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Post by lawrence on Aug 26, 2023 10:49:03 GMT -5
Melody Place Records, Nashville, TN, announced that "Behind My Eyes" will be released Sept 8, 2023. music.apple.com/us/album/behind-my-eyes-single/1702225648It appears we are entering Jackie's "musical transformation era". Put on your dancing shoes Streaming/downloading platforms put "Behind My Eyes" in the Pop/Rock, Indie Pop genre.
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Post by jcas on Aug 29, 2023 13:18:45 GMT -5
Listened to the Instagram clip of Jackie's. Behind My Eyes. I like it. But the more I listened to it, the more it reminded me of a 90s hit that I also liked, Love Fool, by the Swedish rock group, The Cardigans. Similar Euro beat. The melody of the Cardigan's chorus, "Love me, Love me, Say that you love me", is what caught my ear about a similar sounding melody in the chorus of Jackie's song. Not accusing her of anything. Just saying. See if you agree per the attachment of The Cardigan's song.
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Post by jcas on Aug 29, 2023 13:26:03 GMT -5
http://instagram.com/p/CwXtsa4g51e For me, it's difficult to make out the lyrics to Jackie's new song. I guess that issue goes with the territory for most pop whether by Jackie or anyone else. But the apparent chorus melody from it, to me, resembles that from The Cardigan's, Love Fool, dating to the 1990s.
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Post by lawrence on Aug 29, 2023 15:00:46 GMT -5
JACKIE'S NASHVILLE PRODUCER AND COLLABORATOR, GREG CAMP "Gregory Camp is an American Grammy Award-nominated Songwriter, Film Music Composer, and Music Producer. He is best known as the founding guitarist and primary songwriter for the rock band Smash Mouth (1994–2008).His awards, and multi-platinum albums, serve as a career resume in the music world but Camp left Smash Mouth after 16 years and has remained a Film Music Composer and Songwriter." Interview with Greg Camp: jackieevanchofans.proboards.com/post/45789
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Post by lawrence on Aug 31, 2023 13:03:15 GMT -5
"Behind My Eyes" is the 4th song written exclusively by Jackie. The others are "Smoking Gun" (not recorded), "At Least I'll Have Santa" (on YouTube) and "Get Out of My Life" (demo on Instagram). Preceding originals were co-written....."Pedestal", "Sane", "The Haunting" and "Wonderland" (all 4 on her Two Hearts album, disc 2).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2023 20:44:05 GMT -5
Listened to the Instagram clip of Jackie's. Behind My Eyes. I like it. But the more I listened to it, the more it reminded me of a 90s hit that I also liked, Love Fool, by the Swedish rock group, The Cardigans. Similar Euro beat. The melody of the Cardigan's chorus, "Love me, Love me, Say that you love me", is what caught my ear about a similar sounding melody in the chorus of Jackie's song. Not accusing her of anything. Just saying. See if you agree per the attachment of The Cardigan's song. Remember the Xmas song Jackie posted last year? HIGHLY derivative of an Eagles song (melody-wise), so I'm not surprised. Jackie (or whoever is writing the music) may be subconsciously remembering melodies of other songs and not realizing it. A few listens to Jackie's Xmas song and I recognized the melody.
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Post by lawrence on Aug 31, 2023 21:19:57 GMT -5
Listened to the Instagram clip of Jackie's. Behind My Eyes. I like it. But the more I listened to it, the more it reminded me of a 90s hit that I also liked, Love Fool, by the Swedish rock group, The Cardigans. Similar Euro beat. The melody of the Cardigan's chorus, "Love me, Love me, Say that you love me", is what caught my ear about a similar sounding melody in the chorus of Jackie's song. Not accusing her of anything. Just saying. See if you agree per the attachment of The Cardigan's song. Remember the Xmas song Jackie posted last year? HIGHLY derivative of an Eagles song (melody-wise), so I'm not surprised. Jackie (or whoever is writing the music) may be subconsciously remembering melodies of other songs and not realizing it. A few listens to Jackie's Xmas song and I recognized the melody. I don't think either of Jackie's originals can confused with the others. I've listened to "Please Come Home for Christmas" countless times through the years, but it didn't come to mind, and Jackie's Christmas song didn't impress me as having been derived from it....... Jackie wrote "At Least I'll Have Santa". A demo she created on garageband. "I couldn’t wait to share with you an original song for the holidays I just put together. I’ll record this as a single for the holidays 2023! But enjoy what will come right now."
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Post by lawrence on Sept 3, 2023 9:00:12 GMT -5
Jackie spoke about her single with New York Post, Sept. 2, 2023.....
