Journal of an Unknown Musician

[CrazyFishDude]

Dear Moderators: If we're not allowed to post off-topic journals in this section, then you can remove this. It's fine.

So, my friends and I started a band called "Your Options @re" awhile ago... And so far we've made LITTLE progress. I'm the guitarist, and we have two singers and a drummer as well. Sadly, we need a keyboard player and I only know one person who plays bass, but he's in another band.

A couple days before Christmas, we had our first studio meet (and the "studio" was my basement lol). Unfortunately, Dev, one of the singers, couldn't make it because her mom was getting married to her new boyfriend that day, so there were only three of us. We managed to record one demo. However, Lauren (the OTHER singer lol) wrote it, and it was literally about the TV show Glee and about how much she loves it. The song was called "Confessions of a Glee Fangirl" and we put it on YouTube for the whole world to see... I think we may be off to a rocky start (no pun intended).

[rubinthebetta]

Maybe you should hire a songwriter... Not that there's anything wrong with a song about a television show, but I'm not sure that'll make you guys famous.

[CrazyFishDude]

Originally Posted by rubinthebetta

Maybe you should hire a songwriter... Not that there's anything wrong with a song about a television show, but I'm not sure that'll make you guys famous.

Lol. Well, we dont normally write love songs or anything "normal." And Lauren is actually a really good songwriter. Normally, however, we write songs that satirize pop culture and normal pop music. We are kinda trying to go against what's popular at our school, because we dont agree with the popularity polls, cliques, etc. as well as the mass consumerism and trends in popular culture and music. I know it sounds like were those kids who rebel to everything to seem cool, but we do feel strongly about this stuff. We're working on a few songs actually ABOUT that though.

That, and we are kinda a weird band either way. We played at a school talent show awhile back, and I made this GENIUS decision to end the performance by smashing all the sound equipment and Alex's (our drummer) drum kit with my guitar... And the judges STILL gave us 2nd place trophy! Many kids at our school were scared of me when I jumped off the stage and threw stuff into the audience though... Yeah, I need to chill out with the stage antics.

Sorry this was so long, I guess I had a lot to say.

[CrazyFishDude]

I figured out today that a good amount of kids at school found out about the Glee Fangirl song. Tuens out Lauren put it on Tumblr... lol