Guilty Pleasure... Not-As-Manly Acoustic Covers

For those wondering, which I know is all of you because you love me so much, I haven't been able to blog often because I tend to prefer writing longer posts. Noel says it's because I'm basically writing articles, and he's probably right. Since these articles take so long, it's hard for me to commit to starting/completing them, but I'll try to get one out before Sunday. Why? Let's just say it's... time-sensitive. But it's a doozy.

I was talking with Noel about how I don't want do really do shorter posts about what I'm doing recently and all. That's not my style, yo. Also, with Twitter, I feel like there's even less of a desire for me to write blog posts on recent life. Here's a topic I can write less on though.

I'd just write about an acoustic band I discovered a couple weeks ago, kind of randomly, that I've enjoyed. Sure, it's not the manliest thing in the world, but hey, leave me be. I enjoy my different remixes of music, and sometimes they aren't the Girl Talk-type mashups but the acoustic, stripped versions. And then I sit in a bubble bath with a glass of chardonnay.

I first came across Boyce Avenue around the time that Chris Brown "Forever" wedding dance video came out. You've all seen it. If not, you should check it out. Anyway, after seeing that video, I wanted to check out Chris Brown's original music video (it's OK), and I also came across Boyce's cover of it (I learned how to use links better! Yeah! It only took 3 posts). I like! Think I'm crazy? Check it out first, and then call me crazy. Or call me genius. Yes.

I must say I'm a sucker for these covers. There's the stripped "How Far We've Come" by Matchbox 20, this cool version of Umbrella, the always enjoyable and underrated little song that could, "Landslide" (I'm a sucker for that song, even the Dixie Chicks version is enjoyable).

So yeah, check them out. Try to determine in your opinion just how useful the 2 other brothers are in the group, cause they seem pretty extraneous to me. It's like they were like uh, hey bro, can we ride on your coattails and play percussion instruments in some of your videos? Awesome. I'm gonna go tell mom I'm quitting school. How are they able to sell all their covers on iTunes? Did they have to go through all the copyrights with all that? Your guess is as good as mine. Final note, this acoustic version of "Since U Been Gone" is also enjoyable, and it has another song inside of a song in it too! Oh yeah!