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Jewel – Sweet And Wild – The Title Says It All

July 20th, 2010 No Comments

If I could hand out album of the year award, I would seriously consider Jewel’s “Sweet and Wild” as one of the nominees.  That is based on the 8,000 songs I have downloaded over one year (thank you Nokia).  If you have heard Jewel singing live – which I did when I was working in [...]

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Kylie Minogue – Aphrodite – How Powerful Her Celebrity Branding Is

July 17th, 2010 6 Comments

If you stop for a moment and ponder why one would buy into Kylie’s music, I reckon that has to do with the overall branding than the creativity and the technical execution of her music.  Using the image of the goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality – Aphrodite – as the title of her 11th [...]

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Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted – Now, Give That Girl Some Love

March 21st, 2009 8 Comments

In a way, I am not surprised to read that Kelly Clarkson’s latest single “My Life Would Suck Without You” made the biggest jump from 97 to 1 in the US Chart.  After her last effort “My December”, I am reminded that big stars don’t necessarily make great albums all the time.  Look at Leona [...]

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No Line On The Horizon – An U2 Album that Splits Audience and Rewards Those with Patience

March 12th, 2009 No Comments

Q Magazine wrote, “Good Lord, it’s a masterpiece”.  Oh well.  For all that’s worth, for better or worse, this 12th U2 studio album has offered the audience a listening journey that is rarely seen these days – from the music and lyrics to the visual experience.  What would this album be if U2 was to [...]

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HAARP – Muse Live Tour – Full Of Light And Sound

April 8th, 2008 1 Comment

We have watched the Muse concert at Fort Canning Singapore back in January last year and that, has blown our minds.  Can HAARP – a CD and DVD collection recorded at Wembley UK on June 16 and 17 respectively - blow our minds too?  The answer is a definite yes. I won’t go through much of the [...]

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Belle & Sebastian – Push Barman To Open Old Wounds

February 26th, 2008 2 Comments

I woke up this morning.  The sky was grayish, the air was cool.  Feeling a tad melancholy, I stared at my music collection like I do every working morning scanning for something appropriate for the day.  Since I have been so Juno-overdosed (first the movie, then the Oscar), I picked “Belle & Sebastian” – something [...]

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A Fine Frenzy – One Cell In The Sea, A Rare Gem With Potential

February 17th, 2008 No Comments

Alison Sudol, the songwriter singer and self-taught pianist of A Fine Frenzy, has a lot to go for.  She is young and beautiful and her indie music style is genuine, personal, and is indeed a breath of fresh air in today’s commercial music scene.  It is rare to find an artist who sounds as good [...]

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Vanessa Paradis’s Divinidylle – Creatively Classy … Sexy

February 1st, 2008 1 Comment

Most non-French speaking people may recognize Vanessa Paradis as the partner of the American actor Johnny Depp and the mother of their daughter and son. Some of you may remember her as the girl who promoted Chanel’s fragrant Coco back in 1991. I certain remember her by her single “Joe le taxi” (1987) when she [...]

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Duran Duran’s Red Carpet Massacre – An 80′s Band With A Modern Sound

December 5th, 2007 4 Comments

These days, I always get a bit apprehensive when dinosaur band out of nowhere comes out with a new album. Countless disappointment and I was about to give Duran Duran’s “Red Carpet Massacre” a miss. But still, I sampled the album and right from the first track, I was gripped by the new modern sound. [...]

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PJ Harvey’s White Chalk – Courageously Ethereal Effort That Triumphed

November 25th, 2007 No Comments

At times we see artists who dare to deviate from their forte but fail to deliver. Most of the time, we see countless of artists producing the same stuff again and again and because some of them are so good at it, we fans keep buying into that. The queen of indie’s new production “White [...]

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