CIP
Sofy:
I have been forced to listen to the same song over and over and over and over and over again. It’s a very good song, it’s called Por Mais Que Eu Tente, by Marjorie Estiano. But it’s the type of song you listen to once and not over and over and over and over again and over again.
For CIP, which is this community service thing that my school does, Alvy and Cary and this other girl and I have to sing that song. In front of a bunch of people. I’m nervous. What if I don’t get it right or mess up the lyrics or trip on something or sing off-key or Alvy and Cary and this other girl don’t come and Ms. Hogan (since I think she doesn’t like me that much) makes me sing all alone in front of everybody?? And it’s in a classroom, so it’s gonna be crowded and we’re gonna have a small “stage”. And I’m sure I might be sounding completely irrational, but I’d feel better and more confident if we were in a big stage, a real one, even if it had to be in front of more people. Because I remember when Alvy and I were up there in third and fourth grade and we sang in the Talent Show, we would look at each other and smile and sometimes even giggle and no one would notice. But if we’re like, two centimeters away from the audience of course they’re gonna notice.
And also, I don’t think there are gonna be microphones, which is another problem. Ms. Hogan already said that we all (well, at least Alvy and I) sing to quietly, and it’s not as if we can make our voices louder. And when we’re up there, if I don’t have the microphone to grip onto, you know, my hands are just gonna be all dangly and all, and I’m gonna feel uncomfortable. And where am I gonna look? I don’t wanna look at all the people I don’t know, but if I look at the people I do know, like Ms. Coggio (who I seriously hope doesn’t watch us, by the way) or Gio D. or something, I’m gonna either start laughing or I’m gonna blush and look down and get even more nervous and faint and ruin the presentation. And probably crack my head open too, because the floor in that classroom is really hard. I really hope we get microphones.
Oh, and this weekend I watched that movie with Hugh Jackman, you know, the one about the tree whatever thing. I hated it. It was SO boring. The only movies worse than that one are The House of Wax and The Blair Witch Project.
Big Talent, Small Stage
Alvy:
There is this girl, named Ashley Tisdale, she is an actress/singer, and most of you might know her from High School Musical. In my opinion, I think she made a mistake by accepting Disney’s offer and participating in their movies and recording their soundtracks (Although the song “Kiss the girl” in which she re-recorded, is pretty good.) Ashley Tisdale is very, very talented, of course that she’s good in not only singing, but in acting as well, and her Disney rolls are actually pretty good. The only problem is that she is not an “official” singer, taken seriously because Disney is holding her back, totally. Imagine you, if you had a great voice, only recording 2 tracks per year because you only record soundtracks, and people don’t take her seriously because everything she produces has the Disney trademark in the middle, and that ain’t no media attractive. Now, High School Musical brought only ONE good thing (Because everything else is terrible) In which is to make her realize that recording soundtracks aren’t her thing, she wants to record REAL albums, and her new album will be released in February, and I bet there are a few singles along the way. Ashley Tisdale’s talent was showing since she was young, and she even sang in the White House when she was twelve. What kind of company (Disney) would make her career be held back, with so much talent? And who agrees with me that Disney is like a singer/actor-machine? Disney is now transforming actors into singers through their television series and movies, it was nice in the start, when great idols were discovered like Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff, and now Ashley Tisdale (Although she’s part of Disney’s “new singers” generation) Half of the world’s singers population has or is working for Disney. And you know how they make their voices listenable? by totally “computerising” them, like that girl, Vanessa Hudgens, um, hello, ain’t it obvious that her voice is totally “messed up” with? compare her voice to Christina Aguilera’s and you’ll understand.
I’m so against this Disney factory of singers, because singers should be discovered for their talent, and not because they’re famous.
