I hate Paul Potts!!!

I really do! Though it's not his fault, but I just can't see his face anymore.

I mean at first I was impressed, I assume nobody expected this guy to sing like that. Then I read a bit about him, found out the he took singin lessons for quite a while - even in Italy - worked on his voice, but never thought about doing it for a living. All fine I thought, he's good and somehow it warms my heart that this poor guy won Britain's got Talent.
So far so good. But then it started. A phone company started to screen ads with his first appearance at BGT, about 100.000 times a day. Everytime I turn on the TV, I'm cannonaded with Nessun Dorma and I just can't hear it anymore. For everybody who doesn't know what I'm talking about watch here:



Touching, isn't it? But imagine hearing it all day long, it loses some of it's magic!

Anyway, the straw that breaks the camel's back is that everybody and especially lots of young people buy his CD, on which he sings classic music and all time favorites, though his abilities are ok, but not overwhelmingly good. He doesn't have technique, he will never be an opera singer - face it! But if you ask people if they knew which opera "Nessun Dorma" comes from, who composed it or if they ever heard Luciano Pavarotti sing it, they give you a bamboozled look! AAAArggghhhh!!!! And don't even ask if they know what it means ...

So here's my personal tribute to THE tenor:



Ciao Julia

Thursday Thirteen #4

Another Thursday, another Thirteen. This week I'll give you my all-time 13 favourite 90's songs. No worries, the other decades will follow, but as I spent the whole 90s being a teenager - yes I'm one of those lucky and blessed '79-born kids - these songs influenced me, my being a musician and so on.

I will definitely come up with a TT about my fav albums, cause in my opinion this is something different. You can love cartain songs, though you don't like the artist, or the rest of the album is simply crap.

And please don't forget that some of them I had to list because I knew them by heart when I was younger. Be honest folks, nobody listens to J.S. Bach and Chick Corea when he/she is adolescent, and the Backstreet Boys didn't get rich cause my mom thought that they are "sooooo cute!!!"

So get prepared, here we go:




Thirteen Things about Juliadamus 13. Jump around - House of Pain 12. What's up - 4 non Blondes 11. Everybody (Backstreets Back) - Backstreet Boys 10. Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chilli Peppers 9. Uninvited + Ironic - Alanis Morissette 8. Song 2 - Blur 7. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice + U can't touch this - MC Hammer 6. Männer sind Schweine - Die Ärzte 5. Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 4. Killing in the Name of - Rage against the machine 3. Everybody hurts - R.E.M. 2. Walking after you - Foo Fighters 1. Millionen Legionen - Die fantastischen Vier Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. Babystepper 2. Patti 3. Santa's Elf 4. Deb 5. Mama Archer 6. Alasandra 7. Doubledeckerbusguy 8. Malcolm 9. Linda 10. Kat 11. Shan




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Oki folks, hope you enjoyed the list! And remember, please leave your adress in the comment, and I will give you linky love.

Greets Julia