"Pop is the heaviest kind of music," says pop star Bikki. "A punk band will write a song about war, a pop star will wage war on another. A metalhead will know where he's gone wrong and fix it himself, a pop star doesn't believe that she can go wrong and will leave the musical Photoshop to fix it when she does. A classical choir singer will back others, a pop star must always be in front. A musician of any other genre is called a musician, a pop star must be a pop STAR. That's why it's so heavy.
"I'd say I'm completely different, something else, but I'm just another solo singer who loves shopping, can't tell metal genres apart and doesn't play an instrument; one of millions of twentysomething girls with a big voice, bigger breasts and an even bigger ability to attack. B, I, double K, I. Don't forget the name - you'll be screaming it."

On her album -
"This is going to be the concept for 'Open Fire'. BIKTCH. This is what pop stars do. We find someone we don't like, we stab them in the back, handbags at dawn. I want to get the album out before I have the babies, so I'm going to have to do a lot of waking up on the wrong side of bed to write my songs. Shouldn't be too hard. The album's called 'Open Fire', and arses, it's going to live up to its name. I'm a pop star - and I'm going to act like one. Just watch me."

Bikki : You should know more than anyone what it's like, I know you've had a rocky road. Stephanie Fierce is the Marmite of music - you either love her or hate her!

What I've got so far -

"Halo"/"Suffragette"
As you may or may not know, this is going to be the first single, a double A-side. I love it because the two songs are so opposite. "Halo" is different to the rest of "Open Fire", but it still has its elements of bitchiness - if you love me too much, this is telling you not to. It'll be the last track. "Suffragette" (featuring Raven Comatose) will be the first track on the album, and is the polar opposite, it's the token "song for the authorities". They both make references to Christianity, but "Suffragette" says that I'm dying for your sins, look up to me as a Godlike figure, come worship me - "Halo" says that I'm not God, I'm not Christ, I'm not an angel, I'm just Bikki. "Halo" musically is very much like the Haley James Scott (Bethany Joy Galeotti) song of the same name. "Suffragette" is more fast-paced and has a tongue-flicking, cage-dancing Shakira feel to it.

Where the idea came from
My latest work is called "Open Fire" (the title track, obviously), and I wrote it after I met my sister-in-law Fern Mason earlier on. She came over to the house I share with some of my family, to see my newborn nephew, JD. And BLOODY HELL is she annoying. Most women who have been pregnant or had children know what it's like - you just don't want to get out of bed. This doesn't make you a bad mother, just your average mother. But somewhere down the line, you're going to meet a "yummy mummy" who has more kids than the old woman who lived in the shoe (and always talks about wanting more), works two glamorous jobs, has a v. quiet husband who is the perfect father, and still finds time to make herself look like a supermodel. Fern Mason is this. So I lay in bed, feeling pukey, and turned my feelings about her into a song. Then the concept for "Open Fire" clicked. I've got "Suffragette" and I've got this new title track - why not make "Open Fire" into, well, open fire?

New songs
"Open Fire" is the first new track, I'm imagining it to sound more like slow Britpop than modern pop, sort of like something the Moronics would do. My next project is to pull Rayne Berry out of his shell to feature on a new song I'm working on, which is quite similar to his most famous song "Failboat" in some ways. I've also got something else called "Catfight Club" (working title) up my sleeve, which will be a very edgy pop tune, second to last track, and about pop stars and how we hate each other.

Edited by user 19 September 2009 13:56:11(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Bikki : Release date has been set for 2nd November 2009! Also, more info on my December tour coming soon!

Also, I'll be looking for backing. (I'm not having computerised music, I want band music.) I've already got some good friends in the business willing to help, but I want a mix of musicians. The only one on every song will be me. So, anyone who can play an instrument and wants to take part, just give me a bell, even if it's way out of your usual genre - pop or pop-related genre (or madcore/mix-genre) musicians preferred, but anyone gets a tryout. I'll probably be looking for guest vocalists too, I don't know yet.

Edited by user 20 September 2009 00:25:02(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Bret: I can play guitar/piano and do guest vocals if you decide to do that.

Song update -
"She Wolfe"
This is the theme tune to the TV show "Quoth The Raven, 'Nevermore'", and the video will first be shown on the last episode of that. It's going to be a piece of art. This is going to be a song shared between us fab five - Joshy Firecracker, James Kairiri, Raven Comatose, Rayne Berry and me - and we're going to give you something to listen to, and something to watch.
The story behind it is more than a love triangle - this is a love pentagram. A love triangle also usually has no bottom line - this one does, as the two F47 guys happen to be bikosexual. (I love that word more than "pianist" - hehe, pianist.) Basically, love and hate are so close together, you never know what's going to happen next, whether you'd rather break your condom or break your so-called lover's leg, your mind changes all the time.
This is also Raven's song. This is why it's the theme tune, and why the song name is a bad pun on a song by Shakira and Raven's middle name. "Wolfe" sounds so masculine, and yet Raven is such a girl, the girliest girl you'll ever meet. We all have our "sides", I certainly do. And if you don't like it - then stuff it.
The song is also Raven's song. T'other Raven. It's not an out and out dedication like "Syke" by Madbirds was, but you'll notice that Raven, James and Rayne's music will have some similar elements to "WhyteStarr" by Thunderwolf, which they so kindly wrote, released and won a Birdie with after my sister Britney sadly passed away. Death is a part of love and hate - it'll come in somewhere, as an ending, as a beginning. Death is also an important element of Raven Comatose's life story. And of Rayne's, and my own.
There is so much in this song. It seems so superficial, and so evil, on the surface - but there's so much laying under the surface of "She Wolfe". Look into the open fire ....

Sure, I'll see where I can fit you in!

Rayzor: You can have your pick of the remaining Thunderwolf members if you need musicians for "Kairiri"
Jimi: We're all willing, just let us know.

Tracklisting confirmed!

1. Suffragette
2. Kairiri
3. She Wolfe
4. Because Of You
5. Never Mind
6. K.I.S.S.
7. Open Fire
8. Catfight Club
9. Smoke & Mirrors (Is That A Kettle I See Before Me?)
10. Halo

-Bikki x

No problems. I'm honoured to work with you - as I said about working with Emma, it's like musical legends working with some nobody!

More stuff ....

Release dates
14th October 2009 : "Halo"/"Suffragette" (single).
2nd November 2009 : "Open Fire" (album).
13th November 2009 : "Kairiri" (single).
21st December 2009 : "Dark Blue Winter" (album).*
24th December 2009 : "Because Of You" (single).
*The album "Dark Blue Winter", a joint Christmas release by DBM artists, will feature the song "Because Of You".
The final single from "Open Fire" will be released in early 2010, though the exact song and date are unconfirmed.

Casting calls
I'm looking particularly for artists to appear on "Halo" and "Because Of You", though interest in other songs is welcome! ;)

As for lyrical posting - the wait will be over soon! I promise!
I'm going to finalise "Suffragette" and "Kairiri", and then I'll put up the lyrics of them, "Halo" and "Because Of You".

That's all for now,
-Bikki.