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You’re a good soldier
Choosing your battles
Pick yourself up, dust yourself off
And back in the saddle

You’re on the front line
Everyone’s watching
You know it’s serious
We’re getting closer
This isn’t over

The pressure is on, you feel it
But you got it all, believe it

When you fall get up, oh, oh
And if you fall get up, eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
‘Cause this is Africa

Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka waka eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
This time for Africa

Listen to your God
This is our motto
Your time to shine
Don’t wait in line
Y vamos por todo

People are raising
Their expectations
Go on and feed them
This is your moment
No hesitations

Today’s your day, I feel it
You paved the way, believe it

If you get down get up, oh, oh
When you get down get up, eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
This time for Africa

Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka waka eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa aa

Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka waka eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
This time for Africa

Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka waka eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa aa

Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka waka eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
This time for Africa

Thango eh eh
Thango eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa aa

Thango eh eh
Thango eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa aa

This time for Africa
This time for Africa

We are all Africa
We are all Africa

Here are the lyrics of a Randy Travis song, titled: A Little Bitty Crack In Her Heart.

Shattered inside and scattered around
Were pieces of her broken heart
I gathered her up, the pieces I found
I put her back together like a busted guitar
But some glue holds and some glue don’t  In spite of everything I tried
Somebody’s stole my darlin’
Right before my very eyes

He didn’t walk, talk or push his way in
Or fly through the windows on a gust of hot wind
He didn’t sprout wings
And he sure wasn’t playin’ no harp
As low as he was, I couldn’t see him
Slitherin’ around in the dark
He must’ve crawled through
A little bitty crack in her heart

Copin’ with hone and hoping i’m wrong
But I sure see a definite change
There’s look in her eyes that’s sayin’ goodbye
And her snuggle when I hold her don’t feel the same
The way her heart beats for that sneaky thief
You would picture him dark and tall
But the feller that stole my darlin’
Lord, he’d have to be very small

He didn’t walk, talk or push his way in
Or fly through the windows on a gust of hot wind
He didn’t sprout wings
And he sure wasn’t playin’ no harp
As low as he was, I couldn’t see him
Slitherin’ around in the dark
He must’ve crawled through
A little bitty crack in her heart

As low as he was, I couldn’t see him
Slitherin’ around in the dark
He must’ve crawled through
A little bitty crack in her heart
Lord, he must’ve craweled through
A little bitty crack in her heart

You Know Me Better Than That Lyrics
Artist(Band):George Strait

Baby since you left me there’s somebody new
She thinks I’m perfect I swear
She likes my body, my class, and my charm
She says I’ve got a confident air
She respects my ambition, thinks I’m talented too
But she’s in love with an image time is bound to see through
Oh,

Chorus:
You know me better than that
You know the me that gets lazy and fat
How moody I can be
All my insecurities
You’ve seen me lose all my charm
You know I was raised on a farm
Oh she tells her friends I’m perfect
And that I love her cat
But you know me better than that

I miss picnics and blue jeans and buckets of beer
Now it’s ballet and symphony hall
I’m into culture clean up to my ears
It’s like wearin’ a shoe that’s too small
Oh I caught her with an issue of brides magazine
Starin’ at dresses and pickin’ out rings
But,

Chorus

Oh she tells her friends I’m perfect
And that I love that cat
Oh, but you know me better than that

How Dutch radio these days is no fun at all, because these people are so convinced they have the best music and best personalities that they totally lost contact with their audience. Since some 5 years there is an emphasis on Dutch product on Dutch radio, that Dutch radio listeners are being forced to appreciate lots of bands and singers in a genre which didn’t exist 10 years ago. The Netherlands isn’t my home, so I mainly listen to Australian radio via the Internet. But that Australian radio recently is playing annoying songs during the night programming when I listen. I also listen regularly to Canadian radio and that these stations play hits Dutch radio doesn’t have but which have come to mean a lot to me. Dutch classic rock is a laugh, they play the same old songs  over and over and think how great they are. If these Dutch listeners would have an opportunity to listen to Canadian radio they would no longer accept Dutch Classic Rock radio’s narrow minded music selection. Dutch radio is really, really bad, horrible, appalling, and so on.

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This is Australian guitar player Orianthi, last week she was at number 6 in the American Top 40. She can play the guitar incredibly well.

