Too Much Good Music: Its a Woman’s World
My favorite songs, in general, are songs revolving around love; proclaiming love, admitting despair after love loss, or just simply establishing how beautiful your love might be. It’s a simple formula. I don’t know what it is, maybe it’s fact that the subject of love is timeless, so whether it’s Ray Charles singing about the love of his state of “Georgia”, or Paolo Nutini singing about losing his love and just wanting her to grant his “Last Request”; it gets me. Probably cause I’m a sap and a hopeless romantic that’s watched one too many “500 Days of Summer” type movies. Either way, because of that fact this installment of ‘Too Much Good Music’ (we’ve done it enough times now, that I think it’s a thing) is filled with only female artists.
AlunaGeorge:
AlunaGeorge is a musical duo hailing all the way from London. George Reid is the producer and the one man band behind the sound, but Aluna Francis does the vocals, song writing and is the heart and soul of the duo. Don’t get me wrong George does a great job of creating some great melodies, but Aluna shines with her soft voice that has just the right tinge of an English accent coming through. They’re listed as an electronic duo, but to me it sounds very pop and R&B. Their new album, “Body Music” is a soulful joyride. I’m not sure the sound is for everyone, it’s not quite uptempo enough to grab everyone’s attention, but if you have a soft spot for the likes of James Blake, but want something a little more upbeat you might enjoy AlunaGeorge too. The song “Friends to Lovers” is probably my favorite from the album.
Their Single “You Know You Like It”:
Ariana Grande:
Am I supposed to have known this girl outside of music. Wikipedia told me she was on some Nickelodeon show. Honestly never heard of her before hearing the song she did with Mac Miller and as I look now that video has 75mm hits on youtube. So maybe I’m not sharing any best kept secret cause it seems everyone knows her already. Either way I’m hooked. Her sound hearkens back to that few years Mariah Carey did a song with every rapper in the books. ”The Way” was good, but what had me looking forward to her album was her most recent release with Big Sean (Oh Gawd!), “Right There”. She might be super poppy, but I don’t care, this girl is good, and her music is fun. Have a few drinks and put that Big Sean song on and I dare you to deny how much you like it.
K. Flay:
This girl’s awesome. I happened across her music just a few days ago. She has no official album yet, just two EPs, but the two EPs combine for a good compilation of music. She hails from Illinois and went to school for music in California. Allegedly she started rapping, cause she was tired of the misogyny and sexism in hip hop and wanted to prove it didn’t need to be that way. She’s got a clever vocabulary, and nice flow to her. Her and Lorde might be the two female albums I anticipate the most. Her background in music shows through the production and her intelligence shows through the lyrics. I highly recommend getting every song you can from her. Also her song “Easy Fix” was in the flick “This Is The End”. It might be her tipping point.