Pronounced Trey [as in Songz] and Sheek [as in Louch]
Definition....
Ohhhh the wonderful music, the silky outfits, the cinematography...this advert is *mwah*kisses fingers like a sleazy Italian guy* bellissimo...www.twitter.com/hoodandproper
I saw this video the other day and thought to myself, "...Hmmm...Kylie's still doing her thing". Considering that Lady Gaga has taken over the dancey-euro-pop-box it's quite hard for people to release music/videos without looking a sort of lacklustre in comparison to Gaga's material. However, when watching this video, it felt nice to know that even though Kylie hasn't done anything that different with her music....or hair...or clothes...I feel that she can still hold her own. A lot of female Pop artists have tried to take on a few Gaga-like clothes etc but Kylie proves it's best to just stay in your lane and do you....
The song is cute, she looks good considering all the drama she's been through and I love videos that use lots of light effects....check JayZ 'Jigga What Jigga Who'...dunno why but that first sprang to my mind LOL!
Oh and watch out for her lighty-uppy gloves...which I love.....and the rope chain dress.....very nice...reminds me of Beyonce but whatever :)
The obligatory 'one foot in' photo of the kicks we knew were in for a beating...
Neon nails and Neon wristbands (Photo taken using my waste-ass iPhone 3 on stupid iOS4 that slowed tha thang down....ahem...too much info..sorry.)
This was around 1-2pm so we still looked fresh....oh how it all changed by the time it got to Rodigan and Major Lazer which was hours later....
Keepin' the some of the crowd entertained...apparently...lol...until....
This guy well and truly stole our shine.....he was SICK!!!Although he was about sixty+ years old he spent most of the day dancing on his head or jumping around with people on his back!?!?!(Photo by AymenTV)
Colours'R'Us
Nails'By'Me (Photo by Quincey Thinks)
The day was a lot of crazy fun from start to finish!! The best part is that all of this fun was FREE!!!! Free entry [even though all the tickets sold out in 1 MINUTE, FlyGirlJoJo got Diplo to put us on his guestlist haha which was very nice of him to do for us indeed;)] free/unlimited drinks and food [which by the way was choooong....their potato and bean salad was on point...]! Free Free FREEEEE!!Oh and I got a free T-Shirt which, if you watched the videos, were being printed backstage during the day so it was like a sweatshop behind the decks and a sweatbox in front of 'em! I got a free vinyl but someone took it ....dahwell!!! Anyways, BIG THANKS to Diplo and the Red Bull Music Academy! And to all the DJs on the day who made the freeness even sweeter...this was the line up....
Douster - Electrinic carnival vibes to welcome everybody as the doors opened
Sticky - Lots of old skool garage that made us sweat our hair out way too early haha
Poirier - They played soca....and everybody knows how energetic soca is so this set got the blood pumping and every mouth gasping for air
Drop The Lime - Dropped a rockabilly set on an unsuspecting crowd which quickly turned into a party scene from Happy Days! Luca was our Fonzie!
Joker - Dubstep madness!!! Lots of pogo stick jumping from the crowd
Rodigan - Reggae, jungle and more vibes that were seriously crazy...especially when he dropped Newham Generals!
Major Lazer - Diplo, Switch, Skerrit Bwoy and dancers who climbed on everything and everyone to miami bass drums, house, dancehall and dubstep choooons Now, there are loaaaads of videos of the day but I think these are the best ones.....
First up. here's a nice lil video to the song of Carnival 2010 Katy B 'On a Mission'....oh and you may spot our crew dancing in the beginning....as usual :)
This is the official video of the day showing all the carnival-goers, the DJs backstage and the venue in all it's colourful glory!!
Here is a clip from David Rodigan's set....this man dances more than he DJs! He never stands still!! This video best captures the carnival vibes without the slick transitions and editing...just raw vibes ;)
Then straight after eight hours of that madness we ventured back out on to the absolutely wrecked streets of Notting Hill....I can't stand litter so trying to tiptoe around smelly mass mountains of trash is always fun :)
Here comes Diplo....
