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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Vanessa in Teen Vogue

« on: January 12, 2005, 05:45:47 pm »

From Vanessacarlton.com news page

Vanessa Reveals her Secrets to Teen Vogue!
Vanessa Carlton is featured on Teenvogue.com this month! You can take a look here to find out Vanessa's beauty secrets while on the road.

February 2004
metamorphosis
Whether composing music or putting on makeup, Vanessa Carlton has learned what she wants and how to get it.
A lot has changed for Vanessa Carlton since her hit single, "A Thousand Miles," dominated the airwaves two years ago. From her more developed taste as a musician to a romance with Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins, the singer/pianist's professional and personal growth have culminated in her sophomore effort, Harmonium. Boyfriend Stephan produced the record and, says Vanessa, "He really allowed me to spread my wings and put my mark on everything." She describes the resulting album as "darker and more complicated" than the first: "I kind of took the gloss off my first CD, Be Not Nobody. That left Harmonium flawed in all the ways it should be." And though onstage she has traded her hippie-chic stylings for a more dramatic look, Vanessa prefers to keep her daily beauty routine as pure and straightforward as her sound. "I usually just splash some water on my face," she reveals. "I only use soap to take makeup off." The pop-star's sole high-maintenance indulgence has been a "swanky" bus, which she's currently riding cross-country in for her U.S. tour. "I'm a little spoiled this time around," she admits. "I have a really nice bed in the back." Good thing, considering Vanessa's number-one beauty essential—lots of sleep. "I like to get eleven hours" she says. "Then I'm in my prime." —EVONNE GAMBRELL


EBONY AND IVORY "MY FATHER HAS ALWAYS LOVED ROCK, BUT MY MOTHER WAS A CLASSICAL PIANIST. I LIKE TO THINK MY STYLE IS A PERFECT MIX OF THE TWO," SAYS VANESSA.

Then it has her must haves with comments:

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Kiehl's Ultimate Strength Hand Salve, $18 for 5 oz. www.kiehls.com. "I use it to take care of my hands. It's especially great for plane trips."

GEM DANDY M.A.C. Eye Shadow in Amethyst, $13. www.maccosmetics.com. "It's creates a sparkly, smoky eye. And it goes on really easily."

DAMAGE CONTROL Terax Original Crema Conditioner, $45 for 6.9 oz. (800) 213-5531. "Touring is really hard on my hair. This stuff saves me."


PEEP-SHOW L'Oréal Voluminous Mascara, $8. Drugstores. "When you're onstage, it's all about the eyes."

SMOOTH OPERATOR Kiehl's Creme de Corps, $15 for 4 oz. www.kiehls.com. "I would turn into a prune without it."

CLEAN AND CLEAR Fiji water. (877) 426-3454. "I work out every day, so I drink lots of this."

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Other Musicians / Anna Nalick

« on: December 30, 2004, 03:43:26 pm »

So I was listening to Radio@Netscape yesterday and this song came on. The voice sounded kinda familiar but not really. I looked and the song was "Breathe (2am)" by Anna Nalick She sounds kinda like Jewel and someone else but I can't place it. It is kinda countryish to me as well. But she is so good!!

I checked out her site and found out she is 20 from So Cal. Her album is Wreck of the Day but sadly isn't due out until 03/08/05. update, it's now 04/19/05  :cry:

You can hear the song by going here scroll to where it says listen to "Breathe (2am)" click on which media type you use.

I wish there was more music to listen to. I did listen to some of the clips from the Sony Music Store but they are too short.

Anyhow, check it out, tell me what you think.





Anna Nalick Music Player

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Vanessa is #6 on Slant Magazine's Top Albums of 2004!

« on: December 17, 2004, 08:35:57 pm »

Vanessa is #6 on Slant Magazine's Top Albums of 2004!

Slant Magazine Link from Vanessa Carlton.com (excpet I had to make it of instead of their "on"  :wink: )


It should have been hard for Vanessa Carlton to trump her first single "A Thousand Miles," but "White Houses," the lead single from the singer's sophomore effort Harmonium, is the kind of song that truly cements a career. Amidst a driving beat, piano recital keys, and lush strings, the song tells the story of five girls living together in what is presumably a dance school dormitory or summer camp. The girls play spin the bottle, make out with boys, tell secrets, betray each other, and then reluctantly move on with their lives. The song is poignant, bloody, fleeting, and beautiful, much like adolescence, while the simple but elegant video allows Carlton to showcase her years of professional dance training.

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Entertainment - Movies / TV / Books / Medium on NBC

« on: December 14, 2004, 07:01:32 pm »

A new NBC drama Medium with Patricia Arquette looks really good. They are promoting it like crazy. I hope it ends up being as good as it looks.


