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This is an app for the iphone that I've recently discovered and it makes Pandora and Spotify look like crap. The home screen  is just a bunch of options to click on from Spring to Indie Rock and Workout to Acoustic. Once you find what you want, you click on it. The next screen shows "Play me some Party (for example you clicked this) + ______. Then it gives you about 12 options such as Dance, House, Chill, Pop, etc.  Once you click your add in, it gives you a whole bunch of playlist covers and you click the one you want and Bam! I love love love this app because it has about every option of music you could possibly be in the mood for!!

Nirvana

This week in class we listened to Nirvana and I can honestly say I did not like it. The setting was weird and unusual and that kind of threw me off a bit.  I've told a couple people that and they said I was crazy.  I thought it was very boring and I am not a fan of soft rock in the first place. Most songs sounded similar and that is something I get tired of quickly! Nirvana is a no go for me. :(

Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne has been an arist I grew up listening to since from I can even remember. I absolutely love her! In one of her music videos, she smashed a guitar on a couch so I did just what she did and I smashed my guitar on our couch as well....big mistake! Avril Lavigne doens't have the best voice out there, obviously, but when it comes to her music, that doesn't really matter to me.  To me, it's more about the beat and how "catchy" it is. I love her songs Sk8ter Boi, Girlfriend, Complicated, and much much more.  She had a new song come out this week called "Here's To Never Growing Up" and I am in love with it. The song is catchy (check) and has a great beat (check). Although there isn't a music video yet, here is the lyric video!

The Beastie Boys

In class this week we listened to The Beastie Boys.  At first I didn't really like it but after listening to a couple of their songs, I ended up really enjoying their music.  All of the songs were upbeat and it was hard not to stand up and start dancing along with the music!  None of the songs sounded the same to me...they all had their different twist on it. I definitely look forward to more music from The Beastie Boys!

Shakira

I have loved shakira since I was a little girl. I remember dancing around the house to "Hips Don't Lie" thinking I could belly dance just like her. Now that she is a new judge on the TV show, The Voice, she has become more popular. She has a lot of songs that aren't really famous and a lot of people don't know about. Her most popular one is "Hips Don't Lie". She also has "Gypsy" which is very very good (I'll post the video under). Another one is "Whenever Wherever" that got popular but not as popular as Hips Don't Lie. My family and I always say that she sounds like a goat which may be hard to think of right now, but when you hear her, you can understand what we mean!
Here is Gypsy!

U2

Personally, I didn't really enjoy watching the video of U2 in class. First off, I couldn't understand any of their lyrics. That to me, is an automatic dislike. I also thought they weren't anything "new". I didnt have the "wow, let me pull out my phone and shaman this song. It's soo good!" feeling during the video like I did with Joni Mitchell or Paul Simon. I only know a couple of their songs, such as, "With or Without You" and "Beautiful Day".  Those are the only two songs I've really gotten into. I'm not going to give up on U2 completely yet. I'll give them a second chance.