George
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Post by George on Dec 29, 2007 13:21:05 GMT -5
"Music Is My Boyfriend" needs to be her lead U.S. single!
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Post by reidster on Dec 29, 2007 15:10:46 GMT -5
Cartoon is my favorite now. I'm always switching tho. ha but I think Girl Like Me should be the lead single in the US.. if its released there. Even though i've never heard it.. And it could be added onto the Canadian CD as a re-release. dr. luke worked on that one with her.
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Post by kyle on Jan 3, 2008 14:49:02 GMT -5
This is being released in Japan on February 14th It's supposed to have a bonus track aswell.
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Post by George on Jan 3, 2008 20:48:52 GMT -5
I think I'll try and get the Canadian import, since I like that cover more.
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Post by kyle on Jan 25, 2008 22:59:22 GMT -5
New video of Skye behind the scenes of the photoshoot for SOUND SOLDIER www.youtube.com/watch?v=VosFwOLmNwcFeatures the song "Rock N' Roll Baby" that she did with Tim Amrstrong. And the song "Girl Like Me" is going to be the bonus track for the Japan version. It was written/produced by Max Martin/Dr Luke! So it should be sweet
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Post by George on Jan 26, 2008 14:00:52 GMT -5
Sounds great!
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Post by Gray. on Jan 26, 2008 23:27:06 GMT -5
My HD crashed and I lost everything and I didn't have this album backed up. My life feels so empty without "Sound Soldier." Could I possibly get a PM...?
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Post by kyle on Feb 14, 2008 14:54:41 GMT -5
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Post by George on Feb 20, 2008 1:25:25 GMT -5
Skye Sweetnam Ain't No Britney Or AvrilTuesday January 22, 2008 @ 02:30 PM By Sarah Kurchak It's been three years since adorable pop-punk moppet Skye Sweetnam released her debut album, Noise From The Basement. Now the 19 year old is back with a new, more mature and tougher album, Sound Solider. ChartAttack talked to the singer about the writing process for her new disc, defining herself as an artist, and those pesky Avril Lavigne comparisons.ChartAttack: What have you been doing since we last saw you?Skye Sweetnam: Well, with Noise From The Basement, I did a lot of international releases. I went to Spain and France and Japan a bunch of times. So that took up a bunch of time to get the CD out everywhere else. And then I started writing like crazy. I worked with the producer that I worked with on Noise From The Basement, James Robertson. I worked with my band. I worked with a few people in Toronto. Then I got flown out to L.A. to do kind of an L.A. writing circuit. And then I finally found the core of what I wanted to do once I met The Matrix. I kind of met The Matrix and Tim Armstrong [of Rancid] at the same time, which is funny because it's almost two completely opposite people to write with. Like, Tim is very punk rock, DIY, you know, lives in his basement, does everything from home, wants to create personal relationships as well as professional relationships. It's just a different kind of lifestyle from The Matrix, who live in these beautiful upper-class houses with these beautiful home studios, working with runners going out to get you lunch all the time. So, it was two different kind of sets of people, but each one I really felt like I related to and found great creative relationship with. And I just wrote the record and here we are. You were hesitant to work with The Matrix at first, right?I was, because the first song that we worked on together was actually for a little thing that I did with Barbie, which was The Barbie Diaries DVD. There was one song that the label was interested in me recording that was pitched to Barbie, which was a song The Matrix had already written, which, to me... I've never really sung any song that I didn't write myself. I kind of felt uncomfortable doing that, but because it was for Barbie and it wasn't Skye Sweetnam, it was something else, then I thought, "OK, I'll do this if everyone feels that strongly about it," and kind of did that as a side-project. So we recorded that song and it's very poppy and very happy and it was called "Love Is A Beautiful Thing." As much as it's an amazing song and I give them major props for writing it, it just wasn't my cup of tea doing that. That was one reason why I was I like, "I don't know if I want to do songs for my record with these guys." But also the fact that they'd done work with Hilary Duff and Avril Lavigne and all of these