Besides the tears and emotional trauma from my bio and chem classes, I'm doing okay! How are you?!

'Sup, mah homie

Oh my gosh!!! I completely forgot about this whole website/music service thing/whatever it is! I've left you hanging for months! My bad!

I'm not sure where you could find them, but they've started releasing the performances to iTunes.

They haven't actually released any this year so far. At least not to iTunes, but I don't think they'd exist anywhere else. I'm not sure why they haven't but my guess would be to make the eventual winner's single a bigger deal, especially after Harrison last year charted much better with several performances than with his single.

"Crash & Burn" #1 overall. :D

Hi Brit. We both have Darren at #1 and SG at #4 in our top artists lists, though SG is in immediate danger from Gaga at #5. heh

Haha good thing it's the middle of the semester, because if you had a decent amount of free time you'd totally try and photoshop that scene into existence. Oh, and Aussie won't run like a normal dog, or do anything else like a normal dog. If he does, then he isn't a pug, because pugs aren't normal. If they were, neither of us would be anywhere near as obsessed with them.

Also, as soon as I saw a new message in my Gmail inbox in the 'social' category, I was like "Hmm, I was just scrobbing Savage Garden on my Last FM. I wonder if... yep."

I think I was literally in the process of typing out a reply in your thread at the very minute that you posted that. More evidence that the fact that our brains are both 50% pug allows you to read my mind. *snorts like a pug and then bounces and flounces across a field of flowers*

I wouldn't be upset, cause they are deserving of being in a top 2. I hate how it double scrobbles though, I've had it scrobble one song 60+ times before & I had to go back & individually delete every scrobble for that song except the correct ones, I didn't really care for the song, therefore that's why I did that. There have been times though where I didn't mind, like when it's one of my fav's so my current stats aren't all that correct either. :P "Truly Madly Deeply" is absolutely flawless. <3 *Bows to Savage Garden being #4 (Truly #3) on your all-time list*

Big Time Rush is closing in on that #1 quickly. :O

Yeah yeah, tell it to the judge after you get sued for misrepresenting your Darren fandom. I'll testify in your favor in the courtroom though since your Last FM page contains the words "I love pugs".

Number THREE? Man, if I was Darren, I'd go out of my way to not stop anywhere close to North Dakota on my North American tour.

I listened to "Flow" & it didn't quite cling to me the way Guy Sebastian's songs did, I'll have to listen to more than just that though. :P I agree that the album isn't all that great, "Like It Like That" is fantastic though. Yeah my personal chart is located here: http://pulsemusic.proboards.com/post/4624284/thread I'm still finishing the formatting for it for this week. :P How is it possible not to dig "Like A Drum"?

I'm checking out "Flow" rn :) I love "Like A Drum" (In fact it's #2 on my personal chart rn). And I also love "Battle Scars" from Guy. I just recently listened to his album Like It Like That, but I'll have to check "Armageddon" out soon. ;)

No I did not, all I knew was that he has an amazing voice. :P

Guy Sebastian slaying in your artist column. <3

Haha, really? Thank you. :D

Lol than it will literally be a big time rush for 1st. :P

bwahaha I knew I was going to be greeted by McPuggets as soon as I saw your post. But how the heck am I supposed to top that if I ever get around to adding something to my 'About Me' section?

Well, I'm interested to see if any of these will ever pull away w/ the lead. :P

I'm sorry I left without ever replying to you :(

Glad the pricing's good! On "No Communication", I uploaded the album to vimeo last year; can you check if it sounds better there? http://vimeo.com/54382203 - skip to 1:04:24. It's HD so I think the audio should be pretty close to a high quality mp3, so if it still sounds poor there then it's probably the song itself, though I can't say I've noticed anything myself. And thanks on my avatar :)

If you wish to buy it (just saying that so it doesn't sound like I'm forcing or pressuring you to; I'm not even sure if I'll buy it myself), have you looked at wowhd? http://www.wowhd.us/CD/delta-goodrem-innocent-eyes-anniversary-edition/dp/35914491 Free shipping, though the item itself is $23.99 which is probably expensive, for US prices at least. I don't think I've ordered with them myself, but Censor might have if you want to ask him, and they're the recommended site in the Delta Daily thread anyway. You could also wait and see if it comes out on iTunes too, as it is up for pre-order in Europe - whether that means there's a higher or lower chance of it getting a US release I can't decide, but it's probably a possibility at least.

It's crazy how close your top 3 artists are. :P They all 3 deserve to be up there though. :)

so Sony chose today to announce it. lol

It was the performance on YouTube I watched, I didn't realise she'd done it on her Soundcloud too. (I didn't realise that was the performance that got her eliminated either.) I like that version so much more! I had to go look that up on her tumblr (and turn my screen's brightness way up, choosing tumblr themes definitely isn't her forte...); watching back the performance I think I can tell she wasn't comfortable. It really is unfortunate but at the same time I'm not at all surprised. I'm too cynical on The Voice/X Factor/etc. http://deltadaily.com/forums/topic/2191-innocent-eyes-10-year-anniversary-release-discussion-thread/ - I check that thread a few times a week, and yeah there's next to no information yet. I'm assuming it's still going to happen, hopefully this year because she's quickly approaching its 11th anniversary lol.

