Blog 31

This week I'm going to talk about and up and coming country star named Hunter Hayes. Hunter Hayes sounds a lot like Rascal Flatts but without the harmonies. Two of his songs that are really good are Wanted and Somebody's Heartbreak. These songs are really catchy and have very good lyrics. Here are the lyrics for Wanted followed by the video by Hunter Hayes.

You know I'd fall apart without you
I don't know how you do what you do
'Cause everything that don't make sense about me
Makes sense when I'm with you
Like everything that's green, girl I need you
But it's more than one and one makes two
Put aside the math and the logic of it
You gotta know you're wanted too

'Cause I wanna wrap you up
Wanna kiss your lips
I wanna make you feel wanted
And I wanna call you mine
Wanna hold your hand forever
Never let you forget it
Yeah, I wanna make you feel wanted

Anyone can tell you you're pretty
(Yeah)
You get that all the time, I know you do
But your beauty's deeper than the makeup
And I wanna show you what I see tonight

When I wrap you up
When I kiss your lips
I wanna make you feel wanted
And I wanna call you mine
Wanna hold your hand forever
Never let you forget it
'Cause baby I wanna make you feel wanted

As good as you make me feel
I wanna make you feel better
Better than your fairy tales
Better than your best dreams
You're more than everything I need
You're all I ever wanted
All I ever wanted

And I just wanna wrap you up
Wanna kiss your lips
I wanna make you feel wanted
And I wanna call you mine
Wanna hold your hand forever
Never let you forget it
Yeah, I wanna make you feel wanted
Yeah, baby I wanna make you feel -
Wanted
'Cause you'll always be wanted

Another great song that I just found out about a couple of weeks ago is Somebody's Heartbreak. This song if very heart felt and very good. Here are the lyrics to Somebody's Heartbreak followed by the video by Hunter Hayes.

'd love to know just what you're thinkin'
Every little river, runnin' through your mind
You give and you take
You come and you go
You leave me here wonderin' if I'll ever know
How much you care or how much you don't
Whatever you need, whatever you want

If you're gonna be somebody's heartbreak
If you're gonna be somebody's mistake
If you're gonna be somebody's first time,
Somebody's last time, baby be mine
If you're lookin' to be somebody's 'just friends',
A little laughin', little lovin', never callin' again, that's just fine
If you're gonna be somebody's heartbreak
Be mine, yeah
Oh, be mine

I guess that all I'm tryin' to tell ya
Is a minute with you is better than two without
Oh, I won't be a fool but I can't play it cool
So I'm playin' safe and I'm breakin' the rules
I'm wishin' I had what I know that you got
So if you're comin' my way then please don't stop

If you're gonna be somebody's heartbreak
If you're gonna be somebody's mistake
If you're gonna be somebody's first time,
Somebody's last time, baby be mine
If you're lookin' to be somebody's 'just friends',
A little laughin', little lovin', never callin' again, that's just fine
If you're gonna be somebody's heartbreak
Be mine
Oh, woah
If you're gonna be somebody's heartbreak
Or somebody's mistake
Somebody's first time, or their last time, baby be mine
If you're lookin' to be somebody's 'just friends',
A little laughin', little lovin', never callin' again, that's just fine
If you're gonna be somebody's heartbreak
Be mine (If you're gonna be somebody's heartbreak)
Be mine (If you're gonna be somebody's mistake)
Oh, I'll take my chances
If you're gonna be someone's heartbreak
If you're gonna be someone's mistake
Somebody's first time, somebody's last time
Be mine
Oh, be mine
Be mine
Baby, baby, baby, be mine, all mine
If you're gonna break someone's heart, yeah
Might as well, might as well be mine

Blog 30

This week in class we listened to the first album of Led Zeppelin. I didn't know any songs on the album but the ones I liked were Your Time is Gonna Come and Dazed and Confused. Here's is the video for Your Time is Gonna Come.

My next favorite was Dazed and Confused so here is the video for it.

Blog 29

A band that I have learned to like over the years is Matchbox Twenty. They have a ton of great songs and Rob Thomas is an amazing musician but one of my favorite songs by them is How Far We've Come. This is and up beat song with a catchy beat and good lyrics. Here is the music video for How Far We've Come by Matchbox Twenty.

Another song of their's that just recently came out that I like is called She's So Mean which talks about a girl that this guy wants, but she is mean and he is asking himself why he can't let her go. Here are the lyrics of She's So Mean followed by the music video.

I kn-kn-know a girl, she gets what she wants all the time
'Cause she's fine
But for an angel, she's a hot hot mess
Make you so blind
But you don't mind

'Cause she's an uptown, get-around, anything-goes girl, girl
She's a hardcore, candy-store, gimme-some-more girl, girl

She'll make you take her to the club, but then she leaves with her friends
She likes to stay late at the party, 'cause the fun never ends
And all her clothes are on the floor and all your records are scratched
She's like a one-way ticket 'cause you can't come back!

[Chorus:]
Saying yeah... you want her, but she's so mean
(You’ll never let her go. Why don’t you let her go?)
Yeah... you want her, but she's so mean
(You’ll never let her go. Why don’t you let her go?)

You kn-kn-know that if you don’t shut your mouth, she’ll freak out
You better get your shit together, ‘cause she’s bringing you down now
Yeah boy you better, you better
'Cause she's an uptown, get-around, anything-goes girl, girl
She's a hardcore, candy-store, gimme-some-more girl, girl

She’s got her wicked sense of humor, can’t believe what she says
She drinks Bacardi in the morning ‘til it goes to her head
And all you want is just to hold her, but she don’t go for that
She has a hard time coming when she can’t hit back

[Chorus]

Every now and then, she makes you just a little bit crazy
She’ll turn a knife into your back and then she’s calling you baby, crazy

She'll make you take her to the club, but then she leaves with her friends
She likes to stay late at the party, 'cause the fun never ends
And all her clothes are on the floor and all your records are scratched
She's like a one-way ticket 'cause you can't come back!

[Chorus x2]

Blog 28

This week in class we listened to the Beatles Abbey Road album and the only songs I really knew were Come Together and Here Comes the Sun. I remember performing Here Comes the Sun as a sixth grader in middle school and thinking it was a really catchy song. Come Together is a great Beatles classic that almost everyone knows. Here is the video of the Parent Trap scene where Here Comes the Sun is played in the background.

Come Together was also in a movie, and that movie is Across the Universe. Here is the scene from Across the Universe with Come Together.

Blog 27

I want to talk about a great artist that sounds a lot like Mumford and Sons, and his name is Phillip Phillips. Phillip Phillips was the winner of American Idol last year and has come out with his song Home that was number one on the charts. Home is a great song that talks about someone that has just moved to a new place and he is saying that he/she stays with him then he will "make this place he/she's home." Here is the music video of Home by Phillip Phillips.

He just recently came out with a new album that has Home and many other great songs on it, but the one that stood out to me was Gone, Gone, Gone which talks is about a couple and the boyfriend/husband is talking to his girlfriend/wife and saying that no matter what happens even after she is "gone," he will always be there. Here is the video with the lyrics of Gone, Gone, Gone by Phillip Phillips.

Blog 26

This week in class we talked and listened to the amazing Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash is also known as The Man in Black because he would always wear black. He is well known for his deep voice and song writing. My favorite songs by Johnny Cash are Walk the Line and Ring of Fire, these songs are classic Johnny Cash songs that are very recognizable. There is a movie called Walk The Line that is about Johnny Cash's life, it has Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. Here is a clip of the song Ring of Fire from the movie Walk The Line.

Here is a clip of Walk the Line performed by Johnny Cash.