If you could choose between a set of words to describe one Mariah Carey, which would you choose, balladeer queen or film production? According to some sources, the latter seems more fitting.
While everyone agrees that the diva looked divine at last week’s Save the Music Foundation gala but it took a whole third world country to keep her that way. NY Daily News is reporting that Mariah needed 9 staffers to perform “a ballet of maintenance†on her all night. There was even one whose only job was to “dispense breast tapeâ€, one with brushes and hair spray and even one with portable hot rollers.
What? Talk about a walking salon.
The Academy of Country Music’s Top New Female of 2003, Kellie Coffey, is back with a new independent album entitled Walk On. The follow-up release to her debut album, When You Lie Next to Me, was produced by Wayne Kirkpatrick (Little Big Town) and features 12 tracks, 11 co-written by Coffey. The video for the first single, “I Would Die For That,” is exploding on YouTube with over 70,000 hits in only four weeks. This is what inspires me you know, to see an un-contracted artist who has no backing of the huge funds that are made available by record companies to their artist and yet she has the confidence and the exuberance to cut yet another independent album and the same has been very well received by the audience. Walk On, is the kind of deep introspective album that most artists aspire to make. “We wrote songs about our life experience and what moved us,” Coffey said of her co-writers. I wish her success and may it go on to become one of the year’s biggest selling independent albums, go baby go, chalk your own path free of those head banging record companies.