Primordial Chaos

 Nate James song.

I had all these really great posts I wanted to make, but at this point I have a headache and have lost interest. So:

I'm going to ramble about music, starting with Nate James, a British soul singer who has an amazing voice. He's also biracial and cute as hell, something I can definitely understand. ;)

Anyways, him and this other guy did this song together called Written In The Stars and I just love it (you'll notice it is the title of one of my posts). On my myspace page there's a sample of it, the song isn't even finished yet. So, I reach out and send an email, showing much love and asking when the album and that song come out. I get a response not 30 minutes later from him, say they're going into the studio next week, and in a month he'll have the finished version of the song AND WILL GIVE IT TO ME. Whoa. That's months before the album comes out and it's not a single.  We've been emailing back and forth all day. So hella cool.

Van Hunt, another fav of mine, is the same way. He personally answers back, talks to his fans, gives them treats if they ask nicely and show love, it's really awesome. They're both brilliant musicians, and I admire both of them immensely. They're also not major artists, well here anyways. They're both just really down to earth and involved with people who appreciate them, and I like that. I've had more than a few conversations with Van through email, IM, once through voice chat, and it's just an awesome experience to have someone you appreciate for their talent appreciate you back.Van is also the only person I can name that I feel is a much more genius writer than me. His innate ability with words makes me look like a 3rd grader.

When I lived in SoCal, through a series of incidents, I managed to befriend Stevie Wonder's son, Mumtaz. Another lesser known dude who is seriously talented. We're even myspace and facebook friends, and I've talked to him on the phone and in person numerous times.

So it's super cool people whose music I listen to EVERYDAY aren't some mysterious entity seen only at performances or what not. You get to know them as a person too, and that only adds to the appreciation of what they do. I'm not one of those psychotic starstruck kind of people either. I admire them, no doubt, but that's no need to get all crazy and weird. I'm sure, even as lesser known artists, they get plenty of that.

Some of the women out there, well, bitches is crazy.

Youtube time!

Nate James doing a cover of Lauryn Hill's Ex-Factor. I can't stand Lauryn Hill, and I couldn't stand this song when it came out. Nate's version though, I listened to over and over when I first bought Revival, an album where he covers some of his fav songs growing up. (And does most of them better than the original.)


Some of his original stuff:




I LOVE this song.


This one is my alarm in the morning:


Ok, here's one of him live. His voice sounds just like the CD, and that's something I seriously value in an artist.



I'll say it again, music is my heartbeat.

~A.

P.S. K-OS Born To Run, my favorite running song. (Duhr.) I actually have been running to this song on repeat...and listening to it on repeat randomly during the day. I can't embed this one here, so you'll have to deal with a link. Born To Run