I guess by now, it’s just a further morning (actually I will finish this at late evening… and prepare to a LOT of typos because there is no way I will double check a thing if I ever want to finish the thing for real ops ;))…
I have been long awaiting to create this post because in the past few days so much that I care of has happened in Italy that I have been on a roller coaster of powerful moods straight for around a week right now.
I have been in need of taking my time in relax… working (going abroad to Berlin again) then just spend time with Karim, and have a wonderful Milan Night in San Siro (whoooaaa we were great against Lazio!!! And I who thought Barcelona Magic was a one night stand!!!), then relax again and be just naked for a whole Sunday before the awkward sensation out of last week vanished enough to let me write.
For weeks (months… let’s cut it.. FOR YEARS) I have waited for a sign of change in my fellow Countrymen, and waited for this all to manifest itself in the just-happened turn of ballots.
I waited for them to understand criminal liars aren’t going to do our poor Italy any favor (because the only ones they look forward to would benefit solely themselves) and I was hoping this year would have proven my hopes right.
I was hoping after the worst bunch of years, clearly linked to disarmingly awful management out from essentially one party (person) Italians would have stopped to believe tales and would have boldly faced reality and would have acted consequently, because after all we are an heritage of amazingly talented people and we have skills, talents, brains and creativity to always find our way to become better, no matter how disadvantaged we are feeling or how bad the situation is looking.
Because DAMN… I am PROUD to be Italian… for what we are SUPPOSED to be.
I get so disheartened whenever I realize this concept of “Italian” might be just a thing of the past, since it’s almost all my life that the values that seem predominating in my Country are the exact opposite than what I strive for and I thrive on.
Watching Presa Diretta yesterday has made me undertsand better why Italians (and why so many of them) have chosen a former comedian as mentor… but while I do get the disbelief and outrageous anger towards “regular” politicians is a thing that – positively – finally has gotten to the limelight, I still very dubious that a recipe like the one Grillo suggests (? does he in the end suggest something after all?) can fix troubles.
Not only that… the other one, the cancer this Country keeps proudly displaying (oh, poor us), still around and not as done as anybody with brain and heart wanted him to be.
I can’t believe the way populism is so ready to mesmerize Italians.
Grillo and Berlusconi are just the same soup baked and cooked in populist sauces, the only difference being the fact Grillo is NOT a criminal while Berlusconi instead is one of the biggest CRIMINALS around.
I get scared when I see how much desperation (or sometimes just laziness) can revolve and push people in trusting what in my book should hardly be trusted.
Yes, Italians love fake promises, they love to have others think for them and find them easy solutions (that never exist in reality, especially in difficult realities such as the times we are in), and they are ready to believe the grossest tales as long as they are pledged to escape a reality that they don’t find flattering.
I cringe at this all, because I am a different breed: I think in hard times people have to FACE the difficulty and get over it by their own forces, with dedication, pride, with determination and drive.
In a way, M5S pledges for this kind of personal push, but I see so many anarchists and unreliable people merged into their following that I can’t avoid to question the goodness of the Movement itself.
I so believe Italians have the resources to finally turn tables and make their (our) Country free from the disgusting stealing robbering behaviors for 60 years its politicians have implemented… I just fear Grillo is not the one to guide this whole process.
Berlusconi keeps being around. DAMN.
I don’t think he’s fit; I on the other hand deeply believe Italians have to do what it takes to save Italy from the cliff we’re hanging on the verge of.
How?
With talent; that talent which Italians have in their genetic pool so strong but which they seem to always forget about, drowned in fears.
This electoral result freaks me, I guess you got it…
Except that it actually doesn’t even surprise me that everything has gone this way, to be honest with you; the more I evaluate the whole situation, the more “surprised” isn’t really the way I feel about this all.
We have even more populists people claiming the little that’s left of Italians’ dignity throughout surrealistic suggestions (which are really dangerous tho) such as “let’s leave Euro” “let’s exit from the Financial system” (which is sucky and so totally wrong, but which pays our debt, idiots), and similarly out of reach “brilliant” (no) agendas.
We are probably the only Country in the world (ever?) to give TWO COMEDIANS the highest rise rate in the last 45 days before an actual “matter-of-life-and-death” turn of election.
We keep having the oldest political class (yes, in the Parliament now many young people are stepping in, but the political parties and all the lobbies and all the commanding chain in this Nation STILL an affair of painfully old people, let’s face it).
How can they reckon what would work for us, when they are not even belonging to the generation(s) they are throwing off a (very high) cliff?
Why we still the only Country where people at the Left don’t really understand a thing about the generation(s) they pledge the voting of?
Sure… we gotta get up and try (as P!nk would say… I love that song) but sometimes trust me is all but easy.
Sometimes… especially after having been for some days again in a Country like USA… I would love to just give up and leave.
We go there in two weeks again and really… sometimes… I think seriously about that all.
But it’s a very quick thought: I’d never do that… I am an Italian with the love for the Country which is shaped out of the way Japanese people love and adore their own.
I would never leave the boat that sink.
I am not Schettino.
Even if it’s truly (and believe me it is) hard to keep on witnessing the way Italians do pay dust to themselves so constantly.
Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI steps off the Pope’s soil
I want fresh forces, but forces who understand politics and LAWS, not a bunch of digerati who can claim this Country (one of those with the hugest debt) can exit frigging Euro or can give a minimum wadge salary (that’d be great, but simply it cannot happen with our financial woes) and an ordeals of retards will believe this all and will create un-governability, will send Stocks down the hill and generally will ruin the already thin chances Italy has to resurface from a downward spiral.
Basically… my problem with Italy is that I don’t trust Italians’ choices again, because those choices are just about as opposite as possible to anything great this Country has ever done in its glorious past.
Why don’t Italians try to be great as they can and work their asses off and stop to wait for others to bail them, instead of believing all Fairy Tellers and let them sink us all any time an inch more down the water?
But yes, it was amazing, and I so wish Italy could claim a progressive party and man such as USA can.
That was where last post ended… we were just about to witness the magic and I didn’t imagine this post would have come more than a month after but you know me… life has its turns and this blog is just my fun memory and generally February, March and April are very hectic for me; both work-wise and because in them there are always the trips for Valentine’s time (later on that… this year it was marvelous again), our K’s time and then my Birthday time.
So when heavy working schedule mix with long trips to foreign places (or to K’s home, like it will happen in March), it’s not really like I can have time to write posts.
I queue things along and then when I will be able to write, I will (this generally happens in airports halls or when I perform tests at lab, just like now ;)).
Oh, nothing… just best Italian Journalist and Historicist alive 😉
To make it more understandable: when we came back from Valentine’s vacation in the amazing Caribbean Islands, I went straight to Florence out from the plane for a THREE days conference which was taking place in weekend and then straight drove (well, K did…) to reach Milan and VOTE.
The day of Elections while the results were making me so worked off, I practically fell asleep by exhaustion at 9h30 pm.
I think somehow I am getting old and I need breaks to sustain some pacing my life has.
When I am turning 28 soon I will shed a tear to my former physical invincibility.
Which has gone away, clearly ;).
I am also starting to enjoy quieter nights out dining with the crew instead of the formal super clubby mod we were put on display on weekends.
Sure I do still enjoy to dance and feel musically entangled in lobo strobes but it’s just that I realize “generation-speaking” that is starting (conveniently) not being my thing anymore.
Chapters of life and age showing… and I have to say I actually like this comprehension I have of the rightfulness of this all.
Is there anything lamer than adults trying to deny they are adults by behaving like kids?
I allow that to artists because they MUST remain kids at heart always (so basically I allow K to be so, even if that really isn’t his way to be at all), but regular people with no artistry in their DNA keeping acting teens when they are not… those gain all my disrespect and I don’t plan to be self-hating any time soon ;).
By the way though yes, Ia m aging and I am almost 28… I still super hot and super fit tho so it’s okay.
I’ll just sleep more and have sex at more convenient hours 😉 (still as often as possible as that calls for a perfect shape and beauty appearance too ;)).
But back at what I was writing.
Life is the greatest thing indeed.
Lately I am really trying to figure out what I stand for at the moment… not only these rhythms that are pacing out at different values…
It’s clear I am approaching that phase of life when all of my peers are starting to turn into family units; I love this.
All you need is Love &… cookies 😉
I love that we are together since forever and we are all coming to the same places, this is amazing.
I love that I am starting to feel some kind of urgency towards motherhood, too.
WELL STOP THE PRESS IS NOT LIKE K&I ARE PLANNING A TODDLER.
Not yet 😉
But the more we are around friends (really close ones) with kids, or ready to have some, the more I naturally start to understand I might get there with ease, too.
Look… not because I feel pressured for or towards it…
JUST BECAUSE K&I feel like we are starting to be ready (but again, that yet doesn’t mean we are trying a thing ;)).
While I was traveling like a fool past month, and I also got blasted by flu, Karim was there being amazing and I suddenly felt so HOME.
It was no mattering where I actually was… He’s HOME for me.
His soul is home for mine.
And I think we could be great parents in a while.
We just need to complete our working crafts and feel full with them.
He’s on the verge of wrapping up the most amazing project in three Countries; I have a very FULL 2013 ahead.
Once these things are accomplished and once we both slide in our meant to chairs in our Companies… who knows.
It MIGHT be TIME FOR CHANGES.
One thing I know for sure.
In a month I get 28 and I feel a woman and not a girl by now in full.
Women have a different mind sets than girls.
And I am getting ready to new chapters in my life most definitely and the wonderful things is that I feel so GREAT about this all.
I am loving getting older; the experiences my life has gifted me with are something precious and very special and I believe in a little while I could be good in passing all this to a new generation; and that new generation, THAT’s FOR SURE, would also be fathered by the most perfect man in the world (perfect also because he is not perfect… though people meeting Karim won’t believe he is not, because this is what he looks and feels like to all of us… but I know him better and I can tell you he is not perfect, but just because of it he is PERFECT FOR ME :)).
When we went to Venice Carnival I just glowed in him.
Carnival Loving Time 2013
The mere things he does to make me smile or to teach me things I didn’t know blow my mind and heart off every single time.
The Valentine’s trip then…
For days and weeks he made me believe we would have gone to Pennsylvania at Hershey’s SPA and then to New York for Maroon 5 MSG gig and then meet with his family in Miami (they obviously have a beach house there too… where’s the surprise ;)).
Weather was freezy POLAR in Italy so I was looking forward to some chocolate and more freeze and then (but only then) some beachy hot time instead…
Instead we went to the Caribbean magic and passed from the Cays in Turks and then move to Santo Domingo and touch a sleeve of Cuban salsa as well…
We touched Nature in the most perfect way, meeting sharks and turtles and iguanas and feeling like Adam and Eve in the Eden and HONEST TO ABOVE…
There I truly felt like if I could get pregnant IMMEDIATELY and even give birth right there and be only K&I forever alone on those islands NOTHING would have been more prefect.
Yes, I am THAT in love.
Caribbean Love 2013
And the greatest thing is that while the passion still there (because I live for sex and I am the most sexual kinky fuck you could imagine… and he LOOOOOVES it, no matter what) the real plus part of our bond is that we are completely into one another’s minds and talents.
We look up to one another.
We genuinely think the other can make our world EVOLVE, which is why even when we quarrel (like anybody does if they care about one another) we can actually try to guess if something the other thinks could be in fact… right over our own opinion.
This only can happen when you REALLY think the other is amazing, because then your ego (even our two ones, which are MEGA) can step off a bit and make you get better through the other’s input.
That doesn’t mean I don’t get mad when K beats me at ANYTHING though ;).
Because I do.
My competitive side is just… moon-sized ;).
But I also always say that is a wonderous thing that I can LOVE my best competitor this much and always feel blessed even when he kicks my ass.
The satisfaction I get whenever is HIS ass that I kick multiplies out of this all, too 😉
*insert evil laugh*
*And a LOOOOOOONG kiss* 😉
Talking about competitive sides… it’s hard (especially after the AMAZING performances of late) not to connect with what THE AMAZING MAMBA is doing at the moment.
He’s starting to think about retirement of course but just as I said to him… that day for me will make the transition about him from INHUMAN PERFECT ATHLETE to SUPREME SPORT LEGEND ICON.
I will also – of course – when Kobe won’t be playing anymore.
But like it always happens with my sporty idols… when THEY stop, a part of me buries with them and what they have inspired me out of LIFE lessons properly, through their sport’s mastery.
So when Kobe retires… a part of me will be completed and a seed will be planted forever in me and its offsprings (hopefully) will be also part of me forever.
Kobe is my FOCUS&Determination icon.
He will always be an hero for me, long past his Lakers’ days (and his obvious status as legend).
Talent is something that flourishes so highly in them two… and you know I can only like talented (multi talented actually) type of people.
So will the Lakers made it to playoffs?
I don’t think chances are that high at stakes actually…
His Mamba-ness
This because it doesn’t ONLY rely on Lakers… we have to hope those ahead slow down and this is never a good way to obtain things. But it’s our fault to have let the opportunity slides off our hands to be the sole responsibles of our own future so, whatever it happens, it will be on us and teach us better for the future (hopefully).
What I do know is that I adore to see Kobe and Nash play together; I have let go of Pau‘s disappointments by now (he’s injuried so it wouldn’t even be cute to speak about it) and Howard keeps being… I don’t know… resilient to finally give in to us and be a COMPLETE Laker?
Steve Nash and Kobe Bryant Lakers LOVE
I still on the fence about him; can’t help but feeling Kobe’s feels there (I know, I am biased probably but this is how I am ;)).
I hope Lakers make it to the playoffs also because being in the USA for a while in the next two months, I would love to witness again a game live at Staples…
I will actually be soon at Staples but that will be again just for a bunch of hours of gig catching when Maroon 5 play there in two weeks (less than it!!!) and it won’t last much , as we will be based in San Francisco by the time of K’s festivities 😉 and then we move to New York for both mine and his work (yes, no leisure time this time in NY)… and then from there is – hopefully if nothing goes wrong – HANAMI TIME IN JAPAN FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!! (and THAT will surely be only leisure time 😉 because I do deserve ;)).
Hanami Time for my incoming 28th birthday!
So right now I generally start to go backwards to the past post and put up Maroon 5 & then Adam (and Behati’s) things.
I will this time too, but since more than a month and A LOT of things have happened, I will try to be quick (none of you believe I will actually be able to, do you?) because already the video things are like a million pieces and this is going to be one of the longest posts ever already just out of them.
Take a seat?
Good 😉
Before I start, let me just point out for the millionth time that when I write about M5 or Adam… I do it only because they are part of my entertainment and “world of likes”.
The two lovebirds pose alike – Adam and Behati
This is not a gossip blog; this is my blog and here I list what I am interested in.
The day I will not find this fun anymore, I will stop; or the day I won’t find reasons to update about all my likes; I’ll stop this.
Gossip is not my thing; in fact, I love that for instance now Adam is very private about his personal and love life: that’s the way I carry my life too (I don’t let strangers enter for real in my circle and am very picky in my true life friendships) and for sure, the best way to have a safe and healthy and HAPPY life is let the crazy outsiders as separate as possible from the core of your inmost and safest personal place.
Super Classy Adam Levine – vintage
I am glad Adam has learnt it through bad experience off his (recent and not so recent) past: no true lover will ever ask you to display your privateness, unless it’s for gaining personally out from your weaknesses.
I always get appalled anytime “fans” claim the “idols” owe them anything other than the consuming of their professional creations; what fans are responsible for it’s the fame the idols may have but that fame came because what artists and idols PRODUCED matched a taste and a liking and then the only thing fans are to be credited for are to have been rewarded with THE PRODUCTS off from their idols.
The fans don’t own the idols at all; they can just own the products that the idols put off, and the occasional proxemity derived from the live consuming of that product, too.
Fans are fans because they LIKE THE PRODUCTS the “idols” make; in no way the “idols” life belong AT ANY PART to no fan.
I wish the ordeals of crazy heads who are way too invested in celebrity lives would understand this, that in no way the life of their idols are linked or will ever be linked for real to theirs..
In some years, Maroon 5 won’t be public anymore, just like it always happens with musicians – or actors –; Adam and the guys will lead very private lives and stay in themselves like it’s only fair to be… what will the crazy fans do then?
Stop breathing?
In the past month I got harassed by some very amusing mad folks and in all occasions (beside laughing my ass off at them) I just thought “poor them… do they really believe any of the people they worship would ever think anything different than “these are crazy” about them?” It’s sad when lives are so poor you have to borrow some celebrity’s one to feel you have a purpose in your days.
Behati and Candice in Caribbean Blue 😉
This isn’t how I work and this isn’t what this blog is up for.
These are my youth memories and my music likes are of course involved, as music plays such a HUGE part in my daily things, but as you have read before, I am not that young anymore so these chronicles (and all the material I upload) could just be gone at ANY GIVEN TIME from now on.
I won’t keep on writing for much longer, be sure ;)…
I will surely be stopping as soon as I have a kid for instance, or just turn this into a “mummy care” blog (with no pics whatsoever of my family of course… you know that privacy and I are double tied).
It’s just about what I decide to do, the rest of the days this blog may or may not have, and it’s no big deal really… just a phase of my life that takes place onto another one which ends, right?
Oh, and always remember… Internet is not real life.
A fandom is not real life.
