Australian singer Sarah Blasko has opened a blog – on WordPress.com, of course – and since January she posts about a variety of things, including the production status of her next album that she is recording in Sweden with producer Bjorn Yttling – which scares me a bit since I did not come to enjoy his work on his own band though I do like what he did on Lykke Li’s album. Talking about her ideas for her new release, she has recently posted about how she is feeling nostalgic as she revisits some old songs that she may record to release as B-sides. Although feeling a bit ashamed, she confesses that she was considering some hits by Olivia Newton-John, mostly “Magic” – and hearing this on Sarah’s voice is definitely something that would please me so much. I’ve enjoyed not only the fact that there are more people feeling nostalgic these days – of course, and we both are not the only ones, duh! – but felt happy because we both were accidentally induced to like these embarrassing old hits since our parents listened to them while we were growing up. Yes, I also feel ashamed because these songs receive a fair amount of plays on my iPod Touch along the week but, let’s admit: even if enjoying some stuff from Olivia and her partners of the 70′s and the 80′s can not be considered something to be proud of, I believe that Sarah and me are very lucky people – we could have been born in the present days and have our childish ears filled with this awful stuff that most people likes to listen to today…
a new blog for my blogroll (: