Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day

I literally L.O.V.E. this song, I have not stopped listening to it on YouTube since they released it last week. It is pure genius! Nicola Roberts looks like she is about to carve a highly successful solo career away from Girls Aloud. I am patiently awaiting "Cinderella's Eyes" to be released, but for now I will just keep watching the video to "Lucky Day" and listening to "Beat of My Drum" on my Ipod.
 What's also great about this song is, it was produced by my favourite band - Dragonette, who as everyone knows are my all time faves and I bang on about them all the time and you can hear their trademark sound on this single.


The video to "Lucky Day" is also pretty epic, neon sperm, a strange dress, trainers that light up! NEW YORK the list goes on and on. Everything about this single is EPIC. Nothing else to say on it, you look for yourself, but be prepared to be blown away!


I have been waiting for a new song/sound that I can get really excited about and "Lucky Day" has provided this for me, I am literally typing at the speed of light whilst blasting "Lucky Day" full volume out of my speakers on my laptop and trying to sing along (badly) at the top of my voice whilst I replay the video for the 11th time in a row!!


I need this song, but I will wait until 18thSeptember when it is released! Boo.

Martin Solveig feat Dragonette - Big In Japan

The amazing album cover to "Smash"

So most of you will already be fully aware I am obsessed by Dragonette, and they seemed to have met a great music maker in Martin Solveig proving only too well with "Hello" from earlier this year (actually I first heard it in June 2010, but hey who is being pedantic?). Well on Martin' newest album "Smash" he has worked quite a lot with Dragonette ("Don't Stop, Boys & Girls, Hello & Big In Japan") which pleases me oh so much, as I need constant amounts of Dragonette on my Ipod.


"Big In Japan" goes on the same route as "Hello" but with a much harder impact, I love it, I can imagine a huge dance related video in a flash mob styled look, colourful and epic. I hope he decides to release this as I really love it, I repeated it 10 times in a row earlier as I need it to be played. Even as I type I have it on full volume loving the "S.T.A.R. That's what you are, coz ur big in Japan" you just need to here it.


Please invest in both these artists as I think they are really talented, and their music literally makes me wanna go freaking mad on the dancefloor, "Hello" always gets a good reaction in the clubs too.

The song is NOT 8 mins long tho.. sadly.

Nicola Roberts - Beat of My Drum

I am fully aware I am a little late with Nicola Roberts solo career but I love this song so much so I have to blog about it! Basically my computer died and come back to life again and during this time I was unable to blog, devastation don't come close... Anyway - we all know who Nicola Roberts is, the Girls Aloud dainty doll has gone solo with the epic Beat of My Drum and soon to be released album Cinderella's Eyes which has a scheduled release of October 2011.


Beat of My Drum is produced by Diplo & Dimitri Tikovoi and was written by Nicola herself, showing she has the talent! I have always liked Nicola, she has a self doubt about her that makes her a normal person in a world that can eat you up and spit you out, and she remains grounded and reminds me of people I know in reality which sometimes, people just want someone they can relate to. I recently watched the making of the video for Beat of My Drum, and she says how weird it is filming a video with all these eyes on you, and that is how I feel I would react, I am massively camera shy and I imagine it to be a totally surreal experience.

I fell in Love with Nicola when she performed Shout on Popstar's the Rivals, which at the time I feel, was when she shone through with her voice, and then to become a member of Girls Aloud and have the success she has had it was inevitable that she would go on and experience a taste for the solo life. What I love most, is that while Cheryl Cole and Nadine Coyle have tried to go down the big American produced tripe, Nicola has kept it real and kept it British!


Beat of My Drum is out now, and the sound she has opted for is a funky pop feature, it reminds me of a Justice vs Simian  track - We Are Your Friends, which trust me, is a massive compliment. According to Wikipedia as well, Dragonette lend a hand on the production of the forthcoming album, and as most of you know by now I am obsessed by Dragonette, so this pleases me HUGELY.

Team Nicola / Ginge.

