Tune Tuesday: Pop Divas

What is Tune Tuesday: If you like America, new music always comes out on Tuesdays. In the beginning, that’s when I started talking about music the most. Every Tuesday would be different songs from every genre that I was listening to at that time. Now I’m creating new themes for these days, So for this theme it’s obviously women, talking about all kinds of music divas from different time periods. I’d like to stay around the decades that I know about, the first post had The Superemes and Aretha Franklin and sadly I don’t listen to a lot of their music, but I still consider them as femme fatales in their own right. Each week, you will be learning or remembering powerful female singers from the 80’s,90’s, early 00’s to now. I’m also talking about princesses who will be powerful queens in a few years tops. This is a place to have fun and dance and sing to your favorite songs! Enjoy!

Spice Girls

Spice Girls is the ultimate all girl pop group of the 90’s and leave it to me to have only heard of “Wannabe.” I was so difficult to get into any female acts. I was a late bloomer, I never heard of two other divas on future installments until a couple of years after their first record came out. Since I’m from the US, I feel like I was only introduced to “Wannabe” and that was it because hardly anybody liked them here, or at least nobody in my generation. I do have a funny story to tell, since that song is so recognizable, you can hear it anywhere and know it instantly. So one day in my short stories class during my junior year, our teacher assigned us a story to read, and it was quiet in our classroom except for the students waiting across the hall to go to lunch, when the bell rang and they left the classroom, the noise started to fade and it was easily to read you know. Well, all of a sudden we heard the teacher of that classroom walk out of his room whistling the intro to “Wannabe” and our teacher goes, “is he whistling to a Spice Girls’ song?” and everybody just went “yes” and we started laughing of how random it was.

Celine Dion

Celine Dion is another singer that took me to getting used to, of course now I feel like total shit because she’s beautiful and powerful singer in her own right. When I was younger, I remember listening to “My Heart Will Go On” while my mom would watch Titanic and after being around her while she listened to other powerful singers, I somehow got this song confused with these other songs. By the time, I was 17 I was so confused about which song was what. Finally I have them all figured out, thank god! Anyways, I have love quite a few of her songs now. One day my mom was apparently on CD spree and she bought like 4 songs. I knew 3 of them. I love hearing her sing in French, but I’ve always loved hearing singers sing in another language. I recently watched Celine Through The Eyes Of The World and even though it took me like three days to get through it. I loved it so much!

Jennifer Lopez

I think I’ve always been interested in JLo, both musically and film careers. This goes with my mom too! She’s the reason why we have her first record, I got her “I’m Real” album from a sale at our nearby library, surprisingly it was uncensored. The only albums of hers though that I truly love and can listen all the way through is her 2007’s album, “Rebirth.” It came out a year before she became pregnant with her children. If it didn’t skip so much I’d listen to it more often. Everything she puts out though, I give it a listen and you can never turn down old school Jennifer Lopez either. If it comes on the radio, it stays there the only thing you are allowed to do is turn up the volume.

Britney Spears

Britney Spears’ was a Mickey Mouse Club back in the early 90’s with another diva who will be making her way onto this list very soon. I have almost every BS album but her very first record and the last two, Femme Fatale and Britney Jean. Funny story to tell, in 8th grade, we headed to Indianapolis for our choir concert at the big mall there. I had two or three friends riding on the bus with me and one of them brought along her CD player. Back then, a large number of us haven’t even heard of an iPod. I had an MP3 player but it was junk. It worked though so I used it. She brought along a small box set case  with some CDs inside. My album for Oops! I Did It Again was skipping pretty bad. She showed me what she had in her case and I asked her if I could borrow it sometime because of what was becoming of mine. She ended up just giving it to me, because she had two. So later on, I was at home and wanted to put it in my stereo. I originally wanted to throw mine in the trash. Well, just as I got it out of my box set, I realized I had done something really stupid. I had both CDs out and hadn’t a clue which was hers. So the one that has the big “X” on it that was supposed to the one that didn’t work was actually hers because it doesn’t skip at all.

DIY: Crowns and Mice Pumpkins

No, I’m not talking about anything Cinderella….

