Boy Bands

So recently I have just found so many great boy bands that are all new and upcoming and are doing great stuff! I just wanted to share a few of them with you guys because they are all so great, and have barely started their careers, so I know great things are still to come! Have a listen!

THE VAMPS

So I have just just discovered this group, and have already downloaded their entire album and am completely obsessed. They are one of those groups where every song just makes me feel happy and like joining in, and practically every track on the album is amazing! They are also super young, I think they range between 17 and 20 or something like that, which is crazy! They are British and quite newly formed. Do yourself a favour and listen, they are amazing! You may know 'Can We Dance' as it is like their most well-known one I think, but these are a few of my favs (although I kinda love them all)....

1) LAST NIGHT

I think this is my like ultimate absolute favourite of theirs, just so great, have a listen. I feel like their style is a mash up of 1D and mcfly type style!

2) OH CECELIA

I love this, such a catchy little tune. Very easy listening and very chilled and like weird cool sort of thing... BUT I have discovered that they kind of covered/remade this song which was originally by Simon and Garfunkel and the original is much better and kind of put a damped on this one for me. 

3) HIGH HOPES

Another cute little one...my personal favourite!

4) WILD HEART

5) SOMEBODY TO YOU

(ft. Demi Lovato)

This is so so great! I really like Demi with them as well!

I am so in love with these guys, so if you like them, do check out their other stuff!

EMBLEM3

They are a group of 3 (say what) American guys, ages 17-21 type range I think, and I knew about them because I watched them place fourth in the second season of American X-Factor (which can we quickly acknowledge was not renewed for a fourth season which make me VERY sad). So, they released their first single, 'Chloe' ages ago, which was great, but they have just released some new stuff and I think the rest of their album is on the way!

1) 3000 MILES

This is their second single and I really like it! Quite different to their usual style but super nice and very chilled.

2) ONE DAY (COVER)

This is actually a cover but is very much their style, kinda reggae, and I love this version (even more than the original actually), so yeah, great stuff!

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER

Very similar profile to the others, same age group, young and upcoming. They are Australian, and slightly more well-known cause they have been touring with 1D as their opening act on their current tour!

1) SHE LOOKS SO PERFECT

This is definitely my favourite of theirs! Kind of reminds me of a mash of 1D and imagine dragons? Super good song and very catchy!

2) HEARTBREAK GIRL

Also another good one of theirs!

3) DON'T STOP

Another of my favs.... so upbeat and cheerful, I can't help but pick up a hair brush and sing along!

HOT CHELLE RAE

Wasn't sure if I should include these guys cause they aren't quite as new and have been hot on the charts for a while, but they are so good that I couldn't leave them off, and they are recently releasing some new, cool stuff!

1) HONESTLY

Like I said, not new, but still pretty good! I only know "Tonight Tonight" and "I Like it Like That" by them, which are both great, but these ones I'm posted are ones I only discovered quite recently...

2) HUNG UP

This is one of my favourites!!

3) RECKLESSLY

I love this too! They are all just so good, and in true style of pop, very happy and upbeat!

Hope you enjoy, I certainly am!!

Pretty Brilliant Cover Versions!

I have been planning another cheeky little post for a while now but it is taking me quite a while, so I thought I'd do this, because recently I have just heard loads of absolutely brilliant cover versions, some by pretty professional bands and others by complete random YouTubers (who are so good they deserve to be famous!)... so here we go!

The first one is an Australian girl called Andie... 
Her YouTube channel is amazing! She is clearly just one of those people who are naturally very musical. She is crazy talented at guitar and has a beautiful voice!! Check out her channel... but these two are my personal favourites. 

This her cover of Royals by Lorde....

and her cover of Wake Me Up by Avicii 

Okay, so the next one is actually a band, they are relatively well-known and were actually on the Ellen show this/last week.. They are just beyond fantastic. I actually don't have words to properly explain how great they are and I wish I could post all their stuff here, so please, do yourself a favour and check out their channel!

This is a really creative and fun one, but even then, you can't miss how musically brilliant it is...

Everyone seems to be doing covers of this song (Royals) recently, and I'm sorry I'm posting it twice, but their version is impeccable!

Next is the beatboxer from Pentatonix. Surprisingly from what you'd assume, he is the most fantastic cello player. He takes a classical instrument as such, and combines it with beatboxing and more modern, pop-py songs. Really so clever! I love this cover of Heart Attack by Demi Lovato! 

Love.

Another, less well-known artist who does some great covers is a Swedish (I think) guy called Roomie. I have heard about 10 really amazing covers and the rest are just not songs that I would usually enjoy. But the ones he gets right, so brilliant! Sorry that I keep repeating songs, it is purely coincidence! 

When I heard this cover of Heart Attack, I am not even joking, I think I replayed it about 25 times!

Also very nice, a collaboration with friends....their cover of Katy Perry;s Unconditionally. Also check out his cover with a few friends of Wake Me Up.

Katherine Hughes is another YouTuber, who was also on Disney's Next Big Thing a year or two ago, I also lovve her voice! She's also posted some pretty great original songs on her channel too, so definitely check them out!

Her cover of Put Your Records On by Corrine Bailey

And, combined with two others, a nice little cover of Love Somebody by Maroon 5. 

Moving up a little into what I would like to classify as absolutely bloody brilliant is Boyce Avenue. He does the most perfect covers, and the two that I am going to post here are with Beatrice Miller, who I think that such a stunning voice and was on last season of X Factor USA.

Their cover of We Can't Stop- much better than the original I believe!

Their cover of Katy Perry's Roar. Now, I can safely say that I must have listened to about 30 covers of this song in the last month, and without any even coming close, this is by far the best!!

Jayme Dee is a YouTuber who now has become relatively popular too, but I have loved her ever since the start and i don't think I've missed a video! Picking a couple of favourites was so hard, so do check out the rest here.... I do think that her channel has unfortunately gone a little down hill recently, but her older videos especially are awesome! 

One of my favourites is her cover of LOVE by Nat King Cole...

and Sunday Morning by Maroon 5.

I am such a fan of videos like this one by Matthias Harris where every single noise you hear is made himself! Its a one man acapella of Bastille's Pompeii, and it really is very nice...

Walk Off the Earth, started with an innocent little YouTube channel, and now are on tours and have all their stuff on iTunes and what not, and are an increasingly more famous band. Some of my all time favourites of theirs are 1) Magic (Bob) and 2) I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift)

 

Lastly, the current season of X Factor USA has just started with live shows, and in the first live episode, two groups absolutely blew me away! The first is Alex and Sierra with their surprisingly good cover of Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke...

and the second group that I loove, and I predict could win the X FActor USA, is Restless Road. Three young ish guys all with incredible country voices. I may be a bit biased cause I love country, but wow, their cover of Roar by Katy Perry here is phenomenal!

So that's it... I am not exaggerating when I say that I had to force myself to stop now or else this post would be unbelievably long! But I have loads of other YouTubers who just get these covers spot on, so maybe another Cover post is in order, we'll see. But for now I hope you enjoy these bloody brilliant covers as much as I do!