After struggling with an eating disorder and the pressures of fame, former child singing sensation Jackie Evancho is making a comeback — and this time it’s personal.......She is releasing a new single next week called "Behind My Eyes''.
But it’s not like the opera arias or classical songs that made her famous as a 10-year-old on “AGT.” Instead, the now-23-year-old is branching into alt-pop.....
“I wrote the song about what it feels like to go crazy or to start losing touch with reality,” Jackie told The Post after her Daintree NYC photo shoot (modeling). “My songwriting these days touches upon mental illness and issues that are on the darker side, which will shock a lot of people who know me from before.”......
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Post by lawrence on Sept 4, 2023 15:02:51 GMT -5
After struggling with an eating disorder and the pressures of fame, former child singing sensation Jackie Evancho is making a comeback — and this time it’s personal..... “My songwriting these days touches upon mental illness and issues that are on the darker side, which will shock a lot of people who know me from before.”...... Others sing to be heard. Jackie sings to be listened to.
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Post by jcas on Sept 5, 2023 9:57:15 GMT -5
After struggling with an eating disorder and the pressures of fame, former child singing sensation Jackie Evancho is making a comeback — and this time it’s personal..... “My songwriting these days touches upon mental illness and issues that are on the darker side, which will shock a lot of people who know me from before.”...... Others sing to be heard. Jackie sings to be listened to. Yes. But who wants to "listen" to a musically articulated litany of wrongs and woes that supposedly caused whatever mental illness she claims to be suffering? I mean this young lady was a millionaire by the time she became a teen, wealth she'd earned and deserved. It was a well earned blessing she generously supported her entire family with including using some of her earnings to buy a mini mansion to house them all. She's blessed and has been since a preteen with one of the best singing voices in the entire world. She's physically more beautiful than most women in that same world. I, for one, would much prefer to "listen" to songs Jackie could write thankfully about the incredible litany of benefits and acomplishments she's been blessed to enjoy most of her life based in good measure on the many people in her life, including her fans, who've supported and helped her achieve what she has every step of the way. You don't get to where she did without that. Were there negative events and people during that journey? Of course. it's life as most of us live it. Reality! In the business she's in, she's actually very lucky and and just plain blessed to have not been detroyed by it, by the time she reached her 20s. as so many others have been. As I wrote here some time ago and still believe very strongly that whatever psychological problems she's suffered and apparently still are due mainly to a huge catastrophic cluster of events in her life that happened within a very short time frame and that would've driven anybody bonkers to have suffered the same. Imho it began with her parents very bizarre divorce and the deep anxiety she must have suffered witnessing what led to their marriage's crazy unravelling and end. "They were my ideal idea of love, and I felt that disappeared before my eyes.". Despite the family's trying to reconstruct, portray and publicize the whole bizarre debacle as something postive, for anyone with their sanity intact, it was nonsense in the most literal sense of that word. Trying to live as though it isn't is the prescription for a long and rough ride with bouts of mental illness.
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Post by lawrence on Sept 5, 2023 11:55:58 GMT -5
Others sing to be heard. Jackie sings to be listened to. Yes. But who wants to "listen" to a musically articulated litany of wrongs and woes that supposedly caused whatever mental illness she claims to be suffering? I mean this young lady was a millionaire by the time she became a teen, wealth she'd earned and deserved. It was a well earned blessing she generously supported her entire family with including using some of her earnings to buy a mini mansion to house them all. She's blessed and has been since a preteen with one of the best singing voices in the entire world. She's physically more beautiful than most women in that same world. I, for one, would much prefer to "listen" to songs Jackie could write thankfully about the incredible litany of benefits and acomplishments she's been blessed to enjoy most of her life based in good measure on the many people in her life, including her fans, who've supported and helped her achieve what she has every step of the way. You don't get to where she did without that. Were there negative events and people during that journey? Of course. it's life as most of us live it. Reality! In the business she's in, she's actually very lucky and and just plain blessed to have not been detroyed by it, by the time she reached her 20s. as so many others have been. As I wrote here some time ago and still believe very strongly that whatever psychological problems she's suffered and apparently still are due mainly to a huge catastrophic cluster of events in her life that happened within a very short time frame and that would've driven anybody bonkers to have suffered the same. Imho it began with her parents very bizarre divorce and the deep anxiety she must have suffered witnessing what led to their marriage's crazy unravelling and end. "They were my ideal idea of love, and I felt that disappeared before my eyes.". Despite the family's trying to reconstruct, portray and publicize