While I’ve been blogging in these past two years, I’ve also been promoting my Kurrent Music blogs on social media. Every once in awhile, I’ll see a little hint of my blogs reaching the artist. I get a like by some of them. Some will retweet my blog or respond. I’ve even had some of their collaborative musicians (engineers and producers) reach out to me. They will show pride by telling me they’d worked on the music I loved so much, and they enjoyed reading my blog about it.
All of these people don’t know (well, now they will) that I actually save all these responses. It’s not what I blog for, but it’s a benefit when it reaches someone whose music I’ve loved for years or artists I admired when I was kid. Somehow, I still think that what I do will never reach these people, so it’s just a surprise every time I notice the world is pretty small, after all.
Glamour Magazine has decided to make the world even smaller between fan and artist by starting a series of YouTube videos. In the videos, stars watch the best or most impressive or extraordinary cover versions of their songs. Their response gets send to the fan, which causes for amazement all around. It’s heartwarming to watch.
I’ve watched the video with P!NK in full, but Demi Lovato has also participated in one. In P!NK‘s video, she’s taking it all in stride. She’s very down to earth and very positive about all of the cover songs, even when you can see her struggle with her own thoughts. Some of her fans have gotten really creative on her songs and created whole new versions of it. Others just wowed her with their amazing voices. I’d have to agree with P!NK that some of these fans really had better ideas than she had about how to sing the song. And yes, some deserve a recording deal.
I love videos like this. P!NK left a direct message for her fans. Their response was filmed as well and most are taken aback by what she said about them. I’m sure they are a bit like me. When I cover a song, I never think that the original artist might actually get to hear it. The thought of that is actually really daunting. You just can never really beat the original, so when the star responds to it I can only image what goes through these fans heads.
