Another HAIM song cleverly disguised as a Kid Cudi track - hehe. They're my favorite band, I can't help it if I'm a wee bit obsessed. ;)
This song was everywhere this week! It came up in conversation this week because of the remix of My Song 5 which now features some dude named A$AP Ferg. He ruined that song. He should stay as far away from my HAIM as possible. But that got me thinking about collaborations, and the song Red Eye is a great example of how one should collaborate with HAIM. It's a great song!
Well, like a day or two later, I had a friend of mine post Red Eye onto her page - someone had turned her on to the track and she was really digging it. And a day after that, someone else posted it up. I felt like I couldn't go anywhere without it popping up. Not that I mind, I'd forgotten how much I liked this song until this week. Ended up putting it on my Spotify playlist along with all my other HAIM tracks. ;)
So for your listening pleasure, Kid Cudi featuring HAIM - Red Eye:
I almost forgot about Toe-Tapping Thursday - a lot of craziness happened last night. Let's just say it involved me moving a sofa from my 2nd floor apartment all the way downstairs and outside by myself, and leave it at that.
But while I was struggling with furniture, or playing online games, or reading, or whatever else I've done this week, there was one song that I kept listening to. And when I wasn't listening to it, I was humming it or singing it in my head. The song is Go Slow by HAIM. Yes, I know I talked about HAIM a few weeks ago, but in my defense I spoke of them as a whole, and now I'm speaking about one particular song.
Usually what I do when I listen to an album, is locate my favorite track and listen to it non stop. Then slowly, I start listening to the rest of the album, with a lot of repeats of the favorite track. But little by little, I find a 2nd favorite song, or a discover I really like the beat of a certain song or the lyrics of another track speak to me. This is what happened with Go Slow. After exhausting If I Could Change Your Mind and Better Off, I found myself going back to Go Slow. I think what really made it my current obsession was their live performances of the song; I found little nuances that I hadn't heard in the album - they're there, I hear them now that I know to look for them, but they're so far in the background that I've missed it this whole time. The lyrics are really good; the more I listened to them, the more I realized that they spoke to me. The song is about an ex and I think we all have an ex, right? :P It's just a great song overall, HAIM killed it with this track in a very sneaky way; the song is understated until you really listen to it...a lot. LOL.
(Funny story before I show the video/song: If you read my post on HAIM from a few weeks ago, or if you're a fan of the band, you know that Alana Haim looks like Troian Bellisario from Pretty Little Liars. Well, HAIM performed at Coachella this past weekend, and Troain was there. Someone tweeted Troian, "Hey are you in HAIM!?" and Troian replied, "Yes I am." HAHAHA! Love it!!!)
Ok ok here it is - this is my favorite live performance that I've seen. And it has a funny pick up line in the end. :P
I'm a very big fan of music. 95% of my day is spent with some type of music playing in the background of whatever it is I'm doing. So I decided to start something new on my blog called Toe-Tapping Thursdays. Every week, I will blog about a song or artist that I've been obsessed with all week. It could be a song that just came out, or a song that is new to me, or just a song that I've fallen in love with all over again.
This week I will be talking about the band HAIM. A sister trio (Este, Danielle, and Alana), they hail from California and have been picking up momentum in the States for the last year or so. When I was talking to my best friend about them earlier this week (she didn't know who they were and I decided to change that right away) I told her I thought they were like the love child of Fleetwood Mac and Wilson-Phillips. I would like to add that this love child's Godmother is either Joan Jett and/or Pat Benatar. Hehe.
Seriously though, they're good. I guess they're considered alternative rock, though I couldn't care less what box they're being put into - they're all over the place musically speaking. They have hard hip-hop style beats on some tracks, R&B melodies on another track, and kind of folksy stuff on other tracks. They know how to play around with music and sounds and mash genres well. The lyrics are cool too. Insightful but not overly complicated. You listen to their songs and you get into them, and then you end up on Youtube and watch interviews and live performances and you fall in love with them even more.
Their interviews always leave me with a stupid grin on my face. You can tell they're really close and love each other so much. Their personalities are so different and it's fun just to watch them interact with one another.
Their live performances look amazing! They have all these instruments and (usually Alana) they switch from one thing to another in between songs - ("When did she pull out the maracas?") And Este's conversations with the audience in between songs (and her bass face) have become legendary. They are so amazing, so genuine, and so fucking fierce. They have the whole package, and I don't doubt that they're going to be around for a long time.
About a week in a half ago, they premiered their new music video for "If I Could Change Your Mind" which happens to be my favorite track from their album and now it's my favorite video of theirs. I'm obsessed, I've watched it like 10 times a day every day since it came out. Now you can watch it too!
Side note: Doesn't Alana Haim look like Troian Bellisario from Pretty Little Liars?
