These past few days have been very busy in terms of music, so I'm gonna do a quick update:
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Rockstar by Lisa
Now this is how you do a Lisa solo, and not the stuff YG gave her. The "Lisa can you teach me Japanese? I said hai hai" line is one of the most iconic things I've heard in a song this year.
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Smeraldo Garden Marching Band (feat. Loco) by Jimin
This aesthetic is so f**king pretty, and the song is really nice too. I'm very curious about this album, since I don't really know what to expect.
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Into You by N.Flying
They've been putting out great music for years, and it makes me happy to see more people listening to them. This song in particular is so breezy and summery, perfect for the coming months.
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Debut by KATSEYE
I guess it's catchy, but it should be a crime to make pop songs that barely cross the 2-minute mark.
Grammys 2024: India shines as Shankar Mahadevan, Ganesh Rajagopalan and Zakir Hussain win big
Musicians Shankar Mahadevan Ganesh Rajagopalan and Zakir Hussain won big at the awards.
India won big at the 2024 Grammy Awards on February 4 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Musicians Shankar Mahadevan Ganesh Rajagopalan and Zakir Hussain won big at the awards.
In a photo shared by the official account of Grammys on their X (formerly known as Twitter) account, Shankar Mahadevan and Ganesh Rajagopalan were seen accepting their award. “Congrats Best Global Music Album winner - 'This Moment' Shakti. #GRAMMYs,” the caption read.
Mahadevan said in his acceptance speech, “Thank you boys. Thank you God, family, friends, and India. India, we are proud of you…Last but not the least, I would like to dedicate this award to my wife whom every note of my music is dedicated to.
Another big moment came for India on Sunday night in the US when Zakir Hussain secured the Best Global Music Performance for his contribution to ‘Pashto’ alongside Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, featuring Rakesh Chaurasia. Zakir won three Grammys in one night whereas Chaurasia secured two awards.
Jack Gilbert, Richard Wilbur, Diane Ackerman: 'We Must Admit: Music (Etc.), Despite Everything'
[Image: “Through the Fretboard,” by Abhinav Rajagopalan. (Found it on Flickr, and used here under a Creative Commons license — thank you!)]
From whiskey river (italicized lines):
A Brief For The Defense
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.
But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God…
I let all the feelings in the world - the shame, the grief, the helplessness, the confusion, the joy, the rage - come to me, and I hold them all, at least for a while.