Waiting for John Mayer to change
Well, the reviews have been almost as bad as could be, but Avril Lavigne's latest, The Best Damn Thing, will, not surprisingly, debut atop the Billboard chart next week, with the official sales figures due to come out Tuesday.
According to early numbers, she's on pace to sell about 250,000 copies, about 130,000 fewer than she sold about three years ago in the debut week for her last album, but still impressive, especially considering how much digital music has changed the way we go about purchasing music.
I haven't had a chance to listen to the album yet (it's sitting quietly in "the pile") but I have admitted that the first single, Girlfriend, is a guilty pleasure (although I think I've had enough of it now).
I did listen to John Mayer's six-song EP, The Village Sessions, and it's another guilty pleasure. Well, only the first two songs.
Track one is Waiting on the World to Change, featuring Ben Harper. This version stays fairly true to the original (it's stripped down) but Harper adds an element to it that makes it listenable. I wasn't a big fan of the original version but I like this one.
The second track is Belief, also from Continuum. The riffs are amazing.
If I listen to the CD again, I'll take it out after the second track.
And if you're interested in my favourite song of the moment: Naive, by the Kooks. Thanks, Lily Allen.
According to early numbers, she's on pace to sell about 250,000 copies, about 130,000 fewer than she sold about three years ago in the debut week for her last album, but still impressive, especially considering how much digital music has changed the way we go about purchasing music.
I haven't had a chance to listen to the album yet (it's sitting quietly in "the pile") but I have admitted that the first single, Girlfriend, is a guilty pleasure (although I think I've had enough of it now).
I did listen to John Mayer's six-song EP, The Village Sessions, and it's another guilty pleasure. Well, only the first two songs.
Track one is Waiting on the World to Change, featuring Ben Harper. This version stays fairly true to the original (it's stripped down) but Harper adds an element to it that makes it listenable. I wasn't a big fan of the original version but I like this one.
The second track is Belief, also from Continuum. The riffs are amazing.
If I listen to the CD again, I'll take it out after the second track.
And if you're interested in my favourite song of the moment: Naive, by the Kooks. Thanks, Lily Allen.
1 Comments:
dear adam
i like how you deceive people with your blog subject lines. that was a lot of paragraphs about avril lol
anyway, you know how i feel about john mayer. so now i am going to defend his honour. *defends*
-jen
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