What is your favorite song?
Instagram by Dean.I love this song because it perfectly illustrates how social media serves as a facade for how we really feel. Someone could be posting the happiest pictures in the world on Instagram but secretly be sad and no one would ever know. It also helps that this song has a video that if seen without the lyrics, makes no sense. In the music video, Dean stays in the same exact room for the entire song, where he mostly stays in the center of the room. When you first see him, he comes off as more of a rapper by the way he is dressed. When I first saw this video, I was disappointed and confused with what I was watching, but the more I thought about it, I started to realize how well the video actually portrayed the song. The reason why he was dressed like he was was not because it was a rap song, which it isn’t, but because it is supposed to show the fake facade of Instagram. While he looked like a rapper to most, including me when I first watched it, behind his rapper facade was really just a guy, singing about his frustrations and loneliness. Immediately judging his appearance and putting him into the rapper category was unfair, but it is exactly what the song was about: unfair judgement and hiding emotion. Another part of this song/video that I really love is the pause right before the outro of the song where he stops singing and says the words, “sometimes I feel alone.. like Robinson Crusoe.” I don’t know why I am enamored by this, as I have seen it done in the Blood Sweat and Tears video by BTS (which I loved too). It connects to the song on the loneliness level, but other than that, I’m not sure how Robinson Crusoe has to do with the song. I know that being confused and not sure how parts of a song fit together should be a reason to dislike it, but for some reason that I can’t figure out, it makes me like it more. If you get the chance you should really take a look at it (with subtitles).
What is your favorite 90s song?
Paradise City- Guns n RosesEvenflow - Pearl JamEverybody Hurts Sometime -REMHunger Strike- Temple of the DogMan in the Box- Alice in ChainsKern River- Merl HaggardToday I Started Loving You Again- Merl Haggard and Tammy WynetteD-I-V-O-R-C-E Tammy WymetteHe Stopped Loving Her Today- George JonesSeven Spanish Angels- Ray Charles and Willie NelsonI Can;t Stop Loving You- Ray CharlesBarbara Allen- Emmy Lou HarrisPiaggi O Caro- Luciano Pavarotti and Joan SutherlandBrindissi froh La Traviata- Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Dominquis,
What are your favorite songs by INXS?
New Sensation Never Tear Us Apart Need You Tonight Mystify Remember Who's Your Man Original Sin What You Need Salvation Jane Don't Change Tight By My Side Taste It
What are your 10 favorite INXS songs in order?
You made my day!!!!! But only 10, Ya killin me! "Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)" {mind blowing!} "The One Thing" "Listen Like Thieves" "Just Keep Walking" "Need You Tonight" "Stay Young" {I imagine this is what Australia sounds like} :D "Melting In The Sun" & "Dancing On The Jetty" "What You Need" "The Gift" {amazing video!!!} "Never Tear Us Apart" I managed to squeeze 11 in there, if you catch it.
What is your favourite English song?
Thank you for A2A Soukhin Sarkar and i cant have one so please don’t mind a list of some .*Lets reveal some from the zombie today :P . I have this playlist of songs named “Zombie” so…*Counting stars- One Republic.Uncover -Zara Larsson.Say you won’t let go-James Arthur.Girlfriend , Complicated , Smile -Avril Lavigne.Locked away -R City ft.Adam Levine.You You YouYou- The 6thsHelp Yourself- Sad Brad Smith.Where my love goes-LawsonDancing on my own - Calum Scott.(it is sung originally by someone else but i love it in his voice)Let it go-James Bay.Somebody to you , Oh Cecilia -The Vamps.Inside out , closer , roses -ChainsmokersAll of the stars , kiss me, thinking out loud - Ed sheeranYou’re Beautiful -James Blunt.Just the way you are-Bruno Mars.Love me now - John Legend.I think I am in love-Kat dahlia.
What is your favorite 80's band and/or song?
Do I have to limit it to one?? Nah, I can't! So here goes: Billy Idol - White Wedding/Eyes Without a Face Foreigner - I Wanna Know What Love Is/Jukebox Hero Journey - Faithfully/Separate Ways Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb/Another Brick in the Wall Bon Jovi - Dead or Alive Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough INXS - One of My Kind Kansas - Dust in the Wind Wham - Wake Me Up Before you Go George Michael - I Want Your Sex Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax Go Gos - We've Got the Beat Aha! - Take On Me Don Henley - Boys of Summer/Dirty Laundry Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer Survivor - Eye of the Tiger J Guiles Band - Freeze Frame Stray Cats - Rock This Town/Stray Cat Strut Huey Lewis and the News - Heart of Rock and Roll Psychelic Furs - Love My Way David Bowie - China Girl/Let's Dance The Police - Roxanne/Don't Stand So Close to Me Young MC - Bust A Move Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are/Always a Woman to Me Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf Tears for Fears - Shout Pretenders - Chain Gang/In the Middle of the Road Bruce Hornsby and the Range - That's Just the Way It Is Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You? Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes Soft Cell - Tainted Love Aerosmith - Dream On/Walk This Way Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody/We Will Rock You Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now/Down Under Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over I could seriously go on and on...the 80's is my era, baby! I adore the music from that decade. I remember the very first airing of MTV. It was such an innovative concept! lol Here's a little trivia for you: What was the first music video ever to air on MTV? ["Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. Aug. 1, 1981] Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Who is your least favourite musician/group?
Kiss. I can’t believe how much money they’ve made off of their lame music. Take away the clown make up and we would have never heard of them. Proud to say that I have never given them one thin dime. No records or Cd’s, merchandise of any kind, I never even watched their TV specials etc. I did go to see them live on their FIRST farewell tour in like 2000, but the sky box tickets were comped. I would not have paid my own money to see them. What i expected was what I got. Fake blood and fireworks to distract the audience from mediocre musicians playing such classics as Cold Gin and Rock and Roll all Night. My God, Stanley’s vocals are like fingernails on a blackboard. I will say I do like a few of their songs (Beth for one and Hard Luck Woman) but when you look at their career in it’s entirety, the music is pretty crappy overall and their lyrics are pretty juvenile. It’s all been about the stage show. I found it dated. Just my opinion. I know millions of people love them. I just never got it.
What are some hit songs?
Here are some the best I can remember, my personal favouritesStairway to heaven- Ledd ZeppelinSmells like teen spirit- NirvanaDance of death- Iron MaidenYou're beautiful- James bluntBonfire heart- James bluntPostcards- James BluntAnimals, maps, payphone, sugar, lost stars -Adam LevineSomebody that i use to know- GotyeGuts over fear- EminemSky full of stars, viva la vida, paradise - ColdplayLove me again- John NewmanTake me to church- Ellie Goulding(cover)Someone new- HozierWarriors, radioactive, demons - Imagine dragonsAazadiyaan- Amit Trivedi(udaan)Khun chala- Rang de basantiZinda- Bhag milkha bhagApologise, Counting stars- one republicLet your heart hold fast- fort atlanticAll of me- John LegendIf the hudson overflowsLost in the echo, iridescent, castle of glass- LPPaint it black- Rolling stonesLocked away R city ft Adam levineUP olly murs ft demi lovatoAnd many more!Music=ZenUpdate: Writings on the wall- sam smithGone gone gone- philip philipsHotline bling- Drakeorignally answered here: Ankit Vijayvargia's answer to What are some songs with great lyrics?
What's your favourite rock group from Australia?
Hunters and CollectorsThrow your arms around me - Hunters & CollectorsorThe TriffidsThe Triffids - Wide Open Road (1986)