...then we went to The Count and Sinden Carnival afterparty for about two pounds LOL!! Yep another good deal haha! It had already started way before we got there but we did get to hear sets from A-Trak, Jamie XX, Martelo and Bashy .....we met Luca aka Drop The Lime too who was really cool...
....after all of that, we left and went to the chicken shop...and that's where the party ended...in our mouths ;D
Last week, I had this mad craving for a cheap looking arcade machine ring. I couldn't find one so I gave up. THEN...this happened....
While I was at the Major Lazer carnival party, I found, what I have now named, 'THE heart of glass' ring!!! Sparkling like that piece of ice the old lady found on the Titanic. Yeaaaaa mayn!! My knuckles is all FROZE and heavy from tha GLOW!!!LOL!
It was with another equally nice ring that some forgetful girl with GREAT TASTE left...but I left that other ring there for some other girl to claim coz it wasn't what I have been looking for and I felt like I would've been greedy to take it haha! For a second, I asked myself, "Did I just steal?", because I never even steal cookies at the self service counter [like every person in Central London!]. However, I didn't feel at all bad.....it's not like there's a 'Lost and Found' shelf at the Carnival, is there!?!?!
I mean, look at it this way, I was among what seemed like hundreds and thousands of scenesters so if I didn't go home with it someone ELSE would have!!
I wasn't letting Miss 'I work for this really cool Fashion PR company that pelts me with freebies 24/7 just coz they are, like, so cool' take MY [someone elses] ring!!!!!!!!!!! Finders' keepers, losers' weepers as they say...[bit harsh, but hey, I didn't coin the phrase lol!]
When stuff like this happens.....IT'S NICE*BoratVoice*
Here are a number of photos, angles to capture the ring is it's full crystallic glory, my new baby lion ring and my new steel drum looking ring.....they've all added a lil Carnival flavour to my hands...[oohhh gosh this post took tooo long to load so I gotta do the FULL carnival post tomorrow...promise...promeeesss!!!]
If this is your ring....girrrrl....I'm sorry but I am sure God will leave a lovely piece of jewellery some where for you ;) xx
FlygirlJoJo giving Skerrit Boy on stage mid performance! He told her the day before that he actually wanted to arrive on stage with Major Lazer on her back .....funny guy!
There's hundreds of pics on facebook so I am trailing through them slowwwwlyyy.....more and videos of all the DJs set to come so sit tight!!!
A month or so back, [summer has been a haze], I was eating a HUGEEE roast dinner when I got a phone call saying someone had an extra ticket for Chromeo's show at the CAMP in East London! I was literally wheezing from the amount of food I had but I got myself ready QUICK- I wasn't missing Chromeo because of a chicken leg!!!
Of course, it was sick as usual [it was my 2nd time seeing them], the girls were loving it....and the grown men were even more enthusiastic than normal. It's quite funny actually - the sight of men at least 30yrs and above clambering to get to the front of the show like groupies haha!!!
Here are some memories...[my iphone has the worst video quality so bear with it]
Pic courtesy of Laura Lakam Photography
Later on we met jammed with Dave1 and P-Thugg [who remembered us from their last show....maybe it's coz we are always dolled up in trashy gold ghetto earrings lol] and went to the afterparty which was really fun! They asked US to take a picture so they could post it on their twitter.....and we were like 'errrrr OF COURSE we will take a pic'!?!?!Eighties funk and disco dancing went on til everyone went home...except for us, the DJs, the bar staff and P-Thugg LOL!
Oh and randomly, weeks later......our all singing all dancing diva-extraordinaire, Fatima, showed us this flyer and was like 'Hey look who it is.....'
....a photographer had used a picture of us from the Chromeo gig for their exhibition flyer! Nice!
Way back in the 90's, three Californian girls named Monifa, Kenya, and Stephanie formed an R'n'B group and released the quiet storm hit, 'He's Mine'.
I bet if you play the video below you will recognise the song but will you remember the name of the group....