the whole bizarre debacle as something postive, for anyone with their sanity intact, it was nonsense in the most literal sense of that word. Trying to live as though it isn't is the prescription for a long and rough ride with bouts of mental illness. "...life as most of us live it. Reality!". Are you serious? Jackie's life, particularly her childhood has been anything but life as most of us live it. Childhood trauma from fear of knowing men wanted to hurt her, unashamedly cruel and insensitive criticism of her singing at age 11, an eating disorder and body dysmorphia realized at age 15 which gradually grew worse and became life-threatening at age 20, ostracized from the music industry because she sang at Trump's inauguration ("it hurt my career"), mental illness, a broken back and osteoporosis at age 20, and still struggling. Jackie has not been the "happy" person she seemed to have been, secretly suffering and hiding her pain for years.....now needing to be honest with herself and with her public through her music. Songwriting for Jackie is therapeutic and an essential part of her healing mentally and emotionally. It's also the stuff that songwriting has always been about for true artists. Don't expect Jackie to sing "I'm On Top of the World" (The Carpenters) while suffering a life-threatening disorder. It's unfortunate you feel that way, unfortunate for Jackie who's album of original songs you most likely won't buy simply because you don't care to listen to what she feels the need to express musically....having heard only a 90-second preview of one song. From a fan, that's quite dismissive of something profoundly meaningful to Jackie. I hope you will reconsider, for her sake and, who knows, for yours as well. What's a buck twenty 29 to give Jackie a chance to woo you back to her, at least as a vocalist if not a songwriter. This is part of what she meant when asking us to "grow with me, not against me".
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Post by jcas on Sept 5, 2023 13:37:33 GMT -5
Yes. But who wants to "listen" to a musically articulated litany of wrongs and woes that supposedly caused whatever mental illness she claims to be suffering? I mean this young lady was a millionaire by the time she became a teen, wealth she'd earned and deserved. It was a well earned blessing she generously supported her entire family with including using some of her earnings to buy a mini mansion to house them all. She's blessed and has been since a preteen with one of the best singing voices in the entire world. She's physically more beautiful than most women in that same world. I, for one, would much prefer to "listen" to songs Jackie could write thankfully about the incredible litany of benefits and acomplishments she's been blessed to enjoy most of her life based in good measure on the many people in her life, including her fans, who've supported and helped her achieve what she has every step of the way. You don't get to where she did without that. Were there negative events and people during that journey? Of course. it's life as most of us live it. Reality! In the business she's in, she's actually very lucky and and just plain blessed to have not been detroyed by it, by the time she reached her 20s. as so many others have been. As I wrote here some time ago and still believe very strongly that whatever psychological problems she's suffered and apparently still are due mainly to a huge catastrophic cluster of events in her life that happened within a very short time frame and that would've driven anybody bonkers to have suffered the same. Imho it began with her parents very bizarre divorce and the deep anxiety she must have suffered witnessing what led to their marriage's crazy unravelling and end. "They were my ideal idea of love, and I felt that disappeared before my eyes.". Despite the family's trying to reconstruct, portray and publicize the whole bizarre debacle as something postive, for anyone with their sanity intact, it was nonsense in the most literal sense of that word. Trying to live as though it isn't is the prescription for a long and rough ride with bouts of mental illness. "...life as most of us live it. Reality!". Are you serious? Jackie's life, particularly her childhood has been anything but life as most of us live it. Childhood trauma from fear of knowing men wanted to hurt her, unashamedly cruel and insensitive criticism of her singing at age 11, an eating disorder and body dysmorphia realized at age 15 which gradually grew worse and became life-threatening at age 20, ostracized from the music industry because she sang at Trump's inauguration ("it hurt my career"), mental illness, a broken back and osteoporosis at age 20, and still struggling. Jackie has not been the "happy" person she seemed to have been, secretly suffering and hiding her pain for years.....now needing to be honest with herself and with her public through her music. Songwriting for Jackie is therapeutic and an essential part of her healing mentally and emotionally. It's also the stuff that songwriting has always been about for true artists. Don't expect Jackie to sing "I'm On Top of the World" (The Carpenters) while suffering a life-threatening disorder. It's unfortunate you feel that way, unfortunate for Jackie who's album of original songs you most likely won't buy simply because you don't care to listen to what she feels the need to express musically....having heard only a 90-second preview of one song. From a fan, that's quite dismissive of something profoundly meaningful to Jackie. I hope you will reconsider, for her sake and, who knows, for yours as well. What's a buck twenty 29 to give Jackie a chance to woo you back to her, at least as a vocalist if not a songwriter. This is part of what she meant when asking us to "grow with me, not against me". Am I "serious." Very. I grew up in what everyone I knew considered the idyllic family. It wasn't, in reality, although compared to others I was well acquainted with, it was. I wouldn't have traded my reality as a kid or in hindsight, however, the good or the bad, for the chaotic households, alcoholic, abusive parents many of my friends suffered under. One of them told me later in life that because our family treated and accepted him, we saved his life. He became a priest and a great one. Over my 80 years, I've known many very successful people whose personal life was a total, destructive and crazy mess, including some psychiatrists and priests, the very ones those in trouble look to for serious help. Jackie's troubles as a youngster compared to most .... weren't. Her complaints about it remind me of the straight A+ student many of us had in class in our school years who was crushed and near suicidal to have gotten an A- on a paper. I once advised her mom at one of the older proboards I belonged to keep Jackie's fans at a very long arms length when it came to family personal and business matters. She fortunately followed my advise then. Later, unfortunately not at all. What Jackie has apparently most lately composed may be "theraputic". But stuff that personal and esoteric needs to remain between her therapist and close family and friends. Not her fans. Fans need to be entertained and kept in a happy place. Not pulled into her troubles via her music or any other means. Is she an entertainer? I have enough to worry and be concerned about with my own family and friends. A true entertainer is able to succeed in helping me take my mind off my troubles. Imho, that's where Jackie once succeeded brilliantly and for most of her amazingly 13 year long career as one. I hope she someday realizes that and gets back to it. She'll succeed again at what she's most gifted with if and when she does.
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Post by yellowstone2014 on Sept 5, 2023 13:48:38 GMT -5
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Post by lawrence on Sept 6, 2023 13:02:55 GMT -5
Jackie has been known as an exceptionally fine vocalist and an extraordinarily talented, versatile classical crossover cover singer, but with no real identity of her own as an artist ....as she said in discussion on "After the Mask" (The Masked Singer), "I've been such a lost person for so long.....". Recently stated for New York Post, “I didn’t even really know who I was musically because I’ve been doing the same thing since I was 10 years old”. With Jackie's venture into full-fledged songwriting in creating an album of original songs, there now lies a distinction between the Jackie we've known as the vocalist and Jackie the singer/songwriter compelled to reveal the "dark side" of her experience, not only as a "therapeutic endeavor" toward healing, but with the hope that listeners might relate to her story and her music. Really great art has often drawn upon suffering in some way or another, the artist naturally compelled to express his sorrows, anxieties, longings, inadequacies and the like through his painting, music, poetry, prose, etc. Jackie has been discovering and revealing who she is, the latent artist suppressed by having to do what she's been told and be what she has been expected to be all her young life as a recording artist/ performer. "Before Masked Singer, I had to play a role that people were used to seeing.....that whole part has changed. It was tiring, and almost painful to carry around my old self all the time when there was so much more there." Part of what was there was the need to be "authentic"...."to be honest with myself and with the world". In a recent interview with New York Post, she says, "....So, I really dove deep and caught up with myself. And I found a new sound that is very genuine to me.” That authenticity is now manifesting in her songwriting, what she calls "my musical transformation era". Some fans may not be willing to accept this transition from classical crossover vocalist to introspective songwriter, much the way some would not accept her becoming an adult, "showing skin"...."we miss the innocent Jackie". Those fans have been lost to her. Now, at this "come-back" point in her career, she may lose those who want Jackie to "keep her fans in a happy place".....help them take their minds off their troubles. They don't want to hear music about mental illness. Don't forget that Nessun Dorma is about a prince about to be beheaded because he lost in a bargain to win the love of a psychopathic princess. Angel is about drug addiction. Do we care? No, we listen to those songs because they are masterful works of art and appreciate them when sung beautifully. Never mind that both were performed beautifully by an 11 year old who barely understood the significance of the lyrics. Jackie says, "My hope is that my new music, and more specifically, Behind My Eyes, resonates with you all, and you each are able to connect with the song in your own way". Isn't that what art has always been about for the connoisseur, relating to a painting, a poem or a song; and what the critics judge in a work of art, that being its relatability to common experience through the artist's vision and technique? Jackie's vision is a retrospective of her life, sharing her experience, lessons she's learned, her "entire truth", as she says. Her technique has probably changed in a way suited to the new "alternative pop" genre in which her music is being categorized, at least with BME, though it's evident that her signature vocal purity remains, which I expect will always be her identity as a vocalist. You may choose to listen to and perhaps relate with the lyrics, or simply enjoy the music and the beauty of Jackie's voice and her expressiveness, as you do when listening to her rendition