Skye Sweetnam, "Tangled Up In Me"

[George Tropicana]

"Number One" has been scrapped as the first single off her debut album "Noise From The Basement" in favor of "Tangled Up In Me"!

Good move! "Tangled Up In Me," although not very original, is much more likeable on a first listen. It's the type of song you want to roll-down-your-windows and blast while cruising with your friends to the Santa Monica Pier.

Good job, Skye Sweetnam! This song has universal appeal and sounds Avril-lite.

Listen to "Tangled Up In Me":
boss.streamos.com/wmedia/capi001/skyesweetnam/tangedupinme/audio/tangledupinme_a100.asx

or

boss.streamos.com/real/capi001/skyesweetnam/tangedupinme/audio/tangledupinme_a100.ra

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I wanna see what she looks like.

[TheJakes]

geoguy said:

I wanna see what she looks like.

LINK

[George Tropicana]

skye.rbostyle.com/?id=photos She has this weird look about her.

Another link of the song:
www1.allaccess.com/sounds/skyetang.ram

[af18c]

This goes for adds June 1.

All Access has it as "Tangle Me Up"

[George Tropicana]

It's about freaking time. I'm guessing her album has been pushed back again (Not that I'm gonna buy it anyway).

[reception]

It's alright.

[George Tropicana]

Will "Sleep Over" do for Skye what "View For The Top" did for Kaci's "I'm Not Anybody's Girl"? Fingers crossed for a super smash!

[HER MINAJesty]

She was the opening act for Britney (along with Kelis) on the Onyx Hotel Tour a few months back.

After her set I went out for a drink and she was having a meet and greet with her fans right outside my section. I saw her really close, she's very tiny.

Im sure I heard her perform this song but it doesn't ring a bell at all.

[No Brake$]

i don't see this working out to well for her.

[Crushcrushchris]

reception said:

It's alright.

[JCMF3]

Mineyble1004 said:

Will "Sleep Over" do for Skye what "View For The Top" did for Kaci's "I'm Not Anybody's Girl"? Fingers crossed for a super smash!

Put her in the realm of "Pop stars that never were and will not have a hit anytime soon"?  Then yes that probably is true... ;)

[mst3k]

JCMF3 said:

Put her in the realm of "Pop stars that never were and will not have a hit anytime soon"?  Then yes that probably is true... ;)

LOL

[Dee]

I saw her too as an opening act for Britney. I thought she was ok and very energetic. There was one song I really liked which she sung at the concert but I remember it not being this one since she mentioned which were her two singles.

I don't think it is going to go so well for her and that's too bad.

[HER MINAJesty]

Dee said:

I saw her too as an opening act for Britney. I thought she was ok and very energetic. There was one song I really liked which she sung at the concert but I remember it not being this one since she mentioned which were her two singles.

I don't think it is going to go so well for her and that's too bad.

The only song I was semi-familiar with was 'Billy S.' from the Mandy Moore movie How to Deal soundtrack.

[Dee]

I remember reading an article about her last year at mtv.com

That was all I knew about her before I saw her live.

[George Tropicana]

Whatta FLOP! Only San Diego is playing it! EMBARASSING!

Shame the Britney tour's been canceled! That means less promo for Skye right? Because she would've introduced this song to more ppl.

I wonder if Britney will invite Skye to sing at her wedding.

EDIT: Oops.. The single has been pushed back to July 27. The album's been pushed back to September 21 (will it finally be released? Who knows? It's been pushed back for over a year). This might be because of the sudden setback of Britney's tour ending early.

The video's being reshot. It will have nothing to do with a sleepover (probably because the song is not featured on the "Sleepover" soundtrack).

[George Tropicana]

This is very catchy now. I really like. I started doodling lyrics from the song in my class today.

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Mineable1004 said:

This is very catchy now. I really like. I started doodling lyrics from the song in my class today.

I do that all the time! I write down Ashanti lyrics, Myra lyrics, and even quotes from "Chasing Papi"! I was embarrassed when my sister started looking through my homework notebook. It was like she was reading my diary.

[iceman]

This is starting to grow on me.

[George Tropicana]

This is growing on me like inches!

[reception]

Mineable1004 wrote
This is growing on me like inches![/quote]

[George Tropicana]

This goes for adds next week. Skye Sweetnam is the new Ashlee Simpson! Yah!

You can listen to songs on her album as well as live performances on this media player: www.ssweetnam.net/v2/skyeplay.html

Media player:
Billy S
Tangled Up In Me
Number One
Imaginary Superstar
Split Personality
Wild World
Unpredictable
Tidal Wave
Fallen Through
Heart of Glass
Radio Free Roscoe Theme
Smoke and Mirrors (live)
Billy S (live)
It Sucks (live)
I Don't Really Like You (live)

[reception]

It's featured on the Radio And Records Going For Adds Spotlight.

[George Tropicana]

MOST ADDED AT POP!!

36 STATIONS OUT-OF-THE-BOX...

MOST ADDED SMASH! Go San Diego! :)

Any predictions?!