For how important that all may seem (at least to teen people, and everyone has been teen so I do understand… I much less understand grown people spending TONS of time online following celebrities in their every move, as they couldn’t live a hour without imagining what they do or what they don’t… really? I suggest to go out and take a look at the sky 😉 and maybe talk in real life with real people flesh and bone, for a good change ;)), in reality it is just NOT important at all; it should not matter till the point you don’t feel fine if for a day you don’t check your internet, twitter or whatever in fear you miss Above-Knows-What that your idol might be sharing there.
These stuff… are not mattering for real in your life; trust ;).
It has happened to me quite a number of times by now to reject some material some people were sending me to be published here just because it seemed to me way too much of a reach by said people to suggest me to write one thing or another – for instance under a picture they sent – and to just completely reject the entire ideas they had about things the pictures or the link had to stand for (to be more clear: some people were sending me material to empower their sort of fans/stans wars through this blog and NO THANK YOU, I have left sixth grade a lot time ago and this is just ridicolous, especially when coming from grown up people well past their TWENTIES even. I don’t use, thank you very much ;)).
I don’t even know how to react to these things; they seem all so out of world to me… I can’t really picture how those brains work (or if they do exist at all).
A fandom might be nice, but not if it becomes borderly obsessive, or an obsession entirely.
Ewwww.
That’s gross and sad and just plain wrong: read a book in case… do not create a book in your mind using by suggestions living people’s lives.
Real life is made of the real people in your life, not a celebrity dream: try to step aside this all if you come here to read about celebrities (here or anywhere else), because you’re destroying your life this way.
Adam Levine and mum Patsy at Lakers old games
Okay 😉
Now I can start to put the pieces of the past month together, musically speaking ;).
I will actually put together the timelines of both M5 & Behati + Adam (sort of) because there’s no other way to do this in a quick way (today is testing day but is not like I can just play at work… I don’t want the lab cubicle to explode, especially NOT with me in it ;)!)
I will try my best to be understandable…
In case I wouldn’t (it’s fairly possible); just have fun with all the videos and magazines which are gonna be put up ;).
Let’s start from where it all ended previous post then.
Talking about that video… what if BOTH Love Somebody video and The Man Who Never Lied one (which have both been done already, with Emily Ratajkowski and Valerie Van Der Graaf) will be part of the re-edition of Overexposed, which I suppose will be packed around the Summer, as part of a bonus content (which hopefully is going to include a new song, a new version of Lucky Strike with a female vocalist featured, and some more surprises)?
I’d be VERY down to this all.
It’s not the moment to make Love Somebody a fourth single: as I predicted Daylight went to Top Ten in BBHot100 just for a hot minute (still, that is the best chart achievement of ANY Maroon 5 album ever: 3 Top Ten hits were not even possible with Songs About Jane!) but the sappy mood just won’t do much more (as it won’t the insane new rule for the BBHot100 chart… what a travesty, Bill Werde!!), and it would be foolish to push another similarly sounding single in Love Somebody.
the impressive chart success of Maroon 5 currently
Please guys don’t do it.
You have THE PERFECT songs in Lucky Strike, Doin’ Dirt and Wipe Your Eyes to rule the chart again… cut the sappy stuff and although I really like the way Daylight sounds live, I still don’t think it is at all that memorable song.
It’s in the line of Won’T Go Home Without You… cute but nothing historical; in years it won’t ever be mentioned in your best 7 tracks meme.
It’s time to let it go and bring the groove back ;).
A thing that bugs me (but I do understand where it comes from) is that the media and VS are trying obvioulsy to milk the fact Behati is with Adam; SHE DOESN’T DO THAT, being respecteful of her boyfriend and so good for him… but the media outlets do and this causes stress and charge for the couple.
By now is UTTERLY clear Adam and Behati won’t talk publicly of their relationship and THAT IS GREAT AND RIGHT; but the fact they won’t is making newsmakers trying to push them into doing it , even if by denying lies.
When the interview aired, the usual brainless suspects tried to read into Ryan talking with one of Adam’s assistants (NOT ADAM, be careful) the sentence that he (Adam they hoped, but it may have been the assistant, right?) was “newly single”:
This caused havoc online; the many mad people who hate Behati just because she is with Adam took the chance to vent into her account and offend her all possible ways; the psycho widows around had no hesitation in covering her with hateful names and horrible reactions; doesn’t matter that she was (and STILL IS) clearly with Adam (clearly to anyone a bit into his circle); the fact is that the careful media handling of some previous famewhoring exploiter has depicted Behati so bad, fragile minds have fallen for the lies and just cannot see the truth not even when it’s as bright as the Sun.
In all this insane and undeserved hate, not only Behati behaved so very classily and never stepped down to her haters sad levels; she just kept on being herself and being protected by her people (Candice, Doutzen), after she tweeted simply “Haters Will Hate, Lovers Will Love: It’s You’re Choice“.
And aside the grammar flaw, the point is exactly that: she doesn’t owe explanations; her life and Adam’s are only THEIRS and it’s good the hate she gets still hasn’t affected that one bit.
I admire her way to be about this all, and as usual I praise her for having in mind always and only ONE THING FIRST: ADAM.
Adam also has always made clear his private life is now SUPER private and he won’t put it on display; but I am fairly certain for every wound senseless and disgusting people cause to his Mermaid Angel, he has a way to heal her and make her feel the best on Earth, otherwise she wouldn’t be this brave in facing so vulgar hatred she definitely doesn’t deserve, being so lovely and caring.
Adam will fight (but privately) for his love, the way it should be.
No disrespecteful “fans” have rights to get a glimpse of their precious lives.
BTW, before I forget… Adam was again up in the last episode of American Horror Story Asylum (I have watched the Italian version on our Sky but the dubbing is ATROCIOUS to be frank… I came back to the original audio all times ;)):
I love the way his acting potential shows in the series; I can’t wait to see the way he does in the giant screen when Can A Song Save Your Life will be out 🙂
He has the classic beauty of all old school Hollywood studs; he just needs to practice and refine his moves.
In fact they used a – wonderful – version of old gem “Woman” for this promo video… the funny thing being that Behati actually is in it for not more than a blink… ;):
Behati anyway is gorgeous… her fresh beauty is refreshing for the eyes and her soul is so cute and quirky, just as Adam’s.
And anyway Vanity Fair was not the only magazine which Adam graced these weeks…
Allegedly Prince was not amused about the cover inclusion and of course, as the huge Prince worshipper he is, Adam immediately took the song off the album:
Prince and Maroon 5 KISS cover quarrel
Things like that happen; the only important thing is that Maroon 5 made up for their mistake (and I keep having the very beautiful Kiss cover, tho ;)).
Now sure he wasn’t perfect and sure the cue cards bugged him BUT those bugs also very trained actors (which Adam is not yet) so I won’t put a crux on Adam’s shoulder for having done what everyone does there (by SNL crew’s ORDERS everybody gotta read cue cards) and blast him for having not been perfect or totally natural reading the suggestions.
If you want to know though, Adam is not the only one venturing outside M5; of course there is James with JJAMZ, but you all better be ready also for May 14th, when PJ Morton will put out “New Orleans”.
This would be a double duty time in Miami actually (always having her friends & lover in mind it seems)… first she shot with Bruce Weber and Noah Mills (allegedly… and the two apparently just shot something together again in Zanzibar, but this come later on); while later she would be there again to share with her fellow Angels the Victoria’s Secret spot by Michael Bay (that the week after though):
And while we are at it… take into all these amazing shots for VS 2013 Behati’s campaigns 😉 gaze into her beauty and spunky attitude and try to understand why Adam is blessed to have gotten her :
While his lady was rocking beaches and lingerie and swimsuits, and also some good female professional company, Adam played golf with actor friend Greg Ellis (mocking the stupid fans who keep on believe the twitter account RealAdamLevine is actually his, and with the compliance of Greg actually… I love how he is sometimes cruel with the stupidity of people 😉 I love to do the same), then went with his mum at his brother Michael Rent’s performance:
Adam Levine Mum Patsy and Family at Rent in LA 3 February 2013
In fact, Adam is SUPER busy, because now he has the luxury not many people have in the industry to be a household name.
In fact is pretty difficult for male NON SOLO artists to ever accomplish that status.
Adam has reached it, and now, beside the music career as part of Maroon 5; as writer and composer; as solo artist (with other artists); as record label owner; as tv personality; as tv actor; as MOVIE actor… he is now ALSO at a status which allows him to have endorsements OUT of the music world (which he already has: for Samsung and JHC speakers along Maroon 5, and for First Act Guitars as a solo entity), like the very lucrative Proactive one:
Just know that the rumored fee (very likely) Adam has obtained for endorsing Proactive after Katy perry did (3.5 Million$) and Justin Bieber did (4.1M$) is around 4.6M$ for 18 months.
