Embracing Today's Pop Culture

Sejak duduk di Brisbane ni, mak suka betul dengar UK pop, jazz music and lately yang ada elemen disco or 80s-90s pop. And selain Masterchef Australia, mak rasa Australia's X Factor pun best ... Vocal taklah sehebat American Idol finalists tapi soulfull gitew. Sometimes dengar iklan depa kat TV, mesti ada lagu-lagu menarik mak mesti akan try google based on lirik yang sempat mak tangkap.

Sekarang ni mak suka betul dengar Love Me Again By John Newman lepas dengar kat iklan promosi satu TV series. Mak rasa after Adele and Amy Winehouse, UK pop macam semakin mendapat perhatian. Setiap kali lagu ni berkumandang, mak mesti rasa kena fly to London ... oh how I miss London!

The next song is not a new song tapi mak takde masa nak carik singer dia. So when masa iklan Australia Dancing With The Stars they played this song ... mak pun terdetik nak cari. Finally lepas berhempas pulas I finally jumpa Get Lucky by Daft Punk featuring Pharell. Terkejut mak ...bayangkan ... this song was in Daft Punk - Random Access Memories album yang mak beli for my friend in Paris and I was not even aware of it!

Don't you just love Disco? Rasa nak menari kan? Sangat 70s-80s gitew

Pharell memang boleh tahan, I mean this year memang his year lah. Selain ni, satu collaboration dier dengan Canadian singer Robin Thicke pun top the AT40 chart these few weeks. Mak suker betul dengan Blurred Line ... another R&B disco yang memang mak bersemangat setiap kali stress study. When mak browse pasal Robin Thicke ni ... rupa-rupanya masa heols first jadi artist heols taklah "sehot' sekarang, selekeh hokey ... like hippies.

Rasanya tak lengkap list mak kalau tak include another disco pop yang sedang meletup sekarang ni ... Treasure by Bruno Mars. Frankly, lagu-lagu Bruno Mars tak pernah mengecewakan and he is so versatile. Selain this song, mak suka juga Locked Out in Heaven lepas dengar dalam Glee. Like Get Lucky ... this song pun boleh buat kita rasa nak menari jugak.

As I was researching the songs to be featured in this entry, mak found out that another of my favourite Primadonna by Marina and The Diamonds (Welsh singer) pun ada sikit elemen disco dengan electro pop. Mak pernah dengar lagu ni kat radio Malaysia but malas nak cari sapa singer. Then masa mak cari-cari video about androgynous model Andrej Pejic, ada pulak background music lagu ni.

Tak tahu lah kenapa but music electro pop ni macam lebih sesuai belah-belah Europe ni, maybe sebab cara depa speak English kot no?

Haa ... the last song to be featured in this entry is electro-pop I Love It by Icona Pop (Swedish duo). Mak suka dengar lagu ni lepas iklan keta Mitsubishi dalam TV Australia guna this song as the theme song. Kalau dengar gitu gitu tak best, sekali lepas masuk iklan macam best pulak. Sampai humming dalam bas nak gi ke uni.

Ok .. I am signing off now. Hope you guys enjoy seleksi mak untuk kali ni.

Love From Down Under
MJ