Year 8, Day 62

Hey guys. Today's song is Hypnotic by Zella Day.

Photo by: Justin Higuchi

Zella Day is an American singer active since 2009 when she released her debut album independently. The success of that got her a publishing contract, writing music with some other artists. She released an EP in 2012, along with a cover song before being featured on a Sultan & Ned Shepard single. Her next EP was released in 2014, which is where this song is from. She released her next album in 2015, followed by a single in 2016 and some touring. She continued to release some singles before being released from her label in 2018. She's now signed on with a new label and released an EP in 2020, followed by some more singles so she's still going strong and we'll definitely see more from her soon enough.

Peace.

Year 8, Day 61

Hey guys. Today's song is Parachute by Cheryl Cole.

Cheryl Cole is Cheryl Tweedy, an English singer active since 2002. She started off on a reality show called Popstars: The Rivals that formed a boy and girl band, and was the first contestant that qualified as part of the girl group, forming Girls Aloud. The group released five albums together before taking a hiatus in 2009 to work on their solo careers. She then spent a couple years as a judge and mentor on the X Factor while working on her solo stuff. She released an album in 2009, then another in 2010, and another in 2012. After that, Girls Aloud reunited for a tenth anniversary celebration, releasing some singles, a greatest hits album, and a documentary before going on tour in 2013. After this they announced that the group would disband permanently, which isn't surprisingly since more than one member had a well established solo career by this point. Cheryl's fourth album came out in 2014 followed by a return to X Factor where she stayed for a few years until in 2016 she decided to focus on her music career again. She released another album in 2018 before signing with a new record label and starting to release singles instead. This wasn't met with the best reception, and there started to be a lot of scrutiny about her genuineness while performing. She was silent after the release of her last single in 2019, but it was teased that she had rejoined forces with Naughty Boy and former bandmate Nicola Roberts in writing music as of 2021. This video made me question if she ever had a stint on Dancing With The Stars, but it doesn't seem like she does although they had pegged her as a potential candidate in 2010. She did however date Derek Hough at one point and are apparently still good friends which explains his presence in the video. Basically if I see him my brain goes "ah another artist showing off that they can now dance after the show" but today she proved that that logic is incorrect. So I guess she wins today for confusing me.

Peace.

Year 8, Day 60

Hey guys. Today's song is W.I.T.C.H. by Devon Cole.

Devon Cole is a relatively new musician, active since 2020 when she moved to Toronto to release her first single. Fun Fact: She was actually from my hometown before she moved. She released her debut album in 2021 and is working on her next one for this year. So she's a fresh artist, but she has a lot of potential and when YouTube recommended this song to me I loved it instantly. So I hope you do too and will keep up with her career as it grows.

Peace.

Year 8, Day 59

Hey guys. Today's song is Pretty Little Lies by Jeremy Shada.

Photo by: Jake Guild

Jeremy Shada is an actor and musician, active since 2004. Most people will probably know him as the voice of Finn from Adventure Time, but I never watched that so my first introduction to him was from Julie and the Phantoms. He actually has a bunch of acting credits, a lot of it voice work, so he was kept pretty busy through childhood and got home schooled around his work stuff. He graduated in 2013, and that is also when his discography begins. The beginning is from soundtracks for shows he was part of, as he did some singing/rapping work on those, then in 2014 he and his brother Zack combined their music projects into a band called Make Out Monday. They've played a lot at conventions and have actually been associated with some pretty big names, but are purposefully enjoying their time as an unsigned group. They released an EP in 2014 and an album in 2018, and also have some singles still coming out with at least one from this year. As for Jeremy's solo stuff, he released some singles starting in 2020 and his first solo EP in 2021 so hopefully you'll check that out and give it some love.

Peace.

Year 8, Day 58

Hey guys. Today's song is Average Joe by Oscar Scheller.

Oscar Scheller is a British artist and producer, active since 2013. His parents were both musician, founding the Regents in the 70's, so he grew up around music. After graduating from art school, he started to focus on music, releasing his debut single in 2013, and got signed in 2014. He released an EP in the same year before moving and then releasing more singles before working on an album. He released his album in 2016 then went on tour with GIRLL. After that he spent some time focusing on songwriting and producing for other artists before coming back with a different style releasing an album in 2019 and another in 2021. He's already released another single this year so I expect there will be more in the future so keep an eye out.

Peace.

Year 8, Day 57

Hey guys. Today's song is Round And Round by Gym and Swim.

This is a band from Thailand active since 2013 and made up of Pokpong Jitdee, Chalermpon Sungsak, Hob, Mudmee, and Terk. They've released a couple of singles, an album in 2016, and an EP in 2019. Unfortunately because of the actions of Terk being a homophobic creep the lead singer left the band, and the rest of the group is now on a hiatus to figure out what they're going to do after kicking the guitarist out. So potentially the band is done as it is now, but who knows, maybe we'll see more from the other three members.

Peace.

Year 8, Day 56

Hey guys. Today's song is City Never Sleeps by Tourism.

I had to be careful with this one because there is a band called Tourism, but there is also an artist called Tourist that pops up with their stuff, and it's so similar that it's easy to get it messed up. But this is the band, hailing from Australia. There are four members, but because I can't find any official bio I don't know much about them. This song in particular came out in 2014, and while I found a channel for a band called tourism I honestly can't tell if it's the same guys or not so I wont link it here. For now just enjoy this song.

Peace.