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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Third Album Almost Done?

« on: December 02, 2005, 09:36:36 pm »

who are the matrix?

VERY funny, Brian!

To me, the whole Matrix thing is ridiculous.  Vanessa can write great songs.  She has proven that twice now. The Matrix wishes they could come up with something as inspired and catchy as ATM or OD.  If, as VC has said, she is not a "pop princess",
working with pop's biggest assembly line makes no sense.  The only way it DOES make sense is if the record company demanded it, or she did it as an olive branch.  Probably a command from the Interscope bean counters.  Imagine what the next songs might be about!


Dan/NS

Inspired and catchy as ATM?

Catchy, yes,

Inspired, hardly.

I love ATM, but in all honesty, it's a fluke. And even Vanessa recognizes that. In one of the video interviews done with RollingStone when she first came out she even admitted that she had massive writers block when trying to finish that song. That's why the same descending pattern appears over and over again through out the whole goddamn song. And that's also why the song consists of just three chords for the most part. Why do people not realize this?

I most likely committed blasphemy by saying that, haha, but that's just how I feel. I don't mean to offend anyone by bashing ATM, because I'm not. It's just not the end all and be all of songwriting. I'm totally going off topic and ranting. Sorry.

And STARGirl, I do agree with you for the most part. But I believe MTV and VH1 are necessary evils to a degree.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Third Album Almost Done?

« on: December 01, 2005, 06:27:39 am »

Haha, stay tuned for the next appearance on TRL by Vanessa. Much carnage will be had. :3

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Third Album Almost Done?

« on: December 01, 2005, 06:10:08 am »

The Matrix are a group of songwriters that have written songs for Avril Lavigne (Complicated, With You, Sk8er Boi), Britney Spears (Me Against The Music, Toxic) Liz Phair (Why Can't I, Extraodinary, etc) and I believe they worked with Hillary Duff. I forget. Those are the only notable artists and songs I can remember off the top of my head. But they're known for writing chart topping songs. I like some of the work done by the Matrix. And remember how Vanessa promised that everyone would recognize this next CD? As her second CD even? I think with a songwriting group like the Matrix behind her, she may have her next hit even if it's not through means we would wish her to have it. But everyone's (Including myself) been bitching about her not getting the recognition and air play she deserves and this may be the means to let her do so. So I don't see what the big fuss is. It's music, and it's not the first time she's co-written with anyone before.

Haha, I keep editing this post. But Linda Perry is a pretty big name herself as well, she produced P!nk's Missundaztood which sold very well, and she produced Christina Aguilera's last album... right? Or at least co-wrote a few songs with her, and that did extremely well too. If Vanessa's working with people such as Linda and The Matrix, one could only assume that she's preparing to kick MTV in the balls.

If they have balls.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Does anyone know?

« on: October 05, 2005, 04:09:27 am »

I believe they mean the Nashville VCD, right?

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Piano music for the songs on Harmonium...

« on: September 23, 2005, 01:59:56 pm »

Well... Whomever posts Where the Streets have no Name is my best friend.

Where The Streets Have No Name has around 3 or 4 layered parts on piano. It'd be impossible to play solo, the echo effect doesn't help much with the transcribing of it either.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Official Vanessa Pictures Thread

« on: September 23, 2005, 01:51:37 pm »

Hey, does anybody have a really nice scan of the front cover of the White Houses single?

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Vanessa has written songs with the Matrix

« on: August 26, 2005, 08:04:48 am »

Agreed. John Shanks... Ashlee Simpson. *Shudders*

I'm actually glad to see Linda Perry producing Vanessa's album. At least, that's what she said in her last post on the o-board right? I'm not delussional am I?  :?

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Vanessa has written songs with the Matrix

« on: August 26, 2005, 07:25:27 am »

'Be not Nobody' came to Vanessa in a dream, so it's not that farfetched.

Are we talking about the same Matrix that wrote with Avril Lavigne???

Yeah, the Matrix are that super "omgz we make huge pop hits" group. They worked with Avril Lavigne on her first album and with Liz Phair on her latest effort. All the singles that Avril released from her first album were written by the Matrix actually. Oh, and they worked with Britney Spears on her last album too if I recall correctly. Heh.

If Vanessa wants to make a comeback... the Matrix are no doubt the way to go, but... hrm. I have mixed feelings about the Matrix.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Sign Vanessa's birthday card

« on: August 05, 2005, 08:30:38 am »

Name: James
SN: Portions for Foxes
Message: Tori Amos has nothing on you.

 

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Damage Control

« on: May 04, 2005, 11:17:12 am »

I've downloaded the file and when I open it it says Windows Media Player has encountered an unkown error... then it won't play.    Whyyy.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Vanessa font.

« on: April 22, 2005, 06:34:42 am »

My computer won't recognize the file.  :?

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Harmonium [Enhanced]?

« on: April 22, 2005, 06:29:40 am »

well, the original harmonium isnt on amazon, only this one to preorder.
it also says original release date : 9 nov 2004

i think harmonium was just discontinued and is the next batch made is out on may 30th

Yeah. Amazon does that all the time, they'll discontinue shipments of an item when they run out and then will stock it again at a later date.

I sincerely doubt anything on the CD has been re-recorded.

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Completely Off-Topic / Opening Day ...

« on: April 04, 2005, 03:50:39 pm »

GO RED SOX!  

You should all see Fever Pitch, I saw a sneak preview of it on Saturday, it's cute.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Vanessa Carlton Live in Nashville - VCD Ready!

« on: March 27, 2005, 05:41:53 pm »

Poor... I'm impressed how you have computer and internet...
Because if you can't pay " almost nothing ", your situation is so difficult

Are you using your computer or no?

...dude, I'm joking. I'm on my own computer.  :?  The DVD is an awesome idea and is far nicer than what I have to offer.

I'm sorry for wanting to share a video with the rest of the board, last time I checked no one said the DVD was the only way of acquiring footage from the show.

You probably downloaded the video anyway.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Vanessa Carlton Live in Nashville - VCD Ready!

« on: March 27, 2005, 05:20:33 pm »

downloadin....

Why don't you ask Zurielshimon for a copy?

Because that costs money and what I have is free and convieniant. Duh.  :wink: