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New Music Friday
Mar. 1st, 2019 11:12 pmThis song and video both are stunning. It's "Black Woman" by Danielle Brooks, who I wasn't aware of as a singer at all before I watched this, just an actor. But wow, she has an amazing voice and a strong message about being who she is. I love it.
You may not know this but Rebecca Black, of the old song "Friday" that's been meme'd to death, is still a singer. She's grown quite a bit as has her voice and I think she's killing it. I love this video because it's just her, singing a bop in a big house with fancy clothes. Like it's a proper, fun music video and the song is perfect for her voice. This is, "Anyway".
Eventually I'll stop finding new versions of songs from Heathers to post, but this is not that week. So today you get a video from last weekend at 54 Below, a club in NYC where Broadway stars often go just to sing for fun. In this instance we get Ryan McCarten doing a role reversed version of the song "Dead Girl Walking" from the perspective of the male character, J.D. There's a few lyrics changed, as he explains at the beginning and it's just a really great rendition of the song.
Bonus recommendations:
One of my favorite bands from last year a brother & sister duo, Lawrence, has started putting out some videos of them singing out in public at different locations. They're just low-key, no tech videos and they're kind of charming. The second video of them singing "Make a Move" is them singing from a Venetian Gondola.
I also wanted to recommend this video I watched about recent country music. Now, I don't listen to much country these days, but I found this conversation about modern country music pretty interesting, especially in regards to how the beat in a lot of popular country songs more heavily mimics pop music. I think he's got a good point too. It's worth the watch.
And I'm not going to post all the videos of my last recommendation, instead I'm just going to link you to Spotify. Please go listen to the new Hozier album, Wasteland, Baby! --- it's great!
You may not know this but Rebecca Black, of the old song "Friday" that's been meme'd to death, is still a singer. She's grown quite a bit as has her voice and I think she's killing it. I love this video because it's just her, singing a bop in a big house with fancy clothes. Like it's a proper, fun music video and the song is perfect for her voice. This is, "Anyway".
Eventually I'll stop finding new versions of songs from Heathers to post, but this is not that week. So today you get a video from last weekend at 54 Below, a club in NYC where Broadway stars often go just to sing for fun. In this instance we get Ryan McCarten doing a role reversed version of the song "Dead Girl Walking" from the perspective of the male character, J.D. There's a few lyrics changed, as he explains at the beginning and it's just a really great rendition of the song.
Bonus recommendations:
One of my favorite bands from last year a brother & sister duo, Lawrence, has started putting out some videos of them singing out in public at different locations. They're just low-key, no tech videos and they're kind of charming. The second video of them singing "Make a Move" is them singing from a Venetian Gondola.
I also wanted to recommend this video I watched about recent country music. Now, I don't listen to much country these days, but I found this conversation about modern country music pretty interesting, especially in regards to how the beat in a lot of popular country songs more heavily mimics pop music. I think he's got a good point too. It's worth the watch.
And I'm not going to post all the videos of my last recommendation, instead I'm just going to link you to Spotify. Please go listen to the new Hozier album, Wasteland, Baby! --- it's great!
