ESC 2012 - The swiss NF

Damn! The swiss NF has too many songs! There's no way I can review them all at once! Since I began studying I have almost zero free time and keeping the blog updated takes too much time... :/ So what I'm gonna do is try to listen to all of them and make a top 10! I hope I'll be done by the end of the week... Sorry guys...

Music playlists for driving

OK I’m back. For a while… Too busy with the uni = no time or energy to blog… But seeing some entrants of the swiss selection made me find some time to blog about it. But first I will blog about some playlists… I saw Regina Lund’s status on facebook asking for songs to listen while driving. I made some playlists a while ago and I had planned to blog about it. Now it’s the time.

So the first playlist is for driving at night. There are some songs that when I listen to them I really wanna get the car and go for a driving at night! Of course there’ll be songs you don’t like or songs that are missing from that playlist. You can add or remove whatever you want. This is just personal but be sure that I will forger to add some songs. :P Oh and the playlists are really mixed! All kinds of genres are in there! It’s just that melody that made me put them here.

ATB - My Everything

Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat 
Inna - Amazing

Inna - Hot

Dj Vivo ft Vega - רסיסים

Ela Rose fr David Deejay - I Can Feel 
Yarabi - I Amar

Keri Hilson - I Like

Armin Van Buuren ft Sharon Den Adel - In And Out Of Love

Jennifer Lopez ft Pitbull – On The Floor

Playmen & Alceen - Feel Your Love

Playmen fr Reckless - Together Forever or the Onirama & Paparizou version

Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love

Akcent - That’s My Name

Wildboyz ft Ameerah - The Sound Of Missing You

Donna Summer - To Paris With Love (Original Version or Mendy Radio Edit)

B.o.B ft Hayley Williams of Paramore - Airplanes

Sanna Nielsen - Tomorrow Ends Today

Sanna Nielsen - Demolition Woman

Sanna Nielsen - Nobody Without You

Måns Zelmerlöw - Brother Oh Brother

Annikafiore - Forbidden Love

Helena Paparizou - Baby It’s Over

Helena Paparizou - Love Me Crazy

Pink - Fuckin’ Perfect

Pink - Whataya Want From Me

Schiller ft Kim Sanders - Let Me Love You

Pink - Sober

Rihanna - Te Amo

Velvet - Chemistry

Velvet - My Destiny (Pitchline UK Edit)

Velvet - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

Loreen - My Heart Is Refusing Me

Dilba - Try Again

Xandee - Dreamworlds

Xandee - I Need You

Ola - All Over The World

Dana International - Hakol Ze Letova 

Helena Paparizou - Teardrops

Celine Dion - I Drove All Night

Caroline Jönsson - By My Side

Pink - Glitter In The Air

These are some songs for driving at night. I'm sure I forgot a lot but that's what I remember so far. Be careful though! Some of the songs are really relaxing so I wouldn't recommend them if you can easily fall asleep while listening to music! The sound of the car's engine and relaxing music make me wanna sleep so I don't use these when I'm the one driving the car! :P

Now let's go to the playlist for driving during daytime.

Ola - Overdrive

Pastora Soler - Hoy Te Ries

Pastora Soler - Tontas Canciones De Amor

Pastora Soler - Bendita Locura

Pastora Soler - Herida

Linda Pritchard - Not Even Hello

Linda Pritchard - Satellite

Antoine Clamaran ft Soraya - Live Your Dreams

Goldfinger - January

Azúcar Moreno - Amén

Cher - Believe

Oh I can keep going but really the lists will never end! And I know I have so many songs that I like to listen while driving but even when I make the playlists I forget to add them! So I guess that's it...

Pastora Soler to ESC!

Don't get your hopes high. It's just my wish. A wish that I seriously doubt if it will ever come true. But I had to blog about this! It's insane! Ok not that insane but for my standards, it's quite crazy. So here it is.
I have never done this before! I recently added 3 of Pastora's albums in my mp3 player and I SWEAR to God I have them on repeat for several hours a day! When I go to the university in the morning (I need about an hour) and when I get home (sometimes 2 hours if I finish after 17:00). And when I'm sitting in front of my pc (right now!) I have the album that I've listened for the first time a few days ago, on repeat! I haven't done this with Alcazar! People who know me, know that no one else is above Alcazar! They're my absolute favourite group and yet another artist is on repeat for over a week now! "Toda Mi Verdad" (2007), "Bendita Locura" (2009) and the one I heard recently, "Deseo" (2002) are the 3 albums I have on repeat and I have 5 more to go! (I'm missing her first album and her new one is on its way! "Una Mujer Como Yo" will be released on October 18th)

I saw Pastora for the first time on February 11th at the semi-final of the spanish NF. She sang "La Mala Costumbre". And that's when I became a fan! From the moment she started singing I was trying to figure out whether or not she's singing live! Well she does sing live but honestly, it's like listening to the studio version! 

I will just give you some links to some of her songs and draw your own conclusions! "Herida" is my favourite song from her album "Deseo". "Bendita Locura" and here's the live version as well, "Por Si Volvieras", "Hoy Te Ries" and my favourite "Tontas Canciones De Amor". There's no studio version of the last one on youtube but honestly there's no big difference! 

So take your pick people! Live, studio, ballad, up-tempo? She can sing anything and she's an EXCELLENT live performer. I can easily see a victory with her!

A few months ago I had a conversation about ESC (what else? :P) with a friend from Spain and he told me that Spain doesn't want to win. Or put it this way, RTVE doesn't want to win. RTVE is afraid of the cost of the ESC. But don't they get that they will earn money from the sponsors? And don't forget the eurofans that will travel to Spain just for the contest! Plus, every country contributes to the contest. And I never got why they don't want to host ESC! Spain is one of the Big 5! They always give more money than the rest of the countries! And if they do want to win, why do they choose those average songs? (2009 was an exception but what happened that year is another story!) Weak up RTVE! Send Soler to ESC!

Well I don't know about you but from now on I'm living for the day that Pastora Soler will represent Spain to ESC! And the problem here is RTVE because Pastora performed in the semi and that means at least that she's not against ESC. Soler should be selected internally by RTVE and let her team write a few songs and then make a final where people will vote for their favourite song!

Bring the contest to Madrid!!!