Music for Ear and Eye

Ternyata tidak harus menunggu sampai tanggal 26 Juli untuk menunggu video klip lagu Payphone dirilis. Iya sih, memang album terbaru Maroon 5 baru akan dirilis pada tanggal tersebut, tapi video klip hits pertamanya sekarang sudah bisa dilihat di Youtube. Senangnya :-D

Ini liriknya (tapi tanpa bagian rap-nya ya, maaf, hoho). Seperti biasa, khas Maroon 5, kalaupun harus galau, maka galaunya pun bukan galau menyerah pasrah. Namun, menurutku galaunya berkata, "come back to me, you know i'll always treat you like a queen", seperti juga lagunya yang lain, Misery, She Will be Loved, Won't Go Home Without You...haha, sok tahu banget ya aku.

Payphone

(Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa)

I'm at a payphone trying to go home
All of my change I spent on you
Where have the times gone
Baby it's all wrong, where are the plans we've made for two?

Yeah, I, I know it's hard to remember

The people we used to be

It's even harder to picture

That you're not here next to me

You say it's too late to make it

But is it too late to try?

And in our time that you wasted

All of our bridges burned down

I've wasted my nights, you turned out the lights, now I'm paralyzed

Still stuck in that time when we called it love

But even the sun sets in paradise

I'm at a payphone trying to go home

All of my change I spent on you

Where have the times gone

Baby it's all wrong, where are the plans we made for two?

If happy ever after did exist

I would still be holding you like this

All those fairytales are full of s**t

One more fu**ing love song I'll be sick

You turned your back on tomorrow

Cause you forgot yesterday

I gave you my love to borrow

But just gave it away

You can't expect me to be fine

I don't expect you to care

I know I've said it before

But all of our bridges burned down

I've wasted my nights

You turned out the lights

Now I'm paralyzed

Still stuck in that time when we called it love

But even the sun sets in paradise

I'm at a payphone trying to go home

All of my change I spent on you

Where have the times gone

Baby it's all wrong, where are the plans we've made for two?

If happy ever after did exist

I would still be holding you like this

And all those fairytales are full of sh*t

One more fu**ing love song I'll be sick

Now I'm at a payphone...

Nice lyrics...meskipun menurutku videonya enggak nyambung sama liriknya, tapi aku tetep heboh dalam hati waktu lihat adegan si Adam berusaha keluar dari scene perampokan itu. Aaaaaaaaaaaa banget deh :D
Di youtube sendiri banyak pendapat orang-orang yang berusaha memahami arti video itu. Mungkin ada sebuah metafor di dalam video itu. Tapi gimana aku bisa berpikir keras untuk memikirkan metafora di balik video klip itu kalau Adam levine yang jadi aktornya, hahaha. I ended up commenting like this in youtube:

How about this: Adam is the bad guy, he is the robber also. Other robbers were shooting at him, but not even one bullet hit him (just so people won't think that Adam is on their team). Adam could care less about other people, but he saved the office girl. At 0.51, watch his expression as he saw her. Maybe they were a lover..but something happened and their relationship ended. He still love her though. When he survived from the cops, he called her, spend all of his changes to make sure she's fine

widyaninggar148 1 second ago

This song just makes me like Maroon 5 more :) 

Mike Tompkins!!!! (Youtube Idol #1)

Have you ever heard of Mike Tompkins? Well maybe you haven't heard his name before like i was a week ago. All right, he is a musician and a music producer. I even forget how i could find his youtube account. Come visit his page in http://www.youtube.com/user/pbpproductions.

I'm 99% sure you will fall in love in the first sight and in the first sound. If not, then i will give you a hint: he made all of his music in those video just by mouth and voice a.k.a a Capella. Yes, all you hear in those musics are from his mouth! Doesn't that great? The bass beat, the guitar, cymbals, snare, even the synthesizer sound! His fans called him "a living beatbox". I think he's awesome!!!

In video above you can see that he made every instrument sound only by mouth, cool! I had never heard this song (Only Girl by Rihanna) before, but i instantly love this song. Wondered, i searched the lyrics and after listening again i realized that he changed some words in the lyrics, but i like his version more than the original one. His version is more appropriate and polite. And it's sweeter than the original lyrics, kind of telling us about a cute and pure love. Here is the reffrain of his cover version:

I wanna make you feel

Like you're the only girl in the world

Like you're the only one that i'll ever love

Like you're the only one who knows my heart

ah, the only girl in the world!

