Andrea Corr in Manila and a moment for Sunday Scans

By Dayly Entertainment

Another Irish wave! ☺ I don't think I can afford this monthly gig of mine. Haha. Goodness, I remembered years ago that I seriously burned holes in my pockets when acts such as The Corrs,

From Upper Box A section

Westlife

Patron Area Row H 

and British-Norwegian group A1 came to the country in a span 

A1 in Araneta 6th row, my cropping made it far

of months of each other in the same year! I so wanted to burn my credit card bill. Lolz. Well, I'm glad A1 came later in the year because I was booked for two dates for their concerts and there was that thing called airfare, which I wasn't totally minding. Oh, the fun it was it go out and enjoy your time with friends.

I'm looking forward to A1's latest album, Waiting for Daylight. Hearing the snippets of the new tracks played on their site made me think how much they've grown musically. It Happens Every Day, Bad Enough, Take You Home, Six Feet Under  are just among the tracks that spoke of the vocal growth, in my humble opinion as a fan. ☺ Although the track Good Things Bad People teases me as a listener that this song has  more meat in it that brings more flavor to the whole album. Ahhh, I want to buy the album.  

Lastly, it's Sunday and it's one  for the Sunday Scans. *sighs* Seeing these pictures makes me nostalgic and it also reminds me that it's really high time to make the most of what I can to reach my screenwriting goal on other my blog Passages of the Pen, which deals with my writing prompts gathered from sites or anything connected to screenplay and on the side, books.  ☺

Music with Lyrics or without?

What do I prefer listening to, music with lyrics or music without? 

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I mostly listen to music with lyrics because the words are the next thing that draws me into a song. Listening to what the song is all about and the world the artist  is painting in that 4.5 minutes of the track. The words also acts like a guide (to me) where I'm supposed to be heading within the song too. What feeling was the artist conveying at that time he or she wrote the song or even just a sliver of his/her thoughts around the different subjects like love, of leaving, goodbyes, new love, life, connectedness, people, etc.  

However, very few songs today have stories within the lyrics. Unfortunately, I can't recall the song that was in my office-mate's playlist so you'll know what I mean. I was surprised by that little realization. The song I believe was pretty much the song tracks our older siblings used to listen.  Sorry, somewhere in the '70s probably. I guess even the '90s songs are considered old today. Hahha

Several of my favorite songwriters are: David Foster, Diane Warren,  Christian Ingebrigsten, Mark Read, Ronan Keating and the rest of Boyzone (A Different Beat, Key to My Life, I Never Not Need You, Melting Pot are some of the notables, imo) Andrea Corr, Gary Barlow, and Alan Menken.

Then there are  music composers who are my top faves too such as Howard Shore, Yanni and Kenny G. 

How about you, which do you prefer listening to?