Music Monday (6)

Hello everyone!  Welcome to the sixth edition of Music Monday!  Today, I'm going to show you some original funny/parody songs.  I hope that you like them!
"Dramatic Song" by Tobuscus
So true... so true... just watch and you'll see.

"Paper Bag" by Jacksfilms and company
I'm not terribly familiar with the musical phenomena of 'One Direction' but I know that this is a parody of 'What Makes You Beautiful' or whatever the real title is.  It's something along the lines of that, so I found the song ironic, as it should be.  I don't know if I'm going to like One Direction.  One-way streets suck and are terribly inconvenient.
"Narwhals (With Arthritis)" by Elmify and her father
I just thought it was adorable, even if one of the Narwhals are suffering from arthritis.
I hope that you are having a lovely Monday!  I know mine is going to be-- I don't have school today because a) it's Memorial Day.  No one has school on Memorial Day... and b) I finished high school and I'm graduating on Thursday!
Thanks for watching!
--Jude

Music Monday (5)

Welcome to Music Monday!  Today, the songs are all choral pieces and very mellow in demeanor, but they're so beautiful that I couldn't resist.  Enjoy!

"Sleep" by Eric Whitacre
I can't believe that I haven't found this sooner.  I had only heard the band version for this, but frankly, I prefer the choir version.  I really want to share it with you by embedding it on here so that you can get so many goosebumps without exerting a lot of effort, but unfortunately it's not possible, so you'll have to go on watch it on YouTube (press play on the above video and a link will be available for you to click on).  Please do go and listen-- it's absolutely beautiful!

"Water Night" by Eric Whitacre
I just think that it's so neat that this one man can get so many people together, even virtually, from across the globe to participate in something as beautiful as this.  Amazing is written all over this!

"Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap, as covered by Joseph Bates
I love watching these videos where one person covers every part of a song.  It's really need and shows a fantastic amount of dedication to the song and music in general.

"O Magnum Mysterium" by Morten Lauridsen
I played the instrumental version of this, but really, nothing beats the choral version.  There's just something about the human voice that gives me goosebumps.  The neat thing about this video is that the music for every part is included, so feel free to sing along!
Thank you for dropping by for Music Monday!  If you would like, feel free to recommend some music that you are currently in love with!  I'm always looking for more music to enjoy.
--Jude

Music Monday (4)

Welcome to the fourth Music Monday!  I have some songs (covers) to share with you today!

"A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri, covered by Sungha Jung
I only recently discovered this YouTuber, but Sungha is an amazing guitar player!  It's like nothing I've ever heard before.
"Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye, covered by Luke Conard, Landon Austin, and MissGlamorazzi)
Luke and Ingrid are two of my favorite people on YouTube.  Their voices combined are magical!  Especially Ingrid's.  I think this is her best cover yet!
"Arena" by The Tributes
You may have guessed that this was a song about the Hunger Games.  You'd be right!  It's pretty sweet-- the video is amazing and everyone involved worked so hard on this project. "Wonderwall" by Oasis, covered by Alex Goot
Alex Goot is a YouTube musician and he is good at what he does.  On top of original music, he also does covers of well-known songs like this one.  He's in the video below this one too.
"We Are Young" by Fun, covered by Alex Goot, Tiffany Alvord, and Luke Conard
The animation in this video is neat, the remixed version of the original is adorable and it works extremely well.  All three voices mesh quite well.  It's a very good listen!
Thanks for taking a listen to these amazing people and I'll see you next Monday for another Music Monday (well, the scheduling thingy on Blogger will, because I have job training that day!  I have a job again this summer!!).
--Jude

Music Monday (3)

"The Spanglish Song" by Jay Brannan
I'm kind of in love with this guy.  I was searching around Pandora and I stumbled upon him, and that's when I realized that I've actually been listening to his music for quite a while!  He's a beautiful singer and guitar player.  The actual song starts about 54 seconds in.  He sounds just like the recording that I found on Pandora.  This makes me happy because it means he doesn't do a lot of, if any, auto-tuning.  It's so gorgeous!

