I have listened to several artists and styles of music that are new to my virgin ears. I have mixed in a little bit of everything but the following artist have struck a chord with me:
Natasha Bedingfield
I like Natasha Bedingfield. She reminds me of Pink the way she belts out beautiful soulful music. During my weekly research I came across her song “These words.” Normally I only listen to the first 20-30 seconds of a song before I decide whether to add it to my playlist. Ms. Bedingfield vocal skills made me stop and listen. She sings the songs that young woman now days need to listen to. She makes you want to sing along and dance to the way she makes you feel.
I like her songs “Love Like This”, “Peace of Me” , “Never Givin Up” and “Single”
Stacey Orrico
Ms. Orrico music surprised me. Most of her songs were not my thing but I do enjoy “Is it Me” and “Wait”. “Wait” is song that I think many people would enjoy. It’s a song you listen to with big silver stero headphones while laying in a big in a dark room while it is raining outside. This song makes you think. This song makes you feel.
You will feel like she has opened up your heart and read the secret diary of what is written inside. Its a song guys will give to their girls and girls will sing to their guys.
I listened to it and my first thoughts were “Damn… That’s hot!” All this beauty from a talented chick form Malibu.
Frank Zappa “Black Napkins” Instrumentals
Some songs don’t need words. You make the shit up as the music plays. Each song may have different words but we are all singing the same tune. I love this song. I listen to it on the way to work and it helps get me through. It has a powerful song that gets under your skin and stays there. It makes you want to do naughty things you feel in your spine nice and slow.
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn where have you been all my life. Where were you when I was teenager? His songs reflect some of my thoughts that I was going through in my early life and when no one seemed to understand. I read his biography a few years ago but feel I missed out by not listening to his music.
My favorite songs are “Sweet Dreams”, “Coma White”, “Tainted Love” and “The Beautiful People.” I want to invest more time to get to know Mr. Manson’s music personally and intimately. I want to spend a day just hearing him and the history of his life through music out and without interruption. I know his music tells his life. I know his music will bring me places that I thought were forgotten. I know that this artist’s music may be the sound track to my so called life.
I have been listening to music before my time: 1976. I am a big fan of the old. History helps create the future and the same is true in music. For every Beyonce there was an Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington. For every Usher or Ne-Yo there was a Ray Charles and Jackie Wilson.
I love music before my time because it was simple. Simple clean sounds, simple lyrics that spoke from the gut and it was to the point. It is hard to tell a story in under three minutes with a beginning, middle and end. I love the feeling this music generates. It’s the songs our parents, grandparents and great grandparents listened to. This music gives you a glimpse of a time period we can never live. The music was different, the styles were different and the words we used to describe our experiences were different. Some of my favorites are:
Think Twice Version X by Jackie Wilson and LaVern Baker
(Warning: This song has very explicit lyrics that even made my cheeks red)
The boldness of this song is enough to make you laugh. It’s gritty, vulgar and mean and I love it. It makes you feel like you in a juke joint after closing and listen to the band get real. It makes you think of scotch and brandy straight up. It also makes you think of singers who were like family and comfortable enough to make a song this interesting.
“I Am Your Woman, She is Your Wife”“She’s Got Papers (But I Got The Man)”“From His Woman to You”By Barbara Mason
The lyrics of these songs tell the story of a woman who isn’t afraid to get the man she loves or wants even if he belongs to someone else. Her words make so much sense that at the end of the songs you don’t think of it as cheating and you feel sorry for the woman of the husband Ms. Barbara has in her embrace. She speaks woman to woman and is 100% real. She tells it like it is.
Ms. Barbara will call you up and tell you where your man is and where he was for the last six nights while you were home alone. She will be more than happy to tell you about the how you have the marriage license but how it is worthless without the man.
Ms. Barbara will answer the phone or the door or pick up the phone when her man’s wife comes calling. She runs from no one. She’ll hear you out and kindly let you know she knew all along and that what she wants is more important than anyone else’s needs or wants. She won’t yell and scream like women do now days. She will talk to you woman to woman while she fixes you a cup a lemonade and tells you make yourself comfortable.
She’s bold and in that boldness is beauty. Her lyrics makes you a fly on the wall on an affair and the climax of it. Her music makes wonder what it is about this woman that has these men all under her spell.
