It is no secret – I am not a very big fan of James Blunt. I have never understood the national obsession with him, even when he was at his peak of popularity and played on radio at what seemed like impossible frequency. It just never clicked with me, and most of the time just felt melodramatic.
However, the latest from him, called Carry You Home, is a bit different, and I actually like it in some ways.
It’s smooth, it’s soft, it has the electronic effects mixed with the pop music. It’s still him, but finally he has a song that I can listen to and partially enjoy. To put it Bluntly, it’s a partially-good track, and even without ever seeing the show, I’m almost certain any fans of House will enjoy the song.
My ‘STEPHENIE ROCKS’ flag suddenly wavers for a second, since D.J.MacHale…has the same agent as me. That means he’s practically Literary Family.
Yoiks. It’s like rooting for your friend to be President, but then yo Momma decides to run. Whose flag to wave this week?
Shhh. Don’t tell the Twilighters. My momentary hesitation is likely grounds for expulsion from Steph’s list. Hey, we’re talking hard decisions here! This could very well be The Ultimatum: like letting your mom drop in the pit of fire to jump up and save your wife from the vipers. Who to choose?
You’re all smacking me on the head now. Look, Kaleb, you say. Don’t you, like the majority of humans, have two hands? Just wave TWO flags, idiot.
Or rather, if you’re a Twilighter: Idiot! Use one hand to wave the Stephenie flag, and the other to smack yourself for considering such an outrage!
Anyhow, in other book news, I just received my ARC of Farworld: Water Keep by J Scott Savage. Also, he’s offered some books for a contest through my site, so I’ll be able to give some away when I get my review up. He’s got a pretty cool cover for it too:
Very watery. I’ll be reporting on it as soon as I can grab a spare moment. Before you run to the store, it’s not out until September, so hold your horses.
Also in publishing, most people just got back from the famous BEA. Someone asked if I’ll be there next year. Um, erm, I don’t know. After all, my book won’t be out until late next year, and publishers don’t bring authors to BEA unless, you know, we’ve done that sell books thing. And speaking of my publishers, they just put up an awesome new website you must check out.
Much prettier than the last one. My name won’t appear under their Authors, I assume, until after I’ve made them enough profit to pay the web designer to turn off Youtube, crawl off the couch, stow away the popcorn, hide the cans of Wolf chili, and add my name. Don’t ask how I know what web designers are like.
I have word of some stuff and if it comes, I’ll most likely have another video: Signing My Book Deal II. The last one was pretty fun, though this one will be shorter so as to avoid my rambling. Keep watch.
Oh, and I bought a keyboard. To make music. Or rather, to make more music- much easier than clicking all the notes in with my mouse. Anyhow, I just finished a new song draft. It’s another soundtrack score, though I’m still working on the mastering and some small edits. In this one, I have a cool piano line. Keep watch for it here.
In case you didn’t notice on the front page, TwilightGuy.com got almost 300,000 hits in the first month. It’s much more now, thanks to being a few days into the month on June. Pretty good for a start
I shall exit with this, my favorite new song of the Second-Half of 2008:
If anyone hears the new song from Ryan Cabrera, the most common question will probably be: Is this really him? After all, his last hit was On The Way Down, the epitome of pop music and more Jesse McCartney, Disney-style than anything else. His new album seems to do away with all that kid stuff and puts out something solid with Enemies:
It’s very close to The Killers mixed with Good Charlotte, and shoots way past Ryan’s other stuff. Coincidentally, I discovered that he is managed by Joe Simpson, none other than the father and manager of Ashlee and Jessica Simpson. Since I mentioned Jessica, I must also note that she is making an attempt at country radio. That’s a warning.
Enemies blends rock and electronic effects into a smooth track that I’m expecting to appear on radio sometime soon, especially in the wake of the similarly styled song from Miley Cyrus’ brother.
It is no secret – I am not a very big fan of James Blunt. I have never understood the national obsession with him, even when he was at his peak of popularity and played on radio at what seemed like impossible frequency. It just never clicked with me, and most of the time just felt melodramatic.
