There's a new band (to me anyway) called Tennis and they are releasing their new album... do you notice any similarities in their album cover? As for the music, the only song I've heard so far reminds me of She & Him - but they are coming to LA so I may have to check them out. You can check them out by clicking HERE.
Okay so this video premiered on LOGO sometime in December and I'm just now getting 'round to seeing it.. I think the video is cute, and the song is catchy as hell, but I'm like so confused. First of all, someone mentioned on another blog about the song that the video makes it look like gay is catchy - but I didn't really see it that way, I just thought it was a bit hilarious particurlarly when the song ends with some boy saying, "I can make you gay like that... snap!"
What I have a strange problem with is the chorus - "you're a gay boy and it shows/ but it's okay boy/ no one knows..." I'm not sure if it's supposed to be sarcastic, in which case it works (kind of) but otherwise it doesn't make much sense to me. Is it a pro-gay song or not? Couldn't they make up their mind... oh and the lead singer is an out and proud lesbian... I'm just so confused. When did pop become so confusing? What are your thoughts on what the song is trying to say? And does anyone know where to get an mp3 of it??
I was going to unleash two new Bubbatunes compilations of country pop divas today but decided instead to give you my latest obsession. The incredible, powerful, insane and moving video of "Gay Bash" by Melange Lavonne.
I had never heard of this woman but she is a homo rapper, actress and model who should be taking the world by storm. This song is intense, though a fictional story it's only fictional in name as so many people have been affected by something like this, a little missive about her friend Kevin who was killed by gay bashers and how the church has hindered and sometimes almost endorsing such acts of violence. Truly great and if anyone can find an mp3 of it, do not hesitate to send it to as I have looked high and low for it, and its apparantly not released yet.
So I know there are a few of you (Amy) who are wishin' and hopin' that my absence from posting here is because I am frantically whipping up season 2 of Carlton Heights. I'd love to tell you all that is precisely the reason, but I'd be a liar...
Instead my job has moved from our own building on Melrose to the grandiose and acid inducing Pacific Design Center, which I like to call "the mall." Should I happen to say something about a fellow 'store' in the 'mall' I am constantly reminded that they are showrooms in the PDC; so you know I say something about a store in the mall every chance I get. There's nothing like making a bunch of drama queens bob and weave as I dare to tear down their big notions... for a real dose of fun I like to ask where the food court is as I'm just dying for an Orange Julius and a chili dog.
Because I can see the giganticus Pacific Design Center from my house, I find it a tad foolish to drive to work every day and pay for parking so I've opted to get up and walk to work every day - yes in the million and one degree heat that has been wreaking havoc - needless to say the whole thing has made me quite tired...
and then when I get home I take a cold shower, pour a drink and sing sing sing my little heart away. I am this close to wrapping up the new Swivek album and it's getting tiring and infuriating when I can't come up with the finishing touches we need - as in I can't sing the frickin' songs I wrote for myself. I wrote three new songs after three were rejected from the album (damn those powers that are 'not so' flexible) and there are two more I have to redo the vocals for that are giving me the most problems ever. Perhaps it's the heat, perhaps it's the walk home, perhaps it's all the booze, what ever it is, I hope it passes as I am bound and determined to finish up the songs this weekend...
and hopefully sometime by next week, I'll be back to post some more - I do have a ton and ton of new music to review (well new to me anyway) and of course I may have some Swivek news by then, and for all of those dying to read what happens in Carlton Heights (Amy) I will be moving onto that too....
Until then, this is how I spend my big walk to and from work - all three and a half blocks - I strap on some head phones and listen to my birthday present from the Leivas - two weeks before the great IPhone was launched I got this Upstage for my birthday and I'm finally using the music feature, much to the Leivas' happiness, I'm sure. So those of you driving down Santa Monica Boulevard around 8:45 am and 5:00 pm Monday - Friday, I'm the cute blonde, sweating, and dancing up and down the sidewalk, trying not to see the patrons of the gay bars at Happy Hour... well just wave and yell "Hey Brad!"
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
SHORT VERSION: Bradley Jacobson is a singer/songwriter, sometime actor, sometime writer, audio engineer and producer, and all around happy dude. He was the singer/songwriter of the electronic trashy punky pop band Swivek, but is now a "solo" artist releasing music under his own name.