This is the power of being a household name, folks.
This is amazingly rewarding… but sure it’s also a bit draining as for scheduling and arrangements…
In fact in Los Angeles he had the first meet and greet for the Perfume the first week of February, in between rehearsals for the Grammys and recording with Morrison:
In fact Adam has never spare days practically… in his media tour for the perfumes and the clothing line he looked exhausted (I let you see this now even though it’s a patchwork which involves events happened the second half of February because it works better this way to make you see his tired eyes and face ;))
I am glad he is surrounded by people who love him dearly and since forever and by now no leeches or exploiters are around him anymore because his energies would be drained completely if he couldn’t find rest in love comfortably now that his whole world never really stops at all.
And probably you get why it is always more important for him to protect his private life and stay as clear as possible from fake exploiters and leeches.
Leeches that have kept using him even when it was really not necessary (or smart or fair… but have they ever been fair to him? no way…).
Case in point, the SUPER CREEPY 7 Hollywood Magazine “Icons” issue.
This glossy magazine was launched in November with David Gandy as main train… he failed miserably to sell it and then the team behind it (read the contributors in the magazine credits, and you will laugh your ass off at the fact they all belong to a “team” so very familiar… a team of people I won’t even mention because they are the worst of the worst) decided ONCE more to use the name they always used to get relevance again, and began to promote it in the media outlets (complacent ones, I suppose paid as well) to present Adam Levine naked again on the cover of it (and that, oh! miracle! finally sold the glossy piece of trash the magazine is).
Too bad that nakedness by Adam was dated July 2011, as the entire Levine’s spread is recycled and repainted work out of the Vogue Russia cover feature he shot then, and which then was out in November 2011.
Adam Levine used again for 7Hollywood Magazine winter 2013_the photos are from 2011
To make it all creepier, (the words in the article are all old, because of course Adam wasn’t reached for a new interview, and they had to recycle words material, just to have a promo push without being object of lawsuit), also the video of the shot was a recycled one from 2011 of course presented as if it was not old (I have the iPad version of / Hollywood and also that number of Vogue Russia, so I do know…):
I guess some famewhoring crew won’t ever learn decency and realness.
Good luck with the new venture… it’s not as good or rich as what they lost this new cow they can try to milk, nor even remotely as popular or worthy, but as long is giving them something that can be spent they won’t mind, and hopefully on the other side we have finally finished to be milked by all those losers this way, which is the only thing that matters.
Long gone the exploiters, let’s get back to the specific status Adam is in now, which is extremely rewarding but also which causes a tons of stress and fatigue, which sometime soon might be showin in some of his behaviors (I hope not, but when he is stressed he can be unpredictable, and he’s very human and mistaken when that happens).
First of all: Adam totally deserves this all which is pouring onto his head at the moment: he is very talented and although I HATE (properly, I do) that this all virtually started with a role that I detest and despise (because even I can reckon The Fuckery that thing success started this all at this scale), the fact it all happened finally so greatly for him is something that I am very happy for.
Maroon 5 Grammy Party 2013 with STING
Adam has never tried to hide the fact he loves to make money (and his honesty there is something I respect… I just hate the fact the medium to get that better is a sub par Karaoke show, because that is not good for music, although I admit it has been actually good for HIS music, giving him new perspective and energies and inspirations for sure), and I see the fact he is finally having and making more than many could ever dream of like a signal he will in a while be able to retire and have the family that he deserves.
Not yet, and not for some years more for sure… but now he knows, and sometimes hints at, at the fact in a while he will kiss everyone’s goodbye and just live with the well deserved wealth and memory of a worldwide fame his talent has created for himself and those who will be lucky enough to be there the day he will decide it’s time to become, for instance, a father (I still have doubts he is going to ever marry anyone to be honest, but surely he will father children).
I think in itself that is a marvelous thing indeed, to realize you have worked and reached all your goals and then you feel entitled to take a backseat and live a “normal” life, just way less ordinary than most people could.
I hope only he can find peace and not get stressed in the way to that retirement of gold he most definitely has already planned, or is starting to plan.
The latter part of this video is something that we will talk about later after commenting another FAKE piece of “report” regarding Adam and Behati’s life (will they ever stop to try to ruin them? Leave them alone and let their relationship be, for as long as THEY – and ONLY they – will decide it has to last!).
But the fact he is, doesn’t mean strangers have to be too, so keeps that in mind as well in the continuous of this post (or simply, plug in your brain ;)).
Girl has a great voice, but so far I have to admit the thing I like her most in is still the Come Away To The Water duet on the Hunger Games Soundtrack.
Bunch of lies, courtesy of Page Six, promptly rebooted by a series of similarly scum-mish tabloids.
The point is that again nobody from Bee or adam’s sides said a word on this trash.
Why?
Because they keep NOT caring at all.
Mario Batali cheers Adam Levine and Maroon 5 at MSG gig
Tabloids and insane people can keep believe what they want; while Behati and Adam can keep having their very private and personal life (together, still) which doesn’t belong to strangers; therefore they won’t ever answers the trash.
I totally support their attitude regarding this, you know; and I am really proud this is the way they chose to be.
Behati Prinsloo and Maroon 5 crew in Connecticut and New Jersey February 2013 for M5 gigs
And here we go, just to dismantle the fakers (that keep roaming the story… just the other day The Huffington Post kept saying “Adam is single since April last year” LOL… while he was coupled AGAIN exactly after April last year… not that you can expect them to know it all, especially when they cannot even write “romantic” correctly in their own language ;)).
Maroon 5 left New York immediately after the gig at MSG; Behati stayed in New York for a very important event; do you remember when in November at the VSFS taping she said after her apartment flooded she was guest at a model friend’s house, and that the model friend was pregnant?
Would you say no to a legend and a dear friend who helped you when in need?
No, you wouldn’t.
I just hope Behati avoided at all costs the slimey individual that was there too and who has caused Adam’s a lot of dirt in his life; I won’t even name that piece of trash, I just hope Behati stays well away from him because THAT in case would be the end of the relationship, given the opinion Adam has of the “man” and his “posse”.
This is actually their time together ut in video: ENJOY :
I mean, I repeat for the millionth time: Adam is not up to marry; this lovestory (which is at its tenth month by now, and which is very strong actually) could finish TOMORROW (in case it would I’d expect Taylor Swift to jump on Adam’s bones in a millisecond… she is SOOOOOOO thirsty for him it’s getting ridicolous ;)).
Nothing is given or promised for future but I find disgusting the way these two lovers cannot have their moments; I find horrible and repulsive the lies spread about them; I find terrible that Behati gets harassed anytime because of her relationship, especially when all she’s doing is loving Adam FOR REAL; and without exploiting him a bit, and instead of being praised for it she gets hated.
It must be difficult but then again; she doesn’t care, because her prize is Adam and then any obstacle shall disappear in front of such a thing.
I have to say he didn’t really tweet much after that, but if you took note Behati was having also need of him that day… I am sure he was a CLOSE witness of her day at the Soho Store in VS lilac glory 😉 (Perks of video chats in phone):
Similarly, Behati can now shine and you can totally get she is happy, like when she had to come back from the tour bus in New Jersey and get back to New York first to present The Fabulous Swim line, alone and with Miranda Kerr at location.
Check her grace, gorgeousness, style and cuteness.
And enjoy how Adam’s family showed her love by greeting her in this very important (professionally speaking) day:
For now know that Behati is also the face for ESPRIT 2013.
I love that she is carefully picking up campaigns which cannot harm her VS Angel status; in fact, just like it did happen with NEXT and Seafolly, which are competitor in theory with VS brand, these firms are ALL not operating on the USA soil (Esprit doesn’t since last winter) so Behati can be their face without being a damage to her main source of work.
Smart Behati.
Oh… and GORGEOUS:
Behati Prinsloo for ESPRIT 2013
I am not really on the fence or at a window; about when the lovebirds will reunite.
I suppose easily in California when Adam is there to tour with his band mates and then up for his 34th birthday celebration in LA and Las Vegas.
Sure she will know how to make him feel the most special birthday EVER.
I wonder when she will finally be able to go to her homeland for real and maybe spend some quality family time there…
I strongly advice all of you to try and witness this tour because as I have written in the video… this time around they are REALLY reaching out for the stars (that they are themselves), as each gig is monumental and really engaging this era.
It’s an experience you will treasure I swear even if you are not even familiar with them.
At MSG they were fantastic and I expect even more at Staples Center; I am also quite curious to see how this American energy will translate in the UK gigs…
But whatever… you TRY to catch them.
You won’t regret it and no matter how not cheap their tickets are… this time around more than any other time IT’s WORTHY.
Trust me on this.
Do it 😉
Let the music shine.
