Hey, Mr. DJ, can you turn the music DOWN?

I know I said no more OK Go, but I just can't help myself. These lyrics are so amazingly lovely.

While You Were Asleep- OK Go:

In the shallowest part of the night while you quietly slept,
I lay here and I counted the hours to the sound of your breath.

Can't you love me?
Can't you love me how I want, please?

I went walking down on Second Street through the leaves and the clutter.
In the pale yellow sodium light, nothing has any color.

Can't you love me?
Can't you love me how I want, please?

On another note, a song [and a free one awhile back] that I never thought I would like was on the radio here it Georgia. Again. And again. Several times, actually. And I always feel the need to call out "I know this song!" because it's not well-known. At least I thought it wasn't.


High Road by Broken Bells.

It was on the "soft rock" station.

On another, nother note, this website has a new address thingy. bit.ly/lorrin. Why "lorrin"? Because that's my name, silly random questioner.

And moving to another, final subject, today at the Botanical Garden in Atlanta, the DJ there horrified me. The first time I heard his disc jockey-ing, it was a calming mix of Indian-like music with a techno beat. The second time we could hear him, he'd crudely mashed up Journey's hit Don't Stop Believin' with Lady Gaga's [that's right Lady Gaga] hit… Just Dance.
What?! Not even close in beats, but that's besides the point.
First, you would hear a story about a girl and boy taking a midnight train. Then, Lady Gaga would rudely interrupt with how she got so trashed, she didn't remember flipping her shirt inside-out.

Atlanta, you can do better.

HOPE

Free iTunes. Luckily, this song makes me happy. In a sad way.

I choose you, cherry. *

It's late-ish, but I forgot to talk about this:


"Pick Up the Phone"

The single was [free!] downloadable on iTunes last week, I think.
Can anyone tell me who this reminds you of?

I can only get: Vampire Weekend.
"You're so coOoOl."

But there's more. And I can't put my finger on it. It's been slightly bugging me.

Anddd, I'm in Atlanta. So anytime you see a "ATL", I'm referring to Atlanta.

MY "Final Fantasy" IS...

Time for international music!
My all-time favorite country is Japan. Though I've never been there, the culture, language and EVERYTHING interests me. I'm currently learning Japanese, and I don't care if my friends tell me its the most difficult language and I'm crazy, I love it.

So, today I'm going to give a little thing on, you guessed it, Final Fantasy 13. Only because I briefed on it yesterday, and I just want to dive in a little further.

I buy all my songs, and don't download any for free because I know that if I was an artist I would want my revenue for a service that I provided. And since I don't listen to big-time music people, the smaller you are, the more each download counts. Sure, if the band offers a free single, like Vampire Weekend did, then that's okay, that's their choice.

But while all my friends used limewire, I stayed true to iTunes.

Okay, back to the whole reason for the title of this post!!!

I would love, love, LOVE for iTunes to carry international songs. The video I posted yesterday, that's not on iTunes or the American version of the game. No, apparently Leona Lewis's "Hands" or something is at the end. I don't even LIKE Leona. She's... Well, not to be rude, but we used to call her Leon Lewis when she hit her big streak with "Bleeding Love". Just because she kinda sorta looked like a man, BUT I DIGRESS [again].

I DO have a chinese song that I bought from iTunes. If you've ever seen the GE commercial... Here, I'll just put it here:


Kudos to the people who cut up this song, because it's actually only about 1 minute long.
What's the song? Cao Fang's "In the Summer" followed by some Chinese characters.

Anyway, the whole point of this was that I wish that iTunes carried more authentic Japanese artists so I could buy them and install them and be happy.

Okay, time to go swimming!

Take this sinking boat and point it home. *

Wow, have I kept up with this every day? I need a life. I mean, it's not like I've not been doing things, because I was busy all day. But right now my brother is making me stay up with him because he's playing Super Mario Galaxy. It's 11:46, and I know to you hardcore-ers, that's not bad at all, but I don't care what anyone thinks, I go to bed the same time during the week as the weekend. It ranges from 10:30 to 11. Usually, rarely 11. I'm playing a song I ranted earlier about so maybe he gets tired and lets me sleep.

Ten music points if you can identify the song in the title of this blog without using Google.

Now, because of Bonnaroo, [I know ENOUGH'S ENOUGH, ALREADY, but it's relevant] Because of Bonnaroo, I downloaded a Phoenix remix of "Lisztomania" and thought it was awesome. I didn't even think to look at the original. Then, I was surfing through ukulele tabs @Ukehunt and saw the tab for the original Lisztomania. So I bought it on iTunes.

That's when I realized I have a music addiction. This blog proves it. I mean, whose to say anyone's reading? But really, I don't care if only one person reads this. Because that's all it takes. I want to share my music tastes and be original and talk about something that I do for a large portion of the day. So I am.

I'm going to end up buying the whole album on iTunes. :/ I like to have the physical cd, I think it's better.

ON THE GO

Am I a bad Panic fan? I downloaded a free single off The Young Veins latest album "Take a Vacation" because I wanted to check them out, since they're apparently good enough to be at Bonaroo this year. [I know, enough about friggin Bonnaroo] and I'm wondering if I'm letting Brendon Urie down by actually LIKING the song.

Well, this is a blog-on-the-go, and since blogging on my iPhone isn't easy, I'm going to cut this short.

'CAUSE SHE CAN TELL THAT IT'S A WINDING SPIRAL CASE

A band worth mentioning is Freelance Whales.
They released their first album back in April. People say it's a mashup of Postal Service and Noah. iTunes had one of their biggest hits "Hannah" as a discovery download, so that's how I found them.
I have this iTunes gift card I just found myself in possession of and I'm not sure if I should go for buying up single songs, or go for finishing off an album. If I do choose the latter, Freelance Whale's Weathervanes will definitely be in the running.

I actually had this song playing in my car and it got some positive feedback. I lovelovelove it so much, it's such a cool band.

THERE'S A FORK IN THE ROAD

Marina and the Diamonds.
One of my favorite Brits. Beside Susie.

I originally discovered her music through iTune's free song download. I had seen that TeenVogue had done a page on her, so I downloaded it. Totally worth it. She is one of my new favorites.
I love two of her songs.
"I AM NOT A ROBOT" & "MOWGLI'S ROAD"

Currently, I am singing Mowgli's Road lyrics in my head virtually 24/7. "There's a fork in the road, I do as I am told, and I don't know don't know don't know don't know who I wanna be."
Ignore the "cuckoo"-ing and listen to this.

Mowgli's Road (album version) by MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS