Artist Spotlight: Melanie Fiona

Introducing: Melanie Fiona

This new ray of sunlight is on repeat in my ipod with her first single "Give it to me right" off of her debut album The Bridge, coming out some time this year.

This girl can sang! She already toured with the likes of the "Louis Vuiton Don" himself, Kanye West and is currently making her rounds around the globe making a name for herself. With a voice like hers it shouldn't be too hard ;)

Check her out in her EPK above. Let me know what you think.

Melanie Fiona's Myspace Page

Reconciliation can be a beautiful thing…

But not if he hit you!

This story has been in the headlines for almost a month now. Where I believe it has totally been blown out of proportion, scrutinized and squeezed out until there wasn't no more of a story to tell, I have a few words for this situation.

As all of you know, following the news of who won what at the Grammy’s this year, there was an altercation between Rihanna and Chris Brown. Leaving Rihanna bruised and battered. If you haven’t seen the infamous picture that made its way to the net, please do!

So here we are not even a month away and there are reports that these two have reconciled.

Say what now?

There are young ladies all around the world looking up to Rihanna, and for her to just waltz back in to the arms of the man who beat her is sending a message loud and clear. This is not okay!

While a part of me does feel for Chris Brown because he is young; he is 19. We don’t always handle situations the way society may expect us to, and yes we blow up sometimes out of uncontrollable rage, but he beat the shit out of Rihanna. Boy has some serious anger management problems. Therefore before any reconciliation is to be made this boy clearly needs counseling, and evidently so does she.

This is just another case of a battered female victim going back in the arms of the one who dealt her the blows….Do I hear a Whitney and Bobby?

All I know is that in a couple of years from now I better not see Chris being released out of jail on some drug charges and Rihanna running out of a limo into his arms. That is just pitiful.

EXTRAordinary

In the early conditions of finding a perspective in life I have been in search for something. Not knowing what this “something” is I concluded that this “something” must be pivotal. It would have to be fundamental, and how a thread sews two pieces of clothe together, I need it to weave its way through my life and tie up any loose ends. I imagine when it hit me it would steer me like a compass to where I need to go. This “something” would have to be EXTRAordinary.

I believe I have waited for years for a moment like that to come falling onto my lap like an autumn leaf saying adieu to the tree it has just liberated itself from. I was waiting as if EXTRAordinary would come to my front door packaged in the UPS man’s arms, and then it hit me. Like the water crashing into the shore, EXTRAordinary doesn’t just fall into your lap; you have to go after it.

So on this journey in search of my EXTRAordinary I am in the midst of figuring out what I want to do and where I want to be. First time coming into college I was after the money and I wanted to be a physician assistant. I soon realized I did not have enough interest in science to pursue it as a career. I woke up one day wanting to simply write. I grew entangled in this love affair to tell stories through my writing. So I put down the scalpel (not literally) and picked up a pen.

Hence this BlogSpot. I craved for a space where I can freely write anything I wanted. I wanted a place where all of my ideas and opinions that lay dormant inside my mind to be put out there. A place where anyone can share their thoughts and speak on anything I write about. So here it is...SpeaQLoudly on it!