"Breathing" by Temple Scene
I may have shared this song on my blog before today, but it's such a neat song that I thought that I would share it again for those that missed it the first time or are new followers of mine (hello there!).  I like that it's a quiet song that still manages to capture a feeling of intensity without resorting to screaming or heavy bass.

"August" by Julia Nunes
I know that I've shared this song on my blog before.  Same case as above.  I really like it when Julia did these songs where she just sat down in front of her camera (possibly laptop, though I doubt it because the sound quality is so good for a laptop) and sang songs like this.  It's very intimate and with such a heartfelt and beautiful song, it's even better.  I prefer this version to the one that was recorded for her album.

"Samson" by Regina Spektor
It didn't take me long to fall in love with Regina Spektor, but it wasn't instant.  For me, this was a song that I wasn't sure that I cared for until the second or third time I heard it.  I can't quite place my finger on why I felt  this way about it.  Now it's one of my favorite songs of hers!  I still want to share it with you, but for some odd reason, you can only watch it on YouTube, not in embedded form like this one.
Thank you for listening to these wonderful artists and reading my captions below them!  I hope I've helped make the beginning of your week wonderful!  Come back next week for more Music Monday!
--Jude

Music Monday (2)

Welcome back to Music Monday!  This week I've got all Disney songs for you.  Let's start with the scariest one and also my absolute favorite...

"Hellfire" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
I love this movie so much.  Just the music is enough to give me goosebumps!  And now that I've been to the place where the story is set, it's even more amazing.  I've been looking at old Disney movies lately and I've noticed that some of them are actually darker than I originally thought.  A song about getting an outcast girl to fall in love with him with the ultimatum being 'I'll kill you'?  In a Disney movie?  Wow... Despite the dark undertones, I'm so in love.





"Savages" from Pocahontas
I'm in love with this movie too.  I love the colors and the music!  I like that this song has three singing parts-- the Settlers, the Native Americans, and Pocahontas has a strong part of her own.  It's so beautiful!  Alan Menken for sure knows what he's doing.





"He Mele No Lilo" from Lilo and Stitch
Another movie I used to watch incessantly.  My sister and I watched it so much that our DVD got scratched, so now the movie stops in the beginning of every song so matter how much fast-forwarding we end up doing.  Any way, this is such a cute song and the animation is adorable-- one of the more round, cute Disney animations.





"I Won't Say I'm in Love" from Hercules
This is such an awesome song to sing along to.  I love that Meg is a Disney princess without really being a Disney princess.  She's on the outskirts of princesshood.  And she's sort of a bad guy even though like Anakin Skywalker, she hasn't completely turned to the Dark Side.





"Reflection" from Mulan
A beautiful song from a beautiful and flowy movie.  Another favorite (I seem to have a lot of those!)
Thanks for watching and reading!
--Jude

Music Monday (1)

So, I don't want to completely abandon you while I'm busy with life, so I will leave you with some music that I've been in love with lately! 

First, "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye
I first saw this music video while I was sitting in the living room of my French host family-- it was so trippy, but so cool and the song itself is just so catchy!  I love it!

"Domino" by Jessie J
Another really, REALLY trippy video that I saw in France!  I love the costume changes and I'll admit, I swoon a little when she hits those high notes.

"Lady Godiva" covered by Alex Day
I'm in love with the cover!  The video is so theatrical and, and, and.... yeah :)

"Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen, as covered by Cimorelli
This is such a cute family.  All of the girls are sisters and are all super talented and awesome!  It's weird though, when it comes to this song, I tend to prefer the covers.
I kind of like this Music Monday concept... maybe I'll make it a thing.  Tell me what you think!
Also, slowly but surely, I will be scheduling reviews and inserting the occasional "live" post.  Thank you for giving these artists some love and I'll talk to you again very soon!
--Jude