Fan Death - Veronica's Veil, Cannibal & Reunited

When I typed 'Fan Death' into a google search it came back with "Fan Death is an urban legend prevailing in South Korea in which an electric fan left running overnight in a closed room can caue the death of those inside."

However, Fan Death the band are a duo who are currently based in Vancouver, CA, comprising of Dhandi and Marta produce electro pop disco funk, something over the past few years I am getting into more and more. When you look there are a lot of duo's out there and some of my favourites at the moment include:- Van Go Lion, Lectro Lips and Chasing Pluto who I have found via twitter, a world of musical greatness and all of which you should check out or keep an eye out for blog posts soon. I am basically loving the electro sound, I think the first people to get me into electro music are Dragonette, whom I love.

The video's are arty, original, fresh and fun Cannibal is an upbeat disco powerhouse with a very creepy video, but also very watchable, while Veronica's Veil is an artistic and creative - and Reunited is a funny video featuring some pretty good dance routines and funny 'cameo's'. Check out the videos below.

Fan Death's LP 'Womb Of Death' is already out and well worth a listen, and for more information on Fan Death please click HERE

Dragonette - 5 reasons they should be huge

Happy New Year readers, what a way to start - blogging about the people that inspired me to start and the subject of my first ever blog (As seen here) this being my first blog in 2011 it seemed fitting to once again bang on about how great Dragonette are! They have so much to offer and I can't understand why they have not yet exploded into the charts.

I will start with most recent offering, Martin Solveig featured Dragonette on a single called Boys and Girls, it was awesome, HOWEVER, newer single (it has been around since June 10) Hello is genius and is now officially available for download, I love it so much.

Please if you like even one track below, look into their already vast catalogue of music, they have some really awesome songs (such as Take It Like A Man, Gone Too Far, Liar, Stupid Grin, Pick Up The Phone and I get around but to name a few more reasons to love them).

1) Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette - Hello



2) Dragonette - Our Summer - this is a tune of epic quality in my eyes.



3) Dragonette - Fixin To Thrill - equally A-MAZING.



4) Kaskade feat Dragonette - Fire in your new Shoes



5) Dragonette - Easy - slower but still a great song - tough choice as there are more than 5 reasons to love Dragonette.

Alexis Jordan - One to watch?

I seem to write about a lot of people who never make it over here in the UK or are yet to 'make it' as I put it. People like Jesssica Mauboy, Dragonette & now Alexis Jordan, currently here showcasing some of her work I can only hope that we hear more from her. First single is called 'Happiness' and I really like it, it's a catchy dance track with plenty of humming ability attached to it. I like her too and the video is also good, check it out below.

From the same country that bought us Rihanna, Shontelle and even Livvi Franc, Alexis looks set to follow in the success of her fellow Barbadians. With a voice that has been described as 'perfect' she was first noticed by the judges of America's got Talent and despite making it past auditions was eliminated in the semi finals. Despite this she was signed to Jay'z records label Roc Nation where he became her mentor and all this before her 18th birthday.


I think 'Happiness' will become a huge hit over here when it is released.

Dragonette 'one to watch'

What a great way to start my blog off, I hope to bring you all the latest and greatest new music stories, reviews and something different to what is already out there.. one of my 'ones to watch are an exciting act I have been following for over a year now, Dragonette have been seemingly drifting through the years without the sort of attention they deserve, I was lucky to see them on one of their rare performances at 93 Feet East in London this weekend, they were actually amazing. Full of energy singing songs that are not only catchy but high charting worthy musical masterpieces. They performed greats such as 'I Get Around' 'Fixin to Thrill' 'Liar' 'Gone too Far' 'Pick Up The Phone' 'Take It Like A Man' and my favourite and summer anthem 'Our Summer' which is from their newest Album 'Mixin To Thrill' a remix of some of their songs and a few new ones available now on I-Tunes.

I really hope that this band constisting of Martina Sobara, Dan Kurtz and Joel Stouffer make it into the big time, especially here in the UK as everyone seems to like them on first listen.

Having now seen them live, they are the sort of band I can see performing at major festivals and events in the future.

 

http://www.myspace.com/dragonette

http://www.youtube.com/user/DragonetteBand