Confessions of A Music Lover: December 2012

Friday, December 28, 2012

Joan Jett

FAVORITE VIDEOS:

Bad Reputation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RAQXg0IdfI

I Hate Myself For Loving You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPkTGm4RtVM

Do You Wanna Touch Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XELpxApT8Kc

I Love Rock N Roll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3T_xeoGES8

Websites

http://www.joanjett.com/

http://www.blackheart.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jett

Thursday, December 27, 2012

2012 Wrap Up: Books!

Favorite Books I Read This Year! : )

10) Don't Breathe a Word by Holly Cupala

9) The Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

8) The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jess Rothenberg

7) Wither by Lauren DeStefano

6) Divergent by Veronica Roth

5) Ten Things We Did and Probably Shouldn't Have by Sarah Mlynowski

4) Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

3) Fifty Shades Trilogy by E.L. James

2) Beautiful Disaster by Jaime McGuire

1) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

2012 Wrap Up: Television

10) Missing

9) Clean House

8) Good Luck Charlie

7) House

6) Big Bang Theory

5) Dexter

4) The Walking Dead

3) Revenge

2) Once Upon A Time

1) Grey's Anatomy

These are the tv shows that I fell in love with in 2012 : )

End of The Year Music Favorites!!!

I decided that this year i'm going to do the End of The Year Favorites! Yayyy!
Before we get into it however i'd like to say that if (for instance) I put a band that's been around for YEARS as my "Favorite New Band" it means that it's new to me. So please no nasty comments saying "yo stupid that band came out 3 years ago." With that being said, here we go....

Favorite Genres:
Favorite Pop Song: Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepson
Favorite Country Song: Wanted by Hunter Hayes
Favorite Rap Song: Both Of Us by B.O.B. Feat. Taylor Swift
Favorite Rock Song: Bully by Shinedown
Favorite Alternative Song: Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye

Favorite Artists/Bands:
Favorite New Artist: Alex Clare
Favorite New Band: Fun.
Favorite Boy Band: One Direction
Favorite New Female Singer: Bridgit Mendler
Favorite New Male Singer: Ed Sheeran

Favorite Songs:
Favorite Group Song: One More Night by Maroon 5
Favorite Solo Song: Too Close by Alex Clare
Favorite Duet: Safe & Sound by The Civil Wars Feat. Taylor Swift
Favorite Song of The Year: It's Time by Imagine Dragons

Favorite Albums:
Favorite Alt. Album: Some Nights by Fun.
Favorite Rock Album: The Strange Case of... by Halestorm
Favorite Pop Album: Hello My Name Is...by Bridgit Mendler
Favorite Country Album: Red by Taylor Swift
Favorite Rap Album: Pink Fridy-Roman Reloaded by Nicki Minaj
Favorite Album of The Year: Red by Taylor Swift

Sunday, December 23, 2012

CONCERT UPDATE: Third Time Seeing Tesla...Keeps Gettin' Better

TESLA!

Me and Dave! : )

CONCERT UPDATES: Rock USA

ROCK USA July 12-14

Day 1
Skid Row, Papa Roach, Skillet, Shinedown

Me and Skid Row

Papa Roach

Skillet!!!!! My Favorite Band EVER!

Shinedown (Had to take this pic on the screens)

Day 2
Drowning Pool, Hinder, Tesla, Motley Crue

Drowning Pool

Hinder

Tesla

MOTLEY CRUE

Day 3
Hollywood Undead, Seether, Kid Rock

Hollywood Undead

Seether

Kid Rock

This was the best experience of my life thus far!

It was also the 3rd time i've seen Hinder and Skid Row and the 2nd time i've seen Tesla!

What's In My Cd Player?

Taylor Swift "Red" (Target Deluxe Edition)

Favorite Song: I Knew You Were Trouble

Hunter Hayes "Hunter Hayes"

Favorite Song: Wanted

Bridgit Mendler "Hello My Name Is..."

Favorite Song: City Lights

Ed Sheeran "+"

Favorite Song: UNI

Colbie Caillat "Christmas In The Sand"

Favorite Song: Santa Baby

Read and Rock: Favorite Christmas Songs

Read and Rock: Top 10 Songs of The Moment

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Cassadee Pope

   Okay so first let me start off by saying that I love Cassadee Pope and I love Hey Monday. I believe that i've even done a review of one of their cds on here. So with that being said i'm going to go into my issue.
   I do not for one second believe that Cassadee should have won The Voice. It's not fair and she took someone else's shot. I'm not just mad that she won either, i'm mad that she was even on the show.
  When Cassadee first auditioned she had a video message from Pete Wentz wishing her luck. Now to me that's a problem. If you have someone as famous as Pete Wentz wishing you luck (and you have that connection to him) then you shouldn't be auditioning for a singing competition.
   Secondly she was/is dating one of the dudes from All Time Low. All Time freaking Low! Okay almost everybody knows who that is and they love them. They are widely popular. Why is the girlfriend of one of them auditioning for a singing competition?
   My next issue is that she's already received wide success with her band Hey Monday. Now I know that they did break up but so have a lot of bands. Just because a band breaks up doesn't mean that they don't get back together.
   I know that they said it was fair for her to be on the show because she was auditioning as a solo artist, not as a band. But to be quite honest I don't give a shit. She still has been signed. She still is well known. She has a buhhhhzillion twitter followers. A crap ton of hits on her videos on youtube. So I don't care how much you tell me that she had a right to be on the show I will always disagree.
   I mentioned to my friend (who loves Cassadee) that while it's fun to see someone you love on a show like that it's not fair. I ADORE Hayley Williams. There was a moment when Paramore was having some serious issues and she could have gone solo. If she would have come on the Voice I would have been like OMG Hayley! I would've loved to see her perform week after week, yes. But because she is already so established it wouldn't be right. She'd be taking the place of someone who deserved it. Someone who didn't have the same connections as her.
   All in all I think Cassadee is great and she did put on a good show. But at the end of the day i'm still pissed that she won. And if some of the other people on that show don't make it any further in their career because they didn't win that title I hope she thinks about that.

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