Well the holidays have arrived, and with it comes a tsunami of mugging to do. Although I did have a treat before today: 7-11 selling mogu mogu drinks at $1.30 each bottle. Those drinks are awesome! Taste like heaven and nata de coco. Oh wait, it is heaven and nata de coco... Anyway. Go grab one of the bottles before they sell out, because you'd never get them at that price again: it sells for over 2 bucks elsewhere (2.25 at 7-11 when the offer is over).
Yes, I know the bottle looks kinda small. But trust me, its worth it.
Edit: I forgot to mention, I bought two of these babies at 7-11 :)
Aside from muga muga and mogu mogu, I was watching a video yesterday with an incredibly long title. You can find it by searching "ginosaji" on Youtube; I'll do a review on this video sometime later because it's just too funny. I believe I lag on this one though, it was released over a year ago and most people I know have watched it already. Still godamn funny though :D
Just look'd through allkpop, and boy am I not disappointed!
So it's acceptable to wear vulgarities in public now? Taeyang thinks so :D
So for my second music review, I'll be jumping into a recent kpop song, namely Lucifer by SHINee.
MV with Eng Subs and Romanization:
Kudos to kpopsubs for always providing quality subs, despite that setback some time ago when their first account was suspended.
This song was actually very catchy the first time I heard it about a month ago, and is still on my playlist now. The main attraction about this song is that... well... its SHINee.
You gotta love/hate their new hairstyles. Key looks ridiculous but I suppose its kinda cool, while the rest look booboo egkwcwqouenvounqouencqnon. Coming to the song itself, the lyrics don't make sense (as usual) and the usage of english in the song (what was it - Lolbohollic, Lobotronic, Lobohollic, Lobotronic?... definiely lobo-worthy, whatever the hell that means) is epic. Flaws aside, the tune and the dance are great, especially if you're a huge kpop fan like me. The bouncy feel to this song makes it very entertaining, and combined with some deep bass in the background, the music is nearly perfect. The song is relatively singable (is that a word?) but the context of the song remains unknown to me till this date. For example, what do those cars in the background of the mv even mean? Toyota advertisement...? And the title of the song... lucifer plox! Its the devil! I'm pretty sure he owns a toyota and everything, but that's really irrelevant to robotronic love.
In reality, the song is a nice long rant about love and being stuck in love. Cliched yeah, but its new to see a dance track talking about love. I sure am glad it wasn't talking about toyotas and mitsubishis, so I'll give this song a 3.9/5.
So I figured I'll try and start this pathetic blog by actually doing a proper post. While coining up a term to replace "review" I sorta spaced out into youtube for a little, but anyway. You can see on the left of my blog where the sidebar is, a little list of my current song playlist.
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"The Catalyst" by Linkin Park
Lyrics:
GOD BLESS US EVERYONE
WE'RE A BROKEN PEOPLE LIVING UNDER LOADED GUN
And it can't be outfought
It can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched
It can't be outrun
No!
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
It can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched
It can't be outrun
No-
And when I close my eyes tonight
To symphonies of blinding light
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
HOOOH-
Like memories in cold decay
Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky...
God save us everyone,
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns?
For the sins of our hand
The sins of our tongue
The sins of our father
The sins of our young
No-
God save us everyone
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns?
For the sins of our hand
The sins of our tongue
The sins of our father
The sins of our young
No
And when I close my eyes tonight
To symphonies of blinding light
God save us everyone,
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns?
HOOOH-
Like memories in cold decay
Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky
(Instrumental)
HOOOH-
Like memories in cold decay
Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky...
Lift me up...
Let me go...
(x10)
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
Can't be outdone
It can't outmatched
It can't be outrun
No
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
Can't be outdone
It can't out matched
It can't be outrun...
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While it is really a completely different concept from Linkin Park's previous albums such as Hybrid Theory or even Minutes to Midnight, I certainly am intrigued by this dramatic change in the style. And while I can't really say that the song is better than those from their first couple of albums, it does have some sort of attractive feel to it - mainly in how the way Mike sings (or shouts) the lyrics. The music video helps a lot in making you "feel" it, because Mike's in some gas-land with a hoodie (Obi-wan Kenobi in hell? I wonder what qualified him to "burn inside the fire of a thousand suns").
"God bless everyone, my beard is black again!"
The main problem with the song is that, it sounds very plain throughout the whole song, with little variation of tune in between. The lyrics are simply repeated again and again throughout the whole song - the shouting can get annoying after awhile, and for hardcore fans of LP like me, this isn't a good sign. Most of their previous songs have some kind of flow to them that makes you want to listen to them again and again - but this one simply consists of lots and lots of somewhat pointless shouts. However, the song still captures the themes and ideals I think it was meant to convey - of loss and destruction and stuff, especially if you're watching the music video. Linkin Park has always been the best at doing the "FUCK THIS" songs, and again have delivered that promise with The Catalyst. Then again, comparing the quality of this song to their previous ones, you can't really say its better.
One worthy thing to note in the lyrics is what it appears to be suggesting. The symbolism used conveys a sense of devastation... you know, an "end of the world" kind of feeling. From how I interpret the song, it's clearly telling us that an apocalypse is about to arrive because of all the evils humans have done. But the way the song is pushing this idea through somewhat disturbs me - does that mean that in order for us to repent all of us will have to bow down and plead for God's help? I'm pretty sure that if one day gas decends upon the earth and people start spazzing like they're doing in the video, the last thing I'd be thinking about won't be of God's help. (Forgive me, I'm mostly an atheist.) Overall score for the song, I'd award it with a 3.7/5 for trying, but factoring in the MV it should earn around a 4.1/5.
Hopefully the rest of their album will be better when its released. It's going to be out in mid September (Right after the school holidays are over) so do look out!
Attempting to go systematically on my posts this time, so hopefully this works out somehow.
So for the first major post on my blog, I'm going to be ranting about rants. Lets start off with a question: Have you ever seen one of those ridiculously long, wordy and pointless posts somewhere attempting to sway you, the reader by using extremely bombastic and mouth-tying phrases describing the world when you can see it with your own damn eyes? The stupidest thing is that the poster doesn't realize that nobody cares about his silly long jumbled up post full of retarded ideas and stories about how dogs are terrible because females are bitches and trees are green and leafy, or that orange drops are actually made of purple pianos, and that trees made of gold do not exist because gold is made of trees, or possibly even that the Statue of Liberty is really a giant cookie monster. I've seen rants talking about everything from dirty toilets to clean toilets; and I can tell you that it is not fun reading some of these rants. I remember the rant I was reading about the other day on the subject of why toilets should be clean, and it totally made so much sense when he was ranting about condoms in a rant about toilets. He even went on to rant about how ranting about toilets helps to put off ranters from ranting about toilets, because the ranting makes ranters feel like ranting about condoms more than ranting about toilets. All these ranters probably think that ranting puts life into perspective, by expressing life in the form of rants. Well I'll tell you straight to the face that rants only serve to confuse you even more, because you'll start thinking that life is made of rants and that jumping out of your window is equivalent to paragraphing your rants.
That hurt. Anyway, aside from jumping out of your window in order to enable the paragraphing of rants, do note that rants do have one inherent benefit: they are a complete waste of time and help to make life a better place by ensuring that your head isn't full of rants when you're trying to think of what to rant about next. After all, if trees were made of gold, your condoms would cover a purple piano and oranges would have been blue apples born from green grass!