It’s all that I have ever wanted for this blog to display, actually.
MUSIC RULES.
Have a great March… catch you sometimes in April 😉
Anne Frank as emblematic face and soul of millions of individuals hatefully deprived of their own precious lives
And seemingly we still need to be reminded to REMEMBER.
Because it gets so easy, way too easy, to let heavy thoughts and reasons to ponder fly away these days.
We are lazy… mentally lazy; and often numbed on our inmost soul part, to face realities we just wish never were, to begin with.
But we can’t try to push aside things that sure hurt (and for some are a reminder of their own shame), just because to face them makes us ache.
Aching inside is a sign we DO care.
If mankind will let the memory of humanity past crimes fade away, what will happen, if not worse crimes and restless abominations rise back again?
Today is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
It isn’t JUST (and it will be already enough… but really it isn’t JUST that) a reminder of the crimes against the Jews in Nazi times; along jews there were so many other humans getting persecuted due to their race, belief, sexual orientation; it isn’t JUST a Jew related reminder.
It is a reminder for us all on how humans can get inhuman and let hate and bestiality overturn Countries and History.
We can’t forget.
Or not only humanity will be allowed once more to bend to its worst tendencies and get beastly turned against one another of its children, but we will face every single time, any single time that we forget our past horrifying crimes, a stigma growing back and blossom which will be greater and greater, with every single day we will allow hate to take its place among us.
I have faith mankind is born to be great.
No one more than myself truly does believe the human beings are filled with amazing qualities and prerogatives.
But at the same time I know the lowest instincts bewilders way too many humans; because it’s easier to be selfish, lame, hateful, scared and coward than aim to greatness, spreading acceptance and comprehension, and practice love even when its cost may affect us directly.
Truth is all men are created equal, but not all men can live up to their major premises of goodness and value.
Today reminds us that we might not be always the greatest we can and should, but surely we must avoid and fight to let ourselves become the worst that we can be.
For this, for fighting the beastly version of each one of us, this is the day we have to remember men were able, and I am sure they still, to WILLING TO ERASE AN ENTIRE FRACTION OF THEMSELVES, only because of a hate that has NO REASON, NO FAIR SOURCE, NO JUSTIFYING, and NO EXCUSE.
I am at work and over Rai 3 I am performing chemical tests while following the specials about International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
They are about to broadcast an Ettore Scola’s special feature documentary.
Light a candle. Keep it burn ALL along your own life. Never forget. Never allow this again.
I am ready to cry.
Good tears.
Vigilant tears.
Tears that make me aware my heart isn’t a stone, therefore it beats for me to never allow nor condone anything even remotely similar to the spiteful instincts that drove entire populations to support exterminations instances, and retarded, criminal and inhuman stances against other human beings, that had just features or religious belief or inmost sexual orientation they believed were “wrong”, when the only thing that was wrong was their idea they had the truth revealed, that nobody on his planet in fact has, to back their hate against what was human, while they in fact ceased to be human in their pursuit of criminal homicides rages and actions.
These tears streaming on me say that I will always stand and fight crimes against humanity.
Forever in my life I will fight that and surround me of people that absolutely hate racism, in any shape, form and condescending habit.
Don’t forget today.
And not only for the length of today.
27 January is because we weren’t able to fully be.
Of course, I had to come online and post a blog TODAY.
We woke up around 7 am as usual, and we found our phones pulsating in colors like a disco ball hit by a flashy rainbow (we have different set ups for our iPhones and BBs, and the light that comes is determined by the people sending us texts/video-messages/mails).
We feared at first something bad had happened (we set phones with no sound at night) but then we thought if that was the case, somebody would have called at our HOUSE and that sound would have been heard.
So it had to be a good news, we realized with relief.
We opened our four devices and more or less it was an endless series of missed calls and texts reading:
THEY KILLED OSAMA!!!!
THEY GOT HIM AND SERVED HIM!!!
WHOOOOOOO-HOOOO!!!
We immediately phoned Karim’s parents.
You know… well, his family PROPERLY fought that man these years.
People celebrating outside White House the news that US force killed Osama Bin Laden
We have an extremely complex and not easy view of all this that arose after 9/11, and the most amazing thing is that we realized we had even way before we actually met (and that is an issue that can cause way more than a simple tension in a relationship… let alone for people as complicated as K&I).
We know it was inevitable to war it up after that… but we still convinced war is never the answer to anything, unless for you “answer” means “way to be all dead soon”.
No matter who *wins*, war has never winning people on its count: only dead ones.
But yeah, the death of Osama Bin Laden is a great relief.
Even though we are completely aware JUST because of it, the world will immediately see his heirs trying to establish their status by attempting I fear MORE than one major move.
So yeah… I just expect terrorism to escalate pretty soon.
Still… this had to be done.
Hitler had to be dead.
Osama had to be dead.
I hope soon Berlusconi follows – a natural, and not imposed – way to be dead too (there, I said it. Italy needs to be freed from him, but not violently. He’s old and I still hope a natural death occurs as soon as possible.)
It’s a very HUGE turmoil of feelings for me and Karim (especially him, who even served during the war of terrorism) today.
Somehow, I feel like this was a further gift to mankind from Pope John Paul the Second who just got beatified (technically, the same day Osama got killed).
Although I am always battling some of the most narrow-minded concepts of Church, I have to say I have always admired and felt Karol Wojtyla, and that he always got me with his speech against war, when war seemed the most fashionable thing around.
Trust me: you know how cynical I can be: I am not a pacifist for the sake of it.
I’m no flower power at all.
My choice about it comes from philosophy and reasoning: in times when armies can erase the entire humanity, to try for peace is the ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE.
I know war is the most productive industry EVER, since EVER… but if we don’t stick in our minds we can’t ever win if we don’t ALL win, and look out for a way to comprehend one another and not fight one another, we will only get one step closer each day to the complete demise of EVERYONE.
There is no party there… no party who can just win.
Ideograms for PEACE and PROSPERITY
My choice for peace and understanding is a strategical one, not a naive one.
But all that said…
let’s honor the victims who fought in clarity and purity of soul, let’s pray for innocents that got killed on EACH side, because they weren’t taking sides at all in their innocence, and just let’s COOPERATE FOR PEACE.
Actively.
Terrorism isn’t dead, because to scare people is the easiest way to dominate them.
Easiest until mankind won’t step out of fears and embrace brain and heart to the fullest.
Fear works for half-developed humans.
Fully developed humans don’t fear: they try to THINK to overcome fears, and they understand fear cannot rule a good way to live.
Aggressive is not fearless: aggressive is a companion to fearful.
But sure I am happy this whole thing happened in Obama’s presidency run.
Man deserved this hard-to-obtain success (ehi, Donald Trump… please jump off your skyscraper before trying to say again the stupidest things on this event too… IDIOT).
I chose this song to underline my mood, in honor of all those fallen for mankind’s lowest instincts:
And now back to more down-to-Earth and personal events.
Getting near…
GETTING NEAR!!!
My Boat's times in Genova, April 2011
Absolutely unfazed by the fact a balding guy married a smiling chick (yeah, the MARRIAGE OF THE CENTURY… don’t think it brought much luck to his mother’s one the fact all of the world stared in awe watching the whole thing, right?), this further month passes away bringing MYSELF closer to *the day*.
Lotta stuff to be prepared…
Lotta emotions, all cute and fine and lovely, and to be honest we’re not a single bit relentless about this.
K&I are very focused and calm.
They’ve tried to make us question the Kyoto (yep, that’s it… we picked up Kyoto in the end) location due to the Earthqwake – Nuclear scare but it’s OUR marriage.
We want to get married in Japan and there we will.
You love us?
You’ll be moved there by our will to have you near to us that day.
If you don’t feel like sharing our day, be prepared to consequences (okay it sounds at once ungrateful and cocky but trust me when we made this speech to our people it sounded very compassionate and good-to-listen-to… ;)).
Love to eat facing Milan Duomo in Spring
I don’t think really we will have troubles with Parades for NBA to be taken into spotlight before our big month… in fact, we don’t reach out to USA until July (screw Ravinia Festival and anything even remotedly related to, and BRING IT ON GLASTONBURY instead!!!!).
There is a lot of music going on in my ears (and NO, until that awful thing that involves Adam still going on, I still completely untouched and not listening to any of Maroon5. I can’t take it. The Voice for me – and sure friends have tried to force me watch it – is a shame that can’t be approved, and it never will), and what is amazing is that now on Twitter I have MORE than 2050 followers (WOW!!!! I have added some due following myself to and now I follow 43… you get how AMAZING the difference is???) so I can spread my music appreciation posts so widely all over and wait for some advice from people too!!!
