Let's Have Some "Fun"

It's Tuesday, and you know what that means....

It's just any other day.

But, in another way, Tuesdays are generally "New Release" day in the music/entertainment world.  However, this concept has been overlooked the past few years, because of the digital age and the ease of downloading/streaming music instantly.  Artists these days are offering their first single to be available on iTunes weeks before the full album is out and some of the bigger acts are releasing their latest on different day of the week just for the hype.

Not that I don't like this way of getting music.  Last year, Lady Gaga even leaked one song each week for a few weeks on iTunes leading up to the official release of Born This Way.  Something must of worked out, because not only did that boost sales, Amazon MP3 offered the entire album for 99¢ only on the day of the release, and it crashed their server – genius.  I do miss those days as a teenager where I would get so excited for a band's album to come out, and I would rush to the store on Tuesday and buy the whole CD even though I only heard the first single prior to purchase.

I decided to reminisce those days (but with a 2012 spin on it) by looking up today's new releases and stumbled upon a up-and-coming group called Fun.   To be fair, I had only heard their first single "We Are Young" because the song featured Janelle Monáe, who I love already (Seriously, check out her solo work, it's amazing).  The song has blown up the past couple months as it is placed in more commercials and it has a very FUN nature to their sound....See what I did there :)

I took some time to listen to the whole album by streaming it here .  I'm honestly not interested in buying the full album, but a few tracks will make the cut to my iPod.  Yes, I'm one of those people who still PURCHASES MUSIC.  Some Nights certainly has a lot of energy with a lot of upbeat melodies and the singer's voice has a slight Freddie Mercury tone to him.  One song that really stood out to me was "Carry On".  It's their most simple track other than the intro, with a piano in the beginning, continues with several contrasting harmonies, and ends with a simple drum beat.

Here is the music video to their first single "We Are Young feat Janelle Monáe".  Anyone else thing that the slow-mo effects are crazy?