Thursday, May 21, 2015

Blessed

More gospel.  
Spotify is totally confused.  When you click on the artist "Blessed," their system pulls up at least four different artists' information and just mashes it all together.  

  • the image at the top of the page looks similar to the ladies that the official ACL website image shows.  This is probably the correct Blessed.
  • The biography on that same page for Spotify says this is a "Jamaican born, Canada raised Reggae artist and performer."  I am going to assume this is not the right Blessed, although he did apparently win a Juno Award in 2002.
  • The first album on the list is a "Chopped & Twizted" album of rap music called "Woundz" by a dude.  It is terrible.  Hopefully this is not the right Blessed.
  • The second album listed appears to not even be by a person or group called Blessed, but is somehow "Music from Keyon Dooling's New Book Performed by Bless'Ed."  This might be the same rapper as the top album, but how does a book have music?  What is going on?  And then the third and fourth albums are also rap, but the guy on the cover of these albums doesn't appear to be the same dude?
  • The 2000 album called "Blessed" is three ladies and a dude, not four ladies.  So much confusion.
On top of that, googling "Blessed" is just dumb.  All the hits!  And counting!  And I can't see the word blessed without thinking hashtag blessed and feeling annoyed.  But that is my own issue.

Anyway, I'm going to go with what the ACL website says, which is that this group is a group of ladies from Houston who are "full of the Holy Ghost."  Further, "BLESSED is ready to have a shouting good time with each of you."  Why do they need to shout at me?  Is this a gospel thing?  As far as I can tell, they have a 2000 album called Journey for the Heart, another 2000 album called Blessed (maybe not them?), and then a 2008 album called Unshakeable. The most popular song on Spotify in this trainwreck of an artist page appears to be from these ladies, and it is called "Your Mercy."  Just over 10k plays, so they've gotten some notice.
Woah, 223k plays on YouTube, and a bunch of cover versions on YouTube as well.  I guess this song hit the gospel big time.  Again, I am about the last person who should be reviewing gospel, as its just not my thing, but you can't deny the strength of their voices.  Really top notch.  And people dig this song enough to cover it and post their cover.  Maybe this is the good stuff?  I hope they hit the big time and everyone forgets about the rapper(s), reggae-er, and maybe another vocal group that has a dude in it.

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