Anyway don’t worry… My friends over the other blog will give you updates also on The Voice of Fuckery soon (I landed them links so you will see that thing that I protected my eyes and soul from seeing. I don’t wanna be corrupted by second rated tv… or by tv at all. I try to take the best care of my brain cells, thank you) ;).
I will get back to my appreciation of M5 and Adam as soon as that thing will end.
I miss their music?
SURE, how couldn’t I?
This is just a PART of my Maroon 5 record Collection
Look, these are the 45 albums/specials/VideoPackages I got of them and ONLY in my iTunes: there are more than an entire day of ALBUM/EP/VIDEOEPs music and that doesn’t count the amount of physical recordings (ALL THEY EVER PUT OUT from Kara’s Flowers till now, and ALL their collaborations EVER made) that I have of them, which were these (see the video I made for The Way You Look Tonight below and you get HOW MUCH I am a fan of them) ONE and half year ago (they have grown since then with all that they have put out after that).
I even have special Asian versions of all their music. Do you really think it’s easy for me to NOT listen to my favorite band?
It is.
But I can’t cope with the disappointment they served me with and then I have over 1000 albums now. I can survive some months without their ones, and don’t feel bad for it, since they didn’t care about choosing a tv reality show over playing live for the fans who built them up.
Their choice.
My choice.
And we’re all entitled to feel fine about them, both me and them, of course.
They think music is only entertainment and shouldn’t be a big deal; while for me music is first and foremost great Art and SURE it MUST be taken seriously, thing that I do.
I might update at least on Anne though 😉 Because she is adorable
I am just sad that in the maintime I am NOT covering M5 and Adam, I miss the chance to speak about lovely Anne V…. I miss talking about lovely Russian Fairy, but it’d be hard to talk about her and NOT about her boyfriend (they still best couple EVER in the celeb world to me, and I keep being a total sucker and rooting for them to procreate perfect babies together, for the sake of mankind’s next generations’ BEAUTY) so I am forced to. Maybe though I can prepare a couple of musical videos with her latest working duties… I may soon… She still one of the cutest things ever and so sweet and kind. She’s an all-overly delicious human being, whose beauty is just ONE of her best qualities. ;).
But see… my principle about being true to what I deeply feel and see can’t be changed.
I don’t kiss asses, and I am proud of the way I am.
That’s why until Summer starts sneak in fully I won’t mention “that thing”, “that man”, and “all around involved”.
With this I hope I have answered to the mails I got asking me why I wasn’t covering The Voice, Adam Levine and Maroon 5 anymore since a while.
Yesterday Party Time
I can’t deviate from the value I give to music, as simple as that.
And I HATE reality tv and the way reality tv has transformed music scene into a sham.
It’s clear why I won’t cover M5 or Adam while they keep perpetrating what to my eyes and perception is a real big big big mistake.
I will get back to them when this won’t be an issue for me to deal with anymore.
Be calm.
And respect my choice at least since THIS is my house (I.E.: stop flaming this blog mail or my twitter: I anyway couldn’t care less of what you have to say to me, when it comes to things that belong ONLY to me) and this blog was created to “speak about what I find valuable and great, as I live my life“.
Next?
Next topic. Sure… this has taken way too much space today 😉
My dad last Thursday at Rotary dinner (EXTENDED BOREDOME) was joking with me and K. about our “creative sexual ways” (I am this open and natural about sex thanx to the fact I have parents who never pushed me at considering sex anything more or less than the totally most natural and awesome thing on Earth… and yeah my parents still bangin one another clearly and this is the greatest thing a daughter/son could understand. Sorry Freud…) 😉 and at some point some old fart came over and gave a sight of reproaching (mind your business, I am sure your “oh-so-holy” ass has betrayed your *lovingly* wife behind her back…), without saying a word.
My father said to Karim:
“Never try to become THAT way with my daughter or she’s gonna kick your ass.”.
I love my dad endlessly.
And so does his future son-in-law ;).
Karim in fact had a very gentle but cuttingly fierce way to answer (with a gracious humor) that as I love to ride horses, this time I might have found one ride where the horse ain’t that easy to be driven away from the road HE decides (which is true, and also the reason I am actually gonna marry him… me the person who had over 250 partners and never seemed interested to settle down AT ALL ;)).
This whole happy recurrence has of course been object of controversy in my Country (it shows well how low we’ve stepped… but I’m positive we can go even lower… *sigh*).
Karim and I are instead overjoyed and we are gonna spend the entirety of the day together in Museums, Galleries, then being by ourselves at home while reading about history, Civil Rights and CONSTITUTION (yeah, that thing some criminal ruling us is trying to make paper cut for wiping his ass… his face it’s the same, so his ass works…).
I’m very happy Karim feels home here; it will be amazing for us to have double citizenship, because for us the belonging to a place we actually root for is a major bond linkage.
We are yet unable to get passes for my Birthday trip… it seems hard to enjoy Hanami this year over Nihon but even if the celebrations wouldn’t be there… now and even more NOW I wanna get there to see and possibly help the Country…
I so bleed for my Japan.
And Karim does the same.
Before you wonder: NO WAY we change location for the marriage.
Don’t even kid.
Our marriage is sacred and it’s gonna be a Japanese Time.
End of the debate.
Talkin about marriage, and linkin it with birthdays… YES.
And well… given the happy recurrences (and the fact the video Meli – and K – helped me made is glorious), this post hosts a little truce in my temporary dislike of Mr. Adam Levine (the temporary dislike, you do know, runs and will run until The Voice Of Fuckery will still a thing), which allows me to do a little twisting of small updates strictly related on the birthday boy and his gorgeous gal (whom I still love daily and utterly. Anne has no part in my temporary dislikes… I still heart her 110% and continuously).
Adorable Anne V Collage
Anne actually makes me feeling better towards Adam these days, you know.
In fact, during her time in Los Angeles this month, her tweets were the only ones that were making me liking him like I used to that fair a bit still.
I don’t know if this year the two lovebirds will be able to spend again their birthday weekend together, because just hours ago Anne had to fly back from Los Angeles to New York (she was missing from there for a whole month, so it was time), and Adam has to stay in LA for … THAT THING THAT I WON’T MENTION.
But they sure had a great time together in the past ten days, as you can see here:
Adam Levine and Anne Vyalitsyna enjoy a Laker night out on March 14th 2011
The couple spent a huge amount of time together… but I don’t wanna take ages in detailing it – this is a TRUCE post, not a PEACE post, after all – then you know what?
I am also trying to read the less I can of their twitters, unless they are not news about valuable things like live dates, new music available, and similar things that DEFINE a real band… (I swear I am trying to not write bitterly, but it’s hard… that is why I have decided to not update Maroon 5 related news until I keep being let down by Adam’s choices: exactly because I am unable to put a brake on my running brain, and shut it down to avoid explaining how his actions make me feel disappointed in him).
Anyway, my friends have done a pretty nice job covering my unwilling gap so, enjoy:
Karim sent me those to remind me how in the end I will still be charmed by Adam, no matter what… but think that I am so upset by him still that not even his hotness wins me these days.
If I see his body, and think of his voice, and remind myself of his many blessing talents… and THEN I recall he sold it all on THE Fuckery… I can’t help.
I still boil over.
But ehi… this post is a truce post, I said it and I maintain it so enjoy Adam Levine’s bulge details.
And some awesome yoga posture of his that I keep lust over (Karim knows and he keeps making fun of me about it… ;)):
Pretty sure Anne V tucked him into in those naked Cosmo pictures... *yeah* 😉
This part of my upload of course falls under the “Gifts” part of the title…
LOL.
If your style in visual gifts though is less “physical” and more regularly oriented, then enjoy this other series of way more tamed shots:
Mega Gift Adam Levine collage
What can I say… that he’s gorgeous is under everybody’s eyes.
*sigh*.
But I have decided I don’t wanna close the post with him.
So I will leave the final spotlight to Anne, because she just makes me happier than he does these times.
Enjoy shining Russian Fairy in her Victoria’s Secret 2011 campaign:
Anne V for Victorias Secrets PINK 2011
And also this little patchwork video I made with her tv ad campaign shot for H&M with Freja, for the brand Spring Summer 2011 collection:
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I close the update with a surprising thank you to Inter (yes, you’ve read correctly) for having kept Italy in Champions League (wish Milan had been able to do the same), because it’s fair in the day of Italy’s birthday to put aside even sporty rivarly to honor just the Country sporty pride.
Then I will also say that Lakers are starting to shape up for playoffs.
I hope the tests that I am undergoing for finding the best therapy to fight my Labyrinthitis tendency will allow me to wake up at nights at least during playoffs.
Reruns of games are nice… but the true fan can’t content him/herself with merely those.