From Emmy Award-winning executive producer, creator and director Glenn Gordon Caron ("Moonlighting") comes "Medium," a chilling drama series inspired by the real-life story of research medium Allison Dubois. Patricia Arquette ("Stigmata," "Flirting with Disaster") stars as a young wife and mother who, since childhood, has been struggling to make sense of her dreams and visions of dead people.

Allison Dubois (Arquette) is a strong-willed young mother of three, a devoted wife and law student who begins to suspect that she can talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams and read people's thoughts. Fearing for her mental health, she turns for support to her husband Joe (Jake Weber, "U-571"), an aerospace engineer, who slowly comes to believe that what his wife is telling him just might be true. The real challenge is convincing her boss, D.A. Devalos (Miguel Sandoval) -- and the other doubters in the criminal justice system -- that her psychic abilities can give them the upper hand when it comes to solving violent and horrifying crimes whose mysteries often reside with those who live beyond the grave.

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Completely Off-Topic / Secret Santa

« on: December 08, 2004, 03:45:09 pm »

I don't know if many of you have participated in Secret Santa but we're doing it at my work and damn if I didn't get the person who organized the dang thing and is the most critical person evar.

We had to fill out this sheet and she doesn't have a favorite candy and put things like ALL as her favorite store. Um, okay that doesn't help. Thanks though.

I was wondering if you all had any ideas. So far I only got her favorite candle scent.

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Live Shows / 12/6/2004: Lloyd Noble Center - Norman, OK (review)

« on: December 07, 2004, 07:55:10 am »

[discussion]

how was it??

I am sure Alecs will post when he gets back but the show was yesterday. She went first. She was supposed to be third. I don't know the order but I think he said she did:

Ordinary Day
White Houses
Rinse
Who's To Say
Half A Week Before the Winter
A Thousand Miles

She didn't have the tour piano but it was a black baby grand or grand.

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Polls / Which wrist do you wear your watch on?

« on: November 10, 2004, 05:54:53 pm »

Which wrist do you wear your watch on?

Left?
Right?

The question is Vanessa inspired. I noticed that she wears her watch on her right wrist and is right handed. Seems weird to me.

I am left handed and wear it on my right wrist. I always thought most people did but am slowly learning that's not true.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Vanessa on Nickelodeon today!! 11/09/04

« on: November 09, 2004, 12:23:56 pm »

NICKELODEON "U-Pick Live" will be featuring an apppearance by Vanessa & performance of "White Houses" today!

TODAY: 11/9 @ 5:30pm/2:30pm PST & 8:00pm EST/5:00pm PST

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Entertainment - Movies / TV / Books / City of God

« on: November 05, 2004, 06:08:45 pm »

So I finally checked out Vanessa's recommendation City of God

I wasn't really sure what to expect. It is a foreign film, but reading the subtitles is cool. It tells the stories of several people over the decades and ties them all together. The movie involes robbery, rape, killing, corruption and selling drugs. It's intense. Kinda long but doesn't seem like it. (2 hours and 10 mins.)

That was my take on it here's another:


Busca-Pe (Alexandre Rodrigues) lives in Cidade de Deus (City of God), a housing project reputed to be one of the most dangerous parts of otherwise magical Rio de Janeiro. He's frightened he'll end up like the countless others around him -- troubled, violent or dead. But his saving grace is his photographer's eye, through which the stories of several people who live in this forsaken "city" unfold. …

Check it out. It's really good.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Vanessa Spotlight on Girlslife.com

« on: November 03, 2004, 08:13:13 am »

Posted on the News section at Vanessa Carlton.com from Girls Life.com



WHITE HOUSES review by Jackie Newman

Vanessa Carlton is back with a new album, Harmonium. It’s been 3 years since her multi-platinum debut Be Not Nobody which introduced the top ten single “Ordinary Day” and number one single “A Thousand Miles.” Vanessa’s album is named “Harmonium,” because, to her it means, "bringing difficult, chaotic things that have trouble fitting in one’s life together to achieve harmony." The album’s strong piano and drums presented create a mellow nostalgic mood enhance Carlton’s unique voice style.
Vanessa wrote her first album at age seventeen, and wrote Harmonium at age twenty-three after six years of change from an aspiring teen singer to a young Hollywood adult. “I was not afraid to make an album based on what feels fresh and reflective to me. I think I realize only now that I really did take a risk," Vanessa says.

