end of year entertainment update

Two of the musicians I am glad I grasped onto this year are Gavin DeGraw and Maroon 5.

Most of the time, I am strictly R and B, but the r and b circuit, dominated by big-headed Usher, doesn't seem to be imaginative lately, as in imaginative music, it's just put through the same producers, the same type of sound, no one wants to make music, they want to make hype. And then, I took a chance on an 8.99 CD, of a musician called Gavin DeGraw, and it just kinda took over my CD player in the car. Normally, this type of music is classified under "white people" music. No offense, that's just what it is, even when I listen to it with my friends, they wonder, who are these "white people" musicians you are listening to. I tried and tried not to get into Maroon 5, and it wasn't the first single, Harder to Breathe that was played to death by VH1, under "artists to watch" and it was not the second one, "This Love" that was loved and then hated, once my radio station put it on some kind of constant spin. It was not the sexy video for "She will be Loved". It was the 4th single, "Sunday Morning" and hearing it at the American Music Awards, it was that and the rest is history. I just fell into it. I got their acoustic EP, which rocked, that guy sounds awesome over acoustic guitar, he actually has a lot of soul too (for a white man)and it didn't hurt that he looked so intense, like an intense younger version of Keanu.

I am glad I got into their music. It reminds me of my BSB days, except this time I am a little older and wiser and I know why I appreciate music and what good music is supposed to sound like. Sometimes when I am sad, I think of some part of their music, Gavin says, "there's a meaning to the word, we are giving love," or Adam says, "Things just gets so crazy, Living life gets hard to do," and I think, you know what, it's gonna be alright, cos I am not the only one feeling this way.

There are also a few movies that I am glad I caught:

Closer, Spiderman 2, (yes, I know) House of Sand and Fog, 21 Grams, Dogville, The Barbarian Invasion, L'Auberge Espaniole, and some more. But sometimes, there's a bandwagon and you have to ask yourself why it is, if you look closely, it's because it's because something is undeniably good.