Showing posts with label Renee Zellweger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Renee Zellweger. Show all posts

Saturday, February 15, 2020

"Get Happy" With Leigh Nash

GRAMMY NOMINATED SINGER-SONGWRITER LEIGH NASH RELEASES NEW EP 
Platinum selling artist Leigh Nash releases GET HAPPY, a brand new six-song EP featuring two never-released tracks, “Something Worth Leaving Behind” and “Get Happy,” as well as a newly re-recorded and remastered version of the Sixpence None the Richer track, “Kiss Me,” the song that brought Leigh to the forefront of female singers in the late 90s.

After seeing the Oscar-winning film JUDY, Leigh was struck by the similarities in her own trajectory as an artist with that of Judy Garland. The movie, and especially RenĂ©e Zellweger’s performance of “Get Happy,” resonated with her in many ways. “When you’re an artist, and you’re the most down, you still have to put on a smile for the crowd, for the people who paid to see you. I love the lyrics to the song and feel the words deeply.” She wrote “Something Worth Leaving Behind” after picking up her father’s guitar and thinking how great it was that it didn’t have to be plugged in to work. While her dad had passed 12 years earlier, his guitar was ‘something worth leaving behind.’ “I wanted to sing about what lasts, what is enduring, what is going to matter as you grow. The song is about keeping those things dear.” Other tracks on the EP include “God Gave Me Horses,” written with the award-winning songwriter Connie Harrington (Tricia Yearwood, Rodney Atkins, Lee Brice ), My Love, My Drug” and “Don’t Let me Die in Dallas,” a song about her father that was written with Tom Douglas (Tim McGraw, Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum). The project boasts production credits of Nash’s husband, Stephen Wilson, Jr. as well as Ben Shive’s (Colony House, Dave Barnes, The Gray Havens) twist on the 20th Anniversary version of the Sixpence None The Richer hit, “Kiss Me” 

While Leigh calls the experience of re-recording “Kiss Me,” the song that made her and her band globally famous, a “delightful friend to revisit,” this new release has made her fall in love with writing music all over again. “I am hopefully wiser, and my heart is more open, than five years ago. GET HAPPY is more representative of where I am right now. I am so thankful I still have the chance to record music…I am feeling pretty joyful about it!”

In support of GET HAPPY, available here: https://www.leighnash.net/get-happy-player, Leigh will be playing select shows in March, with summer touring plans to be announced soon.

https://www.leighnash.net  // @leighbirdnash (Instagram) 

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Michael's Musings

I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas...
Michael Shinafelt
"Heaven help me for the way I am, Save me from these evil deeds before I get them done
I know tomorrow brings the consequence at hand, But I keep livin' this day
Like the next will never come" - Criminal, Fiona Apple 

I guess this classic from the great Fiona Apple wasn't what you might could be expecting so close to Christmas. Well don't ever gossip that I can be pigeonholed. In fact perhaps you should never gossip at all, if you are getting my drift in a snow covered hill, and make sure the landslide doesn't bring you down with it Darlin'... "Yes" that was shade.


Tacky as usual, or is it unusually tacky?


Kendall Jenner telling X Harry Styles that Mother of three Kourtney Kardashian is the worst parent out of all her sisters, now That's Entertainment!


You got your stripper girlfriend to bang a married man? Was her name Melania?


"Really I’m just tweeting about Christmas lights because I can’t handle the impending civil war" - Liz Phair


Just a reminder that the President's Children are straight up grifter trash too


Think happy thoughts, say it three times fast, maybe Tinkerbell won't die


Can anyone actually win over Renee Zellweger for her amazing portrayal of Judy Garland this Awards Season?


Put a little lust in your life


Naughty or Nice isn't a thing anymore, did you get caught?




Woman Crush of the Week - Kerry Washington, because according to Vogue Magazine her "Gilded Twists Are a Seasonal Showstopper" indeed!

Where's the Grinch when you need him? I ask you? I'm waiting...


Ford v Ferrari? Eff that I want to take a ride on Christian Bale


I found it in synthetic form


May all your Christmases be white. How long before that phrase gets called out as racist?!


I'm on a roll, join me at:

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Monday, September 24, 2018

C-O-F-F-E-E !

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves!
Renee Zellweger
"C-o-f-f-e-e, coffee is not for me, It's a drink some people wake up with" Coffee Song

I remember singing this as a tadpole in grade school . While I am not a big coffee drinker I do imbibe occasionally. Well today is one of those days I am hitting the cup!

This image of Renee Zellweger balancing mass quantities of Starbucks illustrates exactly how I feel this Monday September 24, 2018. Give me all the coffee, iced tea, anything with caffeine in it pronto please.

Thus as I am typing this with my right hand I am using my left to fuel me, fuel me good!

Hey it's Monday after all and any motivation is welcome, what's in your cup?

Enjoy your, ugh, Monday...!!!

Starbucks on the WWW:
https://www.starbucks.com/