Bet you're thinking it was something cheesy like...
LA Girlz?
Nope.
Da Angels?
Nope.
3rd Tymz Da Charm?
Nope.
It was Mokenstef.
WHAT THE!?!? Sounds like they took that piece of paper outta the trash can marked 'Possible Group Names for an all white band from Germany whose influences include 2Unlimited and NWA'.
I was on my way to watch Inception for the SECOND time [LOVE IT] a few weeks back and as I was topping up my oyster card at my station, my eyes wondered along the pavement and I saw this....
The dude in black is unconscious and his friend in red was joining him in what he thinks is a 'nap'. I call it death. The other bums were trying to sell me tickets. Then I thought, "...maybe they take it in turns to do each others ticket selling shifts...".
Nice.
Or Maybe the dude in black was being incepted and the guy in red needed to wake him up for their next mission to dismantle plans to PPPFFTTTTT AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.....I can't even finish the sentence....oh gosh...I am such a loner at times.
I had to do a post on the YouTube hit, 'It's So Cold in The D'.....long overdue but I already started writing it up a while ago lol!
OKAY...some hood looking chick from the D (Detroit, Michigan) released a tribute song about a friend who was murdered - you get the picture......the rest is viral history!!!
T-Baby 'It's So Cold in the D'
PROS
The fact that she was willing to embarass herself just to make this tribute song
The 90's vibe of the beat and the hand gestures/dances are all reminiscent of a, dare I say it, erm SWV/Aaliyah videee...oooo?? No?...Or was that just me who felt that? Moving on....
CONS
She can't even double up her OWN vocals in time?!?!Her adlibs and ev-er-y-thing are just all over the place.It sounds like two people trying to rap along to a Twista song at a karaoke night....but they are not in the same time zones.
Her shocking disregard for 1) her skin against THAT hair colour, 2) rhythm 3) English grammar ["It's so caaaaald in the D! How the $%*& do we s'pose to keep peace..."] and 4) general decorum. Decorum, daaarling. Decorum. YES, your loved one died but do you have to swear so much?!?!? And stay IN TIME! The least you can do is let your friend rest in peace....I'd be turning in my grave if anyone EVER used my death as an excuse for this nonsense.
The backing dancers/homegirls look like they don't really care who died, [or who their babydaddy is]. They look bored or even slightly annoyed.... like the video took longer than expected and T-Baby was holding them back from their double date at Burger King.
Now, Shardinay.
Shardinay [SMH], Shardinay, Shardinay.
Suprisingly, some people in London STILL haven't seen this video!?!?! Which is crazy to believe seen as her video 'blew up' so quickly when it hit the net that she performed at a club in central London the following week! Even I was going to witness the wackness in full effect! THAT'S how big the Shardinay was in tha endz lol! When I first saw this video I refused to believe it was anything short of a parody video because it was so cringeworthy but as her horrible Mariah s-Carey vocals prove, she REALLY thinks she can sing?!?!
Shardinay ft Mani7esto 'Oh Boy'
PROS AND CONS [I had to combine the two because all the cons were pros and the pros were cons...lol!]
The first 'note' that escapes her mouth
The sudden tempo change of the beat is CLASSIC! It sounds like a really bad attempt to emulate an early Destiny's Child track or that the producer was inspired by someone emptying their dishwasher down a flight of stairs. Probably the latter.
The rapper Mani7esto's adlibs, weak verse and clothing. Both the Lonsdale and Ecko UNLTD brands are sooooooooo old skool that I bet even the bummiest of bums would find it hard to wear either brand on a cold winter's night. I can just imagine them faced with the dilemma...... "Lonsdale. Ecko. Or die......hmmm."
The fact that Mani7esto is spelt with a '7'
One of the YouTube comments about Shardinay: "She looks like Diddy Kong's Brother." OUCH.
Her 'choreographer' [HAHAHHAHAHA someone actually thought about these dance moves!!] is called Tipsey....the name speaks for itself...
