Skyeturday

Awkwardly watermarked concert domination! The first courtesy M. Saunders, the second from Getty.

A meager make-up for a missed SKYE FRIDAY...first: news! Skye has completed almost 30 songs written Noise from the Basement-style and has been invited to rerecord them with a full budget for Capitol (her second album on the major label). Judging from the quality of everything on NftB as compared to "Number One" (or even the stuff she's done since then for Disney), I think the budget is only going to affect minor (but important) aspects of sound quality. The bulk of the work is already done between her and her producer...from the basement.

I can't BELIEVE I've missed out on Skye's Myspace for so long! It's really great, with many pics and blog posts not available on her official site. A lovely quote I pulled from literally five minutes of perusing (go there, it's seriously a goldmine):

I read over Shakespeare's famous tragedy Hamlet for the second time. I have to admit I was kind of bummed about getting back into school work but it was so fun! I can't believe I wrote a teen rebellious anthem about Mr. Shakespeare, because William rocks!

OK, I'm through making arguments about how smart this girl is. I will now refer anyone, including my lovely Skye critic, to this quote. This is one of the most self-aware (and not in the Bright Eyes/Aly & AJ sense) young artists working right now. No mp3s today (I'm in Boston at the moment), but I'm currently looking for a non RealPlayer Radio Free Roscoe theme to stream here. Until then you can stream it from her site's music section.

This means that Skye Sweetnam is now capable of pursuing the following careers:

1) Mega rock star
2) Jingle writer
3) Pop/Rock Producer/Engineer
4) Business Manager
5) Actress
6) Teenpop consultant (worth considering...are there any consultants in this field?)
7) Music critic (parallel to another more lucrative career)
8) Animator (check out the self-made stop motion video for "Imaginary Superstar" in RealPlayer here...also finding a downloadable version for a future SKYE FRIDAY)
9) Professor of literature (after college)
10) Professional Photographer

And many more I can't think of off the top of my head at the moment. Her opportunities for success are boundless. Sorry for the lack of dl-able material (listen to "Part of Your World" again!), perhaps I'll have a special treat next SKYE FRIDAY!