26.09.12 - Auditions!

WEDNESDAY - 26.09.12

So Amanda came back from France! Was hoping she'd buy some stuff back for us, but noooo... Haha! Just Amanda~ Melovox met early today to discuss some stuff about Price Tag and to change some things about the song. We added in harmonies to the second verse and sorted out the guitar parts too. Yun Tong came around 3:30 and we got to hear her lovely not warmed up voice which was so darn powerful! Like, how can anyone sound so good without warming up? Well, that's Yun Tong for us :P Zakir came next and then Sun Ian and then Jia Hui. So the circle got bigger eventually.

Beatrice told us that we were gonna have auditions later and i, we pretty much got a little bit more nervous than we already are. Those who were auditioning later didn't eat much i guess, like Phoebs, Kellie, Firdaus, the girls and i. Well, i ate quite a lot though haha. Just can't stand eating light dinners or un-proper meals. I then went up with Phoebe to practice our own individual parts. Firdaus came along with us and we all went to the lobby to practice. Time came, and the first half of our proper rehearsals were dedicated to auditions for the lead parts. Joe really made sure that the auditions were like REAL auditions. Meaning that he expected us to treat the auditions as though we were performing. Which.. Many of us didn't. lol. Kellie and i were the first ones to audition and we were pretty nervous i guess. Kellie had to do the whole story and introduction to herself. She said 'My names Kellie and my song is... My story is..' Which pretty much disturbed Joe, because for the rest of the auditions, everyone came in with the 'my name is, my song is, my story is' sentence and Joe kept giving poor Beatrice the 'I thought i asked you to coach them not to do this' face. Yep, poor beatrice :( Well, we did pretty fine i guess. The seniors gave us constructive criticism like how i sounded to tenorish, we were too stiff, we needed to stop making the audience feel as though they're the third party, our blending etc. and the list just went on. Wow. Lots of stuff to work on. Joe also said that i needed to learn how to dance. I mean, what the heck. I think what he meant by 'dance' was to move around the stage like how Usher would. Well, i guess working the stage would be fine.. But i ain't no Usher. Hah! We sat down and enjoyed the others auditioned. I noticed that everyone seemed to stay on the same spot and not work the 'stage'. I guess what Zakir said was right. Awkward~ Haha, but i guess we have to overcome that. 

After the auditions were over, we were asked by Joe back into room to do Price Tag. He just randomly asked us to harmonize the guitar part and Jesmine, who was doing the backing 1 to cover up for Amanda, was like whut... I mean, Joe is just so sudden.. and we he didn't even say that last week. Well well well.. -Que Kellie's dramatic music- So we went out to do just that. I guess that Jesmine was the only backing 1 that can blend well with me for the guitar part, because i know that Amanda will never be able to. Not being bad or what la, just saying. Haha. We did just that and somehow we started singing Britney's songs and then Sun Ian joined us. Then Heem Lim joined us for a while. Jesmine started talking about some boy girl relationship problems and how this happened and that happened. Well, everyone was so involved in the conversation except me. Haha, kinda blur about what they just said and all that. We digressed so much that we ended up talking about lots of irrelevant stuff too. Interastingggg! :D We didn't go back into the room for Joe's consultation but i guess we're good to go with a lot more practice :) Just that if Joe doesn't give us more stuff to do haha. 

Voices ended and Phoebe, Jesmine and i went to Macs to have our supper. Both of them didn't eat much and we sat with Joe. How nice right.. I mean, it was like DAMN awkward. I don't know why, but it seems as though i have only known Joe this year when in fact, I've known him for like 6 years. Haha.. How awkward right. Yup. Anyways, i cabbed home because i was too lazy and it was already too late. But i still eventually got home. LOL. 

OH RIGHT! X Factor Australia! What About Tonight went home and I'M SO SUPER HAPPY. They can't sing and they resemble 1D so much. UGH. Good thing they're out. Just saying :D

XOXO

Shaun