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OPINION: While some bands fight endlessly to find fame, some bands have never known anything more than that.
Beginning with Hot riot In 2004, all the albums The Killers have released have reached number 1 on the charts (at least in the UK). Like Oasis or U2, their songs are designed for stadiums, mainstream radios, and drunken late-night songs. On his fifth album topping the charts, Involving the mirage, the Las Vegas band offers more of the same.
Warning from my own soul opens procedures in a typically ostentatious manner. Predictable to the point of self-parody, it remains inexplicably exhilarating as it explodes with hymn synths and furiously fast drum beats. Lyrically outspoken and occasionally exaggerated, Brandon Flowers sings about girls with “Hollywood eyes” who wear white and stand in “love flashes.”
That last line comes from one of two intriguing featured guests adding a hint of variety.
It would have been nice to hear KD Lang’s strong and firm voice more prominently in Fields of lightning but when weyes blood shows up OMG , ups the ante on operatic theatricality to marvelous effect.
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Like Oasis or U2, The Killers songs are designed for stadiums, mainstream radio and drunken late-night songs.
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Even people who don’t like The Killers know the words for Somebody told me or Mr. Brightside and many of the songs on this album have the same instantly memorable quality.
That’s me, that’s the team is the debut full length musician of Central Auckland rapper Diggy Dupé.
Featuring cheeky bangers and laid-back improvisations, this is a broad body of work featuring some of Aotearoa’s best hip hop producers, including IllBaz, Haz Beats, Choicevaughan, and the impeccable Smokeygotbeatz.
Like many rappers, Dupé aspires to material things (more money and a new whip would not hurt), but he is still well founded. A line like “God and my mom, the two things I fear” is an example and a song called CT&T (Cup of tea and toast) is something we can all relate to.
Even about the beat of the street New demons, Introducing SWIDT, he politely drives respect, “You stumble if you think manners don’t matter, you stick to code like a programmer.”
Latin America’s influence on modern pop has become more prominent in recent years, building on the global success of Slowly to Bad Bunny’s reggaeton raps. In the 1980s, Gloria Estefan and her Cuban-American band Miami Sound Machine were one of the lonely Latin voices in the mainstream.
His album 29, BRAZIL 305, It has four new songs, but most of the album re-records and reinvents its greatest hits, with Brazilian rhythms and arrangements. Conga appropriately becomes Samba, cut both ways it retains its acoustic soul, but adds Spanish bagpipes and cuíca drums.
At 62, her voice has lost none of its power or prowess and this unexpected record will be welcomed by her many fans.