The dancer on the left in the pink outfit is apparently pregnant! Now, I don't have stomach abs of steel, [I have healthy rings of jelly ;P] but still!!! Watch closely and judge for yourself....
I could go on all day about Shardinay but the YouTube comments do that for me! Me and the guys at work even made our own parody of the video and played the song at our store so you can imagine how much fun I have been making outta this....
"HHhooooOOOOOOOH BOYYYYYYYYYY!!! My singing's kinda weak....wait, wrong key..."
Shoot a rocket out my nose and call me NASA!!! The Notting Hill Carnival x Major Lazer Party put me in SUCH an energetic mood I gotta do a MAJOR post on it!!!!! But first, I'm going to do more posts in one night than I have ever done before.....it should make up for lost time...I hope.
Now for some post-carnival vibes in the key of dubstep ;P.....enjoy...
I was going to write hundreds of posts today but I have just finished doing my hair and I've got 5hrs before I have to get up for work.
I haven't written much recently because it's all been in my head while I'm staring into the ceiling at work and floats away when I sit down to type! I have been doing full time hours for the past few weeks and .....erm ....WOW.....I am soooooooo GLAD I never signed a full time contract!!! Sleep deprivation, much? Someone ask me when I last watched EastEnders......I haven't watched my fave soap in.....ahem...a WEEK and a HALF!!!!!SHOCK HORROR....that's about 4hours catch up I have to do before over the next two days before the new episode on Monday!!!
I got loads to say but for now I gotta just talk about today....
I saw this video and instantly started laughing...I hate to do this because I don't think bashy is a bad artist but really.....WHAT THE HECK IS THIS!?!??!? His new music video for 'Fantasy' [which completely MURDERS one of my favourite 90's songs as a lil 'un, Baby D's 'Let Me Be Your Fantasy'] is straight up cheese on bread. The stills of the video on youtube made me laugh but I thought,' maybe they just caught it at a bad angle' ....
Hmmm.....
Then I watched the video [in silence because I was supposed to be working in the office].
After two minutes, I had to stop watching it......I was trying to hold in the laughter SO MUCH that I was literally sweating and losing my breath ....somehow the humour was heightened by the confused looks I was getting and it all became even more funny. Why was I finding this so funny....I know I find the humour in most cheaply made videos but this one actually had me questioning my juvenile behaviour.........is it because he is what we consider a 'rapper from the streets' all 'Castaway' and bare foot in the sand like some toddler at brighton beach? Is it because he is all washed up.....in both senses?? Or is it because his video looks like it's jacking this dude's steez.....
ALL I gotta say is.....how 'bout you GO COMPARE your life bruv!!!! When your music video starts to look like an insurance advert...it is .....a time to reflect. [And that,folks, is putting it nicely.....the sentence I wrote before REALLY boyed it....and I actually like what Bashy is doing with his life with his acting and that so I ain't gonna do him like that.....it was V.FUNNY though....].
It's now 4am....why am I still on this....now I have 4hrs worth of sleep to bang out....
Radio 1xtra really have been entertaining me these past few days with their UKG Takeover Week, playing all of the classic UK Garage tunes from yesteryear. Yesteryear. Damn. Can you believe those UKG days were a good DECADE ago!!!! Everytime I hear UKG it feels like it was only yesterday that I was wearing my tie 'too short' and passing notes in the classroom whilst drinking Panda Pops when the teacher's back was turned :). This song in particular gives me butterflies....the feeling of nostalgia when I hear this song is ridiculous - it reminds me of the summer when I left behind all my Junior school and Playscheme friends. It was the best and saddest summer holiday ever.....
[I couldn't post the original video but click here to watch it! Cheesy 90's computer graphics at its finest!]
This song also reminds me of my last school disco with all the boys sliding across the floor on their knees.....remember the Latin Explosion....I know I do....*facepalm*smh*.....I picked this video over the original because I can't stand Ricky Martin's overly-unbuttoned shirts....
Oh gosh....I've just come across more classics!! Okay, I'm going to overload you guys with a few more of my favourite musical memories from my childhood haha.....