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About 10 years ago, certain Dutch people with power over the media realized that there was no such thing as Dutch local music, in the Dutch language. So they acted. Then we got lots of Dutch bands and artists who sang in Dutch, at first it was mainly Dutch pop music, but then crossed over to more – what they call in Germany – a Schlager type of music. For instance a singer with real instruments singing a song in Dutch about Dutch women. In Central Holland we got BingoFM, which is a radio station which only broadcasts Dutch Schlager music. Something people of my generation hadn’t dreamt possible in the 1980s. People are confronted with these new artists everywhere, that this resulted in a whole new Dutch culture. For The Netherlands this would be a good thing, but I don’t identify myself with this country. How there are world famous bands that we don’t get to hear on Dutch radio because Dutch radio is very selective in what they broadcast for their Dutch listeners. Certain bands don’t get an opportunity to be played on Dutch radio, where other artists do. This is basically the influence of the local music director. But that I noticed how these  four Dutch national radio stations mainly all opt for the same bands. So if the biggest Dutch station decided not to broadcast a band, then the other stations won’t play them either. So there is no competition between Dutch radio stations. That I switch off Dutch radio because I am being confronted with artists I don’t appreciate, a problem I don’t have with Australian or Canadian radio. Sometimes I am missing 1980s music, but that on the Internet there are several streams dedicated to 80s music, which play the exact songs I want to hear. Still I am saddened by the fact that I am no longer enjoying Dutch radio. That they make me feel like an outcast, most of the time.

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This is the band: Diafrix with their new song ‘Concrete Jungle’. I appreciate the message this song conveys.

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I associate this song with Valentine’s Day – also known as Singles Awareness Day – for this year.
Sung by country singer Clint Black, titled: ‘Gulf Of Mexico’.

The Texas coastline hold her
Close just like a lady
And in their time they’ve
Weathered a storm or two.
The river feed her waters like
I feed your memory.
The deeper I go the more I’m turning blue.

The sandy beaches drift in time
And the changing tide I know
Won’t bring me back to yesterday
And the Gulf of Mexico.
The sails out on the water will
Come take you away.

When your ship comes in I know its time to go
And the waves along the seawall
Tell me nothings here to stay
And no man is an island but I’m still all alone.

I’m weighing anchors from the past
As the south winds start to blow
Sailing out of yesterday
And the Gulf of Mexico.
I’ll be sailing out of yesterday
And the Gulf of Mexico.

Again the songs I voted for in the Hottest 100 for 2009 did really well!

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I have been to Australia twice and I never was in North America. I found this radio station – which I really like – in Canada almost two years ago while I have been listening to Australian radio since 2004. I like to listen to foreign radio, because it gives you a feel of what a country is like. These days I listen to several Canadian radio stations. It is hard to tell the precise difference between Canada and Australia, both of these countries still have ties with Britain, and that you can tell that both countries are immigrant countries. In Australia they play Cricket in Canada they play Ice Hockey. How the capital of Canada Ottawa is the coldest capital city in the world, where Australia is kind of hot. Canada has a far bigger economy than Australia. The Netherlands has several large corporations like SHELL, ING and Philips. I wonder sometimes if Dutch business people would contact people in Australia to tell them to hurt my feelings, I reckon that they could do so if they wanted to. How on Canadian radio they feature a Heineken commercial since a few weeks. I have mixed feelings where my being Dutch is concerned. After all these people kicked me off university, turned me into a mental patient and then made me really unattractive. I think they did this because the American military showed an interest in me, and that they couldn’t let this be and that they used me as an example as to what can happen to you when you are not loyal. President Bush Senior showed an interest in me, which was only the beginning of my political career abroad. I learned that you have to invest in people when they are down, because only then you will be able to make a profit and reach satisfaction. How I got to know Beth and Julie, who both made it to become inspiration for world wide pop icons. The Americans taught me: “It is not what you know, it is who you know.” I made friends in American radio and that I feel the US Air Force carefully selected Beth and Julie to get to know me, because the Air Force felt these women had potential. I think anybody can be a star, everybody has got something special. But that it comes down to what you as a star would add to the entertainment business. That you inspire kids to be good, or be a learning experience to teach kids how to avoid pitfalls everybody has to deal with. In 1999 I used to email twice a week with Vanessa a girl from Tasmania, but that I never got to see a picture of her, maybe she wasn’t good looking. Still she too became inspiration for an Australian pop star, and that this particular star is a projection of Vanessa’s personality and background. Tasmania is far away from major Australian cities, and has maybe only 300,000 to 400,000 inhabitants on the whole island so most bands touring in Australia don’t perform in Tasmania. I reckon this means that people in Tasmania listen to local bands performing. So that there are bands who are stars in Tasmania because they are local celebrities. Also nationally successful artists in Australia move to the Uk or the USA to break through in Europe, America or even globally. To work with producers who are more experienced than Australian producers. I know a lot of Australian hits which I heard on Australian radio, but that I cannot remember which song is by which artists and what it sounds like. While I also know Canadian bands of whom I instantly recognize their tunes, band name and title of a song. Canadian bands compete on the American market, where Australian bands rarely make it outside of Australia. Australians are more creative where music is concerned, where Canadians are able to produce songs which go on to become classics. Australian classics most of the time don’t become hits outside the country. So Australia and Canada share lots of similarities and opposites but are both special.

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