Love, Wish, and Heaven

occasionally i'd come across random songs that people send me or ones that i'd get off a community such as moomusic. i don't have a particular genre i like to listen to, so i usually just download any song available to me and keep them if i like it. it's only on some rare occasions that i would like the songs that i found in a batch, and it's even a rarer occasion to come across OTHER SINGER that i end up liking during the process of looking up more songs.

you see, i don't listen to the radio, and i don't watch the TV, so i don't know who's currently out there singing or rapping or hiphopping. the last time i used a radio to look for new songs was when i found out about jason mraz's "the remedy," and this was way back 5 or 6 years ago. so the only way for me to get new songs is for people to randomly send me the song they currently like, and if there's one that i like, i'll look into other songs from that same band. that was exactly what i was doing last night.

gingerpan finally updated moomusic with some songs, and so i downloaded all of them. one i like in particular is Shiny Toy Guns' "Don't Cry Out," and so i decided to use AllTunes to look for more of their songs. I came across four other ones in the same album that i thoroughly enjoy, which is quite rare. one of the best among the four is "We Are Pilots." i'm not into electronica or whatever genre STG is, but these two songs are particularly enjoyable.

while i was on AllTunes waiting for the four songs to download, i came across some euro music chart with amy winehouse on it. what interested me was not her, but a name underneath her. very simple, pretty name: Mina. i opened up her catalog and found 3 albums, so i opened up the most recent one and picked a random song. i was immediately hooked. the first song i picked to listen to was It Can Only Get Better, because that's what i always tell people who are feeling down, including myself. i've always loved melodious songs, and this one in particular works really well with her voice. i usually label a voice as either pretty or cute, but mina's voice was both cute and pretty. either that or maybe i'm just having problems classifying her. sometimes pretty voices get exhausting and cute voices get whiny and annoying, but mina's voice is sort of a perfect balance between the two. my curiousity peaked after this song, and so i put aside the physics homework i was doing and checked out her Learn To Fly album. i started with with the first song of the album: "Read My Mind", and i never got back to physics.



i love it when i found a good singer who's not mainstream. i tried looking her up on wiki but could not find a single thing about her. so i used the oldest trick in the book and googled her name with her album title and came across popaddicted's blog where you can download the entire album. it turns out that she's a german singer, but her english is impeccable. here's one more song to get you started, and then you can head straight to popaddicted and download the entire album.

Mina - How the Angels Fly

i think i'm in love.