Passed Chances | Goyte, Lana Del Ray, BOY

 

Well, you know that I don't always make it to post songs I like right away - which is, by the way and in my opinion, forgiveable.

But the fact which annoys me it that I sometimes found songs which I really liked and of whom nobody ever heart about. So I felt kind of special, I listened to these songs and sang the lyrics by hard.

That is the perfect time to post them, I know, but it doesn't happen.

And then, two or three weeks later, everybody knows that song. Everybody likes it. And I'm there like: "Well, yes, it's one of my favourite songs since a long time." And which I could be crazy about is that it always happens to songs which I really, really like.

(I know that I say that I "really like" every song I post here. Everyone is special. But these songs in that post had, have and will always have a special place in my heart.)

Gotye: Somebody That I Used to Know

So it happenend with "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Goyte. I heart it before my wisdom teeth operation two months ago, I knew the text by heart - and everytime there has been a ticklish moment I sang the song in my head.

It is such a special song for me but since Christmas and after that bad, bad, bad cover version everyone knows it.

I don't now which lyrics to choose. So I just take the chorus:

but you didn't have to cut me off / make out like it never happened and that we were nothing / and I don't even need your love / but you treat me like a stranger / and that feels so rough
you didn't have to stoop so low / have your friends collect your records and then change your number / I guess that I don't need that though / now you're just somebody that I used to know

And the video, I mean, honestly! I love music videos which are created with love, where you can see a concept, where you feel that somebody took care in doing it. And this video is one like these and I'm simply stoked.

Lana Del Ray: Video Games 

And it happend with Lana Del Ray, too. I love her songs and her deep, heavy voice but the one thing which really disturbs me is the way she is promoted. This obvious emphasis on her outer appearance debases the music she is performing. She would be successful without these faked lips, eye lashes and nails, too. She is already beautiful.

(I think you now know my position of these acts the media drives persons into, just to say some key words like photoshop, bulimia, plastic surgery, that unnatrual need for being perfekt.)

I basically love everything from this song. Every single line is in my head.

BOY: Little Numbers, Waitress 

So there's another band which gets more famous at the moment so I want to take the chance to talk about them before everybody else does.

The band is called BOY and is made up of two girls from Zurich and Hamburg, Valeska Steiner and Sonja Glass. Their album is already on my mp3-player because my sister got it for her birthday.

Here are some absoulte feel-good songs I loved from the first moment:

woo-oh, oh-oh, all the pretty things that we could be / woo-oh, oh-oh, I feel you in every heartbeat /  woo-oh, oh-oh, travel in a dream that could come true  / these numbers could be lucky for you

well daylight is fadin' /  while traders are tradin' / while the jukebox is playin' / the lovers are datin', / the waitress is waitin' ... / for a thing to explode, / for a light to go on, / for some sign to show / her time has yet to come / she's countin' the days / until real life arrives / she's countin': two three four five