Like I said, when I don't have a lot going on, I just get plain lazy. Hello, summer.
What I have been doing is listening to lots of music, and for reasons that I don't even completely understand myself, it's been a lot of European dance music. I guess Pandora is just freaky like that. In some sense I am a bit embarrassed that I have not heard this music before, because a few of the songs have been #1 in like 20 European countries, but because the USA currently has a giant repulsive invisible force field when it comes to letting international culture in, I'm not super-surprised.
There are two songs that have gotten completely stuck in my head, and I will find myself humming them at random times, see below if you are interested in getting them stuck in your head as well.
"Alors on danse" is by the Belgian singer Stromae, though it is sung in French. Knowing no French, I don't actually know what he's saying, but I'm just crossing my fingers and going on good faith that it's not about killing people or anything like that.
The second song is not nearly so globe-trotting as the first, but it features the Canadian band Dragonette and Kaskade, a house DJ from Evanston, IL. Given the proximity of Evanston to Chicago and my love of that city, gets a little bonus in my book.
In other, completely unrelated news, my summer philosophy ethics class is drawing to a close. Did I even ever mention that I was taking a summer ethics class? Well, I am. While it has been interesting, it has only made clearer to me that ethics is a really really confusing issue, and there's probably no freaking way I will ever understand it fully. But then again, I don't think anyone ever has, so I don't feel so bad.
2 comments:
first of all i love kaskade, not that big on dragonette but i do enjoy "animales"
if you do want to know what those lyrics are i found a translation for you, although i think you're smart enough to use google
http://lyricstranslations.com/prevod/stromae-alors-on-danse
i just recently accumulated a lot of new music, and i will recommend Ou Est Le Swimming Pool based off of what you posted
I listened to "Animale" after you recommended it, and it was good! The music video was neat too.
I'll have to check out Ou Est Le Swimming Pool now that you've mentioned it . . . don't know anything about it right now.
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