Waiting for Karim’s parents to reach us from Malpensa (yep, they will stay here a couple of days… well, not HERE in our loft all time, cos I’d freak out, but here in Milan, yep), and after a very intense working day (where I have finally managed to get back to do some pilates though, so it’s all good ;)) I am trying to fill these pages also because in 4 days we leave and I won’t update blogs till October 13.
Think that this same update is likely to be written in pieces so I am starting it now that’s Monday, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I’d extend it on Tuesday and maybe even Wednesday (so check the very likely “UPDATE Shoutouts”).
Adam arrives at Letterman, 21st september 2010
What can I do… I’m busy.
Plus there are so many things on the horizon for me it’s a miracle in the first place if I update blogs at all.
It’s just that I have a couple of words to say, especially musically, so this is going to be kinda LONG post and a bit of a rant too (not really a rant, camon… but probably a very long informative post too).
Before stepping in the music week (some would call it maybe on some aspect a “Mourning Week” but I won’t because to me what’s gonna happen has reasons that have NOTHING to do with artistry, so I’m fine with the outputs, although maybe I can have a regret or two. But that NEVER on the artistic side. You will understand me later… ;)), I have to pinpoint that YEP… in four days we leave towards California where Karim and I will get formally engaged.
Adam At The Grove, 24 September 2010 - 1-
I plan a small change in my online backgrounds just to make you get a glimpse of us together, but in a safe image that cannot be and won’t be spoiled or misused cos we’re not full frontal. Plus for Up’s Sake Karim’s hair are growing back (yeah… you know from my twitter this Summer he went all skin cut because he was feeling the heat. Not that he was not hot there as well, but I like to pass hands through hair so… glad his hair are getting back to be… toucheable ;).
What else?
Oh, yeah… we will go round in Cali followed by SECURITY.
This is because Karim’s parents will be around but also because this is actually the way the majority of Karim’s life has been lived like.
Hands All Over launch party at Le Bain Sept. 2010
That is actually one of the reason he loves to live in Italy for: he has no family or status commitments of no type – or at least he has very few only – and in fact when I was like “Whoooo!!! Security for us? COOL!!!” he was just “Trust me, it ain’t a good thing… especially when you live like that since the start of your life…”.
I always tend to forget Karim’s background.
I shouldn’t but for me he’s… just this awesome man full of heart and talent and brain and sensitivity and for real all the rest disappears and for me… security shit really feels more like… a way to protect such a wonderfulness from scary people.
Adam At The Grove 24th Sept 2010 - 2-
But yeah.. I get it can be demanding for the self to be surrounded by such things since the whole of your life.
That’s why we will live in Italy, right? 😉 (for the foreseable future at least ;)).
At the moment that I am writing NOW, with not big surprise by my side (you know from all my previous posts how I was finding IDIOTIC the type of promotional duties and timetables the guys chose to commit to in Summer for Hands All Over…) all charts are basically kickin in the guts Sweet Babies latest effort (which doesn’t mean, see my previous post with the review, this ain’t their best effort in full fact), because okay that they are entering all charts in the top ten, but that is a serious step back compared from the release of If Won’t Be Soon Before Long.
The chart of USA, which will anyway show a MAJOR decrease in selling numbers (but again, EVERY artist has experienced a decrease to 1/3 of what they were formally able to sellcompared to three years ago, see Linkin Park, for instance.. that’s the state of Industry right now…) at the moment I am writing – MONDAY – is a battle with Zac Brown Band (an ass half-pop half-country band which STOLE already the Grammy of Best New Artist from MGMT last edition, and which like all Country acts benefits from the fact the Country fans still buy records and don’t rely on Torrent/eMule/Stealing music), which the Country act could easily win I believe, just because of a series of elements.
Hard Rock Cafe showcase 22 Sept. 2010
Which I am about to detail (and which have been enlightened also before in parts over these pages).
Think that while you read all this two things have to stay clear in your mind:
HANDS ALL OVER IS A PERFECT ALBUM and MY FAVOURITE of Maroon5.
I CANNOT CARE LESS OF CHARTS, especially in days like this where shit generally rules anyway.
All that being said, let me detail my view about the “demise”… Factors that troubled this whole release were:
1 – As I wrote before: Country acts are still BOUGHT by their not tech savvy fans. In this, Country right now is the hugest and more marketable products in USA.
On the opposite side of the mountain, Maroon 5 fans are of the category that has no trouble downloading their songs illegally, being the usual melting pot of pop, urban, mainstream listeners (I give to their more rockish and r’n’b fanbase, which still part of their audience, a more driven will of going out and actually BUY their stuff still… but we all know from the datas of the sharing sites that Hands All Over has been majorly listened and downloaded way before its release… see again my previous posts disgust about this all).
Then this Zac Brown Band record is the second of an hyped band (they got the nuber feature in Billboard on the week of release of the record actually, which tells you some doesn’t it?), and we all know how much that works well, because in 2007 Maroon5 were media darlings as well.
Advantage ZBB, regardlessly of the quality of offering. That is watered down country at best, but ehi, I don’t like Country in first place myself, not even if Maroon 5 perform it actually… And moreover really, Zac Brown Band is a very watered down pop country crossover, nothing as great as Dave Matthews for instance, more of a bastardized version of that.
Adam At The Grove, 24 Sept. 2010 - 3-
Again on the opposite side, the press about Maroon 5 and the general consensus has been moderately cold. A part of the spectrum has reckoned that this is actually their most complete record and easily their best, while the majority has expressed doubts about this all given the fact to ditch the sound so marketable and uniquely theirs of Songs About Jane, after all the world was asking them to put it back, would have been not well taken by the wide majority of their fanbase (which someway has happened, but this is because that fanbase cannot accept a growth artistically of the band. And there, sorry, I don’t follow the “common fanbase” at all.).
Adam At The Grove, 24 Sept. 2010 - 4-
And let’s face… hype of the market is NEEDED in these times of downhill music sales (phenomenon which will keep going on and on till all we are gonna have will be huge debuts, and then quick disappear of lots of “new acts”, unless they won’t follow religiously all steps of planning heads at their record HQs…).
2 – A complete WRONG pick up of the singles to come up with by the babies (a thing that I will honestly NEVER understand, and probably they underestimated too… Okay that you may feel out of touch with contemporary taste, but… THIS much? I have no idea how such a mistake could be made…).
Without a great driving first single, you just cut off any chance of your album to be a best seller, and this especially if you’re an established act, because you instantly gather the feeling from “environment” that you might just not be in tune with common sense anymore (which is awesome if you are the alternative hipster, and way less marvelous if you are meant to be super mainstream).
Adam At the Grove 24 Sept. 2010 - 5 -
You know I was skeptical about the tone of lyrics off Misery for being the first single (see all my previous posts about this topic), even though I loved the happy musical dress of the song, which I was thinking was suitable for the Summer. But by the time I was guessing all that, I didn’t know that in the record there was a song like STUTTER.
For Christ’s sake… what were they on to to NOT picking that up as first single?????
That song was perfect for Summer: groovy, unescapable, boosty, HAPPY (yep, an happy song, that is what people want to hear in Summer and especially if it’s a comeback single…ARGH!!), very power pop, totally Maroon5 and sexy at the right level…
Give A Little More would have been a good single choice as for number two, even though for me I Can’T Lie is far superior and moreover it would have showed that kind of retro’ sound, mourning but still happy in its sonic perception, that Maroon 5 fans off the first time LOVE.
Yes, because where is clear that the sound has shifted from Songs About Jane (I see it as an evolution, but we know legions of fans are actually let down by the fact they forgot R’n’B because that was in their eyes the uniqueness of Maroon 5 – to me it’s only partially true, but I can understand that point – ), truth is that I Can’T Lie would have content a lot exactly those kind of SAJ fans.
Holy Sky... click on the image to get on the blog where the original image was taken off from (here it's reworked with lights to erase background). He's PERFECT. End of it.
3 – The detachment from the moment they started to surface back with the singles and the time the album was released.
Hewl… way too long gap. Way too long. They had MONTHS to start to create a campaign for this all, and dunno why, they decided to take it so easy they were basically living under the radar.
It’s a choice, sure, they are entitled to it, but this was bound to take a HUGE toll.
4 – The complete let down of the rest of the world as for promotional duties during the pre-release time.
Okay this is something I have expressed concern, regret and disappointment all over and I’m not surprised at all of the outputs it has brought.
I hope they aren’t either because I cannot see how they could expect anything different than from what’s happening in the world-round charts.
You can think it’s not important as long as America works but that is so untrue: in a world so connected, the buzz in the REST of the world shows up is actually a boost and a comfort ALSO for your main market.
And unsurprisingly, the opposite effect drives your main market too (which is happening).
Relevance is a strong formula but gotta be worked over; now don’t get me wrong: to me charting relevance especially nowadays with all the marketing tricks and the general awful taste means a very little, so in myself I don’t really complain about anything because Hands All Over is a magnificent album: but I do believe if they’d just operated differently in launching it and takin more time to also explain what was about that record that they felt worthy and mattering this showdown in charts wouldn’t have been of this register.
