How to Create a Sexy Pop Star
As we’ve toured around the country with Before the Music Dies the past few weeks…and close in on 100 screening parties….some “audience favorites” have emerged. While everyone has their own favorite moments in the film — whether it’s Erykah Badu’s humor, Hubert Sumlin’s wisdom, or Calexico’s live performance — the biggest buzz seems to come from the “turning a model into a pop star” segment. The filmmakers take a beautiful young model - Taylor Hannah - and have her record a song written on the spot by the talented and hilarious Steve Poltz (www.poltz.com).
Taylor may be beautiful, but her vocal is less than perfect. Luckily, as Erykah Badu points out, “you don’t have to be able to sing, just move your mouth and shit… they’ll work that out.” With the magic of AutoTune, Taylor’s painful vocal is transformed into a catchy tune that would sound perfectly at home on mainstream pop radio…..
You’ll never look at Hillary, Ashlee, Paris and the rest of today’s pop stars in the same way again. As the first in a new series of B4MD sneak peeks… Ladies and gentlemen, the next pop superstar — our good friend (and great sport) Taylor Hannah!
I was in HHS choir with Taylor Hannah, and this is totally fake, she was one of the most amazing choir members, she has an amazing voice.
The sad thing is that peopla as brilliant as frank zappa will have a chance no more
That producer propably spent 3 minutes on the project and pitch shgifting is used by almost everyone.
I just want to say thank you for making this documentary. I’m 16 so I have to deal with all of this bullshit with stupid young pop stars every day. It depresses me that such an amazing thing as music, which could be used to inspire and enlighten, is being used to sell MTV t-shirts. I mostly listen to underground/local bands and classic rock in order to escape the amount of crap that is being blared out of the radio and out of my friend’s iPods 24/7. I’m glad to see that there is an organized force out there to try to educate people about the devastating state of the music my generation is defining itself with.
Bullseye.
Man that’s so much bullshit . . . Just listen to that production, it sound’s like crap. I wouldn’t wanna work with that producer. Auto-tune is so out thesedays, noone uses it any longer …
Not that I want to break any bubbles or anything but that shit really sucks the whole way through. I mean, could they at least have made the instrumentals tight? Sorry, no deal.
Where can I download the song? It’s really good!
Hi ~
I came across this same vid on YouTube @
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irk3_p15RJY - which led me to this site.
I posted on Tim Basham’s blog a few minutes back - not knowing whether or not that clip is part of your movie, and in context, or, if it’s a poorly edited segment that gives a false impression of a piece of the story your film tells.
Now I see the very same vid is here, it must be “officially” related to your film project. In which case, for your credibility, it’s relevant to note here that it’s misleading, and false, to try and frame Steve Poltz and Jewel’s songwriting partnership as an example of a fabricated pop-star teamed up with a hit-maker.
Taking you folks at your word here, that, like the Blues Brothers, if not on a mission from God, you’re at least trying to do good. So, do check out what the first 50 seconds of this vid lead the viewer to assume - and you’ll find that it’s not the truth of the matter.
The juxtaposition of images and words for that introductory section clearly paint a false portrait of the Jewel/Poltz pairing, and Poltzy would be the first one, I’m sure, to say so.
Check it out. You may find it more difficult to have people believe the true parts, and accept your main thesis, if some poor, or worse, research/editing+ can create such an off-the-mark impression of reality.
cheers, Adrian
Someone has finally vocalized in movie form what my exact problem with the junk that’s on the airwaves and on television.
Thank you.