Post by CARLISA NICOLE ALMOND on Aug 17, 2013 22:33:10 GMT -8
| [atrb=style,width: 420px; background-color: efefef; background-image: url(http://24.media.tumblr.com/0478144b9f16c95a37367d1aca56b45c/tumblr_mkfax8tDxp1s97ldco1_500.png); padding: 5px, bTable] CARLISA N. ALMOND 25 | HETEROSEXUAL | POP SINGER | TOURIST | AVRIL LAVIGNE LET YOU GO TONIGHT HISTORY / TAKEN FROM CARLISA'S WIKIPEDIA PAGE ∞ carlisa almond - from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. background information. ∞ one, early life.
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∞ two, music career.
[/justify]2002-2003 (let go).
almond's debut album, let go, was released on january 17, 2002 in canada, where it reached number 1 on the canadian billboard top 200. by may 2003, let go had sold over one million copies in canada, leading the album to receive a diamond certification from the canadian recording industry association. the lead single, let go, was one of the best-selling canadian singles of 2002, and the subsequent singles (complicated, sk8er boi and i'm with you) reached the top five in canada. almond won three juno awards in 2003 out of six nominations, including new artist of the year and single of the year. almond was featured as an opening act for shania twain on the north american leg of the up! tour in 2003. due to disagreements with cordova bay records, almond was released from her contract in november 2003, but was quickly signed to 604 records in vancouver, british columbia soon after and began to work on her second studio album.
2004-2007 (fall to pieces).
while almond was working on her second album, she opened for nickelback during the canadian leg of their 2004 the long road tour. while her growing fanbase clamoured for new material, almond took her time perfecting her new songs in the recording studio and released a second record, fall to pieces, on october 29, 2004. the album was available in the united states as well as canada, debuting at number 1 in canada and breaking the top five in the states. in mid 2005, almond embarked on her first headlining tour; the smile tour crossed canada and the united states. the lead single off the album, one of those girls, peaked at number 1 on the billboard charts in both canada and the states, and reached the top 40 in the united kingdom, australia, and brazil. almond was quickly gaining popularity around the world, and during this era, she won nearly every award she was nominated for. she won two world music awards in 2005 for world's best pop/rock artist and world's bestselling canadian artist. at the juno awards in 2006, almond picked up five juno awards out of her six nominations, and won favourite female singer at the nineteenth annual nickelodeon kids' choice awards. 2007 brought a second headlining tour to promote almond's second album, this time reaching as far as europe, australia, and south america with the take me away tour.
2008-2010 (push).
after a lengthy four years since her last album release, almond's fanbase was starting to fad by the time a third record was finally announced. push was released worldwide on november 9, 2008 and did not do as well as almond's previous albums. it reached the top five in canada and the top ten in the united states. the album's lead single, what the hell, peaked at number four in canada and number 10 in the states, reaching the top twenty in numerous countries worldwide. the 2009 black star tour was scheduled to run from march 2009 to may 2010, but ended early in january 2010 when the european, australian, and south american legs of the tour were canceled abruptly due to lack of sales. at the vancouver 2010 winter olympics on february 28, almond performed at the concert portion of the closing ceremony. later that year, the third single from almond's debut album, i'm with you, was sampled in rihanna's track cheers (drink to that). almond and her management released six singles in total from push, with increasingly lower expectations. almond's two-album contract with 604 records was finished and after the final single from the album (he wasn't) peaked at number 32 in canada and 39 in the united states, not even reaching the top 100 anywhere else, almond was let go from her second record label. she was not signed to another label, but continued to write music for other artists until 2012.
2013-present (fourth studio album).
almond is rumoured to be working on a fourth album independently after what is now being referred to as a "musical hiatus."
∞ three, universal music group.
[/justify]in late 2012, when almond's musical career was long over, she moved to the united states and found employment at universal music group in santa monica. since then, she has been living in los angeles and working for universal music group as a songwriter. almond has stated that while she regrets the "fizzing out" of her own career in music, she takes pride in being able to help launch the careers of other artists.
∞ four, personal life.
[/justify]public image.
when almond first gained publicity, the fourteen-year-old was known for her tomboyish style, in particular her trademark combination of tank tops with neck ties. she preferred baggy clothes, converse, and brightly-coloured shoelaces. due to her fashion and musical influences, she was dubbed a pop-punk princess, and both press and fans tended to refer to her as the anti-britney. this was partially because of her more real image and partially because she was more noticeably headstrong than britney spears. by the release of her second album, however, almond had adopted a more feminine-gothic style; she also now has six tattoos, including a music note on her right wrist, the number 30 and a lightning bolt on her left wrist, a safety pin under her ear, and two black stars (one on her right arm, one on her left leg). she has defended her new style, saying that both suit her personality, but she's "only growing up."
public influence.
