NEW MUSIC (VIDEOS): Melanie Fiona & Katy Perry

NEW MUSIC (clap clap-clap clap)! Tee hee, just tryna get some morning fun in. Anywho, here right now I've got two artists with some new music on the rise.

Melanie Fiona, who I introduced to you guys a gooooood year or so ago, had a successful run with her album, "The Bridge." I liked it. It was cute, and her voice is really magnificent, in a raspy, soulful, powerful way. Imagine her singing at church. Geeeeezus. I think that's how she started out, no?

Anyway, she's back with a new single, "Gone And Never Coming Back," and I have to say after the second verse, I started liking it. Her delivery is powerful from the beginning, but I go for momentum. So this is why it would have been iffy. But it worked. And I like it.


MY NUMERO UNO (Wo)Man Candy, Katy Perry! Owwwwww! I haven't spoken about her a lot lately, due to me slightly cheating on her with others? Sawwy, baby. But anywho, she's back with the video for her new single ft. Kanye West off her album "Teenage Dream," called "E.T."

My oh my, this video fit the title of this song and SURPASSED that. Ugh. I really like it. The single is great on its own, and with the touches of Kanye, it's even better, but the video was not expected ot be all out, and it was! I mean . . . And the beautiful fact that the love interest is albino . . . surely there is a subliminal message here that I'm hoping you guys catch, yeah?

Great videos to great songs, no?

Have either of them failed to entertain you?

I Ad♥re Thee: Melanie Fiona

As a singer myself, its key to have someone influence you; to give you a strive. Especially when they are up and coming and you feel as if though you have other inspirations, they're getting old. I feel that way all the time. So this is why I seek to find something to challenge/inspire me. And my new person is Melanie Fiona.

I was on Perez Hilton, surfing through the latest gossip, when I came to his post on Melanie. He was praising her music, and the player was right htere, so by curiousity, I played it. In that nanosecond, I was hooked AND inspired. her voice has a raspiness to it that is so pure and beautiful! It's what makes her voice so unique! The beat of the song, which captured me in a quickness, brought a smile to my face, due to the fact that I do love music that has the influence of the 60's and 70's. The words had me hypnotized. "Ok, ok. He's got my number and/you can't you can't warn me baby, here I am/either you make the time/or just forget me..." The song is basically about getting hers when she wants it. And if it's not given to her right, then she doesn't want it at all. Come on ladies. What an anthem, huh?

But her song, "Give It To Me Right" is not her only triumph or ode to her listeners. You've got "Ay Yo," which is for the doubters and non-believers. Then there's "Somebody Come Get Me," which is possibly my favorite record by her, just cuz she's touching her West Indian roots with a nice reggae beat and words oh so tough. Its for the women who have those cheating men who think they can get away with having a female on the side. Revenge. Then you have, "It Kills Me," which is so beautifully sung and so sultry. It warms my heart. I feel her sadness and desperate plea to be loved. "Should I grab his cell/call this chick up/start some sh*t/then hang up/or should I be a lady, ooh maybe/cuz I wanna have his babies/I don't wanna be alone/I don't need to be on my own/And I love this man/but some thing I just can't stand."

The best part is to find that she writes/co-writes her songs. To think all of this comes from such a beautiful mind. Its amazing and refreshing.

So I fully applaud Melanie, who is opening up for Kanye. APPLAUSE!

TIDBIT: I wish she came out with a mixtape!