Blog Diversion... For Now

Sorry for the lack of updates friendos.

Have been working on another blog for an assignment. You can check it out here and raise my page views and leave comments if you'd like!

https://televisionbroad.wordpress.com/

Sorry about the delay in blogging!

Hopefully I'll be able to update soon :)

Kristen

Boom! Dynamite!

Hello friendos,

Sorry about the delay. I've hit a wall in terms of course work and life stuff. Unfortunately that means weeks and weeks without some musical enlightenment from yours truly. Usually, when I'm busy like that I don't listen to a lot of music, I get distracted very easily so I tend to sit solemnly in silence with my headphones on, keeping my ears warm. I look studious and tuned in, really, I'm just counting the seconds till I can find something to distract me. So, inevitably, I have returned to you, humble blog. The mountain of assignments and commitments are piling up. So, let's talk music.

My taste in music is very similar to that of a 40-50 year old. I'm not trying to be pretentious, contrary to popular belief, I just know all the words to ABBA. It's the music that I've grown up with and love. Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Duran Duran, and Crowded House always tend to find their way into my head and stay there. Tie in some 80s techno pop and you've pretty much got a whole snapshot of my playlists at any given time. However, when  I find a song that I feel matches up with that level of catchy-ness, I'm more than happy to add it to that playlist. That is totally how I feel about this week's song. It is such a lovely song from some really humble roots. I honestly wish this song was less underground. It's totally dynamite!

Dynamite (feat. Allday) by Asta

Seriously, Asta is such a dynamite gal. She was the winner of Triple J Unearthed High in 2012, so she's still pretty young, but fantastically talented. In this song she teams up with Allday and brings you one of the grooviest songs of the year. I'll be seriously disappointed if this one doesn't make it onto the Hottest 100 this year. The song is powered by some awesome notes. However, we're let down by Allday. Seriously man, we give you an inch and you take a mile. His verses fall flat and seem a bit disinterested, I think it's all the hype surrounding him getting to his head. I'm not going to go into any more of my Allday bias, however, Asta totally kills it. Who needs Allday anyway, I wanted some more verses from our young, talented songstress. Her vocals are so on point. It's a really simple song and sounds fantastic in acoustic. Not too flashy, yet still a catchy earworm that will have you hooked. It's only got 67,000 views on Youtube at the moment, which is  darn shame. This girl needs more attention! She's fantastic!

I'm giving this one 7.5 "Boom!"s out of 10.

Lots of love,

Prospector Kristen