20.09.12 - Too cheesy!

THURSDAY - 20.09.12 

It was a great thing that Kellie came back today, but then again, today's session wasn't so great because Melovox only had Kellie, Phoebe and i. Phoebe came a bit later because she had dance class. Jesmine had dance sport so she couldn't come down today, Nicole and Shynne were sick so yeah, that only left the three of us. Amanda is still in France and when she gets back, she'll definitely have some serious learning to do.. 

So it's just me and Kellie. We worked a little on If I Ain't Got You with Michelle and Jia Hui for now since Phoebe wasn't there yet. We sounded pretty well i guess. Maybe it's because they were seniors and their blending skills has always been perfect. Haha, well, near perfect. Kellie and i then worked a lot on the concepts and all that for Price Tag. We really wrecked our brains out just to get pleasing ideas for Joe. LOL. Well, we wanted it for ourselves too, but well, Joe is just so damn demanding. Haha. We had our Macbooks out and we were discussing it together with Michelle and Jia Hui. We went in to do a little Price Tag and like what Joe said yesterday, we had to work together with the bass and the beatboxer just that the bass was at choir rehearsals haha! CJ!! So we had You Li do the beatbox. We decided that performing If I Ain't Got You as the duet version will be so much more interesting because we had so many great ideas for the concepts and all if it were to be a duet. So we had Firdaus do the backing 3. We were a little worried that Firdaus wouldn't be able to learn the song in time, but we were obviously proven wrong when he already knew the backing 3 part. SMART MOVE SHAUN! SELF 5! :) <-- retard. We were more or less ready for the duet but Beatrice had to fill in for Michelle who was busy in the clubroom working on the seniors piece. You know, sometimes i really pity the seniors who have to run here and there to help the juniors as well as work on their pieces. It's not wonder why Beatrice told everyone to message her ASAP when the aca message is sent out to everyone on Monday. We worked a little on our songs before having to present it in front of Joe. And every time we perform in front of Joe we get a little too nervous, we sometimes forget what we are suppose to do. We did Price Tag first and when Joe said, can we start from the second verse with the harmonies , WE WERE ALL LIKE D:. Exaclty! Jaw dropping. We totally forgot about the harmonies! Damn it! Kellie was blank obviously because she wasn't in Voices yesterday. So it was only me and Phoebe who kinda knew what Joe said about the harmonies for Price Tag. FCUK!

We freaked out a little and then Joe got kinda pissed and then he cooled down again and just asked us to do it normally, except with more confidence this time. We did ok i guess. We really really need lots of practice for Price Tag especially. You know what's real funny? Joe said we needed to work on If I Ain't Got You yesterday when we mic'd up and now it's Price Tag. Damn it! 

We did If I Ain't Got You next and like Joe said again, can we start from the second verse.. We didn't really panick except that everyone was confused about their notes. We sorted it out a little and then when i gave the queue, we officially started. I was kinda nervous about my solo part because all eyes were on me. Especially Heem Lim who had such high expectations for the Usher part. You know, his very diva about it and all.. haha. I tired to work out some cheesiness in there, like try to act as though i was into Kellie which drifted off from the topic we were discussing about earlier.. Alternate Universe. Damn it. That topic for If I Ain't Got You worked out so well when we were talking about it. After our performance, everyone cheered for us and they were so excited about it EXCEPT.. Joe. Yes, Joe said that i was too theatrical and i needed to tone it down, in which i agreed 100% on. Kellie was being too much of herself that Joe wanted her to tone it up. He also said that the backing needed to be more confident and louder which i somewhat agree on, and that was all he had to say about If I Ain't Got You. Does that mean that the duet is already confirmed or what? I need an answer now. Because the duet works great plans out. Anyways, once we were done, i really needed air. The air-con was off and everyone else was sharing oxygen in there so my brains kinda got fried in the process. The seniors performed their chinese song next and it was just.. UGH. I just wanna be like them one day.. Their blending skills and all. Just, simply amazing. 

Phoebe, Kellie and i after the practice, agreed that we should meet on Monday and later on Phoebe sent us all a message. I really hope we can find the time to meet up again and just work on our songs like there's no tomorrow. Ah-hah!

XOXO

Shaun