Composed of thick emotions and past memories, the songs seem to reflect sorrow and loss of loved moments.  The music is melancholy as the lyrics contemplate mistakes in past relationships and the change of joyful pasts. The song, “White Houses” contains amazing vocal and piano performances, and the harmony is strung well to accompany the lyric’s emotions. Though depressing and even disheartening, the music can be used as an outlet for every girl’s sadness.

Broken hearts and hurt friendships make up these well-written lyrics.  The songs contain lines that can be broken down to a poetic form where one line can create a door to a whole story. “White Houses” contains the line “pretty-eyed boys girls die to trust,” which is an example of Carlton’s wide range of poetic and lyrical capabilities.  The album’s overall message is about change and the harsh pain that encompasses it.

So grab a box of tissues and a handful of old pictures to reminisce over the past with Vanessa Carlton’s new album Harmonium.


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WHO IS VANESSA CARLTON? by Kasey Simcoe

Vanessa Carlton is not your average pop-tart, oh no! This classically trained pianist from Pennsylvania is one of the finest and freshest new faces to hit the music scene in recent years! Her new album, "Harmonium", due out November 9th, is a testament of life, love and Vanessa's incredible individual style. When the glorious sound of "Harmonium" hits your ears, you immediately are reminded of other talented temptresses, like Tori Amos and Fiona Apple.

Some of her favorite musical artists are amongst the greatest composers, such as Chopin and Mozart, but she enjoys modern music, also. Fleetwood Mac, Queens of the Stone Age, Pink Floyd and Franz Ferdinand are amongst her favorite newer artists. She told GL, "Harmonium was not calculated [..as a departure from average pop music]. It's still very pop, but with a laser-beam asthetic goal. It has more focus, nothing more, nothing less."

She just bought a loft in New York city, and enjoys going to museums (MOMA is one of her favorites) and movies, which, she said "I usually walk out of." Vanessa likes sushi, and frequents Blue Ribbon Sushi in NYC, but her favorite dish is her mom's chicken and spaghetti, which, she says, is different from any spaghetti she's ever had, but it's still so good. Vanessa's loves reading and books, her favorite being The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and also likes the works of Oscar Wilde and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Completely Off-Topic / Happy Birthday Samantha!! (VaderDawsn)!!

« on: October 25, 2004, 08:08:55 am »

Happy Birthday Samantha!!

I hope that you have a wonderful day, and celebrated a little bit this past weekend. If you're me, you'll be celebrating this weekend as well.  :wink:

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Entertainment - Movies / TV / Books / Vh1's Motormouth

« on: October 24, 2004, 06:33:14 pm »

I know we are all guilty of this. It's a hidden camera show where they catch people singing in the car.

They go to two different cities each episode. There are like 3 rounds. The first where they have no idea. The second, they pick finalists and then  their friends who set them up get in the car too. The last part where it's revealed, picking the city's Motormouth.

OMG, it's hilarious.

Motormouth

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Completely Off-Topic / Happy Birthdya LikeAShootingStar!!

« on: October 21, 2004, 06:23:05 am »

Happy Birthday!!

21!! Woohoo!!

Hope it's a good one.

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Voting "White Houses" for the TRL Countdown

« on: August 12, 2004, 07:57:41 am »

Hey kids!! It's that time again. We have to get "White Houses" on TRL and make our way (not downtown) but to the top of the chart. I know that together we can do it.

You can vote online here scroll down and of course choose Vanessa Carlton  :wink:

or/and call
1-800-DIAL MTV (342-5688) from 4:30-5:00 EST. When Carson comes on hit 1 then 826. They will say thank you for voting for Vanessa Carlton "White Houses" and dial again. You only get three votes per phone line.

So...  who has voted?  I know a lot of us started when the video premiered and have been voting all night or even have a link in their sig. That's awesome!!

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Other Musicians / Martika's back and in a new duo, Oppera!!

« on: June 28, 2004, 07:31:09 pm »

I know most you people here are young but back in the 80's/early 90's there was an aritist named Martika. She was on Kids Inc. (same seasons as Stacy from Black Eyed Peas) and even put out a few albums. Her most memorable single was a little song called "Toy Soldeirs."

Fast foward 2004. She is now married and has a project with her husband Michael Mozart. Their group is called "Oppera." Their cd is entitled "Violince."

The album is a mix of rock, classical, pop, R&B/soul and even a little rapping. Some people have compared them to Ev but I don't really see it. I really like the cd a lot. Martika's voice has gotten so much stronger.

I know that a lot of people here have a wide range of taste in music. So check it out. They should be hitting the road soon and I hope that the word spreads about them soon.




Oppera flash version

Oppera for people like me with slow connections




Oppera flash version

Oppera for people like me with slow connections


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