A Dose of Happiness

I've been thinking and thinking about what I wanted to post about this week.  Or rather, what song I wanted to post about.  And there are so many to choose from!  Many of them don't have music videos to go with them.

And so, my dears, we're going to have another post with a few random songs that I think are just lovely and wonderful to listen to.  They can be background music while you work, they can be forefront music in your car and you can sing along at the top of your voice to them.  Whatever you're doing, they're amazing songs, and the artists this week are phenomenal.

First, however, we're going to start with a music video that was released this last December, because I...  Am more than a little bit in love with Sanchez's voice.

Here's G.NA and Sanchez, with "Beautiful Day"

Such a melancholy tone for such a sad song!  A song about it being a beautiful day, even though they're just broken up, a beautiful day to say goodbye.  Faster than a sad ballad, it still manages to convey that inner... Craving I suppose.  The song is just...  Wow.  The way their voices completely compliment each other without overshadowing the other is mind-blowing.  A perfect collaboration, here.

The video is nothing to sneer at either.  It is deceptively simple, but watch their stillness, the way they are turned from each other the whole video.  Watch the smoke (I don't know why, that part just makes me happy), it displays the lighting and their movement to fascinating advantage.  A lot of abbreviate arm-movements when there is movement at all.  

Now on to some wonderfully chill songs:

Eluphant, 여전히 아름답네요, Feat.권정열 of 10cm

Just.  Just Listen.

Listen to the way their voices flirt with the instruments, the guitar weaving around their voices like a ribbon.  I love the percussion in this, the little syncopated, "tap, tap!" and then the drums, and the piano playing a jazzy, light, beautiful melody in the background.  The rapping parts--be still my heart!  Oh, I absolutely love them.  I love that the rap is measured, but not obviously so.  It keeps the rhythm of the instruments.  i don't usually like rap, but this is lovely.

Here's another one that I almost can't handle how fun and unique it is.

The rhythm established by the percussive piano notes, the fun techno sounds, even the baby noises!  Ha ha ha!  And then the chorus sweeping into this epic mixture of their voices and power and almost 80's awesomeness... and then sliding into melodic "sweet, sweet love!"  Sigh.  This song is just a mixture of wonderful and epic.

And last, but definitely not least, I've got a random blurb of a song for you.  By Casker.

Simplistic, almost like a child playing the piano and her (or his) parents singing along to the song.  It's...  Weirdly wonderful.  I don't know why, but it is.  Perhaps because her lighter, ethereal voice is cradled and held by his earthier, more grounded voice, and the almost plodding melody and rhythm of the piano ties the two together inseparably.  55 seconds of glory.  Right here.

Hope you like these songs!  Have a beautiful week, darlings, and enjoy your chill music listening!  Until next week ;)