Munan – Fake Love Friday Night
Reality is a thing of the past. And, if you have enough dimes in your pocket, you’re bound to pay how many of them it takes to make fantasy permanent. But don’t feel bad about it. This is the way we’ve been trained.
Yes, buddy, we’re living in the future! And if some of the internet forums are to be believed, it all started a long time ago. Now is not the time for horse-pulled carriages and drawing water from a well.
Now’s the time for future cities, modern love, and hyper-real entertainment. Now is the time to get all that you want from the push of your fingertip, a confirmation from a button, and gentle approval from your bank.
Munan’s “Fake Love Friday Night” retro-obsessed, groovy psych-pop is the music they’ll be playing in those glittery cities all night. The South Korean act dares to dream about a world where problems are kept so far in the shadows that they could practically just not exist. Munan dares dream of a time when nobody has 15 minutes of fame anymore because everyone’s a star in their glitzed-out story.
Ari Alexander and Cecil Alexander – Me After You
Truthfully, there aren’t any people in this world that are not pop listeners. As with hot-button topics like politics and religion, there are some who will deny any understanding. But the truth is that nobody avoids pop music.
It’s in the fabric of modern life. It’s playing everywhere you go and making room for itself in your life whenever you sit in a public space, try to watch a movie, or even just go grocery shopping. Pop music is a language we all share.
So, why not embrace it? And, while you’re at it, why not get going at knowing which pop music is actually worth your time? The truth is that not all pop songs are commercial dribble. Some are marvellously clever, well-performed, and designed to improve your day.
A song that dares to take on the pop song format and twist it into something possessing great warmth and a good deal of sophistication is Ari Alexander and Cecil Alexander’s “Me After You.” It’s a song built on the highly palatable Latin bossanova beats. It is well and soulfully sung. And it is not a pop song that merely wants to get you mindlessly tapping along to a beat. The Alexanders do things differently here and that’s the essence of alternative music.