of Nessun Dorma or Angel. I often don't pay much attention to lyrics when listening to Jackie. But, I will now. What I'm saying is, let's not judge or dismiss the work before it has been revealed in entirety. Behind My Eyes may or may not be wholly characteristic of her music yet to come, maybe it is, but it should be critiqued on its own merit, musically and creatively, not judged on what one may expect and dismissed off hand because it's about "mental illness". Many of the great artists through the centuries have been mentally ill. It's like saying, I won't look at a Van Gogh painting because he was "a little off" (genius), Jackie has always been a little off, hasn't she?, and I say that with sincere admiration and respect. She's just revealing herself more honestly and authentically now as a songwriter, and perhaps some of us might relate to what she is expressing in our own little-off ways. "Being imperfect is perfectly OK" ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2023 15:51:29 GMT -5
Jackie has been known as an exceptionally fine vocalist and an extraordinarily talented, versatile classical crossover cover singer, but with no real identity of her own as an artist ....as she said in discussion on "After the Mask" (The Masked Singer), "I've been such a lost person for so long.....". Recently stated for New York Post, “I didn’t even really know who I was musically because I’ve been doing the same thing since I was 10 years old”. With Jackie's venture into full-fledged songwriting in creating an album of original songs, there now lies a distinction between the Jackie we've known as the vocalist and Jackie the singer/songwriter compelled to reveal the "dark side" of her experience, not only as a "therapeutic endeavor" toward healing, but with the hope that listeners might relate to her story and her music. Really great art has often drawn upon suffering in some way or another, the artist naturally compelled to express his sorrows, anxieties, longings, inadequacies and the like through his painting, music, poetry, prose, etc. Jackie has been discovering and revealing who she is, the latent artist suppressed by having to do what she's been told and be what she has been expected to be all her young life as a recording artist/ performer. "Before Masked Singer, I had to play a role that people were used to seeing.....that whole part has changed. It was tiring, and almost painful to carry around my old self all the time when there was so much more there." Part of what was there was the need to be "authentic"...."to be honest with myself and with the world". In a recent interview with New York Post, she says, "....So, I really dove deep and caught up with myself. And I found a new sound that is very genuine to me.” That authenticity is now manifesting in her songwriting, what she calls "my musical transformation era". Some fans may not be willing to accept this transition from classical crossover vocalist to introspective songwriter, much the way some would not accept her becoming an adult, "showing skin"...."we miss the innocent Jackie". Those fans have been lost to her. Now, at this "come-back" point in her career, she may lose those who want Jackie to "keep her fans in a happy place".....help them take their minds off their troubles. They don't want to hear music about mental illness. Don' forget that Nessun Dorma is about a prince about to be beheaded because he lost in a bargain to win the love of a psychopathic princess. Angel is about drug addiction. Do we care? No, we listen to those songs because they are masterful works of art and appreciate them when sung beautifully. Never mind that both were performed beautifully by an 11 year old who barely understood the significance of the lyrics. Jackie says, "My hope is that my new music, and more specifically, Behind My Eyes, resonates with you all, and you each are able to connect with the song in your own way". Isn't that what art has always been about for the connoisseur, relating to a painting, a poem or a song; and what the critics judge in a work of art, that being its relatability to common experience through the artist's vision and technique? Jackie's vision is a retrospective of her life, sharing her experience, lessons she's learned, her "entire truth", as she says. Her technique has probably changed in a way suited to the new "alternative pop" genre in which her music is being categorized, at least with BME, though it's evident that her signature vocal purity remains, which I expect will always be her identity as a vocalist. You may choose to listen to and perhaps relate with the lyrics, or simply enjoy the music and the beauty of Jackie's voice and her expressiveness, as you do when listening to her rendition of Nessun Dorma or Angel. I often don't pay much attention to lyrics when listening to Jackie. But, I will now. What I'm saying is, let's not judge or dismiss the work before it has been revealed in entirety. Behind My Eyes may or may not be wholly characteristic of her music yet to come, maybe it is, but it should be critiqued on its own merit, musically and creatively, not judged on what one may expect and dismissed off hand because it's about "mental illness". Many of the great artists through the centuries have been mentally ill. It's like saying, I won't look at a Van Gogh painting because he was "a little off" (genius), Jackie has always been a little off, hasn't she?, and I say that with sincere admiration and respect. She's just revealing herself more honestly and authentically now as a songwriter, and perhaps some of us might relate to what she is expressing in our own little-off ways. "Being imperfect is perfectly OK" ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Breaking news...most people are "a little off".
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