Christian Mira – Chico The Look
Sure, you could start booking flights and for years on end travel to all corners of the world. But what are you going to do when you get there? Most people go to expensive hotels, visit restaurants, and end up at whatever sights old brochures recommend.
There is even a minority that will put more effort into the whole thing. They’ll try to talk to locals and ask them how they feel. They might visit museums and do their best to understand the history of the place that they’re visiting.
But is that the best way to understand? Is that the best way to travel? In the minds of many, including pop artist Christian Mira, the best way to comprehend the world and to move through it is by embracing its music and focusing on its minute details.
In fact, Christian Mira’s “Chico The Look” treats pop music and folklore from various parts of the world as one and the same thing, as rivers from one can drink as they please. “Chico The Look” has traces of South American grooves, gypsy melodies and modern soulful pop. It’s a way to connect pieces of the same puzzle!
Nick Prato – Hit Me Where It Hurts
Cool people with a love of dangerous habits and artists who live life on the edge tend to look down on other people. And that’s precisely why many of the musicians who were part of grunge or alternative-rock bands in the 1990s and beyond were like.
Kurt Cobain liked to say that he was influenced by the writing of William S. Burroughs and by the noisy riffs of Melvins. His peers adopted similar role models. All of them avoided pop music and its lure as if fearful of contracting some terrible disease.
But things in pop music always move in a circle. And, in recent years, indie rockers have rediscovered the joys of listening to ‘80s pop artists. And songwriters like Nick Prato are even fighting to make this kind of music cool for a new generation.
Even the title, “Hit Me Where It Hurts,” sounds like it should belong to a soft-pop ‘80s song being played on the oldies station. But the truth is that those sorts of turners have an eternally pleasing quality about them, a fact that groups like The 1975 have since realised. Nick Prato brings a sweet melancholy, a modern-retro vibe to a single that should please both indieheads and, especially, pop fans.
