UMG Recordings
Release Date: April 10th 2020
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Maddie & Tae– The Way It Feels (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
UMG Recordings
Release Date: April 10th 2020
Reviewed by: Joshua Andre
Maddie & Tae– The Way It Feels (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
One Voice Productions LLC
Release Date: October 2nd 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Peter Hollens – Legendary Covers, Vol. 2: Inspire (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Never in my life did I actually think that I’d write a blog like this. There. I said it. Frankly, it wasn’t even until a few weeks ago did I actually ponder about my blog series as a whole. Was I actually writing about these artists for a year and a half because they were actually influential, both in my very own life and the life of others, or was it on the basis that it was assumed to be influential, even without me listening to the artist? Because more often than not, a lot of these blogs that I wrote throughout this year, were about artists where I’d listen to them almost the very week of. Yeah, poor planning I know, but one thing struck out to me as something I should think and ponder about…was there an unseen assumption that certain artists are influential and certain artists are popular, and was I playing into that assumption? I’ve written 65 blogs so far in this series, and as I glance through who I’ve written about (and who I haven’t), there’s one big striking omission (be it intentional or not, I’m not entirely sure), that I can’t ignore- the absence of female-driven pop. I mean sure, there’s pop in a sense that it is pop-rock or pop-country or just pop-_____ (fill in the blank) on my list: see artists like Delta Goodrem, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, Amy Grant, Mandy Moore, Natalie Imbruglia, Vanessa Amorosi and Colbie Caillat, and you can see that there isn’t necessarily a lack of females on my list investing their music within the pop sonic space, but there is a lack of female representatives in pop in the sense of the dance-pop variety. And herein lies the point. I used to think that pop in the very sense of the word- the 1D pop that is flooding the airwaves since…well, ever; shouldn’t really have a place on my list, whatsoever.
Continue reading MOMENTOUS MONDAYS: INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF ALL TIME – WEEK 66: CARLY RAE JEPSEN
Curb Records
Release Date: September 25th 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Natalie Grant – No Stranger (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
It’s been about 6 months since the start of COVID-19. So let’s just let that sink in for a little bit. No. No, that’s not right. Let me backtrack. COVID-19 has been around a whole lot longer than since March 2020. It’s just that that was when the effects of the virus and the impact it had on a global scale was much more significant, magnified, and prevalent. The past while till now has been a journey, albeit an unrelenting and a hard-hitting one, but nevertheless a journey. And in that journey- throughout the whole entire time that I have been at home, at work, talking to people at work, friends over Zoom, just generally to my family, and as I’ve been watching the news and checking out my social media; the one thing that is common that I have heard is the people want to get back to ‘normal’. As if it is something to aspire to be, to travel towards. Like ‘oh, hey we’ve caught the last of COVID-19, there’s none of it anymore’, then everyone rejoices and then life goes on like it did in 2019. I think that’s how some of us romanticise the end of COVID-19 (which may or may not eventuate that way!); yet I firmly believe that by hoping that the virus goes away (which theoretically can only happen when there is a working vaccine available to the general worldwide population at an affordable price!) we are in fact wishing away our life. in a blunt, crude term, that’s what we’re doing.
Christmas In Harmony
Label: Sony Masterworks
Release Date: October 12th 2010 (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Christmas, With Love
Label: Syco Music / RCA Records
Release Date: November 29th 2013 (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Phil Wickham
Songs For Christmas
Label: Fair Trade Services
Release Date: October 28th 2010 (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Christmas Stories: Repeat The Sounding Joy
Label: Centricity Music
Release Date: October 9th 2012 (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Continue reading Mini-Review: Jason Gray – Christmas Stories: Repeat The Sounding Joy
Home For Christmas
Label: BMG / RCA / Trans Continental
Release Date: November 10th 1998 (Amazon mp3/iTunes)