Justin Timberlake Song Medley

Timberweek went out with a bang when Justin Timberlake ended his week long run of appearances on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon by performing a medley of his hits from his first two albums Justified and Future Sex/Love Sounds. JT has been appearing on the show all week in preparation for the release of his third solo album The 20/20 Experience which drops Tuesday, March 19th. If you missed it, take a look below.

Favorite Song of the Moment: JoJo - Andre

Now that I'm trying to get back into blogging on a regular basis, I've decided to start a new series to highlight my favorite song or songs of the moment. Generally when I find a new song that I like I'm stuck on it for quite a while but it can also easily change or I'll have multiple songs on repeat on my iPod.

The first song in the series is 'Andre' by Jojo, who you already know I love if you've been following my blog or if you follow me on Twitter. The song is from Jojo's latest mixtape 'Agape.' Honestly, I'm not a big fan of this mixtape other than this song but her first mixtape 'Can't Take That Away From Me' is one of my absolute favorites.

Give 'Andre' a listen if you haven't already, you won't regret it.

Newly Discovered Music: Conor Maynard & Leah Labelle

This will (hopefully) be a short blog post about two new artists that I've recently discovered and so far I like what I hear. First up is Leah LaBelle. I'd heard Leah's name a few times here and there but never really bothered to look her up and listen to her music. Recently another artist that I love, Jojo, broadcast a concert from her living room online in which Leah made an appearance and they did a duet of John Legend's 'Ordinary People.' This was my first time hearing Leah's voice and I must say I like what I heard. I decided to look up a few of her songs and happened to find one that's pretty much been on repeat for days called 'Sexify.' If you haven't heard of Leah LaBelle I'd definitely recommend giving her a listen if you're into Pop music with an R&B feel (a similar vibe to Jojo if you will). Take a peek at her video for 'Sexify' below.

Next up is a guy named Conor Maynard. I first heard of Conor when his song 'Animal' was featured as the free song of the week on iTunes. It's definitely a fun party song in my opinion. I looked up a few of his other songs and there's quite a few that I really like. According to Spotify's description he's been hailed as "the British answer to Justin Bieber" which honestly made me throw up in my mouth a little but I digress. I suppose they have similar styles of music but whatever. I think Conor has a more mature tone to his music and there's definitely some sexual references here and there. Anyway, if you haven't heard of him, take a listen below and enjoy!

Newly Discovered Music: Emeli Sande & Kimbra

I was browsing the free section of Amazon MP3s and discovered these ladies. Emeli Sande from the UK and Kimbra from New Zealand. In my experience, the free music on Amazon is lame but I was pleasantly surprised by these two ladies. After doing minimal research I found out that Kimbra is the singer featured at the end of the Gotye song 'Somebody That I Used to Know.' The songs that were free on Amazon were 'Where I Sleep' from Emeli Sande's Our Version of Events and 'Settle Down' from Kimbra's Vows albums.

In my opinion, Emeli's voice sounds similar to Jordin Sparks who I also really like. I also think that Emeli has some really good lyrics though I'm not sure if she writes her own music or not. Something about Kimbra's music just has a cool vibe to me and all of her songs seem to be pretty different so it's difficult to categorize her. Either way, I'm really liking them both. Take a listen....

I wasn't able to find a video for 'Where I Sleep' so here's one for 'Heaven'

Kimbra 'Settle Down'

Random Thought: Rudeness

This will be a short post....

Anyway, I was thinking today about something I find to be really rude: when people make negative comments about your food. I'm not talking about going to a restaurant and your friends making fun of some monstrosity that came out on your plate, I mean your own food. You cook something and some rude bastard comments that it doesn't smell good/looks funny/etc. Has that ever happened to you? It's happened to me. Only twice that I can think of but both times the same person said it.

Although the incidents occurred years ago, I still remember them pretty well. Not sure why I have such a habit of holding on to things but that's not the point. I was making one of those microwave pasta dishes that you just add water to and pop in the microwave for a few minutes and it's done. It was garlic & parmesan flavored penne (yes, I remember that). One of my five roommates 'Sam' was asking what that smell was, etc as if it was an unpleasant smell. Granted, not everyone can deal with the smell of garlic but it's not like I was boiling cloves of it. I just felt it was rude to walk around the house talking about how bad she thought my food smelled. Like, wtf is that about? I would NEVER do that to anyone even if it smelled like ass. If someone cooked something and was about to eat it, I wouldn't sit in their face and say "Eww, that smells really bad." Who does that?

Another similar incident happened when I made one of those microwavable Hamburger Helper things that they now have (very convenient for broke college students by the way). Again Sam made a comment. First she asked if I was making the garlic thing again. No, I wasn't. And then, get this, she proceeded to spray some form of air freshener (possibly Oust spray) in the kitchen after I left. Really? Is it that serious? NOT EVEN WHEN MY MAMA COOKED CHITTERLINGS DID I EVER FEEL THE NEED TO SPRAY SOME AIR FRESHENER IN THE KITCHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe I'm making too much of it but I don't think so. In my opinion, it's just rude. Like, if you went to someone's house and they were cooking, would you really sit there and comment on how bad it smells? C'mon son!

That's all for now....this post turned out to be a lot longer than I thought it would. Oh well.