Hello, 2013! Alhamdulillah I can see you ;)

Just some quick updates. I'll write a dedication post for one of my best friend who'll be leaving Jakarta very soon... But later! I'm just going to share my new year's jam lol. Since I like Big Bang, I guess my likings of music has slowly shifted. I'm more towards rap these days. I just realized it when I actually kind of like SNSD's I Got A Boy. A lot of people dislike it, but to be honest, this song could be my most favorite song of SNSD so far hahah. I mean, compared to Gee, IGAB totally wins. The song is confusing, yes. It's like five different songs combined in one. But I like the beats. It makes me nodding my head while listening hahah.

But it doesn't mean that I dislike slow songs, lol. Sometimes I feel nostalgic when I'm listening to Blue, and to be honest if I'm in a bad mood, I might crying lol or at least got my eyes teary. My on-the-go playlist in my iPod includes a lot of slow or r&b songs of Big Bang, 2NE1, and Epik High!

I guess because I have a lot more stress now than in the past, I need a head banger. Songs which make me nodding, sing-screaming (if you understand what I mean hahah). Songs which make me relax a bit, because of the fun beats hahah. But since Big Bang is not too hip-hop, I guess my likings for hip-hop is just up to that standard. And I don't know if I only like Korean hip-hop, or hip-hop in general. But the SBS Gayo Daejun's performance of 'The Cypher 2012' by Epik High, Simon D, Gaeko, and Choiza really wowed me. Like wow. Wow. I've been repeating it so many times, although I really don't know the meanings of it nor how to sing it. I just keep nodding my head. 

And because of The Cypher 2012, I truly adore DJ Tukutz more. I like Epik High, but because Tukutz doesn't sing, he sometimes lost in my radar. The Cypher 2012 is mixed by him and I looooooooooooooove it so much, like LOVE it. Love you Tukutz. 

Here it is, The Cypher 2012. Maybe some of you don't like it as I do, different taste! But I find it really addictive hahah. Oh, I like Gaeko's part the most! If I could sing it, I would change the lyrics to AR - AI - ZET - KEY - EI a ka R-I-Z-K-A hahahah! (It's actually G A E K O)

And Tablo gave us the link to download it for FREE! Yeah! But somehow I couldn't download it straightaway, I don't know is it only me who got this problem. So I downloaded it here.

Enjoy! And happy new year! I wish we all will have a merciful year ahead :)

A mind-blowing song and lyrics from Tablo. Brief introduction: he is a famous Korean rapper and also part of a hip-hop group Epik High. To be honest I didn't really catch the actual meaning of this song until I read some reviews on web. This part 'I'm looking for nirvana but you Geffenize me', I didn't even know that word of geffenize and I found nothing on dictionary. Then I found this explanation from here: This line refers to Geffen, record label for the rock band Nirvana - a label that some Nirvana fans felt the band had to sacrifice their creative vision for.

And here it is, my simple thought about the meaning of this song:

I think this song is about how media really affecting people's mind and thoughts about everything. How media reports everything the way they want and make people believe it. The world is your aphrodisiac, so you stay turned on every minute every second I breathe. Nah, because I'm pretty sure that Tablo wrote this album based on his true feelings after the controversy and his life as an artist, I think that line refers to how media never sleeps, always watching his moves and waiting for his mistakes or glory so they can report it straight away... and sometimes they portray it wrong. If a heaven is a show, well televise me. It tells that media reports everything, every details that you might never thought they would know. Then it ends with don't act like you know me 'cause you recognize me, you sell my record me. Just because we see him performing on TV or reading news about him on papers, it doesn't mean we know him. Like I first said, sometimes media tells the turn-around facts, exaggerating things, so as long as we don't reaaaally know him (like, in person), we basically know nothing about him.

This song is very short -only 44 seconds. I like this song because it's different and it sounds sincere. Plus, from this song, I learn a lot of new words -some of them I've never heard before. Thank you, Tablo. Well no wonder since he graduated from Stanford (English Literature major!)...

Enjoy!

Tablo . Fever's End PART 2

Dear TV,
Desensitize me.
Gimme more genocide please.
The world is your aphrodisiac,
so you stay turned on every minute,
every second I breathe.
You weaponize greed,
kill me with incessant I need.
Got me checkin' out those,
and checkin' out these.
Mainstream me, disinfectin' my breed.
I'm lookin' for nirvana but you Geffenize me.
Point me to the skies till heaven's eye bleeds.
Anoint me with your lies then divinize me.
If heaven is a show, well, televise me.
But I won't lie my way in, no fakin' IDs.
I'll die standin'. Try breakin my knees.
I'll do a handstand like I'm breakin'.
Now freeze. Don't act like you know me 'cause you recognize me.
You sell my record, not me.

 

NOTE: I got the picture of Tablo above from this article of WIRED. The controversy I mentioned above is Tablo's Stanford degree controversy, which I previously mentioned in my article on this blog. I suggest you to read that WIRED article to know more about it.