I'm not hating, Drake is a good artist but I would not, I REPEAT, would not travel from NEW JERSEY to get to NEW YORK CITY to queue up at some crazy time in the early-bird-morning to have his man-of-the-moment ass sign my CD that has songs that I would have probably downloaded already because I am already a fan of Drake. This is EXACTLY what one super-fan did just to have Drake peer from under his eyebrows at him for a HOT second.....the dude then goes on to say Drake is 'A MIRACLE'....LOOOOL!!!!!!!! Watch the video below and listen out for the nonsense this Arab lookin' dude tryna pass himself off as Lloyd spews.....he is gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa............*breathe*...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssed!!!!
*DAAAAAYUUUUUMMMMMM that John-James guy on Big Brother will not stop talking about Rachel...if you say you HATE her with all your guts, why spend the whole day talking about how much you 'hate' her then find some reason to have some sort of telling off session with her telling her how she needs to stop being bitchy or you won't want to be friends with her....ERM...who are you again???? If one dude EVER tried to threaten me with his friendship demanding that I fix up even though HE is talking about me behind my back AND in front of me after living with me FIVE days in the BB house I would brush him off my shoulder like he's any stray hair......don't need it....I got more where that came from....
I really liked this song the first time I heard it and I immediately thought of a 'strobe lights at night' vibe, the song title sorta means that the video will be a no-brainer. I have only just seen the video so I haven't done the usual research but it looks like it's probably directed by the guys who did 'Acapella'. I made this assumption because it looks like they have used the same wardobe/set/concept......the head-dress and the desert ring any bells, Kelis??? Aside from that I .....erm....I haven't really thought this out but.....errrrr - oh yeah - I would have loved the video if it had had more jittery, chopped up editing [I don't know any technical terms,so work with me people!!], for example, the opening scene in the desert and the end scene where Kelis plays with some sort of light decoration works well with the music. When I heard the song, I expected to be blown away by the amount of energy and imagery thrown at me to contrast with her calm vocals.....daaahhhhwell.
I think the parts where she is singing with a microphone should have been left out - the video follows this whole 'at one with the earth and the elements' vibe but the appearance of a microphone and the Beats by Dre headphones ruins this theme as you can tell that these parts where filmed indoors [YEAH, I know the strobe lights could also be part of this technological line-up but they are not AS obvious...]. To me, it looks like Kelis keep switching between being an enigmatic mirage in the sweltering desert to ANY girl singing at your local karaoke bar. Kelis is not any girl though so I don't like having to type this but I just expect more. MORE, KELIS, MORE!!!!! I love what you're wearing and your makeup etc but I just feel like you could have given us something other than the scenes that were cut from the 'Acapella' video.
Your image is still hot but your videos are starting to look a lil run-of-the-mill. Your better than this....and unless your looking for more money to up your music video game, stop tryna rinse Nas....he ain't Diddy!?!?!?
Last Saturday, I spent the whole day laughing with my workmates at random YouTube videos so I was in quite a giggly mood. So when me and Miss Sugarwild were walking past a TV screen [eating the best AND cheapest ice cream in central London] we stopped to laugh like maniacs at the David Guetta 'Memories' video. With tears streaming and ice cream dripping down our hands we stood outside the shop laughing like a pair of immature school kids without a care for the the tourists and scene dudes nearby.
We'd seen the video before - so why was it so funny to us this time...? Was my green pistachio ice cream spiked with something else of a green nature? No...it was because there was no sound....
David Guetta, single-handedly, maintains the notion that white people cannot dance. If you watch the 'Memories' video ON MUTE it really emphasises how fresh off the boat Guetta looks and dances as he tries to sponge off Kid Cudi's 'cool'[although Kid Cudi isn't that much of a dancer either].
My favourite parts are Guetta's sly look at Kid Cudi to make sure he didn't notice his weak attempt at the 'butterfly' @ 2:10 and the shoulder shrug skank @ 2:45
Before you watch, remember to BUST-A-MUTE!!!
