This artist is international, but the song is definitely a throwback and it’s in English, but I like it. It’s from 1992. The real reason why I picked it is because I was trying to have four weeks of French artists: David Guetta, Les Plastiscines, Yelle, now Vanessa Paradis. One of my old bosses first put me on to this song years ago. The is Vanessa back when she was with Lenny Kravitz, long before she became Johnny Depp’s wife and the mother of his kids.
Doesn’t she just look angelic and serene in the whole video, I guess it’s the French sensibility and the black boyfriend. This video has Early 90s Lenny written all over it.
Three weeks of French artists in a row (I must like the country or something…they have great fries and toast). Good music, though.
This is Yelle, a cool French pop artist I first got put on by my friend Fariyal. Thins is back like two years ago maybe when we were going rampant with the music swapping.
I posted this last Wednesday but when I reread the post after I sent it out, I thought it lacked luster and really wasn’t good enough. I didn’t really even listen to the songs. If I did I would’ve know that I love this first song, Je Veux Te Vior, like a fat kid loves cake…like Joan Rivers likes plastic surgery. Around 2m, 30s, the song gets real 80s and I know it’s ripping a song I’ve heard from when I was like 2 or 3, but the memory’s too hazy for me to recall (on with the mission of me trying to figure this out.) I gotta start downloading more Yelle to get to know her catalog… I like “Ce Jeu” too. Shoutout to @foucaultdude for the remix, I didn’t know about it until now.
I like The Plastiscines, they’re a group out of France and they have a real cool sound. Hmm, I guess the would make it “Les Plastiscines,” right? It’s a little punk, a little rock and roll, but I get this upbeat neo-Joan Jett vibe from them. I first heard it on some tv show, but the name escapes me now…
Ahhhhhh! Guetta is the Man: producer, singer International DJ, he just doesn’t quit. He’s one of the artists I go searching for on the internet. When did I first get put on? I can’t really recall, but I remember exactly where I was and the first song I heard, “Love Is Gone.” Then on with the search…
My top five favorite Guetta songs are “Fuck Me I’m Famous” “Everytime We Touch” “Delirious”(especially the Laidback Luke remix) “Higher” and “Distortion” (in no particular order.)
I need to get in to David’s new stuff, by Friday when I see him at Pacha. I don’t know how many times he performed in the city and I didn’t go because of one reason or another. No, no, no, not this time: I’m in that suckah!!
Guetta is really becoming known in America, I feel all special for being on the banwagon way before the masses- just like with Buraka Som Sistema, M.I.A., Gaga and a couple others. Guetta’s all over the place right now, he’s been collaborating with Akon, Kelly Rowlands, Estelle, Dr Dre., he produced Kelis’ latest song.
Chombo Loco. Mi gente Lorna de Panama. Even though the video’s a little cheesy, the song is hot. This video, kind of, reminds me of the Reaggaeton Clubs back in Ciudad de Panana before the music really blew up in America.
Music really has a way of opening doors for people, it’s our universal language. As you probably can tell from some of my previous music posts, I like all types of music. So it shouldn’t surprise you that this week’s international artist hails from Syria (yet is known throughout the Arab world.) George Wassouf is big like Prince; he ruffles a couple burqas when he hits the stage. Ladies swoon, guys emulate… This is great belly-dancing music, but the way [right, Fb? Yeah I'm talking to you.] *And shoutout to my Twitter/ blogger friend, Elee in Aleppo, Syria*
Listening to Arabic music has other fringe benefits other than just broadening my musical palette. I would always play my Mediterranean/Arab playlist loud, with the headphones outside of my ears, when I walked in my Habibi bodegas around the way (Los Adolescentes Orquestra is I was going in to Papi’s store). The Yemini guys in my corner store used to be so hype that somewone knew and appreciated their music, they didn’t want me to pay for stuff. Politely object once, politely object again, walk out the store on three. You never know, George might help keep a couple Georges in your pocket. You’d have a lot better chance, playing arab music rather than “A-rab Money.”
“Ana Asef” I most definitely can’t find the video version of the song I have in audio, even the slower tempo version doesn’t have a video, just clips, but I like it.
I’m pretty sure that everyone’s familiar with M.I.A. now aka “Missing In Acton” aka Maya Arulpragasam. Everyone knows “Paper Planes”, the song went viral, whether it was from the Pineapple Express promos or her Grammy appearance at nine months pregnant. Where were y’all three, four years ago around the time of Arular, Bucky Done Gun Sunshowers and Galang. Even before that, the EP, Piracy Funds Terrorism. Those two albums are a lot the same, Arular is like the refined version of PFT. Part of the reason Americans were so clueless about M.I.A. Fame for so long is because Bush and his Bushiness- damn douche. The previous administration refused to grant her a Visa to enter the country saying that her father, Arul Pragasam, was on the Terrorist Watchlist for associating with Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers decades before. Lame, I know. M.I.A.’s second studio album, Kala, was supposed to be predominantly produced by Timbaland, unfortunately they were only able to collaborate on one song.
This is definitely not the last M.I.A. post, it’s so serious, I’m not even a fan anymore, I’m a “devotee,” the title should read “International Artist Of The Millennium.” Now the M.I.A. lives in Bk, I consider her a New Yorker as well, that’s where the Paper Planes video was shot.
I heard this song when I was at Club Pacha in Barcelona, the song always stuck i my head because a fashion show was going on at the time. Models can be so professional sometimes-one of the girls was wearing this loose dress and her whole right tit came out. This is at the end, when all of the models are lined-up for “last walk.” All of the girls are posing, she looks down, notices, and gives a look like, “I don’t give a shit” (kind of mad that AA-batteries for my camera costs 4 Euros [$7] and only last 2 hours.) The song is sexy on its own and the this video is hot too.
I first discovered Buraka Som Sistema when I was doing a websearch for M.I.A.’s music one day. They’re this Portuguese group out of Lisbon with roots in Angola. The style of Music is Kuduro, its like African and Soca music mixed with Techno and Euro Hip-Hop. Once I got put on to these guys, it was over, I love all of the random sounds that you hear once you listen to the songs a couple times. I appreciate any music with a pulse, I dont even need to know the words.
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