So we do these periodic blogga parties… the last one was ‘pretty epic’ so we decided to upscale the venue a bit and team up with fellow budapest-promoters Kollektiva to bring the 3rd edition to y’all. Usual deal: local art/fashion/music/culture blogs, lots of live projected stuff, ‘wall twittering’ (which will show up here: http://2manybloggas.com), and a helluva party.

We have the feeling if Annie was Hungarian, rather than Norwegian, that she would totally be in attendance. We also have the feeling that if this version of Antonio (Designer Drugs, yo!)  were not so addictive, we would not post it after 2 billion blog years have passed. But so it goes. Incidentally, participating are:

http://www.mykunk.com
http://www.kollektiva.hu
http://www.bpfashion.hu
http://www.dailybest.hu
http://www.gumipop.hu
http://mashkulture.net
http://kultplay.hu
http://langologitarok.blog.hu
http://mindennapibetevo.freeblog.hu
http://ourstyle.freeblog.hu
http://www.pto.hu
http://www.the-popfilter.com
http://sofakingfasinating.blogspot.com/

See you friday!

Annie - Antonio (Designer Drugs Remix) [mediafire] // [ysi]

So we were totally beaten to the punch by the stereo that is big, but we’ll pay no mind in this case as Stacey Q is a 4.30am staple at Kunk gigs. When I saw the Norwegian silver fox and Manhattan LES darling Annie covered the classic, Two of Hearts, I hesitated a bit before pressing play. No need for worry, however — love it. Still gay sounding but with more grit and jangle than the original, I think we can safely tuck Stacey’s version to the back burner and let a new staple get some love for a while.

No word yet if Hot Rod 2 will feature Annie’s rather than Stacey’s version. (Okay i have no idea if there will be a Hot Rod 2, and if you never saw Hot Rod, this comment won’t make sense anyhow.)

Annie’s sophomore album, Don’t Stop, will be hitting a blog near you in no time.

Annie - Two of Hearts [zshare] // [ysi]

Stacey Q - Two of Hearts [zshare] // [ysi]

Too many posts about them now. We’ll get on the bandwagon in the next wave haha. Blonde beauties from the North. Perfect examples of gender problems dating back several hundred years: at least until the first Italian and English sonnets. The Other idealized until a point that it’s not really an other anymore cause it dissolves into nothing. There’s an interesting ambiguity concerning this image: it is as humiliating for women as it is graceful. Okay, enough of the feminist 20th-21st century bullshit. Who’s Annie? She’s a Norwegian pop diva born by the name: Anne Lilia Berge Strand. In 2004, her album Anniemal made quite a buzz and the song Heartbeat (video) was said to open a new era for girl pop icons. It didn’t really do the job but it was cute and beautiful in an acceptable romantic way and a couple hip electro guys started to pay attention and remix. MSTRKRFT, SebastiAn, Alan Braxe amongst others. 2008, new album is nearly here: Don’t Stop is gonna come out this month. It was preceded by I Know Your Girlfriend Hates Me which (with remixes again) made a blog-fire. I don’t really expect anything but a cute girl making something more interesting and ecletic than the rest of them who are in the showbiz. Listen to I Can’t Let Go featuring another Norwegian singer: Fredrik Saroea from Datarock. This song is like electro-pop Kills. Posted some older remixes as well.

Annie - I Can’t Let Go [zshare] // Annie - I Can’t Let Go [ysi]

Annie - Heartbeat (MSTRKRFT remix) [zshare] // Annie - Heartbeat (MSTRKRFT remix) [ysi]

Annie - Heartbeat (Alan Braxe remix) [zshare] // Annie - Heartbeat (Alan Braxe remix) [ysi]

Annie - Happy Without You (SebastiAn remix) [zshare] // Annie - Happy Without You (SebastiAn remix) [ysi]