NO SOUND=MORE FUN
If Guetta ever gets hurt doing one of his killer moves, I'm sure this dude would be the best candidate for a stunt double....
This is just another one of those old skool classics that have been knocked about by dance/house DJs with the public giving props to the remixers and not the orignators but I just wanted to show some love to the REAL funk soul brothers for a sec....
If you have never seen 'Eccentric's' American Idol audition, I urge you to watch this as it really is one of the BEST(WORST) auditions I have seen on A.I. along with that black dude that said, "...all my friends say that I sound like Brian Mcknight...." [he sounded more like Brian-t Gumble].
"I have fire equalling three men..."
"....I'm an athlete, I WILL get into acting as well I WILL get into modelling....and I will get into being an author...as well as a singersongwriterrapperchoreographerproducer and...composer
"I might be blowing up as Michael Jackson...maybe bigger..."
"I got 53 songs...when people listen to it they get tears....in their eyes....because they are so brilliant-brilliantly written..."
If anyone can watch and listen to the lyrics of his song, 'Sweetest Princess', WITHOUT laughing, you are an impressive being....
PROS The played out bandana with the little point above his eyebrows... The pretend microphone "...I wanna jump out and start to fly..." [Jump out of where????] "...to comfort me when I shed tears" [soft ass fruity ass sherbert ass nucca] "...please come around so my heart can hear your sweet sweet sound..." [so what do we use our ears for...?] "...fly with me through clouds through worlds with bright shine..." [ "Cruising in my coupe, my mind is made up I gotta find a girl to make my breath stop who can make my worl' drop..."
YouTube Comments
"He was deported from Armenia.....for singing" "He sings like he has a gun pointed to his head" "I think HE is tha sweetest princess"
Yeah, I'm from the UK but who cares! We all know red, white and blue looks better in stars'n'stripes - sorry Miss Britannia but Americana does it better [Britannia and Americana .....I bet in a faraway hood somewhere there are twins by the same name]!
Don't hate! We ALL know Vanilla Ice used to ROCK that patriotic look!
I like the imagery in Florence and The Machine's new official video for 'Dog Days'. I just don't like it for THIS song. I didn't think the first video was all that special either but it's earthy/maniac theme was a lil more appropriate for what I still think is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard in a LONG time. You know what - when they used this song as the Slumdog Millionaire premiere advert on Film4 the scenes from the film went really well with the song. I can't find the advert at the moment but I'm sure you can imagine that it was better than this.....
Last year H&M did a silver robotic/armour ring that I wanted last year but couldn't find :(
Last week, whilst getting hairbands, last minute before I went out with my friends, I ran past the jewellery but something pulled me back.....the glint of a LONE armour ring in GOLD!!!!!!GOLD!!!!JUST ONE HANGING OUT WITH SOME RANDOM BRACELETS!?!?!...I snapped it up real quick [although it was an Xtra SMALL!?!?]- asked the sales assistant if it was new to which she replied:
"What is that? Yeah....it's new....more will come, more will come..."
Everyday since then I go in after work - I checked in stores ALL around London...NEW MY ASS!!! ALL the staff in all the stores didn't even know how I got the ring because none of their stores recieved them???!?!? SICK or WHAT....don't answer that...the photo below will do that for you ;) [I have just realised this program is not a 30min affair....it's ONE HOUR...I gotta hit tha sack...].
If any of you reading this are followers [that word is so cringey for me today....thesaurus.com time]....er, if you are 'returning readers', you will remember this post [which I have conveniently hyperlinked so you can read this sentence again and "go with the flow" <<<>
ohh but I think it was a return because this necklace is SOOOOOO five seasons back and there are some missing gems :(......I only managed to haggle a 10% deal after the woman said:
"I cannot sell....it's faulty so I will send theesss to warehouse..."
ERRR NAH!!!GIRRRRL *hood chick voice* YOU BETTA HAND ME MY CHAIN!!!!
I still cannot believe how this all happened...right place, at the right time, mine all mine, mine all mine.....
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