Music Day

I just feel like sharing all the music I've been obsessing over recently.

It's gonna be a random day.

First, PENTATONIX. I love them. I've been following them since they started on the Sing-Off. And their new single is AMAZING.

Can't Sleep Love

Like, I just keep listening to it. Pentatonix's blend and balance as a group is phenomenal, and they've done such an amazing job with this song. Plus, it's just so dang catchy, the lyrics are great, and the video (although almost a sensory overload) is just so much eye-candy that you can keep coming back to it. It's marvelous.

More Pentatonix- this cover they've just released. I love what was done as far as staging and videography, and musically, it's just wonderful.

Where Are U Now

It's just great. I also love that it's simpler, and you can get a lot more of the emotion out of it. Plus, Mitch's dance party. :D (Mitch being the one in the black sweater) I really love watching Pentatonix perform, especially because I sing, and it's incredible what they do with a capella music. It's so great to watch them, because they are SO committed to what they're doing.

Moving on! Joe Hisaishi in Budokan - Studio Ghibli 25 Years Concert. Studio Ghibli makes these magical, beautiful animated films that I love intensely. Joe Hisaishi is responsible for most (if not all) or the soundtracks, and this concert is incredible. It's also like an hour long, so you may want to just listen to it while doing other things.

I especially love the moments following:
from 0:19:40 to 0:24:10
from 0:45:21 to 0:46:58
and 1:08:42 to 1:15:50
but it's all phenomenal. Ghibli movies are wonderful. And the music is incredible. I've listened to bits and pieces of this concert and the whole thing so often. And I've got a Joe Hisaishi station on my Pandora radio. So that's that.

And my last musical obsession of today is MIKA. He's AMAZING. He's recently released an album called "No Place In Heaven" that's absolutely outstanding. My siblings and I have basically had it on repeat since we bought it a few weeks ago. And I'm just gonna share a few of my favourite moments.

Talk About You

It's just so cheerful and happy, and great to jam out to. Plus, he's so fun to watch perform, and I adore the staging and choreography in this video.

Good Guys

Again with the staging and choreography thing. What they did with this video is phenomenal- I love the interpretative dance feeling, and the costuming. It's great. Also, the crescendo at 2:18. It's awesome. And finally, the line, "If we are all in the gutter, it doesn't change who we are, cuz some of us in the gutter are looking up at the stars." I love that idea- it doesn't matter where you are, it matters where your focus is, where you're going.

Last Party 

It's perfect. I love the emotional feel of this song, and what they did with this video is perfect. Devastatingly perfect. And I love the music- all the effects with the various strings, the gentle continuous build of the whole song, the backing vocals and subtle harmonies, and then the HUGE crescendo with the runs in the flutes that starts at 2:50--- and then it just all cuts out, at 3:17. Oh. My. Gosh. It's PERFECT.

And finally, my current obsession and the song I've had on repeat for days:

Hurts

I just love it. It's devastating, lyrically, and so painfully relatable. "You say it's only words, and that it will get easier with time, but nothing's only words, that's how hearts get hurt." The piano part is incredible. The vocals are simple, and the backing is minimal, and the simplicity just adds to the emotion. And I intensely love the "I can't- I can't- I can't stop..." at the beginning of each chorus (first time at 0:58). To me, it sounds like the feeling of crying to hard to talk, just "I can't, I can't, I can't" and then you finally manage to say it. It's so wonderful.

Yeah. That's my current musical obsession. But everything in this post is something I adore.