As simple as that.
5 – The overall wrong assumption (this time actually by the fans) that Maroon 5 are easily marketable and easily “mainstream”.
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You know from my previous posts I love them exactly because of their richness in sound, so variate and so different, so for me that is actually NOT a minus. Their richness and versatility, which they have made SHINE in this record, is actually their best feature, and the reason they should gain praise for (like in the All Music Guide Review).
This is the measure of their artistic merit and the reason I personally couldn’t care less about their charting power (I never did).
But this is also what makes them have such an hard time making people rate them as greatly as they should been rated.
A rich, variate, educate taste such as the one a music of Maroon 5 deserved, is RARE.
It takes way more than your average pop listener to appreciate that, even though in the end they make “pop”, but “pop” in the Beatles way: EDUCATED pop that merges together all influences in something sonically pleasing and allegedly “natural” to the ear.
Heck, their VERSES are more melodic and hooking up than the wide majority of other musicians’s CHORUSES!!!
Karim's portrait of Adam Levine in his sweet 16. Grungey version from Maroon 5 iPhone app (aww) 🙂
But sure, this ain’t easy to make people acknowledge because they are and will be forever overlooked (unless they don’t go back to a full R’nB sound, which would make the world go in awe for, but which would simply NOT be them artistically… It’d be JUST a PART of them and they don’t want to get back there. And I respect that. A lot.
6 – The lack of sexiness displayed openly in the lyrics this time.
This is one of the tackiest and most stupid critic I’ve heard about this record.
I have addressed it in my previous post because I was sure others would have, and I stand by that: these lyrics are actually BETTER, more crafted, more real and more deep than those Adam used to write before.
They are more manly in the sense you can perceive it’s a man writing them and not a kid; and he SINGS them with way more passionate soul than ever before actually.
But again, in this quite shallow way to hear supposed “pop” music (it’s that a disease?), if you are not explicitly quoting sex you’re not sexy enough (NO WAY… , and a way to sing can be way sexier than the most open lyric, which anyway Adam gave room for anyone else to feel comfortable with, so I don’t see why if he felt these songs weren’t meant to express that, he should have got back to an old trick just because everybody expects that from him all the time…).
Maroon 5 ain’t gonna be political writers as Muse.
They cannot be some philosophers à la Radiohead, nor nerdy weirdos (in the best possible way) à la Vampire Weekend.
They sing about love and ehi, there’s freaking NO problem with that.
Beatles, Police, Stevie and tons other sung ALWAYS about that.
Stop thinkin there’s a mistake there because those telling you guys there is are probably into metal and they’re not exactly the type of people who’s gonna give a shit about you anyway.
They so totally totally shine… I would have never bothered any of them in the hotel, but watching them is like watching Peynet. Their babies could be so beautiful… I know I’m fixed with that sentence but maybe it’s my state of future bride, I don’t know… they just inspired me so well it’s unreal ;).
Talkin about that, and the fact public display by public people can be commented over ANYWHERE, one of Psycho’s frankly freaky friends (oh, btw… Psycho WROTE me emails again… I even answered, in a fluke of humanism… BAD IDEA. I guess she’s still compulsive, but if she really wants to take my advices and move on, I’m sincerly wishing her to find a safe place and a safe pace to cope with her obsessions. I truly wish her to recover… just I don’t wanna her to write me ever anymore, anyhow though thanx…) had the brilliant idea to question me about THIS the other day:
Weirdos rule the web... beware kids 😉 If THESE are the mums...
(if that’s recall you that weirdo DeliaDobbs fake twitter, is not by case…).
See, if I were obsessed like you all crazies, last week in Naples I would have followed Adam and Anne and bothered them, I would have taken tons of pictures of them from my privileged position and hotel stay and then I would have shared them all over the web.
BUT I DID NOT BECAUSE MY LAST WILL IS TO CRASH THEIR REAL AND PRIVATE LIVES or to display things they would never wish to display (learn something here, please).
I just enjoyed their sight together when it was displayed publicly in the place they were at. And kept the memory of the beauty they share around, without attempting any paparazzi-like move (I despise that attitude, also in the fans, deeply).
All that they don’t share for first, or that other news sources with status of media sources don’t claim about them doesn’t belong to web or to any other beside themselves well, and it WON’T EVER BE SHARED HERE… because it’s THEIR PRIVATE LIFE and I do respect it so totally, totally much (I do. You don’t crazies, because you keepon talkin HOURS online about them don’t you?).
Adam and Jesse Flying from Italy to New York, 19 September 2010
What is displayed here is simply a collection of known facts they as well let us know about being public people, collected in timely flow with the help and interest of at least 10 more persons beside me, and displayed on my page just because it is of interest for me being a lover of music and a lover of fashion and a lover of beauty to see my favourite singer together with one of my favourite models.
This is my prerogative because this blog detailes my likes, which they are part of, but it displays that in a very light way.
Now you stalker people stop mirroring my pages, or at least when I wear you off and out don’t go weep: my lawyers are always happy to meet yours anytime YOU FUCKING CREEPY LOSERS.
Go out of web for a while and do some sexually pleasant stuff: I bet this way you would stop spending more than half of the day online, creepy obsessive nerds.
I pity your sad lives with all my heart. No wait: I don’t: I laugh my ass off thinkin at your sad lives actually.
Okay, so let’s go on with the real things, while you keep reading and watching and hearing material out from the very fullfilled past week of Maroon 5.
This is a behind the scene radio piece that talks about the record again:
From the Crypt Blog: thank you for saving this awesome music
Click here to listen the download of that performance, which was so awesome even the not expected-to-like-Maroon5-type of audience swooned at the rendition:
And then the fabulous interview Adam did with OUT Magazine, which is so honest and see-throughable which made me feel totally empathic again with anything he said:
Adam interview for OUT magazine page 1
And page 2:
Adam Interview for OUT magazine page 2
I advice you to click on the shots because along the interview on their site there is also a wonderful video.
I love every single word Adam said there.
He’s so himself there and I like that he likes Gaga, too ;).
Somebody like this is just a shining soul (and he talked about Jakey G. because OUT is a gay magazine, you twits pouring venom over that… World is full of idiots, prudes, homophobics and douches, but Adam ain’t part of any of it FOR SURE…).
Now take some from Letterman (I saw the Italian rerun like 10 times already ;)):
In New York there has been another moment where they actually performed the Al Green Cover .
You know how I tend to consider the material they cover like a phase of Adam’s life so I am delighted about Let’s Stay Together choice.
I find it really beautiful, tender, romantic and the way he sings it truly makes you get how he FEELS the lyrics. :).
The special show at Hard Rock Cafe has therefore another try there (though the Stern’s one is superior. Man there they were so flawless they impressed a very unexpected portion of the audience, which is a great thing).
So enjoy:
and then part two:
And there you go, again Al Green :
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While we were talkin about Europe as well in the above lines, please check (even though it’s in French) this lovely review about the Westin showcase the guys did in Paris the other week, and that you know from my previous posts too:
Maroon 5 At Westin Hotel, Paris, September 2010
It’s so true that having the blissful experience of catching hem live is kinda a trip into a senseful, erotically charged yet elegant dimension.
I can see their new songs somehow might be difficult to strip down fully on that level, although to me it could be easier with these songs than any out from IWBSBL actually.
Lovely Russian Fairy Anne V. and Florence Majesty - 1-
Before the close up of the post, please, let me have a moment of Country Pride as well (Country in the sense of ITALY, right?) because as I told you Anne has enjoyed firstly my Milan, took the advices I gave for her during eating times there (hopefully those about shopping too) and loved the style of our offerings.
Beside these communications, I had a great Fashion Week as well past week in Milan (beside missing due to rainstorm C’N’C, which was cute anyway they said me), where I have been going to shows and enjoying catwalks and parties and yep… I love beauty and style in all forms, so don’t blame me for being fashionista because for me it’s all about being an esthete ;).
But don’t expect private pics again 😉 sorry 😉
What else?
I say nothing else for a while.
Unless as I said I won’t have to slightly update THIS post tomorrow or the day after (not a new one though).
I just hope my babies are fine and well with themselves because truth is they are progressing artistically and they have nothing to regret on the artistic side.
Anne enjoying San Lorenzo this very morning, monday Sept. 27th 2010
I wish them joy and to keep their pace.
I like that.
I adore their music.
And I’m feeling better due to it (and I am a very happy person in myself, so imagine what specialty has to be the one which can make me feel even HAPPIER).
Enjoy your days folks.
Next time I’ll write here a new post (and not a small update onto an already written post) I’ll be and engaged gal.
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