Like you're the only one that's in command *not really sure what this line means*

Cause you're the only one who understands

How to make me feel like a man

Awww, will it be so sweet to have someone singing that song to you :p

I read a blog post about him and somebody said that Mike Tompkins "make you feel like a sh*t". The writer then explained that Mike makes him felt like a sh*t in a good way (you will feel talentless compared to Mike Tompkins). Yeah, he is very talented. How can he make all those sound???? He has a very broad tone spectrum. He even imitated the synthesizer sound and everything. I tried to do beatboxing once (like he did imitate the synthesizer sound in "Only Girl" video) and i failed because i ran out of breath. Oh, and i run out of words to write....THIS IS TALENT!

Another blog post about him i read is: "(he is) nice in the eyes and ears". Haha, okay, maybe he is a cutie. I don't know, I am not a kind of fan who screams "OWW he is sooo hot and handsome!". I think his face is kind of comedic (somebody jokingly called him "Mr. Bean's son", whatever). Well, okay he's kind of looking good  and soooo talented!!!

He is a diploma in music with distinction, nice to his fans, wears purity ring (don't know is it true or not), and he is a Canadian (so he's the second Canadian i have a crush on after Cory Monteith :p). I don't know...i used to think it's kind of lame to be a hardcore fan of an artist like my friends do to Korean actors...but i don't know, right now i'm just mesmerized!

He's awesome, why?

It's not his good looks, it's not his awesome talents, it's not his great voice, it's not his nice attitude, it's not the fact that he made the original version of those songs sound plain...

It's a combination of all above <3



***revised!*
He is married everybody!!! This fact explains his ring. Well that's okay (but why do i hear something is tearing here, LOL). Awesome, just awesome, a man who is married before 23. So, Mrs. Kayla Tompkins is married to a very talented, musical, and awesome man. What a lucky woman! Now i know for whom Mike Tompkins singing "The Only Girl" for. They have been together since kissing on stage in their high-school drama class. And i hear in one of those interviews, he changed some of song's lyrics, because someday when he and his wife have children, he doesn't want his children to hear their father "hooked up with random girls". Great! So that's why his cover versions is "cleaner" or more appropriate than the originals. Knowing the fact that he's married just make me respect and salute  him more. So...congratulations! Kind of jealous, but well, i think this is sweet :')

Btw is it just me or is it true that the way he says or sings words end with "th" is kind of unique? When he says "with", "mouth", "earth, "worth"....with a very bold and clear "TH" (wytTHH, mouwTH, earTH, wourtTHH). I don't know, it's kind of amusing to hear ;p

Can I Have this Dance?

Can I Have This Dance

(Zac Efron & Vanessa Anne Hudgens)

Take my hand, take one step

Pull me close, take one step

Keep your eyes locked on mine

Let the music be your guide

Won't you promise me (now won't you promise me, that you'll never forget)

We'll keep dancing wherever we go next

It's like catching lightning the chances of finding someone like you

It's one in a million chances of feeling the way we do

And in everystep together, we just keep on getting better

So, can I have this dance?

Can I have this dance

Take my hand, take the lead

And every turn, will safe with me,

Don't be afraid, afraid to fall

You know I'll catch you through it all

And you can't keep us apart (even a thousand miles, can't keep us apart)

Cause my heart (cause my heart) is wherever you are

It's like catching lightning the chances of finding someone like you

It's one in a million chances of feeling the way we do

And in everystep together, we just keep on getting better

So, can I have this dance?

Can I have this dance

Oh, no mountains too high enough, no oceans too wide

'Cause together or not, our dance won't stop

Let it rain, let it pour

What we have is worth fighting for

You know I believe, that we're meant to be

It's like catching lightning the chances of finding someone like you

It's one in a million chances of feeling the way we do

And in everystep together, we just keep on getting better

So, can I have this dance?

Can I have this dance

Can I have this dance

Can I have this dance

Blogger's note:

1. Lirik dan video lagu ini merupakan kekayaan intelektual dari para penciptanya (saya nggak tau siapa, tapi yang jelas bukan saya).
2. Haa...tariannya keren! Pingin bisa nge-dance kayak si Vanessa!! Gerakannya alami banget meskipun dia pake sepatu hak tinggi :o Nggak harus suka High School Musical buat suka scene ini...

Absolutely love it!

Fireflies by Owl City

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