Mini-rant:
There seems to be no such thing as common sense. It should be called common misconceptions. People aim low often because of the perception that life is easier if you ask for less. It's just not true. I was always treated better by gorgeous boyfriends than by okay-looking ones. So thinking, hey, this guy isn't that cute, but he'll feel really lucky to have me doesn't work ladies. And trying to sell low-end real estate was the pits. It's a lot easier to convince somebody who already understand how many works to spend theirs, than it is to have to educate somebody from the ground up as to why home ownership is better than having a really nice car!
This trend holds true with this gig and others in LA. I'm finding that's it's just as much work to be a background singer as it is to be an artist. I think tons of people avoid singing lead because of the fear of all that entails, but the truth is, it's no harder to be in front than it is in back. Sort of like how it's easier to work in corporate America than it is to find a blue collar or McDonalds type of job. I remember in college trying to get a retail job - that was futile. Now I could get an office job, paying twice as much, with more ease. Is that the stupidest thing you've ever heard?
So aim high, peeps. There's way more competition at the bottom than there is at the top and the payoff is better.
Our show is coming along. We leave for Paris next Sunday which is great. No more going to bed hungry because all the restaurants close at 11pm! I'm ridiculously, rapturously excited about Paris. It's going to be the bomb! They put our bios in a printed booklet for the show - can you believe it? You had to see us all scrambling to actually write/rewrite our bios in time.
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OK, try having your company being bought by your biggest competitor, acquiring 3x as many employees you're responsible for, and there's lots of tension all over the place. That's my life at the moment, which explains why I love reading about someone else living well outside their comfort zone, like, for instance, in France.
France is a fabulous country, when you're talking about spending some time not getting things done. Your comment on feeling Japanese is right on. It's like moving from DC to the deep south. Everybody else is in slo-mo. So now I've insulted people from the south, and Frenchies ... my work here is done. Au revoir, Cherie
LOL..... Speaking as someone who moved from DC to (well, not quite the deep south) Atlanta.... I TOTALLY get your point. And Atlanta is fast for the south!
It is always an adjustment traveling to other countries (and sometimes just other states in the US! since we were already talking about the South) and figuring out which days and times stores and restuarants are closed. Make sure you get to lunch before a restaurant closes for the afternoon..... Don't go to dinner too early because the place is empty until 9pm..... Make sure to buy your liquor by Saturday because you can't buy any on Sunday! (Sorry, back on the South things!) It totally makes you alter your internal "schedule"......
Makes me wonder now tho if I am too "american" to live in France.....
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