Today I came back to Milan once again because of a couple of things I have to do here tomorrow, mainly Foals' concert to go to. I (quite randomly) met a friend from Uni who happened to pass by Milan in these couple of days and some of her friends for an aperitivo, a nice night out. Walking back home I really felt like I was living my university days again, the streets so familiar, the same feelings... it seems like yesterday but actually it's been quite a while and I've walked quite a lot of road... even if I feel it's been leading me exactly back to where I was then, just a different person, somehow more mature and more conscious of not knowing what I wanna do with my life at all!
In the meanwhile I found The Ting Tings' sophomore album at a very great price while walking around what used to be my favourite multimedia store and that's it, one more album off my to-buy list and I'm back to 2012 already!!
Given the lack of time I've had lately as far as listening to new music is concerned, I've really savaged my second playlist of the year for inspiration for blog posting. And well... this is one of the very few songs that are in it that I hadn't posted already. And yes, I have already compiled a new playlist after it, and posted songs out of it, but I needed to give the Tings at least this one post out of their new album. You might remember how I previously underlined that I didn't really get to love their latest work as much as the previous, but it successfully passed the proof of time and I actually got to like most of the songs on it way better than I did. Like transitioning from "that's ok but I'll forget about it in a couple of weeks" to "Wow, I really do like this! I'm going to listen to it again soon!". Because there is all the difference in between wanting to hear a song again and just happening to hear it by chance!
You guys know me, I am very bad at remembering things daily... you might wonder why I started a daily music blog, you are not alone in that, I wonder about that too... like Katie sings in this song I am a failure! Ok, not a complete failure, but a failure in respecting my daily commitment! Another kind of failure in my life that happened today is that concerning attention: the two sessions of training of today were so boring and/or impossible to follow that I almost paid no attention to the speakers... well, one good thing is that I did useful stuff in the meanwhile, more precisely freshen my Japanese (language) skills! Last night I spoke with the contact that is going to offer me a job and... well, big news are coming soon! I hope I won't be a failure concerning that part of my life too!
I have just watched the video of the first single of Komminuet, a duo that got almost to the end of last year's Italian X-Factor and I was just realising how much they look like an Italian version of The Ting Tings: the Komminuet guy is "a rapper" and has a more central role in the singing part than Jules does in the Tings, but apart from that they are very similar, in particular they play a very similar genre, a kind of electro-hip hop and something else... quite peculiar! Anyway, back to the Tings, I have recently posted (I think) the first song out of their latest album a few days ago on the blog, now it's time for n°2, which is actually the first one that got my attention and one that I have just featured in my first February playlist! The other post didn't resonate much with you guys, so I hope that this one will have a little more success...! I know, this album is not (at all) my favourite work of them (for now), rather... yet it's very new, so it can only grow and a few songs are already showing potential in my opinion, so why don't you give it a try?!
Besides, I just found out that 'Do it again' has also been released as a single (well before the album came out)!! I like the video, it's pretty cool! And the song is really catchy, I'm sure you're gonna like it!
Since their breakout hit Great DJ, I have always had a great love for The Ting Tings, loved a number of tracks on their debut album, loved almost the entirety of their sophomore Sounds of nowheresville and so I was highly anticipating their next work, which came out a few weeks ago. I must confess I've not been particularly drawn to the first single out of it, released last summer, and after a few listens I'm not so enthusiastic about the whole album either. The one song that hit me was this Wabi sabi, which is an unusual pick for an electro-synthpop-dance band's 80-disco-inspired album (it's kind of a ballad)... but it is what it is, it's my currently favourite pick out of Super critical, and I'm sharing it with you!
Here we are again! The heat wave is still striving to reach us while my headache keeps bothering me from time to time. It's been a good last few days, would've been great if it wasn't for these two factors that still are not going as they should. But the world is not perfect, is it? We just have to enjoy what we have day by day. The Ting Tings say that too!
Shame on me, it's not even two days since I got back home and I already forget to post on time...! In my defense, first I still haven't gone to sleep, so it counts as yesterday and second I've been a bit dazed and confused by the whole moving back thing (lame, ain't it? ok, let's get to the post)!
I've been almost running out of the whole string of songs I had ready to post (almost, but not yet!) and I'm drawing from there for this post. I don't know exactly why I've recently been getting back to some sad songs from albums that I used to listen a while ago... it's probably because I was about to leave new great friends and so they made good sense. This one actually is more love-life oriented, but it is still a great one that I didn't value enough until a few weeks ago. Try not to get too sad too and more news to come soon!
Hi audience, I am feeling a bit lost today at work: LinkedIn, my main means of work, is in redirect loop and I don't know what to do! I'll get to post my article in advance so! The song has been ready since yesterday, so I'm super ready to give it back! It's been one of my Ting Tings' favourites (their whole second album, Sounds of nowheresville, is worth listening if you don't know it!) for quite a while now and since somebody added it to the office playlist and it's been on a couple of times lately, I kind of got back into it. Listen to it and spread the word!
I have been experiencing this since the time of my exchange semester in Canada, and now that I am sending tons of mails to unknown people every day, it's coming back with more and more strength: Anglo-saxon and German speaking people call me Frederico all the time. And even if I'm (kinda) getting used to it, I want to underline... that's not my name!
