How I Discovered Him:
I actually found him through researching for new Kat Deluna songs.
Anyway, I discovered their duet "Breathing Your Love" and his album Flashback and loved nearly every track. It was the only album I listened to for like a month. Then he kinda disappeared from my life cause I hadn't kept tabs on him. I suddenly realized he had just released his album "LoveKiller", which got me hooked all over again. I love every single song and each song has at least 100 plays. After a year or so, the album kinda fizzled out and I didn't hear from him until 2012 when he was gearing for the release of his most recent album "Exit", which I didn't care for too much but I loved the singles. I didn't really hear from him until about summer when I realized he had another new song "So Yours", which was one of my favorite songs of the year.
How I Discovered Her:
One of my old Myspace friends had told me he just got her album "X" and that I should check her out. So I did and I loved her ever since. My favorite album since I discovered her was Fever until Aphrodite got released. I instantly loved it and tried to find it but all of her albums were pretty hard to find at the time. My mom also didn't know I was gay at the time so I didn't want her to think "wow. my son is listening to Kylie Minogue" so I never bought her albums until recently, but I always had her music on my iPod or burned CD's. I'm so excited to see she is making new music and can't wait for it's release. Timebomb was also one of my favorite songs of 2012 AND 2013, but unfortunately missed the mark by hairs on both charts.
Best Songs:
On A Night Like This, Fever, Speakerphone
Best Music Videos:
All The Lovers, Come Into My World, Spinning Around
My #3 song last year. And I still love it to this day. I let my friend
borrow my Talk That Talk CD for one night and when I got it back WFL and Cockiness were all scratched (the rest of the CD is alright sans a
skip here and there, though), so those songs were kinda ruined for me since. WFL is a song that I used to LOVE bumping in the car, but I'm out of blank CD's.
Last Year:
#3
BUBBLING UNDER
#54
Slow Down - Seahaven
The beginning of my 2013 was plagued by the beautiful virus of
"Seahaven". A great indie band with great music. I love screaming these lyrics at the top of my lungs and jamming at home, too. A really universal sound I love.
When the demo first leak I was completely enamored and I
listened to it on repeat for hours. Then the final mix got leaked and I was completely annoyed by the useless changes and the fact you can hear a
damn click in song at 2:14. Whoever did the final mix of this song sucks and needs to be reprimanded for making such an awesome demo so bad.
Last Year:
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BUBBLING UNDER
#52
Bad Blood- Bastille
The first of many "Bastille" songs you will see on this countdown. It is just one of
many great tracks that make up their album. I used to not like this song
until one day I decided to really listen to it and decide why I
didn't like it. I realized that it was in fact, a great song and I love how deeply he sings in it.
A song by Australian pop/electro-rock singer "Reece Mastin" whom
I discovered in early 2013. Whilst I wasn't completely in love with his album... the songs I love, I really really LOVE. It such an awesome song and
has great lyrics. Can be a little cheesy, but is still an amazing song and wish his whole album would have been more along the lines of this track.