Up Too Late: An Endless Search for Mr.Right & Other Important Things in Life

I am a big fan of Hande Yener, whose music has revolutionized and continues to revolutionize Turkey's pop scene...

In the last two days, Kibir, Yener's song from her most recent album has been in my mind non-stop. :D A new friend from Istanbul I chatted with on gay.com reminded me that Hande has still got it...Here it is, for your listening and viewing pleasure, along with the video:

Hande Yener - 01 -...

Labels: favourite music, pop music

If it were for some of my friends, they would be saying "stop right now, thank you very much...", but right now, I feel like "i'll tell you what i want, what i really, really want"... and my wish has been granted! The girls are back togetha!!! :)

Mind you, Posh Spice looks like her breasts are about to pop...and she must have some sort of a dominatrix complex...

Mel B still looks pissed at Ginger Spice and Baby Spice looks like a mom...Sporty Spice looks so cute, she is nothing like the butch men she used to make me think of with her muscles and ugly Adidas tracksuits...and may i add, tall sports shoes...nightmares are coming back...

But still I can't wait to see the girls together!

Labels: favourite music, funny, pop music, spice girls

My favourite musical event of the year, this year's Eurovision promises to be an exciting time, with 42 performances from countries all over Europe set to perform in Helsinki.

Israel is also part of the competition, despite being outside of Europe. You will remember Dana International, whose Diva shell-shocked the world in 1998, when Israel won the competition. She was, aside from the Turkish singers/actresses-actors Bülent Ersoy and Zeki Müren, the third prominent transsexual I had heard of at the time (Zeki M. was a transvestite). I remember waking up on an early morning and hearing, aside from the daily count of "terrorists" killed [Non-Serbian civilians and Albanian KLA - Kosovo Liberation Army members killed by Serbian troops], that for the first time in history, a transsexual had won the most well-known European music competition.
It was an uplifting song, one that I couldn't understand, but that morning of May 1998, I stood up and danced to Diva, while I wondered what my classmates would say about the win.

This year, drag is the thing at Eurovision, with Denmark's entry, DQ, whom esctoday.com calls "one of the fan favourites for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest"...The song is "Drama Queen". How fitting.

Youtube videos:

Bülent Ersoy - Maazallah
Zeki Müren - Bir Yanginin Külünü
Dana International - Diva
DQ - Drama Queen

Labels: Europe, Eurovision, Israel, pop music, Turkey

I just got back from Mika's concert. WOW! The guy is AMAZING. He is so energetic, so jumpy, so happy, so...wonderful! He made me so happy with his voice and energy, I kept dancing and singing with people I've never met or seen, and we even hugged and danced with one another! Bliss, I tell you! :) Sadly, Montrealers seem to have found out about him, so my dream of getting his autograph and/or a photo op. did not come true. This didn't stop me from taking photos of him tonight, though apparently he did ask photos not to be taken... They pics I took didn't turn out great, but here they are...

The good thing is, I will forever treasure Mika's new album. It's happy, lively and most of all, a rarity of quality corn pop. It's really a wealth of emotions bundled together in an album to which, once you listen from the beginning to the end, you will become addicted.

I was supposed to meet a few friends at the door, but they went in early to get some good seats and obviously didn't end up with good ones because I combed the place through and couldn't find them anywhere. So I kept walking around like a lost case as all the gay guys and teenage girls with their straight and sexually-confused boyfriends mingled and eye-flirted with fellow Mika maniacs.

Aside from the concert being a great, lovely night, I met a boy! Well, not a boy, more like an analogy for a cute single man who i am going out on a date with on Wednesday night...

It's odd because we had chatted online some time ago, on a day when my only social contact happened to be the cybersphere. I saw him tonight, he waved at me and said hi and I had no idea who he was and why he was saying hi to me, though I thought he was cute. I got back home and I already had a message from him, asking if the person he waved and said hi to was me. I clued in and messaged him back. He replied saying he thought I was cuter in person than in my profile photo. Why, of course... :)

The luck that I have, my three single teenager-looking straight friends were just outside the door as I left Club Soda tonight...Speaking of teenagers, I felt like one, wearing loose Levi's, Converse All Stars and the over-the-shoulder man-purse with a cowboy shirt...

Labels: concert, date, favourite music, men, Mika, Montreal, pop music

I just couldn't pass up writing about Mika, the newest pop sensation in well, the world. I would have said the UK, but it appears anything that is big in the UK nowadays, is big anywhere.

So, anyway, Mika, great singer... His album, "Life in Cartoon Motion" came out in the UK, I heard his song "Relax" two days ago on popbytes , and today, i couldn't get enough of "relax, take it eaaaaasy, there is nothing that we can do...", I went to a music store to get the CD. Alas, it comes out on the 27th in Montreal...

The Freddy Mercury-esque voice, followed by semi-electronic pop music just does it for me...

It appears tabloids have already started with their "Is Mika gay?" scandals...Rumour has it, he is, but so what? No one gets that excited when George Clooney is confirmed straight... except, of course, gay men, who don't actually get excited, but saddened by the fact ["awwwww, but we really wanted him to be a friend of Dorothy...*sigh*.."]. In an interview he did, he said he did not want to discuss his sexuality with the media, which I think is right. What's it to the world to know what he does in his bed?

So, for those of you wanting to hear more of Mika, buy his album. The singer, born in Beirut, raised in Paris and living in London is deserving of a listen and after that, your money. I know I am getting the album ASAP...

Here are two of his songs: Relax [Take it Easy] , Grace Kelly , courtesy of Popbytes

Labels: Mika, mp3, pop music