Huckapoo design c. March 2003, original Joey Thunders featured center
While I figure out how to secure eight televisions and DVD players in four days, some musings undeserving of a theme post. Which sucks, because I love theme posts.
1) I love Finland. Do you love Finland?
2) HOLY FUCK THE TRUTH SQUAD EXISTS.
I guess singing and dancing paid off because now you're in the music group 'Truth Squad'. Is it headed by Vitamin C?
Miki [Ishikawa]: Yes. She writes our music and is our producer.
I love the image of the group. You guys are probably power-packed! You're mostly singing about friendship, trust, and positivity. Why is that important-to get messages across to our youth?
Miki: I think a lot of the kids nowadays see the media and follow what they see, but not what they feel, and they're following what the crowd does. I think it's about creating your own personality and it's really good to be honest to yourself and others and not to be so caught up with the media. That's like our motto I guess.
Do you have a nickname?
Miki: Little Tokyo.
Who picks out your clothes for photo shoots and such?
Miki: I pick out my own clothes. If you saw that kimono jacket I'm wearing in the Truth Squad picture, my mom made that.
Wow! In the next picture you had pigtails going on. So that was all your styling?
Miki: Yup.
Are you guys working on an album right now and when will it be finished?
Miki: We are working on it and just about finished. There are talks about it being released in May.
Are there talks about you guys going on tour yet?
Miki: I think we're going to tour with Jesse McCartney and other Disney artists.
I would love to see your show!
Miki: All my other group members do flips and everything!
One song is 'Believe'. Kids are going to look up to you. How does it feel to be a role model?
Miki: It's kind of weird because I don't really think of myself as one at all. I'm the kind of person who looks up to other people. It's flattering.
If you could change something about the pop scene today, what would it be?
Miki: Not to make it as provocative as it is and to make it more kid friendly. That's maybe one thing to change.
Less provocative? What a bunch of squares, they can sell cookies with Lil' Josh and DENY THEIR THROBBING BIOLOGICAL URGES.
Jeez, this is the most boring interview ever. It's like they had an IM conversation and paused after every post to make a cup of tea. Apparently the TS cover of "Graduation" by Vitamin C will be out in time for grad season. Note to everyone (read: Radio Disney programmers), if you feel the urge to play this song, please please please play "Vacation" instead. See, because the kids are also looking forward to summer vacation -- in fact, they could probably give a shit about graduation. Elem to middle school, what kind of transition is THAT? Stay young while you can, kids, junior high is brutal.
3) I might like/love Ashley Parker Angel (new single "Let U Go" produced by Max Martin/Dr. Luke, discussed a bit in a comment somehwere round these parts and streamed on the site and 'space). Who knew? ...No, I will not listen to O-town again. OK, once. Lordi lordy...congrats with that extreme makeover.
4) Pixel Perfect unsolved mysteries still unsolved (from an email):
..."Perfectly" remix is pretty awful, though. Unfortunately, Lukow and co. cared more about IP rights than, y'know, singing, so the original "Joey Thunders" who took lead on Pixel Perfect was...a mystery Joey. No longer with the band (in fact, she was NEVER with the band, just recorded their best song and was replaced after). Just got that one confirmed:
"Confirmed: the band got the Disney deal before the girls had been fully cast, so the first Joey -- who bailed before contracts could be signed -- took lead on Perfectly."
So WHO is the REAL Joey Thunders? It's not poor Jessica Harp, who instead gets to spend the rest of her known life (or year or two) in the Wreckers...it may be one of the girls in the publicity shot attached,
That picture, for reference (EDIT: second from left, not center as previously marked):
VS.
EDIT: OK, 2:45 in the AM and we got a nice NO SHUT-DOWN sequence going on RD...when I checked in it was "Behind These Hazel Eyes" into Crazy Frog into...NOTICE ME from Pixel Perfect! Into APA "Let U Go"... (I'll let you know which song kills the mix. Will it be "1985"? HSM? "Big Bad B5" (#1? Really? I mean it's not AWFUL, but...)? Minimum of commercials. Is this what happens when you listen at all hours of the night/morning? (A: No, this is when I always listen and they might be on TX time online) ...HSM with the kill, "We're All in This Together." Sorta painless as far as sequence-killers go, I guess. (Thoughts on the new Pink album soon, night folks.) James Brown with the rebound...nah, I'm going to bed.
BACK TO REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAM...
Is Jessica Harp the most underrated "back-up singer" of all time? You be the judge.
EDIT: Of course in my chaffy haste I didn't even bother to check her site, where this song is available for download. Oh well. This friendly message makes me like her even more:
All mp3s are hosted locally on this server. Please right click and save it to your hard drive rather than downloading it each time you wish to play it.
Quick, somebody call the RIAA! Solo album is in the works on Warner Nashville (see comments).
Jessica Harp - Perfectly
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