rêve girl: Why I am a music nerd...

As we all know, music plays a big part in my life. While other people are keen to understand everything going on in a football game, I'm the one listening to the musical interludes. I'm the girl in the restaurant who hears a good tune playing softly in the background and starts to dance... much to the embarrassment of my girlfriend:) This all became even more clear last night as I heard a song on the radio and was like, "this song just makes me think of the Seahawks" and she was like, "what?" I guess while I'm trying to pay attention to the plays at games, my head is automatically groovin when a song comes on... or alternately wincing in agonizing pain when the Sea Gals (Seahawks cheerleaders) dance to yet another awful white-rock song.

And now let's take a moment to address this issue...

Dear Sea Gals,

As much as I appreciate you trying to cater to those people in the audience who don't appreciate the various hip-hop tunes played during the game, dancing to awful white rock is not the solution. In the future, PLEASE select rock classics from the likes of Led Zeppelin or go for any 80's rock classics from the likes of Def Leppard. (I think we would all love to see you dance to "Pour Some Sugar On Me") Then at least we can actually enjoy your performance without plugging our ears. Thanks.

So December ushered in the return of my favorite singing competition... the Sing-Off. Now people may love American Idol or the Voice or all the other shows out there looking for singing talent but this show is the one with the musical chops. As anyone who's ever sung with other people knows, it's hard to not only match pitch and tone but to also sing in harmony. In a capella groups, that is all you do and since there are no instruments to keep you in tune, it is even more difficult as every flaw stands out. After NBC cancelled the show after 2011, they decided to bring it back this past December. While the harmonies and competition weren't as good as the third season (in my opinion) there were still amazing moments. Here's my favorite song of the season (Colder Weather by the Zac Brown Band) being sung by the winner Home Free...

Awesome.

Season three had an amazing group called Afro-Blue from Howard University that had UH-MAZING jazzy tunes. This was my favorite song of theirs from the season. (Hint: if you want to skip over the intro discussing the group's journey to that week's tune, the song starts at 1:45)

Impeccable... they were my second choice...

Season three's winner was Pentatonix. (You can check out their YouTube channel here.) After three seasons, they were the first to have such a complete sound, to do amazing pop effects, and they did it all with just five people! Here is just one of my favs...