MIZ ON MUSIC BLOG: CLEVELAND ROCKS
The holidays are finally over, thank god, enough christmas shopping, eating, and celebrating. The New Year is here and it's about time for another Miz on Music. Excited? Me too. While home in Cleveland, Ohio for the holidays, I took a break from satellite radio and listened to my favorite station growing up, WMMS, Cleveland's Rock Station. Back in my day we didn't have satellite radio, we had WMMS. I'm starting to feel old. The first song I heard on free radio was "Forever in your Hands" by All That Remains. Not a bad start for free radio seeing that they are my favorite band at this moment. However, I noticed it wasn't the same song I heard on the CD and satellite radio. During the screaming parts of the song the singer kinda just sang the part. It was weird to hear. It felt like some guy in an office decided the original was to heavy for radio so they watered it down ruining the song. I enjoyed the heaviness and the screaming of the original you could really feel the passion in his screams. But in the free radio version, it just had one level. I first noticed that radio stations do this when I heard Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's "Face Down." On the CD, there's one screaming part and on the radio they had the singer belt the part which I actually liked better. Maybe because RJA's singer has an insane voice. I wonder who decides what's to heavy for radio especially on a rock station. Maybe it's not the radio station, maybe it's the record company wanting to get broader audiences. I still enjoyed the playlist of WMMS more than Cali's KROQ, so they are doing something right. I miss hearing Mushroomhead on regular radio. I decided to checkout Cleveland's Hit Music Station and found out that Ke$ha, a singer I never heard of, had not only the No. 1 song but the No. 1 album in the country. So I had to hear this gem. "Tik Tok" came on and I thought the artist sounded like a girl from the valley. "Like, OMG girl, let's go get drunk. Fo Sho." You know those girls. Any way, I found myself bobbing my head to it. WTF? Why am I liking this? There is no real talent in this singer. I caught her on Jimmy Fallon and her performance was OK at best. She had little dance moves that anyone could do. However, I find myself when "Tik Tok" comes on doing the same moves she was doing and singing that stupid song. Why are so many songs contagious? It's like that Owl City "Fireflies" This song makes me want to shoot myself, but I will still turn it up and know every word to the song. Why oh why does this happen? I'm usually positive in these columns and believe it or not both of those songs are actually on my iPod. I guess I feel like anyone could sing those songs. Take the "Pants on the Ground" guy from "American Idol" and put him in the studio to sing either song and I bet you'd get the same song. You just need the right mixer, producer, writer, and get the music machine behind you and you are a pop star. Back to rock and since we are heading in that direction let's talk about The Royal Rumble's two theme Songs. Since when has WWE's PPV's had 2 songs? I like it. The first song is "Hero" by Skillet and we all know how I feel about them. I've been talking highly on Skillet since Comatose. They are going to get bigger and bigger. I still want to see them in concert. They better not disappoint live. The 2nd theme is WWE's very own Chris Jericho's band, Fozzy. Now anyone on Twitter who follows @mikethemiz or @iamjericho knows about the heated Twitter war we had a couple months back. So this is going to be painful, but I have to be honest for my music columns sake. I haven't heard the new CD yet, however, Jericho gave me their 1st CD, All That Remains (great name) a couple weeks ago and I was impressed. Normally anyone that's successful in the entertainment field who then tries music fails miserably. Think Keanu Reeves and Billy Bob Thorton. However, Fozzy is legit. You may not hear them saturated on the radio in America, but they are huge all over the world. Hopfully this is the album that will break them in the USA. Normally, when I hear Jericho's voice, it's in the ring screaming like a 12-year-old girl. But in All That Remains, he has a sort of Ozzy-esque type feel to his voice. How he ranges from a girl to Ozzy, I have no idea. "Enemy" is the stand out in my opinion, and if you haven't seen the music video, check it out. I laughed at the end at how messed up it was. I'm actually going to go out and purchase Martyr No More because I don't want Jericho's charity, and I'm a fan ... I recommend you do as well. Between Twitter, American Idol, Ke$ha, and Owl City all getting mentioned, I have lost all my dignity. Wow, the holidays made me soft. Ahhh screw it, I like Adam Lambert's new song. So in his words "What do ya want from me?" Until next time, I'm the Miz and I'm Awesome. Miz Source: The Miz on WWE Universe - fans.wwe.com/themiz
Posted by Kristy, 20 Jan 2010. Post Discussion: (0) Comments Posted »