due to her strong-willed attitude, almond has gained a lot of attention over the years, especially from the parents of her fans. many parents disapprove of her rebellious ways. she has stated that she doesn't "like" rules and has been quoted in saying, "f*ck what anyone else thinks, do what you want." according to some adults, the "sentiment is great, but she says it in a negative way, and her actions can reflect badly on parents." almond seems incapable of going through even a simple interview without upsetting anyone, and her language is often frowned upon by her peers. despite all of this, almond has always been open about her intolerance for alcohol, drugs, and promiscuity.
relationship with ethan banks.
in the summer of 2005, speculation that almond was dating actor ethan banks began. this was confirmed by both almond and banks in separate interviews by the end of the summer. the couple split and got back together several times over the next few years, ultimately breaking up for good in 2008. both parties declined comment on the breakup, although approximately half of almond's third studio album, push, is estimated to be based on her relationship with banks.
∞ five, discography.
let go (2002).[/div]
01. complicated (single)
02. losing grip
03. i'm with you (single)
04. falling down
05. stop standing there
06. unwanted
07. let go (single)
08. everybody hurts
09. sk8er boi (single)
10. anything but ordinary
11. tomorrow you didn't
12. freak out
fall to pieces (2004).
01. nobody's fool
02. smile (single)
03. things i'll never say
04. goodbye
05. take me away
06. when you're gone (single)
07. tomorrow
08. wish you were here
09. one of those girls (single)
10. innocence
11. nobody's home (single)
12. runaway
13. too much to ask
14. fall to pieces (single)
push (2008).
01. black star
02. everything back but you
03. mobile
04. don't tell me (single)
05. i can do better
06. i love you
07. keep holding on (single)
08. push (single)
09. not enough
10. he wasn't (single)
11. how does it feel
12. what the hell (single)
13. remember when
14. darlin'
15. my happy ending (single)
16. how you remind me
LOSE MY MIND
PERSONALITY / TAKEN FROM CARLISA'S DIARY
∞ eleven years old.
[/justify]mom says it will be good to write in here. i mean, i guess i can believe that. it's supposed to be good to get my thoughts out. it makes sense. my head isn't that big, right? it can't hold that much more. especially since mom says i've already experienced too much for an eleven-year-old.
we're moving. most eleven-year-olds would be upset, i guess. i'm not. not really. i'm more relieved than anything else, i think. i'm not worried about switching schools or about making new friends. the only thing i'm really sad about, i think, is that i'll be leaving evan behind. he's the boy who lives in the apartment right under dad's and he's always there when i need him. he hears the noise when dad snaps and he waits for me until dad passes out and i can come downstairs. he isn't going to be able to do that anymore.
not that it's really necessary, i guess. dad isn't coming with us and i'm pretty sure mom didn't even tell him where we're going. we're going to victoria, for the record. it's not far away, just a ferry ride, a couple of hours, tops. mom doesn't want me to spend weekends with dad anymore. she keeps looking at me like i'm broken and whispering to herself that she should have seen the signs sooner. but it's my fault, really. i'm the one who hid the signs, you know? i stole mom's makeup and covered up the injuries, i lied about falling down stairs and tripping over coffee tables. it's because of me.
∞ fourteen years old.
[/justify]sorry, i know i haven't written in a while. i've been so caught up with everything, it's been... crazy, for lack of a better word. it started with victoria idol -- the last time i wrote, it was the night i won -- and from there, everything picked up in a huge whirlwind.
first, i got to record a couple of songs with cordova bay records, which was awesome, obviously. and 'let go,' which i wrote by myself in my room sometime last year, got released to radio. it was part of the deal. and it did really well! it was surprising, honestly. it was so weird! and then i ended up recording a whole album and it gets released tomorrow.
t o m o r r o w !!!
i'm going to have a full album. in stores. i'm going to go buy it right when the store opens. i'm so excited! this is my dream, you know. i've wanted this since i was eight. i don't even know if this is real! it might be a dream. a beautiful, wonderful dream. i'm going to pinch myself to check if it's real.
ouch. it's real. it's real.
∞ sixteen years old.
[/justify]so mom made me go visit dad.
he lives in alberta now and we drove. i swear to god, every kilometre we got closer, my stomach dropped a little bit. i could just feel the dread creeping in from the corners of my mind.
act normal, act normal. everything's fine. don't let mom know that i feel like shit. that i feel like i might pass out.
i'm at the park. there's a kid over on the other side of the playground and i think her mom recognized me because she keeps looking at me like i'm going to start swearing like a fucking sailor and teach her kid to flip her off. i'm acting like i'm too busy writing to notice that she's afraid of me corrupting her precious child. but, clearly, i'm not. i noticed.
the stepmother does the exact opposite. shannon -- she's the one that's six -- keeps following me around the house like i'm the fucking queen of england. she's acting like i'm the most important soul to walk the earth. i don't know how to tell her to back off without making everyone hate me, but i don't know how much more i can take of children in general. kids just... aren't my thing. it's like i'm afraid i'm going to suddenly snap and turn into dad.
