Kiesza - Broken Heart Museum

Love, love, love, love! This song just jumped right off the screen and into my heart. It's not a secret that I have a torrid love for Kiesza and this song just catapulted her into the stratosphere of pop divas. The transitions, the vocals, the production, the lyrics. This song is gorgeous and she can do no wrong. The build up to that first chorus is equivalent to the first hill on a roller coaster. That's probably the best way to describe this song. It's like a roller coaster and the emotions that it illicits are ridiculous. This is a fucking song. It's just so perfect. I stepped right into it and I can't get enough of it. Hopefully this means we have new music coming very soon as I NEED more of this caliber Kiesza in my life.  Listen to it and let me know what you think!

DJ Antoine - Bella Vita

This track is about living "the beautiful life" and as such I imagine images of people doing things and going places that I will probably never go.  Gigantic parties on yachts, garden parties in the Napa Valley, private jets whisking young lovers off to Paris.  Those are the images I have in regards to "Bella Vida" and I am sure that everyone has their own particular brand of what is and what isn't the beautiful life.  The song is a pretty a fun song that can easily have you bobbing along with it but I think where I have a problem with it comes from the treatment given to the video.  I totally get the idea they were going for.  Showing different people in different situations living their beautiful life but with DJ Antoine driving around in his teleporting Mercedes, I think the message gets kind of lost because he seems like he is just on the outside of it all and then to come home and have a smoke, it seems very lonely to me.  What I would have loved to have seen, however, is Antoine in St.Tropez partying with beautiful people as the track thunders in the background.  It's a dance song but trying to pull a humanitarian vibe out of the video was a misstep.  Give me Ibiza and sun and sand and people dancing their asses off instead it just comes off as a Mercedes commercial.  I like the song a lot.  It's super bouncy and it sticks with you long after you've listened to it, I just wish the video was stonger.

Antoine is a Swiss House and electro DJ.  He has produced remixes for Mary J. Blige, P.Diddy, Pitbull, Cindy Lauper, Robin S and produced songs for  Timati, Snoop Dogg, DJ Smash and Bob Sinclar.  He is one of Europe's most booked stars and has won several awards including The Swiss Music Award for "Best Album Dance National".  He's released 10 albums with his latest, The Sky's The Limit due out April 30, 2013 on Ultra Records.

DJ Antoine on the Web

www.djantoine.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/djantoine

Twitter: @djantoine

Colton Ford - Let Me Live Again (Official Video)

My last post about Colton was well over a year ago and it was in fact, the debut of the audio for this track.  And now, he's back and has released the video for the song.  A video full of hypersexualized imagery that has come to be a standard in his videos.  The women are hot, the men are hotter but Colton outshines them all.  His ability to smolder is unparalleled and when you add his vocal abilities, this man can do no wrong.   It's a simple black and white treatment directed by Marco Ovando and doesn't require any set up.  Just push play and let the video do it's thing.

In my opinion, this video falls onto a very sharp double standard.  If you take Madonna and put her on stage with Britney and Christina it's totally ok for them to make out.  If you take Katy Perry and have her singing about a brief same gender tryst, it's perfectly fine.  But in today's climate, even with all the advances we as a community are making, this video is a hard sell for the Midwestern pop music consumer.  While the images are not vulgar or overly risque, the bottom line is that in a male driven society - it is far easier for images of female sexuality to be accepted than it is for two men.  I don't agree with this stand and I think it's bullshit but in the Red States, it's a fact of life.  I can't wait for the day to be able to turn on a music video channel and have this song or any song that pushes the boundaries of sexuality play loud and proud beside today's pop stars.  And when that day comes, I will proudly stand in support of it as I am now.

Back in 2011 when I initially wrote about this song, I said:

"How many times have you had a moment where you wish someone could see themselves the way you do. That's the vibe I get from the lyrics. Things were going ok, but now that I've met you...I have something to live for."

And I still feel that way about this song.  It's a great track and without warning you are swept up into the infectious rhythm.  Colton does work on this track and I after watching the video for the fifth time, I am living for it.  It amazes me that he has never once shied away from his past as an adult entertainer and in fact, he has used it to propel his recording career further.  Playing toward an existing fan base is never a dumb idea and he does an amazing job at just being comfortable in his own skin on screen.  A long time ago, I wrote about how I thought he was sullying himself by being so bare in his videos but it's an important part of his image.  I appreciate him as a vocalist first and foremost but I understand the business decision to shoot the videos the way they are done.  It's sexy, it's super masculine and it does a damn fine job of teetering on that line where it's almost too much but never tips over.

I want him to record more music because I love having him in my library and my life.  Watch the video, listen to the lyrics and buy the music.  He's an artist that deserves to be supported and I can't wait for the next chapter in his recording career.

Colton on the Web

http://www.peacebisquit.com/artists/colton-ford/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ColtonFordMusic
Twitter: @ColtonFordMusic

Korr-a - Fiyacraka

I don't generally write about club tracks but something about this one has compelled me to do so.  Korr-a (Kristina Korban) is a Ukrainian born musician, actress, model and movie producer that in working with Dave Aude has created a banging club track that is actually pretty special.  I think what it does and does right is the use of positive vs negative audio space.  Her vocals aren't all over the track and she's not trying to be cute, she's just handling her business and owning this track.

The video is chocked full of amazing dancing and my favorite part actually happens close to the end when the group is together.  I want to hear this track in a club where it's loud and it becomes part of you when the bass hits you in the chest.  That's when it truly comes to life, when it's sitting in your lungs and helps you breathe.

I want to hear more from this multi-talented entrepreneur and will keep you posted.