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It was like Arthur’s Day 2 days ago…

Sep 27

Posted by j.i.lo in Event, Music, Pics, Video | 12 Comments

And I couldn’t find much information about the BIG event until now. So sad! :(

Fellow Malaysians, you should’ve brought your cameras, iphones, lappies along! Blog about it, post youtube vids, tweet it, take pictures. It would have gone viral! Why so little love for Arthur? I couldn’t say much if this was something not ‘big’ enough to garner attention, but even the STAR did something on Sep 25 itself. This was the BEP performing, hello?

Ok, rant aside. The BEP, as usual was greatly welcomed by the crowd at the Sunway Surf Beach in Kuala Lumpur. Here’s what the STAR (a newspaper company in Malaysia) had to say:

However, aside from a few bloggers who took the trouble to write and took vids, there were so few coverage about the event! Sedih lah (so sad).

Smashpop.net had some pictures of the Arthur’s Day celebration in Kuala Lumpur, check it here.

Chris, a very good photographer I met before, had a lengthy photopost of BEP during the press conference.

In addition, Chris also recorded the BEP in Boom Boom Pow action.

Though I have to say, I still think the G.I. JOE version is better.

However one Youtuber actually took a very high quality vid of BEP singing I Gotta Feeling. Will.i.am even said KL KL KL a few times (KL is the shortform of Kuala Lumpur) – makes it more endearing lol. I must say thank you dear Youtuber, that was really excellent and more useful than you think. I love Fergie’s furry vest ;)

As for me, one thing I regretted was not being able to be present myself. Well, I don’t know but I’d really go all way out to make this viral if I were there! :D

Aside from Kuala Lumpur, the Arthur’s Day celebration was also held in Dublin (Ireland), New York (US), Lagos (Nigeria) and Yaounde (Cameroon). The following clip shows everyone cheering to Arthur in Dublin, much like what happens in the Arthur’s Day ad (I don’t know if you’ve seen it, try search in youtube).

There’s plenty of photos in the Independent.ie for the Dublin celebrations.

Finally, if you want to see more vids for the Dublin celebration as well as some pics of the Lagos concert, go to GuinnessPours.net. Go go go!

It was a bit sad, such a great event had so many people going but the coverage does not compensate as much! And BEP chose to go to KL of all 5 places! That was the greatest honour ever people. :(

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Some new songs

Sep 25

Posted by j.i.lo in Music | 7 Comments

I recently heard.

Kris Allen, winner of American Idol season 8, has recently released a single named “Live Like We’re Dying”. It’s actually the same song by The Script. I heard both versions, and I gotta say, Kris did do a good job, but it sounded too similar to The Script’s version.

Compare it to The Script:

Hmmm…

I read that Kris will release his very first album on November 17. Maybe he should really try his best since Adam Lambert (!) will release his very first album too, just one week later on November 24. Are we looking for another AI-style showdown again? :O

But then again, Kris looks so cute, like the pretty boy next door. I believe a lot of gals (and maybe guys too :P ) will buy his album, lol. So where does that leave Adam? C’mon we wanna hear a single from the 2012 soundtrack at least. ;) Adam sang a track for the 2012 movie and that song is supposedly going to be included in the soundtrack album as well.

2nd.

Drake’s new song Forever. I think you should watch the 1-minute commentary by James Montgomery of MTV below to get the hang of what the song is all about.

Personally, this felt like Eminem making a comeback of sorts. Not that I like his songs, but this is perhaps one of the songs with Eminem in it that I actually felt was interesting. All in all the song was good although I probably wouldn’t have it on my iTunes download list.

To watch the video, go here

This is my report thus far of the latest songs that have come to me. Have YOU heard of any latest song releases that could be interesting? Post it in the comments below – you can even embed a Youtube vid in it. :)

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Like wild horses…

Sep 15

Posted by j.i.lo in Music, Pics, Video | 14 Comments

I feel that wild horses are now running…

for Susan Boyle.

She’s landed in America for the first time, to sing there for the first time, tracks from her very first album, I Dreamed a Dream. Yes, the same name as the world-famous audition song.

She’s had a first-time very transformational makeover, so much that she look much much better now. I’d say she’ll look fantastic even if she’s really riding a wild horse. However the mainstream media strangely never took notice of her new looks. Here’s a very recent photo of Susan, from here.

Lovely?

Anyway, it’s Susan’s first time releasing her debut album (which will be released in November), and one of the songs which Times Online UK says she will sing is Wild Horses (original by Rolling Stones). Hear her soul in the music below, lyrics included:

Well Susan can’t really run free like a wild horse yet. She’s been taken to Disneyland for some Mickey Mouse fun after hordes of fans and media personnel “mobbed” her. Maybe a song of the same name from Natasha Bedingfield will do the trick for now:


lyrics

So, on a typical working weekday like Tuesday, would you feel running carefreely like a wild horse? ;)