Lenka - The Show
Like On My Way, I also came across this great song of this Aussie singer-actress, Lenka, at [V] Tunes. This song remind me of Sara Bareilles or Feist kind of songs. Just recently, I heard this on local radio stations and on MTV Philippines. This is really a hot new song. The Show.
Lenka (born Lenka Kripac in 1978) is an Australian television actress turned ensemble musician with Decoder Ring, turned solo singer-songwriter, most famous worldwide for her song “The Show“, which has been used in numerous advertisements, most notably for Old Navy.
Previously best known as the third host of a long-running children’s breakfast cartoon program Cheez TV in Australia, she has appeared in numerous Australian television serials. She is now based in Los Angeles.
“Don’t Let Me Fall” was featured in a television commercial for Telus in Canada. “The Show” has been featured as soundtrack for an Old Navy as well as an Ugly Betty commercial, the film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, the 2009 Spring Campaign of the Polish TV Station TVN (Poland), and was promoted as an iTunes Free Single of the Week. The songs “Trouble Is a Friend” and “Live Like You’re Dying” were featured in Grey’s Anatomy and “Trouble is a Friend”, “Don’t Let Me Fall”, “The Show”, and “We Will Not Grow Old” were featured in the teen drama 90210.
Lenka has been heavily promoted by her new record company, Epic Records, including making appearances on the late-night network television interview shows in America, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and The Tonight Show singing “The Show” with her full band.
On the week of 3 November 2008, “The Show” debuted at number 71 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart.
On February 2nd 2009 Lenka performed her first sold out show in Toronto, Canada which she played a remix version of “The Show” as her encore.
Lyrics:
I’m just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a