artists that, although great, people would just slide me in with that group of people. I think it's really hard to make it in this industry if you're just another one of those girls rather than your own entity. I was just really strong-willed to make sure that I wasn't given the same songs that were... like, I didn't want it to be an ex-Hilary Duff song or an ex-Avril Lavigne song for my record. I wanted to do something that was me and my own thing. So that's why I was kind of like, "I hope these guys are cool with me coming in and kind of wanting to switch things up." But what I didn't know when I walked in there was that they had worked with Korn before and I was like, "Whoa, that even caught me off guard." I didn't think that was the kind of music they did. So yeah, then I was like, "OK, here's my ideas, what do you think?" And they were just really receptive to everything. Speaking of ex-songs, I heard a rumour that you rejected Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" because it was too cheesy.Really? That's kind of weird cause that's... I hadn't heard that before and I never really got that song. But I actually worked with Dr. Luke — who wrote "Girlfriend" and did most of Avril's record — right before Avril started working with him. I actually did a song with Dr. Luke that I didn't use for my record, so I kind of technically rejected that song, I guess. I just didn't like it because I didn't write it. But it was funny because I actually talked to Dr. Luke right when Avril's stuff was coming out and he was like, "Oh, I was so inspired, it helped me write Avril's record!" working with me, which was kind of weird. But it's funny, because Avril's so big right now that if she does something, it's out right away, whereas I wrote three records before she even started writing her new one and everyone's like, "Oh you're just copying her." I wrote the whole thing before she even started writing her record! But oh well, that comparison's lived with me since the day I was born into this industry. Do you think you'll ever escape it?I don't know. I hope to. A lot of people can refer to Britney or Avril by their first names, like, "Oh, that sounds so Avril or Britney." I think that every person who really wants to make a career for themselves' goal is to be the person that people compare artists to rather than the one being compared to other people. I think that's what every artist should strive for, making their own unique identity that people can really just get right away as a one-name comparison. So we're hoping for a new generation of Skyes.(laughs) Yes.
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Post by reidster on Feb 20, 2008 9:49:56 GMT -5
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Post by kyle on Feb 22, 2008 20:36:23 GMT -5
I LOVE Girl Like Me. I really do not understand why it wasn't put on the album!
Anyways, INTO ACTION is the 2nd single!
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Post by George on Feb 22, 2008 21:25:21 GMT -5
I LOVE Girl Like Me. I really do not understand why it wasn't put on the album! Anyways, INTO ACTION is the 2nd single! Wasn't that already a single, or are they gonna release her solo version?
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Post by kyle on Feb 22, 2008 21:57:20 GMT -5
Yeah, her solo version is getting released!
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Post by George on May 11, 2008 17:13:11 GMT -5
www.skyesweetnam.com/website/SOLDIERS - YOUR NEW ASSIGNMENT: My new single, Into Action, has hit airwaves!!! So get voting Soldiers!!! The Wave 97.3 Saint John, NB mail@thewave.ca Hot 103 Live - Winnipeg, MB
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Post by kyle on May 12, 2008 20:41:30 GMT -5
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Post by kyle on May 19, 2008 18:34:16 GMT -5
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Post by kyle on Jun 7, 2008 9:54:16 GMT -5
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Post by Gray. on Jun 7, 2008 13:27:27 GMT -5
^OMG I LOVE IT! It's so good! Not the song. The video.
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Post by George on Jun 7, 2008 15:36:49 GMT -5
Thanks!
Wow. So, 4 videos already:
"Human" "Music Is My Boyfriend" "Babygirl Gone Wrong" "(Let's Get Movin') Into Action"
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Post by Gray. on Jun 7, 2008 16:25:08 GMT -5
^Yeah but "Music Is My Boyfriend" and "Babydoll Gone Wrong" were DIY videos. I personally don't like them.
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Post by ïʼnčrεdiвl on Jun 7, 2008 19:30:11 GMT -5
Is Into Action even doing anything in Canada?
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