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Every light has a shadow. Like Light, Darkness is also everywhere. It’s within you, trapped, waiting to be unleashed. That’s where your power comes in, the power to control that darkness, to maintain the balance of good and evil, to maintain the equilibrium of just and unjust. If let it loose, like a wild animal it would become, a New Black will soar.
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These
hot hot British boys are back to make us swoon. After countless teasers (which
reminds me a lot of Britney Spears’s countless teasers before the video
premiere of ‘Hold It Against Me’ last
2011), the official video for their new single “Kiss You” has been
released.
Vaughan
Arnell returns to the Director’s Seat for the third time for the band’s third
single from their second album, “Take Me
Home”. This uptempo, up-beat dance pop track was written by Kristoffer
Fogelmark, Kristian Lundin, Albin Nedler, Rami Yacoub, Savan Kotecha and Carl
Falk and produced by Yacoub and Falk, who produced the 1D smash hits, “What
Makes You Beautiful”, “One Thing”, and “Live
While Were Young”.
The video features the boys, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne,
Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson, on a video shoot with these sequences: riding a motorcycle and a car, in
a jail, surfing, skiing, and all sorts of craziness. Although I was hoping for
a music video that would coincide with the song’s lyrics, but it turns out that
it’s not.
It’s a fun video to
watch, to be honest. They have retained their taste in music videos, which is
purely having fun, and that’s just basically it. This time around, I find their
formula too common now since their music videos were all about having fun,
without really connecting with the song’s lyrics. Comparing it to “What
Makes You Beautiful”, “One Thing”, “Live While We’re Young”,
and this new video of theirs, I find it mostly the same. I would still love to
see the band in a uniquely made music video. Song wise, it’s a pretty cool pop track
that I would love to play while driving, or strolling at the mall.
Check out One
Direction’s new video, “Kiss You”:
Bite Marks: 3.5 out of
5
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I think it’s too
early for me to create my Year-End Track list, but Billboard already revealed their
Top Lists, so I guess it’s about time to blurt out my list as well. Since January,
I managed to track down the number of plays of all the tracks that released
this year. Using my iTunes Player, here’s My Most Played Tracks of 2012.
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TOP 10
Title: Starships
Artist: Nicki
Minaj
Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Released: February 14, 2012
Number of Plays: 41
“Starships”
was indeed one of the biggest hits of 2012. Following the success with “Superbass”,
the song still has the elements of her previous hit.
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TOP 9
Title: One
Thing
Artist: One
Direction
Album: Up All Night
Released: January 6, 2012
Number of Plays: 42
The trends of
Boybands are back with One Direction. They made me remember those NSYNC and BSB
days. Man, those were golden!
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TOP 8
Title: Anything
Could Happen
Artist: Ellie
Goulding
Album: Halcyon
Released: August 17, 2012
Number of Plays: 42
Ellie’s new
release is definitely one of my faves of hers. X Factor’s Fifth Harmony
performed this song on their semi-finals, and they made this song even better!
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Title: Stronger
(What
Doesn’t Kill You)
Artist: Kelly
Clarkson
Album: Stronger
Released: January 17, 2012
Number of Plays: 46
One of the
female musicians with strongest vocals in the industry is Kelly Clarkson. This
self-empowering track rocked the charts at the top spot and I am not surprised
why.
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TOP
6
Title: Part Of Me
Artist: Katy
Perry
Album: Teenage
Dream: The Complete Confection
Released: February 13, 2012
Number of Plays: 50
"Part Of Me" was a commercial success, as it reached the Top Spot on the charts, earning Katy's 7th number one single.
TOP
5
Title: Skyfall
Artist: Adele
Album: OST:
Skyfall
Released: October 5, 2012
Number of Plays: 50
Adele had a glorious 2011 after bagging
tons of awards, chart topping hits, and a top grossing album. This year, she
chants with an excellent track for a James Bond Film, “Skyfall”.
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TOP 4
Title: Girl
Gone Wild
Artist: Madonna
Album: MDNA
Released: March
2, 2012
Number of Plays: 64
I was not really a big fan of Madonna,
until her 2012 LP came out. Her latest album, “MDNA” was really a masterpiece!
Although, the track’s official video and song content was too raunchy, I still
love the song’s beat, and harmony. Disappointed that it never went to the Top
Spot on Hot 100, but it was one of the hottest dance/club tracks that was
released this year.
TOP
3
Title: Lights
Artist: Ellie
Goulding
Album: Lights
(UK), Bright Lights (USA/Worldwide), Halcyon
Released: March 13, 2011
Number of Plays: 93
“Lights” was a sleeper
hit, spending one year and three months on the Hot 100 Billboard Charts before
finally reaching number two in August 2012, after being released in 2011.
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TOP
2
Title: Set Fire To The Rain
Artist: Adele
Album: 21
Released: July 4, 2011
Number of Plays: 143
Released in 2011, the track finally reached the
top pot of Billboard Hot 100 on February 4, 2012. The song was used in various
TV shows, including CBS’ defunct show, “Ringer”, starring Sarah Michelle
Gellar.
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TOP 1
Title: Love
You Like A Love Song
Artist: Selena
Gomez & The Scene
Album: When The Sun Goes Down
Released: June 17, 2011
Number of Plays: 166
Another sleeper hit
made its way to the mainstream charts, as Selena Gomez’ “Love You Like A
Song” became her biggest hit since “Naturally”. "Love You
like a Love Song" got its second wind after November 26, 2011, as it
continued rising from the fiftieth position up until March 3, 2012, when it
reached a peak of number 22, surpassing the peak made in July 2011. At the end
of that month, the song surpassed sales of two million units, becoming her
first single to achieve this sales and her highest selling single in the United
States. The song also earned the band their second highest charting single,
behind "Who Says", and the longest running single on the Hot 100 at
38 weeks. The song also earned the band the first album to spawn two top thirty
hits. On April 20, 2012, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
certified the single double platinum.
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