Favorites so far

I would love to post videos for this post, but I'm on my phone and that's not easy to do, so I thought I would give you yet another list. Here is a list of my favorite song so far (from the past couple of months):

1. Beauty and a Beat - Justin Bieber ft. Nicki Minaj. To me, this song has a great beat and it sounds more like what Justin Bieber used to sing.

2. Ho Hey - The Lumineers. A friend of mine introduced me to this song and I actually kind of fell in love with it. Again, the beat is what made me fall in love.

3. Thrift Shop - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz. I am not at all a fan of rap music, but the beat of this song (there's something about beats) just makes you want to dance.

4. Some Nights - Fun. I love the percussion in this song. When I hear this in the car or when I play it on my phone, I just want to play it on the maximum volume.

5. Animal - Conor Maynard. This new artist has impressed me so far - actually a lot more than I thought he was going to. I think it's the lyrics that won me over with this song.

Beauty and a Beat

How can anybody forget about "Bieber Fever"?  His first two albums were very good.  They had a teen-pop sound to them, but the Biebs is growing up.  His most recent album, Believe, which was released this past June, has a very different sound.  He's going for a little bit of a rap/hip-hop sound this time around with featured artists Nicki Minaj, Ludacris, Big Sean, and Drake.  But the one I will be focusing on for now is Nicki Minaj.  Nicki Minaj is one of the biggest female rappers of the current time and has several hits like "Starships" and "Super Bass".  On Bieber's album, she sings with him "Beauty and a Beat", written by famous song-writers Max Martin, Anton Zaslavski, Justin Bieber, Savan Kotecha, and Nicki Minaj (source: wikipedia.com).  The music video for the song was released on October 12 on vevo.com and youtube.com/JustinBieberVEVO.  Here's a look:

Tell me what you think of Bieber's new song compared to his previous songs!