Vine

 

The world’s newest obsession has been the social networking site, Vine. Vine is sort of like YouTube, where you can post videos, except the catch is the videos can only be six seconds long. You would think that these videos would be terrible if they can only be six seconds long, but most of these videos are super funny, funnier than YouTube for sure.

People can post vines about anything they want, from comedy, singing, to about anything else. The funniest part about making vines is that you can stop the video, then restart it again to you can capture very hilarious moments. Many viners have become very popular from making vines, with many of their vines getting millions of views, and thousands of adoring fans submitting comments. You could definitely say that these viners are celebrities in the Vine world. Also since they have become so popular on Vine, they have become very popular on all the other social networking sites also, including Instagram, and especially twitter. Many very popular Viners that may bee worth checking out are Nash Grier, KC James, Marcus Johns, Brittany Furlan, Josh Durnit, Chris Delia, Rudy Mancuso, and Jason Nash.

 

Vine is a great way for people to express themselves in a new type of way, which allows them to record videos of themselves do things that may not be funny, if it were to be a long five minute video. This is a great way for viners to get feedback on what they are doing good in a Vine or what they need to work on. Overall I think that Vine is a great new social media website, and really lets people express themselves in ways that they never thought possible.

Bruno Mars: Half Time Show

 

Last Sunday was a big day for football fans, the Super Bowl. Even if you don’t like football, you can still enjoy hanging out at super bowl parties, eating a ton of food, or watching the half time show. This year the half time show was done by Bruno Mars, who is known for many of his number one songs. This year at the super bowl Bruno Mars sang three songs, with a guest appearance from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I thought the half time performance was good but it definitely wasn’t the all-time best half time performance. I liked how the performance was upbeat and you could see the energy in the crowd. I liked how his music is a little different from the rest of the top singers and songwriters in his genre of music. I liked how it had more of a jazzy, 1960’s vibe to it, instead of just doing what every other singer does.

Bruno Mars is definitely a performer, you can tell by watching him that he loves performing, singing, and dancing. A lot of singers try too hard to perform, and dance well, but Bruno really knows what he was doing. Bruno Mar’s backup singers and band all wore gold metallic jackets that really brought the 1960’s vibe once again. His band was made up of not only of guitarists and drummers, but also of members playing jazz-like instruments, such as trumpets and saxophones. I loved this aspect of the performance and was actually the thing that I remembered the most about the entire performance. This aspect just set him apart from the rest of the singers that could have performed on super bowl Sunday.

Even though Bruno Mar’s performance wasn’t the best performance, it was still the high light of my super bowl experience, considering the actual game was such a blowout. Some things that I thought could have made the super bowl half time performance better, but is probably the single hardest thing to do while choosing the performer, is picking some that everyone will like. This is extremely hard in our country because there is so many music genres, that we can’t please everyone with the selection. However I think that whoever was in charge of picking the half time performance did a good job at picking a singer that is popular now, and one that was popular from the past. They did a good job of having Bruno Mars as the main performer, but then throwing in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as a blast from the past!

 

Katy Perry's Album Prism

                    

Did Katy Perry’s newest album “Prism” out do the rest of her albums, or did the album fall short? There are many views on this topic, but for the most part the ratings are positive. It was thought that this album was going to be darker, and then the rest of her albums, but it turned out to be fun but dramatic.

I personally really liked this album, and it’s actually my favorite one by her so far. The album is just so emotional, and I feel like she really opens up in this album. A lot of the songs in Prism revolve around the themes of living in the present, relationships, and self-empowerment. You can definitely see these themes when listening to the album, because she truly puts herself into this record. From the songs like Dark Horse, and Roar, which are more upbeat, get on your feet dance songs, to unconditionally, which is a more heart felt single in which she really lets herself go, and show the world what she is really feeling. It’s not surprising that we find all of these songs on her album, considering she did have a not so great year, on behalf of her personal life, from divorcing her ex-husband Russell Brand, to starting up a new relationship, it isn’t to surprising that one of her major themes for the album is relationships.

 

With Prism being Katy’s fourth album, she is used to the ups and downs of writing songs and producing the album. But she definitely hasn’t lost her touch considering that many of her songs like Dark Horse, became the number one song in the United States, according to the Billboard Hot 100. Dark horse is one of Katy Perry’s more dark songs, which we usually don’t see from Katy. But Katy Perry said that she wanted the song to have a “witch-y, spell-y, magic-y type of feel to it”. So she wrote it from the perspective of a witch warning a man not to fall in love with her, and if he does, she will be his last. I think that she did a great job of accomplishing this, especially in here performance at the Grammy’s, she sang this song to perfection. She dressed as a witch with a flow-y dress, all of her background dancers dressed in similar costumes, and even a dark metal horse which was so creative. All of this just added to the erie feeling of it all when she was performing. I would have to say this was one of the best performances she has had in a while that I have seen.

If you would like to listen to the rest of Katy Perry’s songs, here is a list of the new songs on Katy Perry’s album Prism.

1.      Roar

2.      Legendary Lovers

3.      Birthday

4.      Walking on Air

5.      Unconditionally

6.      Dark Horse

7.      This is How we Do

8.      International Smile

9.      Ghost

10.  Love Me

11.  This Moment

12.  Double Rainbow

13.  By the Grace of God

Magic Movies: Good or Bad?

 
A few days ago I watch a really good movie called Now You See Me. This movie was in theaters a few months ago, but just recently came out on DVD and Pay per View.  At first I didn’t think that I would like it but after I watched it, it is probably one of my favorite movies.

 

Now You See Me is about four magicians that perform magic as a hobby in different parts of the country. One magician specializes in card tricks, one is a mentalist, one is a stunt magician, and the last is a new magician that isn’t very good. All the magicians get a special invitation, leading them to New York City, where they will team up to perform one magic show together. All together the magicians are called the Four Horsemen. These Magic tricks however are not like any magic trick anybody has ever seen before because for their first big trick the Four Horsemen rob a bank. The police get involved and try to take the four horsemen down, but since they are magicians they have no way to prove how they did it. Dylan Rhodes, a detective, gets put onto the case with a French woman to help him. At first Rhodes doesn’t want the women helping him, but threw out the movie gets comfortable with her. Rhodes calls on Thaddeus Bradley, who is a former magician but now works to uncover how popular magicians do their tricks and expose them for what they really are. 

This movie was so good because of all the plot twists that happen throughout the movie. You continually think that there has to be someone working with the Four Horsemen, like a Fifth Horsemen ;) but the movie continually makes you think the fifth horsemen in someone else. I remember watching the movie and trying to guess who the fifth horsemen could have been, but every time being wrong. When you watch the movie, if you watch the movie, remember the most important quote from the movie “the closer you look, the less you see”. The magicians show this a lot in this movie because you see the movie from the FBI’s point of view so once you figure out how the Four Horsemen do the trick, and then you figure out how they did it.

 

I personally think that this movie is also kind of like Robin Hood because the magicians stole millions of dollars from banks, to companies, to individuals, but never kept any of the money! They always gave it to their audience, or framed someone else with the money. Overall however this movie was fantastic and I recommend watching it! However I feel like once you have seen it once, you already know what is going to happen so a lot of the suspense is gone. But others in my family said that they would definitely watch Now You See Me again because of just how good it was! Plus Dave Franco is in it, and he make the movie ten times better! ;)
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