Female musical talent (of next previous weeks)

Linde Schöne

I don’t know too much about Linde, except that she has an exceptional voice and that her face belongs to another decade, she’s like an actress of the Golden Era, such classic beauty. 

Love is All

Another cutesy adorable band from Sverige, although less cheesy than Lacrosse. I used to think this is where Ida Maria came from until I realized she was from another country.

Maruv 

This may be the sexiest video of my posts, the sexiest video in Ukraine, the sexiest video in Eurovision. It’s just so fucking hot and amazing. Maruv deserved better during Eurovision, but knowing how things ended up I guess it was expected from Russian government to suck that much.

Mr. Twin Sister

I’m going to be a hipster here and say I knew them back when they weren’t Mr. It was all thanks to Skins US. They’re from New York although by the sound I would have thought they’re from Portland. 

Múm

This is probably the first band from Ísland I truly loved, and I think that they really sound like the ocean combined with volcanos. Their music is so mystical and sweet and mysterious, it’s like a weirder version of Sigur Rós. 

My Toys Like Me

This is the sweet tender beginning of the fierce Aluna Francis. The songs are way more melancholic than the AlunaGeorge ones, and to me they have a bit more teenage angst. Still, Aluna has such a sweet unique voice that makes this band so amazing.

Female musical talent ( of previous weeks)

 Vök

Hatari brought many gray things to my life, including Vök. Einar is very talented, and it’s good to see him in this very different sound but still electronic. And Márgret’s voice works really well with those sounds. 

Wir Sind Helden

The spirit of the 90’s was also kicking it in Hamburg, although this band was formed in the 00s. Judith’s voice reminds me of the Some Girls girls, and those simple and fund melodies.

You Love Her Coz She’s Dead

Another duo from the electro 8 bit with short haired girl that came with Crystal Castles. Sorry, I get repetitive too. But they’re fun at least.

Zee Avi

The sweetest voice from Malaysia, I haven’t seen the first drama from the country but I bet they use a lot of her songs because she’s just so dreamy.

8 Kids

I think this is post hardcore, I’m not good at classifying this but the amazing drummer you hear here is the super kick ass Emma McLellan.

Аигел 

This is a hip hop duo a bit more hardcore and street like than Ic3peak, and the name comes from the vocalist who is also a poet and extremely gorgeous (I know that’s not the point but I really like her). I also read somewhere that her ex was in jail for a murder case so yeah, hardcore.

Asobi Seksu

Dream pop delivered by a Japanese goddess. The band was too perfect to exist in our current times, but left us some pretty amazing songs that are so pure and almost childlike but in the most amazing way.

Biig Piig

This Irish singer is one cool girl. She moved to Spain when she was younger so she also has a few songs in Spanish and I think her style is pretty fresh and fun.

Claire Laffut

She started her career as a model, you can really tell by her face, and that style she got from there is so well translated to her songs. Her voice is so delicate and smooth.

Coma_cose

I don’t know too much about them except they’re extremely cool and they’re from Milan and they drop bars like there’s no tomorrow. 

Connie Francis

This Italian American singer from the good old days became famous to me because of her English version of the song “Je ne pourrais vivre jamais sans toi” from that movie that I can’t really remember the title of but it’s the Cherbourg one. You know it. And Connie’s version is included in that awful heartbreaking episode in Futurama when we know that the poor doggie stayed waiting for his human FOREVER. And it’s all so sad.  

Crim3s

Another Crystal Castles like band, but this one is a bit darker because they got together while being homeless and that’s where their inspiration came from. I really hope their music helped them with their situation.

Dakooka

Украина дома! I don’t know if that’s correct grammatically but we have some Ukrainian girl power with Dakooka. Ekaterina went to music school and was in some TV music shows and maybe one day she’ll get her big break after this whole thing passes. 

Destroy Boys

A cool punk band with a pretty funny band but with an attitude I don’t like towards the name. I don’t think they’re my type of people, but they’re my type of music.

Florrie

Another hot drummer, she has been working with some pop icons and it truly shows. Her songs have incredibly catchy beats and her voice is super strong. I guess she should dance to be more popular, I’m not really sure what’s missing in her formula, but she’s on the right path of making quality music.

Gang Gang Dance

This is a pretty funky band that mixes several genres into their music, I don’t know too much about them but their experimental music works. 

Garmarna

A typical old folk band with the usual Swedish nordic tunes. I don’t know too much about it but I’m starting to enjoy them. 

Hoshi

A chanteuse from Versailles, inspired by Japanese culture, she chose her stage name and earned some fame with her pop music and also because she was outed without her approval. Not cool. But she’s extremely cool. 

HTRK

Now we go down to Melbourne, with this super enigmatic band. The first song I listened of them was “Rentboy” and ooof, was that song sexy and sad and everything at the same time. Then I read that they started the band to make songs inspired by Lynch films and it all made sense.

IAMAMIWHOAMI

And back to Sweden, Jonna Lee worked with another guy whose name I can’t remember to create this super artistic audiovisual project with some really interesting conceptual videos. It was very The Knife-y and of great quality.

If The Kids

Coming from Paris and taking their name from a punk song, I think their prime passed but when they were having fun making music they made some pretty cool tunes and this song is such a great anthem to come out of the closet.

Kælan Mikla

And here are the coolest darkest girls from Reykjavik! I wouldn’t know how to classify their music but they’re sooooo witchy and punk and cool and amazing!

Lacrosse

And then going back to continental Europe, we have the dorkiest most adorable band of Stockholm. They’re like if Broken Social Scene had fallen into honey.

Le Couleur 

And I finish this post in Montreal, with a very nostalgic band that has the sound of how I imagine the city. This is not my favorite song of them but I couldn’t find the official video, but there’s this adorable version with singers daughter of “Femme” and it’s just 🥰

Here we go again

I’ve had this project for a long time now, and when I was finally making it work, while not keeping a good discipline with time, the platform I was using gave up on me (Tumblr, I know. My fault for choosing them). So I started finding an alternative, and made a mess of myself because the most popular one is a mess for me to understand and I was honestly about to just keep a journal to myself (a la Evernote). So I remember about this old site, and my old attempt at a king lists (oh how stupid and young I was). I’m afraid I may have to find a replacement in the next months because this is also dying, but this’ll do in the meantime.

So basically what I try to do is review the movies I watch, the series I watch too, the books I read, the music I listen to, graphic novels/comics which also go into the book category and rarely, some games I play. I’m an old ahjuma so I don’t really play that much.

I’m also doing this crazy dumb useless bullshit where I select a movie, a TV show, a book and a musician or band from a certain country, to get to know said country and its culture a bit better. I do an introductory review of the country with one of the lesser known touristic place they have and voilà. 

I was also doing a weekly post of 7 female artists or bands with female talent to highlight that there is waaaay more talent than the usual suspects (I started doing this because I was so fucking tired of people talking how amazing Dua Lipa is. She is just a good product of the same basic shit). 

So that’s basically it, I suck at keeping this updated on a regular basis and I’m not really expecting anyone to read this, I probably let my kids read this if I ever have the luck to have them so they can see how I wasted my time, so my audience is this imaginary non existent person. If you happen to stumble with this, hope you enjoy, if you don’t know one of the things I mention then hey, you learn something, and if you do, you get to criticize my point of view. That’s cool too. You’re welcome.