Oh, really a shame she didn't get further :( Anyway, more thoughts on her stuff from me. I didn't like Creep, I think her voice just doesn't work on it for me. Blue Jeans (which is by Lana Del Rey) was lovely! Then I went and listened to the original songs on her bandcamp. All were nice but none really hit me, which is basically what I expected. Paper Love and More Than Nothing sound like they have wind blowing loudly in the back of the recordings (probably not wind, but that's my best description) and after that I started paying too much attention to the quality of the recordings and they were definitely sounding more like DIY 'at home' recordings as opposed to professional recordings, and while I can't judge the songs on that, it would be a detriment if I were to download any of them and listen to them amongst my regular music (which is unlikely, so I'm not sure why I'm saying it, but still!). Anyway still, she is indeed very good. I'll try not to forget about her :P (yay <1000!)

[2/2? or maybe it goes at the end?] After all that I wanted to hear Torn so I searched it up and got a download; pretty nice! To be honest it's not something I'd listen to much as (to me at least; I know you probably feel differently) it's really similar to the original, but she did it well. I went for The Scientist too while I was at it and I like it a lot, though I'm not sure if I know the original. I'll have to fix that shortly. From all those I think I can safely say I like her, so no need to punch me :) Thanks for introducing me! If she's still in The Voice, how far has she made it? (I have no idea how far along The Voice is in the US, but I'm guessing pretty close to the end since it's getting near the end of the year... maybe not though.) Oh and lastly I have to say that despite her great covers, "The Cup Song Cover" was my favourite thing I watched.

This ended up being over 1000 characters so I'm going to have to split it between two shouts. Why do we always end up having the longest messages even when there's a character limit? :P Anyway, the message: Glad you liked the video! :) Ok, so I listened to Radioactive and loved it. Then I clicked on the second link for The Scientist and it's blocked here, fun. I wasn't satisfied with just one so I went to Royals and I did not like it at all. Possibly I'm just too protective of the original. Anyway I didn't want to finish on a bad note so I tried a couple more: Video Games was very good and I loved Your Song and Flume (which I only clicked on because I thought "flume-bon iver" was some weird collaboration between the two artists, rather than a Bon Iver song called "Flume", and I wanted to find out what the hell it was... lol). [cont, or 1/2, or something like that]

If I'm in your top 2, does that mean you hate everyone? ;) I went and uploaded the Forgot You video to Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/77481450 I can't say for sure if it won't be blocked, but it's worth a try; enjoy if it lets you! I feel like I probably wouldn't like them as much as you expect, but who/what are the people/songs? I'll give them a try :P

I haven't forgotten either. I actually assumed you probably hated me so was surprised when you responded to my shout, lol. I had not heard that version, just listened to it now and to my surprise I think I like it more than the studio version. It translates really well to the acoustic/piano arrangement (wasn't expecting that either) and she sounds amazing. :) And yeah, the whole "Take Me Home" thing - still amazed!

I haven't been around Pulse much lately in general, but yes, I am alive! On the song, honestly it didn't meet my expectations. I do like it though. I'm on the same page with the rap (and a bit confused as to why they put it in, since rap in pop songs hasn't really been trendy for a while now), and not sold on the 'whoa-oh's either, but the rest is pretty good - and I mean, I'm REALLY glad she finally released new music, haha. So I'm happy enough. "Take Me Home"... the Delta... b-side?!?!?!?!?!!!! I'm pretty much in shock just from reading it. Amazing.

Bella Ferraro's new single is out (yesterday)! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZUHGaLfmIA

But do you understand that I'm totally okay with it?

There are a few more Darren songs I've played on the iPod recently; I just haven't scrobbled those plays yet. Oh and you gave me 96 Darren songs, which is not "at least 100". As you would say, figure yourself out.

Did you mean the "12" mini me mix for I Knew I Loved You, I listened to that one & I love it, but if the "7" mini me mix is different, where can I find it?

Yeah, I love Big Time Rush haha :)

Just when it looked like Big Time Rush was on pace to someday knock Darren out of that top spot, Darren comes back with a roar. A roar so loud and powerful that it makes the most vicious tiger in the world sound like a baby sheep going "bahhh" for the first time. Or a baby brinny going "merrr" for the first time.

Hmm, I'll have to listen to the Acoustic Version, I don't think I've heard that.

BTR isn't out of place imo. I like a lot of their songs. :) I Knew I Loved You is flawless. <3

Love your top 10 artists outside of one that I'm not familiar with (Emerson Drive), I especially like that Delta is #1, Natalie Imbruglia is top 5 & David Archuleta is top 10

:O Delta is your #1, and Ellie is almost top 10?! Yay! That makes me happy!

Your friend request and my play of "Wishing I Was There" both came in time stamped "1 hour ago"; did you happen to visit me when I was playing that? Because if so, that'd be one awesome coincidence. Either way, thanks for the request!

Low compatibility? Methinks we need to exchange massive quantities of music one of these days.