After visiting with my nana and papaw at their house on Wednesday on mom’s day off from work, we established that we’d do at least one of our big pumpkins over the weekend. So this weekendy, my poor mom had to wake me up bright and early Saturday morning because I hardly got any sleep last night. I was surprised she even got up before noon because of how she was up that night. We two extra baby pumpkins that we’ve decided to separate and do them at each other’s houses. She wants to make hers a fancy pumpkin and decorate it with different things. If she does it the way I think she will, I won’t do a blog post about it but I will share pictures of it though! I also came up with the idea of having the both of us each have one small and large pumpkin in the opposite designs. So like we’ll have two different sizes of the same pumpkin design: melted crayons and glittered pumpkins.

On Saturday, we did a melted crayon pumpkin. The last one of the season unless nana changes her mind and wants to use the extra crayons we didn’t use on the big one on her baby pumpkin. The only different thing we did on this pumpkin was raise the crayons higher on the pumpkin so that area by the stem won’t be so naked. I also thought the crayons weren’t going to be able to cover it with it being so large in size, plus the fact it’s kind of deformed. One side is completely normal but of course the “back” area has a hump. So it has Scoliosis, who knew! This pumpkin will be at my nana’s house. The next one will be a glittered pumpkin and I’ll be finding a way to bring that one home.One day while I was at my nana’s, we had been talking a lot that day and I was trying to talk about the crayons and my nana stopped me mid-sentence and asked me what I was saying, to repeat the word. So I said it again, crayons. Well, apparently I’ve been saying it wrong. I was in speech for years while in school, I am now just remembering what I had trouble pronnoucing back then, my “R’s” because there are a LOT names and things that I can’t say out loud without it sounding weird in some way. I can’t say the name “Jeremy” without it sounding like “Germ-y” my mom called me out on that one. According to my nana, I’ve been saying the word, “crowns” instead of “crayons” so lately I’ve been trying to clean it up, but it hasn’t worked out well for me.

As you can see we pointed the tips (or at least tried to!) to the very top and got it as close to the stem as we could,

I told my nana he looks like he has some awesome hair!

My papaw sat out in the kitchen just before we were to start the “melting” process. He got to see me struggle putting on my newspaper apron on my lap. That was just a disaster!

The finished project, meet Linus!

That night after I got home from my nana’s, I brought one of our baby pumpkins back home with me. I was supposed to work on the other day, but totally forgot about it, must’ve been a big blogging day for me or something! Well, around 6pm my mom came in to grab the laundry in my basket, and she asked what I wanted to do with the stuff on my table in the plastic bag. So she set up everything on my bed. The bad thing was that I was in the middle of editing pictures and then Midget and Bear-Bear made their ways into my room too, so I was extra distracted. Midget literally laid out right in the middle of me and where my mom sat everything up on my bed. Bear-Bear kept trying to attack me and the Sharpies I had in my foot. I’m still surprised I didn’t get anything on him or myself! When I did start on the design of the pumpkin. I decided that I should doodle it in my notebook first, to get an idea on everything was supposed to go. After I did that, I attempted to work on the pumpkin, but I had to stop because of a slight problem.

When I was in school, my art teacher didn’t quite understand why I couldn’t use an eseal, even though I was fully capable of working in the corner with hardly any light. So one day he decided to figure out how to make one for me. I knew how it was going to go. I just knew it. He had high hopes for it, but I knew it wouldn’t work. So he got everything set up on my already small desk, and told me to try it out, make something. I couldn’t even make a circle. Here is the reason why it didn’t work. My feet are not like others, both of my feet are completely different! I can’t raise my feet up in the air and hold them there for a long periods of time without it shaking violently, trust me I’ve tried this a bunch of times before. So he took everything apart and I began to go back to normal artwork on a flat surface. I’ve never complained about it. It’s the only I can work and that’s fine by me! So when I was working on this pumpkin, I titled on it’s side and tried to right on it. I couldn’t. I did the actual design part, but writing on it was a disaster! So I moved it down to the floor and since I can write while sitting on my bed, I thought this could work too. It was a success!

Last year, if you remember I made a glitter pumpkin that said “5FDP” on the side of it in gold glitter. Well, I kept thinking about doing another one like it, but a different band. So I chose the band Of Mice & Men. I wrote out a part of the song of “Bones Exposed” and surprising it looks very cool! Hardly any writing mistakes, my mom never made a comment of a word being misspelled so we’re good there too! Here is what my second pumpkin looks like!