tribute

I was really heartbroken when I heard of Michael's passing. Here's my tribute:

piano paino

Here's some Britney coverage for ya ;-)

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Alright, so here's the whole story... everyone keeps asking and I think I've explained it about 100,000 times in the past 2 weeks so here it all is in one swift story:

MaHealani (a manager at an entertainment company in South Dakota) messaged me on MySpace because she really enjoyed listening to me sing on MySpace Karaoke. Then after I messaged her back, she told me that if I wanted to be serious about singing, I could audition for this female group she is putting together. All I had to do was send her pictures (head & body shots), a biography, an essay about why I want to be in the entertainment industry, and a vocal demo containing 4-5 songs. So this past Monday (June 8th) I was officially done recording my demo, printing out pics at CVS's Kodak machine, and writing biographies and essays. I, of course, sent the package to MaHealani by overnight so she'd get it ASAP. When she got it yesterday morning at 11am, she told me that she loved everything, except that I did sing any pop on the demo. She also asked me if I like any Pussycat Dolls or Wu Tang, and if I do, I need to record it and send a whole new demo to her with pop music on it. SO last night, I sat up until midnight getting my hands on karaoke tracks of Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears, Katy Perry; all the hits, you know. Now I just have to suck it up and go back to Woodshed Studios and record some lame pop music. Ugh. That's where the story meets today.

Oh, but MaHealani's Sony/Virgin Records partner, Bruce, needs to see the package as well and agree with her, which she assured would definitely happen. As of right now, she said that I am one of her TOP picks (and she did capitalize TOP)! She also told me that if I get chosen I would need to fly to California for a MONTH to have the first hit single recorded by August. Crazy, eh? Bruce pays for the girls to stay at a hotel for that month and just be in the studio day and night. AHHHHHH!

Now that you know the whole story, you can help me. I've already gotten a lot of opinions, and they've helped my internal pro/con list I have going. The only trouble is that I now know that this female group is going to sing pop music because she said the only reason she asked me to record pop is because of the type of music the female group would be recording... and you guys know me... do I look like the next friggin' pussycat doll hoe? I don't think so. Anyway, I'm having this terrible internal struggle with myself because this (being a famous performer) has been my dream since I was 7 years old, and now it's THROWING-FLAILING-SCREAMING- itself at my face and I don't know what to do because I know that I won't be happy.

HOWEVER, I did just described every music success story in history...

*acoustified*

Here are 2 p!nk songs I've been working on today. Just for the hell of it, I thought I'd "acoustify" them. Hope you like 'em!