Decided to take the day off to study for this exam next week…
Just can’t do it!! So much info to take in >__<
BUT IF I FAIL THIS, THEN I HAVE TO TAKE THE SAME BORING CLASS NEXT SEMESTER!!
First there was Glee, with ALL the tears falling from my eye sockets over how beautiful the second to last episode was! Everyone was just so happy and full of GLEE! (see whut i did thurrr?)
Then there was America’s Next Top Model… And I was so shocked at the outcome! Almost the finale and I did NOT expect that girl to go home.. then again, it IS AMERICA’S next top model BRITISH invasion…
THEN… THEN!! Revenge! Oh my god! My creys!! Poor Sammy :’( And and and.. Emily… and Jack and… and then Nolan! And… OMG! :’((( It was just so emotional!!
I thought I would reward myself for finishing 3 assignments today… but all I did was cry :’(
BUT I STILL CAN’T WAIT TILL NEXT WEEK! KJDKSJDLKSJDFLKDN!!!
Don’t you just hate it when it happens to you 3 times in a week?
Fuck you, bitches. Seriously.
If you didn’t want to be friends with me, then come out and say it. Don’t go behind my back and delete me from a social network. Way to make every future gathering and party awkward as fuck!
Just fuck off.
My actual reaction while listening back to it:
Anyway… I’m putting it up on YouTube coz I really need feedback on it before Fri so I know what I need to work on.
So when it’s up, you could all do me a favour by watching it and giving me a big thumbs down :P nah, but seriously.. leave a comment and let me know what you think of it. Still working on some intonation issues (only just got over glandular fever, so my voice is FUUUUCKED!) and memorising the lyrics.
SO YEAH! DO ETTT!
Once I’ve learnt the song well enough, I may even post me singing it for feedback.
Be nice… but brutally honest at the same time :P
We have to sing a song from a musical using a “musical tone”… meaning vibrato, very open, fairly straight etc. And THEN we have to arrange the song so it could easily be sung as a Jazz Standard.
For instance, popular songs such as Funny Valentine, A Foggy Day, Summertime… they were all used in musicals and are now sung as jazz standards…
I’M PRETTY sure that’s what the assignment is..
ANYWAY! I literally raided my dvd closet and watched every musical-to-movie DVD and Video I owned… there were A LOT! You know a musical on DVD? I have it. Trust me. THEN I figured I was going too modern, so I went through all my musical soundtracks (once again… there were A LOT!). I STILL couldn’t find the perfect song. I could sing along to practically every track, but I couldn’t possibly think of them as anything but a musical number sung by that original cast member. It was just SO hard!
After about 30 attempts to choose a song, I had come to my wits end and was going to start looking at Disney songs…
But last night, I was watching SMASH (if you haven’t seen it… get on it!!) and they had a snippet of “Let Me Be Your Star”. Of course, Uma Thurman doesn’t do the song justice, but I remembered how I felt when I first heard the song. I felt so empowered and could relate to it 100%! I looked it up on iTunes, bought it and then listened to it non-stop all night and all of today. I had learnt the lyrics, hunted down the sheet music and decided THIS WILL BE MY SONG!!
So, there you have it! Now all I have to do is perform it perfectly and then hopefully will be given some amazing suggestions on how to make it a jazz standard. Can’t decide whether I want to do it faster, or just make it into a jazz ballad… ugh, so hard!
I should probs stop stressing over it… but I just like things to be really perfect for my teacher, because her opinion matters so much. And she said something in class to me that got me fairly down. I was explaining that I couldn’t find a song that I really liked and she said “then you’re not looking at enough”… I looked at over 50 musicals in 2 weeks :/ pretty sure I dug fairly deep. I dunno, just felt like she didn’t believe I put in all this work. BUT she did say I could do this song… SO I SHALL!!
If you’ve never heard it, HERE IT IS!!
I’m trying so hard to be strong, but I just can’t do this on my own anymore. I feel like I have no support from anyone in any aspect of my life.
I feel truly alone within my head right now. I honestly don’t know how much more I can take…
MAY have been caught by a speeding camera today. I know which one it was… and the speed limit said 60 and I was doing just over 50… through a blatantly obvious green light…
SO…. REALLY hope it wasn’t me :/
