 1980s (Wii and laptop aside), Katy Perry's brace-faced, terminally geeky 13-year-old alter-ego Kathy Beth Terry undergoes a classic teen-movie makeover for the party of the year in "Last Friday Night." With the help of her BFF, the appropriately cast "Friday" singer Rebecca Black, Kathy Beth loses her headgear, mustache, and denim jumpsuit for skintight neons and teased-to-the-heavens big hair. Like something out of a teen version of The Hangover (and pretty inappropriate for a teen!), the next morning finds Kathy Beth waking up to a trashed house, a football player in her bed, and a struggle to piece together the details of her epic Friday night.

 Check out what's in store for you in this video: (Original Source of pictures are here)

Katy Perry as Kathy Beth Terry. She even got her own Twitter Account now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Best Break Up Songs Playlist

I like music but never really the all-music genre enthusiast. In fact when it comes to new songs, it's my sister who first knows what's the latest. Before I can even find out the title of the song, she already downloaded it. In fact, she was the first one who discovered Lady Gaga, back when Gaga is still Nada.

Back in 2008 I purchased my very first iPod and I'm glad that I got the real iPod Classic that's 160GB. They don't sell them anymore and the new generation now is only up to 120GB. I'm glad that I have the first ones because I am just so into classics!

I've had it for two years now and I still was not able to fill it up, I think I have more than 50GB free left and that's after all the movies, songs, I have not erased a single one. I even have songs in there that I don't even listen to. I remember when I got my iPod, I paid someone in Glorietta to fill up the 20G space with songs and movies all for the price of Php500 only!

I still get a little stressed out when I have to reset my iPod. I still have to text a friend to teach me how, or Google the net because it's not everyday that I reset my iPod.

Reset Indicator

For instructions on how to reset your iPod, click Here.

Anyway, I discovered how music affects my mood when I started to live on my own and commute to work. I wear my iPod just to jump start my day (or night) while getting coffee. And when I had my heart broken, I decided I will prohibit myself to have an "alone moment with my thoughts" so I created my "Best Break Up Songs" Playlist. I had it on repeat mode until I was ready to go back to "Hip Hop" (Hip Hop talaga?Lol!)

Note: Some Artists revived the songs, but I like the new version better.

1. Someday - Nina
2. Little Wonders - Rob Thomas
3. Rihanna - Take a bow
4. I Love You Goodbye - Nina ( Original: Celine Dion)
5. Eh Eh [Nothing Else I can say] - Lady Gaga
6. Aint it Funny - JLo and Ja Rule
7. The Heart of the Matter - India Arie
8. Already Gone - Kelly Clarkson
9. So What - Pink
10. Gives you hell - All American Rejects
11. Burn - Usher
12. Shake it Off - Mariah Carey
13. Don't Speak - No Doubt
14. Happily Never After - Pussycat Dolls
15. Better in Time - Leona Lewis
16. Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
17. Only Love - The Braxtons
18. Can I go now - Jennifer Love Hewitt
19. For the Record - Mariah Carey
20. Irreplaceable - Beyonce
21. Louboutins - Jennifer Lopez
22. Bust Your Windows - Amber Riley
23. Heartbreaker - Mariah Carey
24. My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne
25. Say Goodbye - Chris Brown
26. So Sick - Neyo
27. Survivor - Destiny's Child
28. Thanks for Nothin' - Mariah Carey
29. Try Sleeping with a broken heart - Alicia Keys
30. Bye Bye - Mariah Carey
31. 4 in the Morning - Gwen Stefani
32. Tattoo - Jordin Sparks
33. Dear John - Taylor Swift * New addition, I started to love her when I found out that she writes her own songs. Have you heard of this song that she wrote about John Mayer? Oh Buuurrrrrnnnn!!!

So what are the qualifications to make it to this list?
First - it should be about losing someone you love
Second - it must talk about acknowledging the pain
Third - it must have acceptance/determination not to get back together. :D

Do you have a break up song playlist?

Now I am opening the Comments section of this blog so you can share your songs too! :)

It's Britney Bitch!

I've always been a Britney Fan!
I remember buying her  CD from her Baby One More time album, until... my guy friends taught he how to download music from the internet! ( Hello IPod Generation! )
I loved her from this:

Her first album in 1999

To this:

her 2008 Album ( Femme Fatale is her 2011 album about to come out soon) 

From her first love, Justin Timberlake:

Childhood days with Justin Timberlake

And her last husband (that I know of), Kevin Federline.

I still loved her from her crazy phase :

Rebellion

Bouncing back for year 2011

From her major meltdown

To her new album and video: Hold it against me

I like how this video on You Tube has its own interpretation. It says that the meaning of video :

start of her career – comes to earth like a meteorite.

becomes a celebrity – Britney puts on makeup and perfume

increase in popularity – She rises while her previous videos are around her

Falls in love– picture of the guy on the screen

Internal personal conflict – fights against her

Depression/collapse – Britney collapses and destroys her dress and past works (spraying paint everywhere)

Return– She rises and comes back stronger than ever!

But according to celebrity blogger, Perez Hilton ( check his blog here ):

We blame a lot of it on the editing, but…. it was probably edited like that on purpose, to mask the fact that something happened, like we've all suspected, and our beloved Brit Brit can't dance like she used to.

I hate to think that Britney can no longer dance the way she used to ( If the rumors are real) I still love her anyway, but I think the most important thing here is wherever shit we came from, whatever mistakes we made in the past, like her, we can get out of it... bounce back from it... alive.

And that's what's important.

Cheers to Brit! <3