Hands up if you do that crazy thing where you look through the characters in a scene from a movie, sitcom, or reality TV show- instead of at them- so that you can hear the soundtrack better? Anyone?
Well, I know that I’ve lost the plot to Pretty Little Liars and Gossip Girl several times in a single episode, because I’ve been too busy thinking ‘I swear I know that song from somewhere…’- or maybe I’ve forgotten to really “judge” the dancers on SYTYCD (my favourite show ever!), because I’ve been too busy trying to remember the song the contestants just danced to because I want to Google it later.
I’ve discovered a lot of good music this way, and I thought I’d share it with you.
From Gossip Girl, Season 4:
Ever since “the Machine” left “Rage Against” to join “Florence +”, things have been going great for them. 😉
From Pretty Little Liars, Season 1, we have:
It was playing in that scene. You know: the one where that stupid Aria girl goes to the bathroom to molest the guy-she-had-just-met-two-freakin’-minutes-ago. I couldn’t watch, so I listened. Tisk, tisk- little girls of today, though!
From 90210, Season 3 (I think):
This video, in true Cudi style, is a little weird. And that weird-looking drummer guy played the nerd in some teen movie just now, didn’t he?
Anyway: the song was playing during a party scene (amazing how I have such detailed memory of these arb things, right?), and because it was at the point in the episode where I realised again just how fake it all is, I ignored the fake tans and extensions to hear what Kanye was saying…
And finally, from SYTYCD Season 8, we have this absolute gem:
I just thought this song was so cool from the first beat (chord? note?). Needless to say, I have no real idea how Ashley (the contestant dancing to this song) did.
I found another John West song, “Loved You Tonight”, and I nearly died: this man’s music is just amazing.
Like, Jason Mraz meets The Foreign Exchange for a Jack Johnson tutorial on a rainy Sunday morning, “amazing”.
His debut CD only has 3 songs, but if he carries on this way for his next one he is going to be big. At least, in my opinion…
Also, it looks like old Ashley got a break after being eliminated from SYTYCD, because she looks quite happy to star in this video for John West. Awu shem.
Okay. So these songs (along with a selection of tracks from Paramore, Erykah Badu, and of course Jason Mraz) will be getting me through the upcoming brain-frying month of exams. Bleh.
What song has someone made about how to get through exams? Oh, wait. I think it goes a little something like this:
Nkhensani Manabe 
