Vanilla Sky "Changes"

Vanilla Sky is an Italian band singing in the American pop punk style made famous by bands such as blink 182 and Fall Out Boy. Their songs remind me of the songs we can hear on any Cartel/All Time Low/Cute Is What We Aim For/Summer Obsession/Powerspace/(the list could go on for days) album. So why give them a listen? Our iPods are full of this kind of music already, we don't need to add more to it. F

That could be that, but like any band with the drive to succeed Vanilla Sky has worked to make a sound their own. Yellow Card has the violin, Paramore has the girl singer, and Vanilla Sky has the whole Italian thing.

Current single, Goodbye, also has an Italian version Si Vuoi Andare, which is surprisingly more engaging than the English version. Which isn't to say that the English songs aren't good, they are catchy poppy songs that you will have stuck in your head, at least for a few minutes.

The songs on "Changes" are all good songs that are perfect for summer trips in the car, or drunken sing-a-longs at parties. They just lack that something special that really makes it stay in your head for days at a time.

Unless, of course, you are referring to their cover of one of the catchiest songs ever released. Last summer Vanilla Sky, and every other person in the world, released a version of Rihanna's Umbrella. Out of all of the versions I listened to I found Vanilla Sky and Mandy Moore to have the only versions good enough to compete with the original.

Vanilla Sky then took it to the next level when they made their own version of Rihanna's video.


You know a band is good when they can take a song everyone knows and make it their own.

This is a band to keep an eye on. Already big in Europe I expect nothing but great things from these guys; because as they tell me in On and On, our relationship is never done. B

On and On we carry on
The same old story but we must go on
We're barely here and the sun is gone for now
On and On we carry on
The same old story but we must go on
We're barely here and the moon is gone for now
You and I are never done