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NFL Musical DISASTER!!!!

Annie — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:13:47 +0000

As most of us know, last night was the 45th annual Superbowl! (for those of you who didn’t watch, the PACKERS WON!!!!) It was an exciting night, despite the fact that the music was an absolute disaster. Glee’s very own Lea Michele opened the night, singing America the Beautiful. As talented as this young singer may be on stage, and particularly as her character Rachel in Glee, I’m not sure the middle of a football stadium was the right place for her. This is not to say she sounded bad, her voice was just too “cute” in my opinion for such a task; she seemed out of place.

Following Lea Michele, Christina Aguilera sang the National Anthem. The only surprise, was that apparently she also decided to re-write it… whoops! After the first few lines Aguilera completely dropped the ball. Unfortunately her unbelievable voice, and true talent as a singer was not able to get her out of this predicament, any true american who watched the Superbowl was most likely sitting in front of the TV with a look of bewilderment, just as I was about 50 seconds into her performance.

Fortunately we had a break from the musical element of the night to watch the first half of the game (in which the Packers lost 3 of their starters, yikes!), and some unimpressive adds. You would think that the companies could have done a better job for the one night a year they spend 3 million on there advertisements. However, Chrysler’s add featuring Eminem was absolutely unbelievable! After all, the Chrysler 200 is Imported from Detroit! :)

Next up was the half time show… The Black Eyed Peas were even worse than I had expected them to be live, they touch up so much of their music electronically before they release it, that you could barely see any talent whatsoever in their live performance. Voices cracking, Fergie trying to change the lyrics to their songs on the spot, it was no longer music, simply noise. Thank god they featured Usher half way through their performance, because he saved the night singing OMG. It would have been better if Will.i.am and Fergie had stayed out of that number completely! Nonetheless, the light up costumes they wore were priceless, at least that took away some of the attention from the sound they were making. I can’t say I’m surprised the night went so badly though. In this day and age it does not require talent to be considered a musician. With all the technology we have today, one click and a person with no voice at all can sound like Freddy Mercury! It is so different from a few years back, when the only way to hear music was to hear it live, in which case the artists HAD to sound good, or they would not succeed in the industry. I personally find this completely disappointing, because there is no longer a line between fake fame, and fame for true talent!

Radiohead 2011? hell yes!!

Annie — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:41:43 +0000

So word on the street has it that Radiohead has some new songs for everyone, and is releasing there first album since 2007 when In Rainbows was released. The british band formed in 1985, but they didn’t release their first single Creep until 1992 which at first was notoriously unsuccessful until months after the release date. Today Radiohead is without a doubt my favorite band and I, for one, am completely looking forward to seeing what they have to show us!! I don’t have anymore details for now, the band doesn’t seem to be leaking very much about this album, but you know i’ll stay on this!! Well, at least I will after I finish taking exams…

92.3 One Night Stand

Annie — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:28:19 +0000

My saturday evening began by meeting a friend of mine at 5 Guys for a bite to eat before we headed to the Roseland Ballroom for the 92.3 One Night Stand. As we walked in, DJ Earworm was on stage performing his hit 2010 mashup “Blame It On the Pop”, which features all the songs on the top 100 hits list of 2009. This was a phenomenal opening to the night, and a great way to follow up on my previous post where I had the opportunity to interview the amazingly talented young DJ. However, it all went downhill from there. Following DJ Earworm came Aaron Fresh. He at least had one, maybe two songs worth listening too, and there was definitely some talent there. But would it really have been asking too much to spare us from what came next??? Most people have heard the new one hit wonder “According To You”, but does anyone know who the artist is? Well, now I do….. and according to me, Orianthi has a thing or two…… or 50, to learn about songwriting. She is a fantastic guitarist, but I was completely unimpressed by her performance, as I am sure many who were there could agree with me. As my friend and I jeered at Orianthi’s performance, the girls in front of us (who could not have been wearing shorter skirts) gave us the glare from hell. I thought they were going to rip my head off….. it was hilarious. Needless to say, after this performance people started leaving, including my friend and I. As we headed back uptown towards the Triborough, we could not stop laughing at the performance that ruined the night. Unfortunately for Jason DeRulo and the adorable New Boyz, the house had emptied out a little bit, no thanks to Orianthi.

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Welcome to my World – Tech N9ne

Annie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:07:10 +0000

I meant to launch this a while ago, but let’s just say I got distracted. Music is my life, love, and passion and now I can share all my favorite artists with everyone else! I am excited, this is exciting, you should be excited too! Dazed and Reviewed is officially up and running!!! finally…..