although by today's standards she's not too bad.
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damienoujia — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 07:13 PM)
The majority of them that failed to win also sound like many other artists and musicians and most of them were just singing other tracks.
I've maintained that Grace is unique and different, thus the chance she could have gone on if she lost the show.
Some of the bigger names to come out of American Idol never won the show. But they were also the more unique and better talents of the entire competition. -
misterbfd — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 05:12 PM)
Some people never get any better, regardless of experience. Some even get WORSE. Some use up all their stuff in one shot and have nothing left (See: "Alanis Morissette").
Shooting has started on my latest movie:
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Miscella — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 08:00 PM)
That's true in a popular sense, being as many artists continue to release great music under the radio radar after their 15 minutes of fame, but I'm sure you could have come up with a better example than Alanis.
Jagged Little Pill
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misterbfd — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 09:48 PM)
Yeah, I probably could have come up with a better example if I cared. But Alanis is so annoying, she was the first one to spring to mind.
Shooting has started on my latest movie:
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Sgt_G — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 11:13 PM)
As you said, "by today's standards she's not bad". But when you consider she's only 12 and has been writing her own lyrics, with no guidance from a school music teacher or anyone, for less than two years, some of her songs are actually pretty deep.
"I don't know my name / I don't play by the rules of the game"
She's saying "I'm a kid, a tween, on the verge of becoming a teenager, and I have no idea of who I am, what my self-identity is" / "I don't feel like I fit into social norms, I'm not what people expect me to be."
The lines about her sister's friend and getting along "quite nicely", she is envious because she hasn't built any of these "normal" relationships with anyone. And then the friend asked why she cut her hair, this shows that outsiders have noticed her struggles (and maybe her family hadn't) as she's "trying to find my way", as the last line in the song.
When you sit down and analyze it, it's really a pretty self-aware lyric, especially for a "kid". I think she's a lot more mature that anyone gave her credit for.