Florence, the Force

I first heard about Florence and the Machine about a year ago while watching Florence Welch (lead singer) give an interview on a alternative music youtube channel. I thought she seemed a sweet and quirky person for she talked about her costumes for her music videos. I wasn't really captured by her voice at first, sadly, the song chosen to feature in the video was a quiet one that didn't really show her amazing vocal abilities.

Fast forward to yesterday. I was on mtv voting for the VMAs and I noticed her up against Lady Gaga a couple times. I decided to check out the music videos of hers that were nominated. To be perfectly honest I didn't like them that much but I fell in love with the songs and her voice. Actually, before I even watched either of the "Dog Days" videos I watched "The Drumming Song" first.

Then I played it about ten more times, totally hooked.

After playing it to my full I immediately looked for a live version of it to see how Florence fared singing live. I watched some of her performance from T4 on the Beach and I was pretty blown away. Not only did she sound just as good as the studio version of the songs, if not better, she was running and spinning around on a walkway in five inch heels at speeds that made me a little nervous. All that while singing in her usual epic and powerful voice. She didn't sound out of breath at all for a moment.

After watching the live performances I was pretty sure I had found myself a new favorite artist.


That feeling I had got magnified by about ninety when I watched the music video for Cosmic Love. I was completely and utterly swept up in the power and beauty of the song and I genuinely liked the music video. I must have watched it about thirty times.

I'm not voting for Florence for Video of the Year because, as I said, I don't really like her music videos and to be far I think Lady Gaga truly had "videos of the year" I voted for her in the Best Rock Video category though.



Here is the music video of her latest single Cosmic Love

Lady GaGa Flubs the Words

Underneath the crazy hair, hats, and costumes Lady GaGa has a ridiculously good voice. She sang an impromptu cover of Coldplay's song Viva La Vida on BBC radio in England. So impromptu that she messed up the words but I found it endearing. GaGa haters even admitted that they liked this performance in the comments. Someone actually said "I dislike both Lady Gaga and "Viva la vida" but I love this."

Her music doesn't really showcase her voice because its quite pop and techno/dance styled music so many many people are surprised when they hear her live, they didn't know she could actually sing or play the piano . I know I didn't.

If she made an album of only acoustic versions of her songs I would totally buy it and so would alot of other people.

This is my favorite performance of hers. The song is called Paparazzi and it was the first song of hers I've ever heard. It was stuck in my head for days.