Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Miley Cyrus is saying goodbye to Hannah Montana


Most of us know her as a character in Disney’s tv-program "Hannah Montana", where she played the role as a young, innocent teenager who lived in two different worlds. The life as the ordinary Miley, and the wicked life as the superstar Hannah Montana. She has earlier performed for the younger audience., but now it’s clear that Miley Cyrus is ready to change her image as the innocent Hannah Montana, to a more pop-artist like Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Britney Spears.


Miley is now 17 years old, but was only 16 when she recorded her newest album “I Can’t Be Tamed”. She fulfills the typical pop-image with feathers, less clothes, smoky-eyes and dancers in her recent music video. She has developed from a sugar sweet Disney actor, to yet another sex symbol for the pop music world.

Country veteran Billy Ray Cyrus, who also plays Miley's father in "Hannah Montana" defends his daughter. He disagrees with the tons of criticism from the media regarding her music video which the majority doesn't thinks appropriate for someone her age. He explains:- Miley loves to entertain, and I give my children a lot of freedom to create their own art. I think this is important."

Miley’s own explanation is: "The video isn't about being sexy or about who can wear less clothes. It's about explaining the song and living the lyrics."

Here’s the video everyone talked about even before it got released:





We personally think Miley Cyrus is a great singer, and that she should develop her carrier to maintain her popularity. But we're not sure if it's necessary to do exactly as the rest of the popular female artists, and just play on sex. Is less clothes, tons of makeup, and sexy dances really what it takes to reach the gold?

Is this what you expect from the music artists today?




What do you think of Miley Cyrus's development?



We think  the song "When I look At You" is a really great song, so if you haven't heard it you should buy it right away! Have you heard any other good songs by Miley Cyrus? Let us know!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Wanna see something cool?

One of Apple's newest applications is called "EveryDay Looper". Everyday Looper allows you to record 4 musical phrases and loop them right away. You can then mix and merge them on the fly. What's great with this application is that it's more than less easy to use! All you need to know is this:

Record :
Tap the track you want to record on. Action is performed as soon as you pull your finger off the screen. Tap the track again and recording stops, but the loop keeps playing.


Play / Pause :
Tap the screen anywhere, with 2 fingers at the same time. Action is performed as soon as you pull your last finger off the screen. If a track is recording, recording stops but the loop keeps playing.


Stop :
Tap the screen anywhere, with 3 fingers at the same time. Action is performed as soon as you pull your last finger off the screen. If a track is recording, it stops too.

Erase :
Swipe with 2 fingers over the track you want to erase. Each of the 2 fingers has to be on the track to erase and never quit it (neither by pulling it off the screen or by entering another track) and the two fingers group has to go through 60% of the screen width.

Menu :
Slide one finger from the first track to the third track and pull your finger off the screen. Do this as vertically as possible, in a straight line.

Here's a genius clip from youtube, made by a Frenchman called Edouard Joguet:


What do you think?Pretty impressive?!

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Film music - Disney

Film music is often an essential part of the movie experience and helps to create and reinforce the impact which the images provide. Just imagine an ultra-exciting film where the music is gone, then it’s not that exciting anymore. Or a tear wet movie without the sad heartbreaking melody, it doesn’t give the same effect. The absence of music has also an effect.

Walt Disney’s music in films has done an unbelievable success. Today, Disney is the largest trade in the world. Disney has managed to capture really great artist, like Elton John, Phil Collins, Celine Dion, Cristina Aguilera and many others. Disney’s music appeals to everyone, the young ones, adults and even the older ones.

Disney has also a huge variety in their songs: Pocahontas’ songs, the Pirates of the Caribbean, Hannah Montana and the classical songs from The Lion King. We believe that there has to be a song for each taste of music in the big collection to Disney.

Here's a film with a top ten Disney songs, which is similar to our opinion. Enjoy!


Which Disney song is your favorite?

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Ever heard about "Last.fm"?

Last.fm is a social community that collects information about regarding what the users listen to, and makes list out of it. Every user has it's own list, that says what artists and songs he or she listen to the most.The artists gets their own lists, that declare which songs that has been listened to the most te last week, and the last 6 months. Moreover,it is a list that in general shows which bands and singers that are the most popular.

Back in the 20th Century, Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel were running an online record label who wanted to get independent music out to the people who wanted to hear it. A few years later, university student Richard Jones started tracking what he and his friends were listening to on their computers with a project he called Audioscrobbler. Last.fm brought these ideas and desires together. 

scrobble: skrob·bul (ˈskrɒbəll)
[verb] To automatically add the tracks you play to your Last.fm profile with a piece of software called a Scrobbler
1. If I'm not scrobbling the music I hear, it doesn't count!

Over 50,000,000,000 tracks have  been scrobbled since 2003. 


Last.fm is a music service that learns what you love!

Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like - and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too.

Have you had any experiences with Last.fm? Please let us know..

Monday, May 3, 2010

All You Need To Write A Hit: 4 Four Chords

Have you ever heard about the Australian musical comedy act ; "Axis of Awesome"?

The band's members are Jordan Raskopoulos, Lee Naimo and Benny Davis. The trio does hilarious pop parodies and combines it with original material. The group formed in 2006, and one of their most famous parody's are the "4 Four Chord Song" :





If you aren't a natural musician and want to write a song, you might wonder what the chords used are?? The chords  are E-B-C#m-A. 

So now you can go and make yourself a hit! We know we'll do