On many YouTube videos, you have to watch an annoying advertisement before you can view the video that you clicked on. For the first time in my life, I'm actually really glad that there was an ad preceding the video I was waiting to watch. The advertisement was for an eighteen-year-old singer/songwriter named Jake Bugg, a young man from Nottingham, England. Intrigued by the music in the video, I clicked on it and was introduced to a whole album of spectacular music that I couldn't believe I hadn't heard sooner.
It seems that on every YouTube video for an old song, people write comments saying, "Why doesn't music sound like this anymore?" But, now, with Jake Bugg, that dream has come true for those people. Jake's music has this quality that makes it seem like it doesn't belong in this time, and I mean that in the best possible way. With a bluesy indie-rock sound, his songs don't seem like they're from this century full of pop and dance music with auto-tuned voices and machine-made instrumental sounds. This guy can actually play guitar, sing in a beautifully unique voice, and come up with the most impressive lyrics. To prove my point, here's Jake Bugg's videos for "Two Fingers," "Lightning Bolt," and "Taste It."
I'm absolutely in love with these songs, because of the way they sound and their lyrics. I haven't had such a strong, positive reaction to an artist's music in a long time.
I'm so happy to have been introduced to this guy's music. I love uniqueness, so I'm really enjoying all of Jake Bugg's songs. I truly can't wait until my copy of Jake's self-titled album to make its way from the UK to my house in America.
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