Does This Girl Have A Deal Yet?

Watch it:



Okay, this girl is not only objectively talented, but she sounds exactly like Regina Spektor, Ingrid Michaelson, Feist (???), and a slew of other contemporary female acts. I'd be willing to bet, though she has a modest 5,000 subscribers to her youtube channel (although an impressive 800,000+ views of the above video) that she has a healthy number of record labels looking into her.

She must be good for at least some licensing deals if not a moderate hit single.

There can be no doubt that her style is a bit trite and has not proven to cross over into massive mainstream success, but it is certainly worth a low six-figure investment.

Get her song on a commercial for a digital camera, then some publicity shots, and then get that girl on a college tour.

Make sure you check your numbers before spending a dime.

Here's another:



Come on! She's great.

Combine the previous 2 posts

And maybe you have a hit song.

Amerie singing "Maybe, Possibly"????

Maybe, Possibly... This Could Be A Hit Song

It's the melody, more than the lyrics (though the lyrics suffice) that really makes this a potential winner in mainstream music.

This song, at the very least, would make a hell of a single for a Disney Channel Original Movie.

In fact, Disney should sign these girls. That is no joke. They have a look that would appeal to the average girl, and they have talent.

Aly and AJ anyone?

This is a new age for music and these girls have proven successful on the YouTube front, so I doubt that there are many A&R guys who are unaware of the duo.

Whose going to make a move?

Poor Amerie

Go listen to the song:

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It's Sept 28th (though it's 1:18 in the morning) and this video has 20,000 views.

It had Perez Hilton exposure.

This is a failure. Amerie's publicists should be fired. She ought to have more views than 20,000 in 3 days. DISMAL!

It's not that it's a bad song, but there is no discernible parts other than that chorus, whose melody is almost impossible to sing along with.

This is a waste of a single from Amerie.

"1 Thing" was Amerie's peak single



This is what she needs to be doing. Showing off her voice in an intensely enjoyable rhythm, not getting sucked into an overproduced NON-song like "Heard Em All."

Also, just as "1 Thing" was on the Hitch soundtrack, when you have an artist with a questionable amount of noteriety, such as Amerie, put her on a freaking soundtrack or something.

In any case, non-songs like Heard Em All have their place, but it is not within mainstream pop music.

Prove me wrong billboard, prove me wrong.

Hillary Johnson

Hillary's Myspace page


This girl can sing. And that being far from her only talent. You must check out "Kaleidoscope" on this girls myspace. That song has a vibe that is too new and hip to ignore. It's got a spunk that we have not seen in quite some time.

I think this track needs to be heard and perhaps passed along to a Duffy type.

Check out this video of Hillary playing a song "My Silence"



While she may not rank a 10 in the looks department, she could be developed. She is far too talented to overlook. She's got a beautiful voice and is a beautiful, and very talented, piano player.

She has a Lady Gaga edge to her voice.

Brad Henley

This is Brad Henley. Brad strikes me as a potential country star in the vein of Kenny Chesney. He's got a beautiful country voice and a great look for the country scene. I give his voice an 8-9 for it's relevance and being on par with contemporary country music.

I'll email you some of the songs I have for him, but I look at Bradley and I think he might be an artist with plenty of time left in him.

I give him an 8 for looks and an 8-9 for songs (it's dead on popular Country Music). He doesn't strike me as somebody who would fare well outside of country (obviously), but someone who would do very well in the country scene.

Below is a low-budget promotional music video put together for Brad.



If not for Emblem, Brad Henley is definitley for some label out there. (He has already been signed to a deal with Loftencreek Records where he was subsequently shelved.)

Kid Infinity

Kid Infinity's Myspace Page

Kid Infinity strikes me as the Asher Roth 2.0. He's got a unique voice, and a hip style. While in the past, this "white-boy hip hop" might have been something to just shrug at, something about today's music scene tells me he could be the next big thing.

As for ranking him on a scale from 1-10, i'd give him a 6.5-7 overall. He's more of a rapper than a singer. His look I would give an 8-8.5. He is hip and pretty attractive.

In a way, his style comes in and takes over for where Lady Gaga's music stops. He is, perhaps, one step further into the underground, but with the emergence of acts like Kid Cudi and, again, Asher Roth, I see him as somebody who will end up with a deal.

He has plenty of underground hype. I think that the production of his songs could use a little polishing, but I think there is something interesting and solid to start off with.

As to whether or not he has the kind of appeal that is going to sell massive amounts of records, I am not extremely hopeful that he would, but I also wouldn't count him out.

On that note, Asher Roth, whose album has been out since April 20, has sold around 150,000.

Keep in mind this note from the album's Wikipedia entry:

Universal Records underestimated the initial sales of the album and only shipped about 100,000 retail copies of the album for the first week, and that it didn't reach as many stores as initially planned, according to Roth. Soundscan shows that Asher Roth sold 146,958 copies in 7 weeks

The question is: is this an emerging market or the peak of a market that has already emerged, so to speak?