[George Tropicana]

I wanna hear "Hypocrite"! :o

Skye Sweetnam Calls Herself 'Bubblegum Britney,' So Critics Don't Have To

Sweetnam can play tough girl or diva whenever it suits her.

by Jon Wiederhorn

Skye Sweetnam (file) (Photo: Phil Poynter)

If you happen to be hanging out with Canadian punchy pop songstress Skye Sweetnam, and you notice her applying cover-up on her legs to hide a smattering of round purple bruises, don't call the authorities. Blame her bandmates, who sometimes get overzealous in their horseplay.

"Those guys are like my brothers," the 16-year-old singer said, then laughed. "They beat on me and kick me all the time, but sometimes I ask for it because I love to draw on them with a Sharpie. Anyone that falls asleep on the bus is going to get Sharpie on their face saying, 'Skye was here,' and then I'll take a picture of it."

Needless to say, Sweetnam's not just a sweet young thing. She can play tough girl or diva whenever it suits her. And over the past year she has developed a fairly thick skin that has allowed her to cope with the long delay of her debut album, Noise From the Basement, the cancellation of Britney Spears' tour (see "Britney Cancels Tour") — which had provided her with her first chance to play to arena audiences, as Britney's opening act — and an illness that struck without warning while she was in Germany.

"I had influenza, which wasn't too fun," she said. "It was my first time having to cancel shows. There's not much you can do to keep me off the stage except put me in a hospital and stick an IV in my arm. I had shivers and sweats and headaches and stomachaches. And I was really bummed out because I was cooped up in a hotel when I would rather have been out seeing different cities and having a good time."

Despite tours opening for Spears in Europe and North America, Sweetnam isn't likely to be confused for a fluffy teen-pop act. Album tracks like "Number One" and "Shot to Pieces" echo with fuzzed-up guitar chords, propulsive beats and energized vocals, and "Fallen Through" is as epic and majestic as an Evanescence song.

Onstage, Sweetnam is part pop princess, part harmless teen rebel, and she enjoys embracing both sides of her persona. She often plays a guitar decorated with the crossed-out word "Matrix," and her music collection on the bus includes discs by Pantera and Metallica alongside albums by Outkast and Weezer.

Also, unlike many of her peers, she writes her own lyrics. Noise From the Basement, which comes out September 21, is alive with the dreams of stardom, the daily activities of a small-town girl and the frustrations of puppy love. "You're not the type that I should be dating/ No matter where I go or what I do/ It sucks 'cause I want to be with you," she sings on "It Sucks."

While many of Sweetnam's lyrics read like diary entries, she also exhibits a sense of humor. Her album features a punk-pop version of Blondie's "Heart of Glass," and on the upbeat "Hypocrite" she labels herself "Avril lite," "bubblegum Britney" and "manufactured skate punk" before adding, "Hope my record doesn't tank."

"I know that critics are gonna put all these different labels on me," she said. "I just wanted to beat everyone to it and tell them, 'I'm gonna keep doing what I want to do no matter what you say about me.' "

Of course, the fact that she's from Canada, has attitude and sings energetic pop songs with huge hooks isn't going to stop anyone from comparing her to a certain platinum-selling singer from Napanee, Ontario. "I'm so much more of a girly-girl than Avril," she said in a voice of mock disgust. "I like dressing up, I love makeup. I may be a young girl, but that doesn't mean that we're the same thing. And when I listen to her album and my album back to back, I can't see any real similarities."

The first single from Noise From the Basement, "Tangled Up in Me," is an introduction to the deliciously bratty, effervescent world of Sweetnam (see "Skye Sweetnam Juggles Hot Britney Tour With Cold Pork Chops"). "You wanna know more, more, more about me/ I'm the one who's kicking the coke machine," she sings before a rock melody that's half Everclear, half Heart, and anything but half-hearted. "With me, what you see isn't really what you get," Sweetnam said. "I come from a musical theater background, yet onstage I'm throwing around the mic stand and acting like a wild woman."

Perhaps the song that sums up Sweetnam best is "Unpredictable," in which she sings, "I hate when things are simple and so plain, don't want to be the same."

"I love catching people off guard. That's why opening for Britney was so great," she concluded. "I was playing for people who had no idea who I was and had never heard my music. And by the end of the set, a lot of them found themselves really getting into it."


This report is provided by MTV News

[crash46]

Mineable1004 said:

"Billy S"

There was a song on the radio in a supermarket I visited last night, and with a little research, I figured it out to be the above song. I have no idea why they were playing it, since it doesn't sound like it's been released anywhere (besides Radio Dizney, perhaps), and she hasn't had any kind of success anywhere. It's not that hard to figure out why; it was really a vomitorium of a song.

(the next song that was played happened to be "Float On", and that's another reason that the pop format gets on my nerves, being that the groups of people that actually like one of those songs or the other are two entirely different species.)

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I hate it.

[George Tropicana]

geoguy said:

I hate it.

You don't have to decide right away, let it marinate for awhile. :)

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Mineable1004 said:

You don't have to decide right away, let it marinate for awhile. :)

OK, I will.