Okay, I have been sitting on this for two weeks and then some. It’s a story of complete and utter girly squeals and giggles.
Now, here’s the Full Story; I run the Guild House Farlight, with some long time friends, and we more often then not chat in Skype while doing the WoW thing. Usually results in giggles, and fits of non stop laughter where I simply cannot breathe and turn red in the face cause everything is just so freaking funny. I kid you not. Cali is pretty much known for falling apart at the limbs when she forgets she can cast Levitate from high places when she jumps, but I guess that’s to be expected.
Regardless, during one such day Mist aka Sil/ Cali was talking to me about the Movie Burlesque. And a certain song that Cher sings in it. Cali mentions as I’m watching, “It would be cool if this song was turned into a Parody for our Guild.” On a random lark.
Inspiration strikes!
Like a mad woman, at the mercy of the Muses, I call up the lyrics and start reading them over, and plotting in my head and then I start to type. Roughly a half hour later I posted the lyrics into the skype chat and Cali proceeds to freak because she thought they were awesome and perfect.
But..
Who would sing them? How do we even get a good enough track? Are the lyrics as awesome as we think they are? So I shyly, tweet to Sharm, asking for lyrics advice in my usual, silly way. “Wrote lyrics to a Cher song! Need a pro’s advice, HALP!” <This was tweeted directly to sharm.
And from there, a simple reply. ‘Send them to me!” with instructions on how to get her email from her youtube page. So I copy paste the lyrics, and write an email. Constantly going over it and re writing it. Over and Over till I didn’t sound like a total doofus. I never once asked her to sing the lyrics, just for advice on the lyrics. I was just gonna fumble my way through the rest of it. 😀
But then, a day or so later, she replies. The Lyrics were “cute and clever”, and she was asking me if she could sing them.
ME.. A small nobody, who really does not do much with her own Youtube except the odd rap collab, or random video.
I proceeded to do the following. Though sadly I am not actually an anime girl, but these images are best:
Next thing I know, emails are being fired back and forth on details, how to pronounce things, and general agreements. Two weeks and a few days later, more emails, and the song was completed.
The video above, is the end result.
Sharm, famous for videos like Take my Quest, I kissed an Orc, and other many fun enjoyable songs did the vocals. An artist who I follow; on twitter, Frenone did the drawing of Sharm singing, and I have it it writing, that Gigi Took all the images Sharm and I provided, and made the LOVELY background with it.
So THANK YOU!
Thank you Sharm, PvpGurl Gigi, Mist/Cali and everyone else who encouraged me to keep writing parody lyrics. Without any of you This day, would have never come to pass. I love You ALL! So very, very much.
House Farlight 