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Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009 Time: 1:45 AM Just Penny and Me tonight
Call it a blessing in disguise for I was never a big fan of pitchy voices. I am not one of the fans who started supporting their act since the MMMBop era. Heck, I didn't even know who Britney Spears was back then as I was a mainstream music illiterate until I was halfway through high school. I can tell you who Rod Stewart and Richard Clayderman is though.  It was sometime in 2004 when I caught 'Penny and Me' on TV that got me hooked onto their music. There was something about that video and the music that appealed to me. Personally, I have always been a fan of the warmer palettes. Combine it with beautiful harmonies in the chorus and it's pure magic to my senses! If you have watched any of their live acoustic performances, you cannot deny the fact that those three brothers are superb at what they do. Their accapella harmonies are always tight and you can tell that they pen their own tunes through their spontaneity and unfeigned improvisations. They aren't rock stars- they are artists at work. You may discriminate MMMBop as much as you like but you can't take away the truth that those kids wrote it before they were even of legal age. As the album "Underneath" plays, I keep seeing moving images, paintings, strokes and colours, layers of textures- basically the most gorgeous things overlapping each other again and again. It's so raw- very much like a montage and you can pretty much feel the many elements that were glued together to form a beautiful piece of artwork.  Right now, I am really digging this demo from the pre-Underneath era. If I am not mistaken, it's one of the 80+ demos which were rejected by Island Records before they parted ways. It's called "Dream Girl". The video (though extremely crude in editing) kind of encompasses the way I see the montage. "We'll always be that way." Good night, people. :) |