Paramore Are Officially Awsome

T4 famed band Paramore aren’t actually as ‘new and fresh’ as you think, in fact their most recent songs were released on an album about 2 years ago now. Nevertheless I for one am glad that my eyes have been opened to this fantastic trio. At first I just liked the song (Misery Business), then her voice grew on me a great deal, kind of like Kelly Clarkson but better.

Then recently I watched this youtube video of an acoustic version of the song, and my respect for them went to a whole new level.

Lead singer Hayley’s voice, even in such a raw acoustic session is absolutely incredible, something that one assumes with today’s recording technology is generally merely generated for the record and played back during ‘live performances’. Not so with paramore, there are no vocal effects or help needed with Hayley as she literally stands out a mile from the thousands of other female fronted rock bands. The difference between her and the others is that she hits every note effortlessly, she has great tone, she sings with genuine emotion, and she has 2 very very good guitarists supporting her.

Oh, and she’s hot too.

I’ll give you two guesses what’s going on my waterproof mp3 player this weekend!

James Blunt Should Die

I am sitting here in my office, southern FM is playing through the radio (how unfortunate), and all I can hear, is the teeth grinding, kidney squeezing, testicular killing, mind numbing, anything-but heart wrenching voice of James the prat Blunt.

In all seriousness, if I wanted to hear the voice of an 8 year old whinging and moaning about how difficult her life was, then I would go to a primary school, and find an 8 year old girl to sing to me. The fact remains that I don’t have any interest in inflicting this shrill noise upon my unsuspecting eardrums, and they would far rather listen to something decent, so James the munt Blunt does not register on that list.

This shrill boy from Wiltshire (oh yes, rather, indeed) was in fact christened ‘James Hillier Blount’ but deemed himself important enough to need to change it for more of a ‘rockstar’ alternative. He should have taken an events management london job to be honest rather than have cursed us all with is putrid excuse for ‘music’. Yet another reason for him to be shot, but who’s counting.

Today, I think we have concluded that James Hillier Fairy Blunt is the worst thing in the history of mankind.

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