Studio: P H O TO S

Made That Good Drive. Back up Ninety-Five ... Well 485-85--95-395....

I made it 30 minutes away before realizing I forgot my new winter coat, considering we have 2 feet of snow at home, it was a must that I turn around. Oh well, A second Good-bye. I was confused however, about how it took ONE full tank of gas to get from DC -> Charlotte but TWO full tanks of gas to get from Charlotte -> DC . Is the east coast one giant hill?

Anyways... I was able to listen to a rough bounce out of the full album in the car, it is still very unbalanced, and you can hear me laughing a lot, and Justin saying " Cool" when a song is over... oh charming. I must say, at this stage, Be your girl, Stay, Just be friends, and Pancake Song are my favorite... I also spent the ride pondering album titles, and I think I got a good one. ;)

Now that I made it home, I can upload studio photos, I wish I had taken more... And while i upload them and settle in, I swear my kitten is just sitting next to me, and will NOT STOP meowing... Is she asking me about my week? I wish I spoke cat talk.






...more fun pictures to ensue.

DAY 7: in the S T U D I O

THE LAST DAY:

Well, for me at least. There will be mixing and all kinds of fun engineering stuff to do for weeks on this album, but for me. All of my vocals and input is over today. Kind of sweet and sour. So excited to hear all of the songs take shape and sound like, well songs... good songs. Some of them, have really beautiful moments, and fairly epic bridges lol.... Today is sweet also because I can imagine how relaxed I will feel tommorow morning when i wake up... Sour because it is over, and it has been fun, and it is sort of like when you leave town, you wonder " oh did i put the garage door down?" or " turn off the heater?" .... I wonder what little things I may have forgotten. It is also sour because I would love to go home to MY BED and MY KITTY ... and unfortunately mother nature has told me that is not an option. there is 12-14 inches of snow already in Washington D.C. and someone in transportation made an EPIC FAIL when deciding that salting 495 wasn't necessary.

Plus i can't wait to get home for christmas to wear matching sweatshirts with my sisters:

that's us circa 1995-ish.... we are still this awkward.

Today is a lot of vocal harmonies for me, we want to make sure we get everything done that involves me that can not be done once I am gone. Harmonies for me are very frusturating because I do not usually sing in a band, and when I do sing with someone, It is usually a boy and the harmonies are easier for me to pick up on. When I was in choir, or even musicals, I am usually soprano 1 which is melody so it just isn't something I am very good at.

And it's quite frustrating. Some takes I had to do over and over again to get right and let out a few 4 letter words. ( Sorry Justin)... We also did a lot of work on the A Capella song which is such a nightmare lol but when it is done, hopefully it will be dreamy.

We finally added the " group sing along" part of the pancake song. It sounds awesome, and that mixed with the Kazoo call and response really brought this song together.

Emily made it over after work and lent her beautiful ear and voice to "Stay", and we added 2 more vocal parts to the end of the song, panned seperatly, it really brought this one together as well.

We added a shaker wrapped in a full sized blanket to " every single time" [the sexy song] lol...it was a bizarre idea I had, but I think you will all like the tone.

When trying to find out what kind of vocals to add to " a little more perfect" ... justin pulled a " what would Taylor Swift tdo?" and listened to some of her music for inspiration of pop. It was funny, but the girl knows whats up so... lol, thank you for inspiring us.

Finally, some quite creepy harmonies on 0-60 make the song slightly taunting but mainly awesome... and I'm really happy with how this turned out.