The melody in my head

Alright, it's been 2 months since my last blog about the music that I've been listening to and the list has changed totally. For the past 2 weeks I've been immensely hooked on these pieces below:
Jamie Scott – London Town. This song reminds me a little of KT Tunstall’s style of song. Nice soft drum beats at the back. Loved that part where he hums in the song.

Joey McIntyre's Someday. Haven't heard anything from him for ages. I read that he released 2 new albums after Meet Joe Mac but I haven't managed to locate those CDs in Penang. This is an old song from him. I’ve heard it like a zillion times before but recently got hooked on it again because the song goes like a conversation between 2 friends. One is saying that someday he will get the girl. The other is saying it won’t happen. Good melody.

This is a rock song by Chris Daughtry and it's called Over You. His latest single which is playing quite often over the radio. It is addictively loud. He’s got a fantastic voice.

My favourite of all favourites at the moment is this Cantonese song by Eason Chan (the God of song...in my opinion). It is entitled 富士山下 (Fu Shi Shang Shi) Hahaha...you'd think I know that but I didn't and I had to ask my friend for the title. Thanks to the language bar installed, I managed to type out the name successfully. It means 'at the bottom of Fuji mountain (as what my friend translated for me) Love it love it love it. I’ve put it on repeat mode. Sounds like a sad song…probably a reflective song about the past and the memories of a love. I’ve heard it quite a long time ago and have been looking for it ever since but I didn’t know the song and only knew it was by Eason. Then…my colleague played it over his notebook recently and I pounced on it like lion on a carcass.

Come So Far from the Hairspray soundtrack. The people singing this song includes Queen Latifah, Zac Efron, Nikki Blonsky and etc. It’s a very cheerful song with a nice beat that keeps my feet tapping. A happy-go-lucky piece about encouragement and not giving up.

Missing you by Tyler Hilton. 'I ain't missing you, since you've been gone away, I ain't missing you at all' Rings a bell?
It’s a cover version of the original by I don’t know what band. Heard this acoustic version on One Tree Hill in the scene where Nathan and Haley were standing in the rain holding each other. It’s just as good as the original.

This is by Kiki Ebsen, Say A Little Prayer. This is the adult contemporary, jazz-y style of this song made famous in the movie My Best Friend’s Wedding. But the one in that movie was sung by Diana King. It’s a softer, toned-down version with nice guitar sounds. Perfect for a scenario that involves a romantic dinner by a pier overlooking the sea, with a waiter in a black and white uniform serving meals, pouring me a glass of champagne which I don't know how to drink.

Winners At A Losing Game by Rascal Flatts. A very nice country ballad on unrequited love where he sings about loving a person that doesn’t love him back and that he knows that he will never be the man of her dreams. One the lines goes like this “If love is really forever, then I’m a winner at a losing game”. I’m thinking it probably means that if this relationship really works and last till the end of time, he wins because he has the girl of his dreams but the girl will never love him truly for no matter how long she tries. So ultimately, the relationship is a losing game because he may get the person, but he’ll never gain the heart. I like the way the lyrics were written, it’s like a puzzle. It's a kick to figure out meanings of songs.

The perfect vacation-welcoming song. Coconut Grove by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. What a freaky name! It sounds like an oldie to me but my mum didn’t seem to have heard this song before. My uncle was singing that at the top of his lungs in the car though. A mixture of muffled sounds because he forgot the lyrics and he sounded a little like a broken guitar string. Anyhoo, this song is really nice and everytime I listen to it. I imagine the beach and blue skies. (It’s part of the lyrics by the way) I googled the name Coconut Grove and found that it is a place in Miami, Florida. I wonder if this is the one they were singing about.

Gimme More. Ahem…it’s Britney, bitch. I hate to admit it but this song is so infectious. The more I listen to it, the more I feel like moving to it. I really can’t help bouncing my head to the beats. Although pretty much the whole song, she’s just going ‘gimme gimme gimme more gimme gimme gimme more gimme gimme’.