Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Lady Gaga's song "Pokerface" from her debut album "Fame" was one of the hits that propelled her into stardom. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Salvadorian singer and songwriter Somaya Reece performs her new single “Sexy Beast.”
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
In her new song Katy Perry gets abducted by… an alien. Enjoy this funky and sexy tune featuring Kanye West.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Enjoy some more behind-the-scenes gossip about this colorful movie Burlesque.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
This campaign by the Australian Transport Accident Commission is a wake-up call for everyone and warns about the consequences of drunk driving.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Wales
Join Marina and the Diamonds for the making of her video to her song “Oh no” and get ready for some bright, loud colours.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
See superstars Christina Aguilera and Cher in their new film called “Burlesque” which is about a small-town girl coming to the big city and fulfilling her dreams by becoming a singer.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Australia
Enjoy the song “Mediate” by Australian pop band INXS and refresh your English vocabulary at the same time.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Latin Quarter’s song “Phil Ochs” is about the death of a protest singer of the 1960’s and of that which died with him. Phil Ochs was a talented singer-songwriter of the 1960s who addressed all manner of anti-war, civil rights, labour, and social justice issues in America. He took his own life in 1976.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
From Latin Quarter’s first album Modern times: It is a long way from the bazaars in North Africa, in which leather goods and Berber carpets are sold, to the car factories in which each movement is measured in units of time and you don’t earn much. Maybe you came all the way to Toulouse, in order to lose?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Latin Quarter: The election of Ronald Reagan to President of the USA and subsequent swing to the political right horrified many people. “Bed-Time for Bonzo”: One of Reagan’s last movies in which his co-star, a chimpanzee named Bonzo, was the better actor.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA South
Jim White has mastered a genre of his own making, we like to call it “voodoo honky-tonk.” Note that when Jim says “ole”—that’s southern talk for “old.’ And when Jim sings “sho’ is cool”—that’s how some folks in the American south say “sure is cool.”
Difficulty: Advanced
USA
With every mistake there comes regret, and a mournful feeling permeates this song from the fifth album by the American indie rock band Grizzly Bear. It is accompanied by a colorful and surreal video said to be "a playful, pastel-drenched commentary on women’s liberation."
Difficulty: Advanced
Ireland
"Follow Me up to Carlow” is an Irish folk song, celebrating the famous victory of Irish “firebrand” Fiach McHugh O'Byrne and his countrymen, over a much larger force of English troops at the Battle of Glenmalure, which took place in 1580, high in the Wicklow Mountains. Carlow, from the title, was believed to have been an English fortress. Many of these lyrics will be hard to understand at first, even for a native English speaker. So try to follow along as best you can and enjoy the music!
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