speaking of dad. he's still keeping up the whole i-swear-i've-changed i-love-jesus-amen i-won't-lay-a-finger-on-you shit. i don't buy a word of that, honestly. mom keeps looking at me like she wants me to, but i don't know if she does, either. she got all tense when he came to say hello to me when we got here. i did, too, i guess, and i think everyone noticed. i wonder if the stepmother knows about any of it.
so no sign of the iron fist yet, if you know what i mean. but as safe as the house seems to be... i just couldn't take it anymore. the stepmother keeps hovering around and chirping happily about everything, and shannon's just idolizing me, and the twins are so loud and messy and, well, you know, just kids, and dad preaching perfection to everyone, and mom just keeps saying that this is a good idea and that maybe he has changed.
we'll see.
∞ seventeen years old.
[/justify]um. i have a boyfriend.
it's weird, a weird thought, isn't it? i mean, i never really thought anyone would like me enough to want to date me. i'm not that great, am i? but ethan... oh, fuck, here we go. i'm going to try my best not to get all sappy.
it's just that when i'm with him, i feel like i can be myself. he likes me for me. he wants to hold my hand in public and he wants to kiss me and he wants to talk to me constantly. we talked on the phone for two hours yesterday. two hours! two. and whenever i see him (okay, fine, whenever i think about him), i get butterflies. like, the kind that you read about in middle school libraries. it's fucking insane.
i don't know. the weirdest thing is probably that i went to the grocery store to get milk because mom got mad at me for drinking out of the carton and wanted me to get her a whole new one. okay, that's not weird. the part that's weird is that when i was paying for it, they had all these magazines next to the cash register, and there were pictures of me and ethan on three separate covers. three different magazines. does the world seriously care that much that we're dating?
he's calling me he's calling me he's calling me. bye.
∞ twenty years old.
[/justify]done. done done done. no more ethan. ethan sucks. i fucking hate ethan. i hate everything about him. i hate his hair and his smile and his eyes (okay, i like his eyes) and his laugh and every single movie he's ever been in and i hate him. all of him. he's an asshole. don't talk to me about ethan.
you're inanimate. you can't fucking talk.
i guess that i should explain what happened, right?
three years. three years and i still wouldn't sleep with him, and i guess he got pissed off. he's probably not used to that because he's a little fucking manwhore. he can get any girl on the face of the planet to fuck him. except me. i wouldn't do it.
and apparently, he didn't think i might have a reason for that. no, he couldn't figure out in three years that my mom is only eighteen years older than i am and that he's never met my dad, so clearly something happened with that, and that i don't like hanging around kids. he didn't manage to fucking string it together in his miniature brain that maybei'm scared that i'm going to end up pregnant before i'm ready and that i'm going to turn into dad and become a fully-fledged alcoholic and drug addict and end up being abusive and that besides that, i have scars that i really don't want him to seei don't fucking want to have sex with him. it was too hard for him to believe that anyone would be able to resist his panty-dropping charms.
so he left. he fucking got up and yelled at me for what felt like five hours but was actually under twenty minutes and i yelled at him a bit, too, and then he left. just gone.
∞ twenty-one years old.
[/justify]i should be on the road until may. i should be rocking the fuck out to stadiums filled with fans with lit-up signs and glow sticks and t-shirts with my face on them. i should be living in the back of a tour bus and eating leftover pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. i should be signing autographs outside arenas, i should be singing on stages and having thousands of people screaming my lyrics back at me.
what should i not be doing?
i should not be sitting back in the house i've lived in since i was eleven. i should not have two empty containers of ice cream on my bedside table. i should not be having a high school musical marathon because i am twenty-one years old and i have no reason to want to watch zac efron sing to his fucking basketball. i should not be watching people on twitter discussing at great length how my career is failing. how i can't manage to sell enough tickets to keep my tour running. how i had to cancel it four months early.
this is such bullshit. i want to perform. i want to sing. i want to make music.
∞ twenty-five years old.
[/justify][/div]okay. i'm twenty-five. i'm going to try this again.
it's been three and a half years since the black star tour got canceled mid-run. i'm still bitter about that, by the way. and it's not like i have a record deal to get my career above ground again.
but i'm going to try.
because what i realized is that i've been sitting around for almost four years feeling sorry for myself -- okay, so i've been doing a little more than that, i moved to l.a. and i've been writing for the artists at umg, but you get what i mean -- and i've only been making it worse. i've been doing fucking nothing to get more music out there.
so i quit.
i quit writing for universal music group. i need to concentrate on me now. i mean, they weren't happy about it, but they get it. kind of. some of them laughed at me. they said my musical career is over, but i have to give it a shot, right?
i'm moving to this tiny town in the middle of fucking nowhere. i think it will be easier to concentrate there. l.a. is so busy, you know? it's hard to think there. i want to focus on music and getting my name back out there. and i found a really cheap house and i'm going to turn the basement into a recording studio, so that's a plus.
wish me luck.
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