Jessie J, Laserlight

Jessie J is an amazing British singer-songwriter, who is better known for huge hits like Domino (read about it here), Price Tag, Nobody's Perfect or Do It Like A Dude.

She is also known for writing songs for artists like Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera and co-writing Miley Cyrus hit Party In The U.S.A. She is also a coach on the UK edition of the TV show The Voice.

Around her birthday, Ana wrote a special post about her different work approaches and different ways of seeing this talented young artist.

She has released a studio album, named Who You Are, which was released on February 2011. Counting with a re-release - also known as Platinum Edition -, she is the first British female artist to have six top ten singles on one album with the song Laserlight that features the French DJ David Guetta.

Laserlight was released as single on May 2012 and was very received by critics complementing Jessie J's powerful vocals complemented with Guetta's beat backgrounds, resulting on a very catchy, dance and positive song.

"And my heart starts beating

And my lungs start breathing

And the voice in my head starts screaming

I'm alive!"

Sudoeste TMN 2012 Comment: I already knew she would be powerful, she would have a strong presence, she would be huge. Actually, what happen was that she was greater than anything that I would ever expect from such a young talent.

She is such a huge entertainer, such an inspiring singer, such a powerful presence that fulfills everyone's heart with all her grace, talent and incredible person. She is an artist that you don't see very often!

Special Post: Rudely Interrupted

'Harder we work the luckier we get!'


‘We are here to challenge your thoughts and entertain your mind’

Both quotes could describe this band and wouldn’t have to say more. But let’s be explicit here…

Five out of six of Rudely Interrupted’s members have some kind of physical or intellectual disability. As everyone may have already heard, whenever someone has a disability they are very good at another thing.

Rory Burnside – the lead singer - is blind and has Asperger’s syndrome
Marcus Stone – the keyboardist –  has also Asperger’s and is 80% deaf.
Sam Beke – the bassist – has Down syndrome.
Josh Hogan – the drummer – is autistic and has some physical disabilities.
Connie Kirkpatrick – the percussionist – has Down syndrome.
Rohan Brooks – the guitarist – is a music therapist who came up with the idea.

I found out they were a special band before hearing them, but let’s be honest here: you don’t see any difference in this song.

Special Post - Lady Gaga's Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Once again, and because I received such good critics about my last post – I received only one, anyway…… -  I won’t give any historical data, in this case there is nothing to say at all, because everyone knows her. I will stick to my opinion and the way I see her work and her talent.

From what I read from her biography – still haven’t finished it – she is the kind of artist that is where she is, only because of her hard work. At the beginning she got nothing comparing to other artists.
In my opinion, artist like Gaga or P!nk that really had to work to be someone in music industry may be the ones that give more credit and passion to what they do, because they know how hard it was to be where they are now. I actually think you can see the ones that respect their own work and effort and those who don’t - you can see this in daily life too.

She began to play at small bars and by that time she had already ‘different’ outfits, it was her way to show herself. I think Gaga didn’t need to dress such things in order to be reckoned, but that's part of who she is now. From the very first start of her career she wanted to be different, she felt like she was and created such characters with such exotic and enigmatic clothes, but that’s just one part of the show.
Personally, I enjoy much more the innocent Gaga with whatever clothes she is on and a piano in front of her. Not because I don’t like to see her dancing or I think her tours aren’t good, but because I think her real talent isn’t shown in those occasions. She may create those shows but she is not putting 100% of her talent in that, at least the part of the talent I most admire about her: her voice and her writing skills.

Gaga & Ellen

Two incredible women together:

I just really love what I do.

Lady Gaga - Edge of Glory (Live @ BBC Radio 1)

No words. I think this is my favorite live performance and with no doubts my favorite music from her new album, Born This Way. Take a bit of your time to feel her passion and to hear such a beautiful voice.

There ain't no reason you and me should be alone tonight
Yeah baby, tonight yeah baby
But I got a reason that you-hoo should take me home tonight
I need a man that thinks it right when it's so wrong
Tonight yeah baby, tonight yeah baby.
Right on the limit's where we know we both belong tonight.


Lady GaGa - Speechless (Live @ The Ellen DeGeneres Show)

Speechless. The song and the performance.

Lady Gaga - Marry the Night

The very first video she directed.
We all know every Gaga’s videoclip tells a story, they can be even classified as short movies.

When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened. It's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way and thrutly the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it. Clinical psychologist tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer. Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics, they can be lost forever. It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

Special Post - Jessie J's Brithday

Today is the birthday of one of my favorite singers, Jessie J.

Happy Birthday

I wanted to write something about her but didn’t want to waste time re-writing what is on Wikipedia- it’s really a waste of time, because everyone has access to that.
I wanted to do something different maybe because I have some free time but maybe it’s just that I like her so so much, that I feel like you guys deserve to know her, the way I do. And I know that sometimes we don’t know how incredible some artists are because the credit given isn’t as much as it should be.



But let’s say in a few lines how she got where she is now… She graduated in the class of 2006 along with singers Adele and Leona Lewis. Since that time she has been in the music industry mainly writing songs for other artists. She began recording her debut studio album in 2006 and it was completed on 19 January 2011

If you have been following what I like the most on an artist you have noticed that I give a lot of credit to what artists can do on stage. I love searching for live performances of my favorite singers/bands. I love even more when they are capable of performing live as good as on studio and when they are good enough to innovate and be able to surprise their fans with their vocal abilities. And Jessie does that. She sings in a way that it seems that singing is actually easy. I usually say that she plays with her own voice, mostly live when she improvise.



Jessie J Who You Are - The X Factor Live

Why is it so emotional?
Because when you start writing songs as an artist, and all this – point at the stage and public - doesn't exist in your world and you are sitting in a studio and you really don't know what your journey is going to do, it's scary. ‘Cuz I wasn't in a great place when i wrote that song and if i haven't been in that bad place, I wouldn't be able to sing it to people to make them feel better. I feel good.


Notice that in this video she gives the idea that she sings for her fans too. Because she has been in “that place” and if she hasn’t she wasn’t able to sing it for other people. At the same time she is doing what she loves, but she is helping others. And trust me, this song is an hell of cheer up.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars
Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing
It's okay not to be okay
Sometimes it's hard to follow your heart
Tears don't mean you're losing
Everybody's bruising
Just be true to who you are


Jessie J - We Found Love (Rihanna's cover)

Awesome comment on Youtube: Did Rihanna just get owned in her own song?

I wasn’t the author of that comment but I totally agree with what he is trying to say. No one has ever made me like a song with a cover when I didn’t like the original. It’s nothing against Rihanna – she may have some talent, I don’t know – but Jessie J makes her song a TOP one. This is an incredible performance and an incredible interpretation of the original song.

The Voice

Along with will.i.am (of The Black Eyed Peas), Tom Jones and Danny O'Donoghue (of The Script), Jessie J will be on the coaching panel Each coach chooses their team acoording to The Blind Auditions and have the goal to make them winners while giving them advices based on their own careers. I'm sure that the people that will be on Jessie’s team will have a lot of luck because they will find an enthusiastic, young and dreamer coach.

By now you must have already understood how incredible and inspiring she can be, as an artist and as a person.

I look forward to hear her new album and who knows a show here in Portugal.

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In Portugal there is this web fan-base: http://www.facebook.com/JessicaCornishPortugal - Here you can find every single news about Jessie the minute it goes out. I appreciate it very much!