"Making the art that I want to make — it's just been such a long time coming," says Carly Rose.
Rose, who’s 20, delivers the lyric in “Birds & Bees” with palpable irritation; you can practically see her rolling her eyes at the shallow merrymaking that can’t compare with the prospect of going outside “like animals — to do just what we please underneath the leaves.” Yet none of the music she went on to record — dozens of slick but flavorless tracks shaped by writers and producers known for their work with the likes of Spears and Leona Lewis — had the kind of spark that Rose understands a great pop song needs. So like an adolescent version of the woman in “Birds & Bees,” she split, in this case to go back to high school in suburban Westchester County, New York.
Carly Rose, onetime finalist on reality singing competition"The X Factor," at the Brite Spot in Echo Park. Still, Rose acknowledged that “X Factor” clarified her drive to be a singer — and satisfied it for a while. “At first it was so exciting: ‘Whatever you want me to do, I’ll do it,’” she remembered telling the show’s producers. “But as you go on, it starts to feel like less of a privilege to be there.” As a small girl with a big voice, she said she was often assigned to sing.
Describing her new music, Rose uses words like “authentic” and “conversational” and talks about being inspired by scruffy rock bands such as Arctic Monkeys and Queens of the Stone Age. Yet her songs have sturdy structures that point to her background in the efficiency-minded pop machine.
You don’t have to be a good singer to be a pop star, Look at Katy perry. Just need a good team
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The otherone a gangmeber. Not cool..
Was that the next assigned name in the file? Smh