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Monday, December 30, 2019

Memories

An Intro to this post

As 2019 winds down, I sometimes think about how blessed I am to have family. This post is dedicated to an example of family togetherness.

Also, I had never heard the Maroon 5 tune called "Memories" so after I watched Naomi's cover with her sisters, I listened to the original.

The Tune - Original



Video cover of a Maroon 5 tune

From Memories - Maroon 5 cover by Naomi and her sisters:

My two sisters and I grew up singing together. We'd get in terrible fights when we practiced for church and whatever else we were performing for. My parents would have to bribe us with a barbie or other sort of toy in order for us to get along. Once we hit adulthood, I figured we could probably all get along. I asked my sisters if they'd do a song with me for YouTube and they've always said no. UNTIL LAST WEEEEEEK. My big sister said, "Hey, we should do a song when we come home for Christmas!" and my little sister was like, "OK!" and I was like, "Ummmm, helloooo, I've been asking you guys to do a song with me for the LAST DECADE!! BUT SURE OK."

So anyway, we went to the garage after the holiday festivities and filmed this little tune by Maroon 5. My oldest nephew stood in as our camera operator (you can hear him breathing in the video lollll) and my youngest nephew makes a cameo as well. If you think my sisters should join me for more songs, please comment below so we can peer pressure them into doing this again. OK GREAT! From Left to Right: Micah (youngest sister) // Liza (oldest sister) // NAOMI (middle sister)

The Tune - Cover



Thursday, February 28, 2019

REVISIT: Stay in a Haze to Be Honest

It's been a year since I embedded the NAOMI video Soaked in Bleach on this post Stay in a Haze to Be Honest. I really enjoy the drums & the piano.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Something terrible happened. Ugh...

One of the good things that has come to light in the last few months is discovering NAOMI, a musician that creates videos for her tunes. I received this email yesterday at 2:29 PM:

From: NAOMI [mailto:info=naomi.band@mail15.suw13.rsgsv.net] On Behalf Of NAOMI
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 2:29 PM
Subject: Something terrible happened. Ugh...

Something terrible happened:(

Hiho, friends!
Naomi here.

A lot of you maybe already know this - but a lot of you don't. About two months ago a hacker took over my Facebook band page and wiped out EVERYTHING. I had just released my new music video ""Cake" and was getting really good results with it...but then the hacker took it down. He then, one by one, deleted my followers, all of my content, and replaced it all with softcore nude photos. I went through the whole rigmarole with Facebook trying to regain my page. I even sent them screenshots of the hacker saying, "I'm hacking you, if you don't do *insert demand* then I will destroy your page." Facebook didn't care. I was devastated. I had worked SO hard to gain all of my followers organically and was really proud of my small, but mighty, group of engaged followers.

Well, after a couple weeks of sulking around in my misery, I booted up a new page and am back at it. I don't even have half of the followers I used to have, but that's ok. Little by little, I'll gain my following again.

One thing I've learned: all of us that run our businesses or brands on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube (or any social media platform, really) are at the mercy of them. If THEY go down, WE go down. That's why having an email list is SO important. Email is probably the most secure and stable form of communication a business or brand or band can ever have with their followers. That and a website...mine is HERE.

(If you haven't followed me on my new Facebook page yet, go HERE! And share it with your friends, too!)

So, to you reading this, thank you. Thanks for giving me your email address so we can stay in touch.

I know this isn't a fancy email, I don't have much time right now, but I want to tell you about a few fun things coming up:

1) I have a gig coming up in Cedar Rapids. It'll be on September 1st at NewBo City Market for the 2018 Women's Music Festival. I'll be playing at 7pm.

2) I have a new music video and song coming out! My patrons on Patreon will be able to see it by the end of the month. The rest of you will have to wait until September! If you wanna become a patron, go HERE.

3) I'm pretty sure I'm adding a 5th member to my band! Currently, NAOMI is a 4-piece. Since my recorded music has SO. MANY. PARTS to it, we play to backing tracks. We have synth lines and trumpets and extra background vox pump through the speakers to give us a more 'accurate' sound. I really don't love playing with backing tracks because it's just so limiting...you HAVE to follow the tracks...no room for deviation. So having the 5th member will allow us to be free (mostly) from the backing tracks! I'll make an official announcement about who that person is as soon as we get a good photoshoot together, naturally.

That's all for now, friends. Thank you for being a NAOMI supporter. It really does mean a lot.

I'll send you another email as soon as my video is viewable to the public! ANDDD I'm gonna give you something special for FREE when it's out because I just think you're the greatest.

Ok, love you in a non-creepy way,
- Naomi

This is the aforementioned tune called "Cake" in its "G-Rated" format.


To see the original rated R version, go here: https://youtu.be/kagN9Mioxlc

Friday, May 4, 2018

Celebrate the Politics of Star Wars

It was 1 year, 3 weeks ago when today, May 4, 2018, seemed like a lifetime away. Embedding a video about Avengers: Infinity War, which is being released today - http://prhmusic.blogspot.com/2017/04/predicting-death.html - didn't make it easier to be patient. And while much of the world continues to celebrate the release of the third Avengers movie - Infinity War - this is a link to an article that was published a year ago all about the politics of Star Wars: Star Wars Is More Political Than You Think. The next Star Wars movie - Solo: A Star Wars Story - is being released on 5/25/18 - a short 3 weeks away!

Speaking of Star Wars, if I didn't have other plans today, I would go see Naomi / Faces Turned Ashen / Running in Place in Cedar Rapids: