Best Female Artist, Sexiest Female- Stephanie Fierce
One of pop's finest, Stephanie Fierce an artist in her own right, has developed the ability to write, record and produce some of the best recordings in music. Never of low quality standard. Stephanie Fierce's involvement in her craft comes from all ends is nothing brand new as she's been writing/producing her songs since the very beginning. You know her story.....
While missing the deadline for the best album category, Stephanie Fierce fifth studio album
"Free" is set to be her most carefully crafted album to date. Fierce described the album as "psychological" in the form of a letter; claiming:
"In the whole creation process, I feel like a blind protagonist, who sort of develops a new sense, while strengthening the other ones as well. This is in no shape or form a pop album. This album is not something you can really get into, but more like really get out of. I say that with confidence. It’s not for the fact that I’m becoming anti-pop or that that I’m now trying to not have a commercial album. It’s simply just not a pop album. The idea at first was to create a dance album, but I scrapped it, simply because I changed my mind. I felt that this album is much more than some dance album. It goes way beyond that. I'm not indicating that it's still a dance album. You can dance to a beat, but you cannot dance to this. You have to sit down and think it through
The biggest challenge in this album was going inside my head, and portraying exactly what I was thinking. I think that’s the challenge that everyone experiences, period. But this piece of art is complex, because it’s not delusional and you quickly become disgusted by it. So basically my mind is placed under a microscope. My thoughts….. I don’t expect anyone to relate to it. It’s almost like a trip through yourself, through myself." The album's lead single
"Dying in the Airwaves", went #1 on both the Digital Songs and Airplay Charts. Making it a smash hit!
Best Single- Stephanie Fierce- Dying in the Airwaves
DYING IN THE AIRWAVES Written and produced by Stephanie Fierce
Genre: Alternative Rock, Fierce-Atmosphere, Ambient 
Song Background and Lyrics
Stephanie Fierce was looking at the
"World Press Photos" and came across the one taken by Malcolm Browne, which featured the self-Immolation
(setting oneself on fire as a form of protest, suicide or punishment) of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức. Steph proceeded on to watching the footage of the act. After watching the self-immolation video, she was inspired to write
"Dying in the Airwaves", which in prospect talks about the same idea applied in the music industry.
"I was afraid to speak of this, because it can be a very controversial topic. But self-immolation is probably one of the most disturbing things I've learned about humanity. There's something scary about that. At first, it just seemed so wrong and as human beings, it's kind of hard to look into the reason of that. To go into that perspective of the human mind, so I'm not speaking against the religion of Buddhism and I'm not saying "suicide" is the way to prove a point. But you have admire someone like Thích Quảng Đức. When you're seeing someone's life being ripped out by flames. It's almost like getting a preview of what hell is going to be like. It changed my life forever." The idea of self-immolation heavily inspired Stephanie Fierce to write "Dying in the Airwaves', which mimics the idea of it.
“I wanted to put myself in the position of Thích Quảng Đức the best way I could and write the lyrics. Of course, I didn’t light myself on fire, but I put my mind in the worst place possible to see what would come out lyrically. I couldn’t possibly put myself in such discomfort. What a noble man he was to not make one bit of noise or move a muscle”. Pre-production During her pregnancy and time away from recording, Stephanie went to production school to sharpen her skills, that way she could finally produce an album on her own. Before production began, Stephanie Fierce wanted to create a musical atmosphere for “Free”. So pre-production for the album took place, to make a foundation. To make the foundation Stephanie Fierce used machines costumed made and designed by a private music instrument manufacturing company. The machines were made to mimic orchestral instruments and operatic vocals, specifically made for the album. Stephanie Fierce spent months organizing the foundation by experimenting with the machines which were designed to her taste and level of knowledge. Once, getting comfortable with the machines, Steph began programming the ambient sounds that she had taped with her tape recorder and the “Fierce Atmosphere” was developed.
OOC: This “Pre-production but is going to be edited out towards the last post, once all the tracks are posted. This pre-production bit applies to all of the tracks, not just “Dying in the Airwaves”.
Production and Composition
Making her guitar playing debut, Stephanie Fierce's
"Dying in the Airwaves" , features an on-going electric guitar. The song’s basic chord progression was arranged and defined in the matter of 2 days, which was rather quickly for Steph. The song first builds up with intense discordant chords. Stephanie Fierce noticed that the "discordant chords" in the song where used a lot in a many indie folk-rock songs, so she made it her own by adding more upbeat preferences. Her vocals are heard as warm, mellow and melancholic in the beginning and in the choruses. But the second verse features hard sung/screamo like vocals. The purpose was to sing with emotion despite it sounding like she's holding back vocally. You can hear her 'fear' and presence for once. Her vocals are not about confidence, or ego-like vocals, but within all-that there, confidence somehow makes its way.
The ambient production was minimally influenced by Formic Acid's "Dream of Fantasy" (an ambient record, Stephanie Fierce looked up on youtube), which features an on-going faded "chorus-like” sound. The record was only an influence to the song, instead of sampling it Steph used the “Fierce Atmosphere” for the song's ambient production. Overall, “DITA” was recorded, edited, mixed by Stephanie Fierce in the scale of two weeks.
"Dying in the Airwaves" (Lyrics)
(Spoken):
They now play me. (Scratchy tape)
(Verse 1 Sung):
They.... eat you, they eat me too
You tamed the noises, they're all clam now
Who these people hunting me now?...They like to listen....
They will slay me, searching for those lost emotions
But how could she not die? How could I not die?
No need to run now, just wake to defeat......
(Chorus Part 1, with SELF back up vocals in parenthesis)
Life Long Gone; (its been long now, its been long)
They forgot to listen; (its been long now, its been long)
Long Life gone; (it’s been long now, its been long)
Only you will listen, In this industry
(Part 2 of Chorus Spoken)
Ghost of your voice, acidic spit from your lips,
They could foster me
(Part 3 Repeat of Chorus, Sung with SELF back up vocals in parenthesis)
Life Long Gone; (its been long now, its been long)
They will hate me; (its been long now, its been long)
They will listen; (it’s been long now, its been long)
They will listen, In the industry
(Verse 2)
So...Fuck the radio, fuck the charts
This shit right here comes from the heart
Rock star pop star, same fucking star
You made me the star
You tore me apart.....
but I'm just a lyrical beast, from the mouth to the sheet
pop music contradictory, searching for radio hits ('hits' said in latino accent)
and I'm also a industry priest, not living life as if deseased
Some hooker whore look a like, I hear this all the damn time!
But they don't know I was doomed
born in a equivocacy womb
raised in miracle tomb
and lost my fucking damn mind
Never will be a thing of the past,
is that a forgivable crime?
(Bridge; Guitar Solo)
(Chorus Sung, with self back up vocals in parenthesis)
Life Long Gone; (its been long now, its been long)
They will hate me; (its been long now, its been long)
They will listen; (it’s been long now, its been long)
They will listen, In the industry
(Outro)
Now I'm done.
Long life.....GONE
in the airwaves......the airwaves
Dying in the airwaves
I'm dying in the airwaves
Dying in the airwaves
Dying.....
They will never play me..
Best Album - Stephanie Fierce -Free
Album Cover:
Album Title: Free
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Release Formats: Digital, Physical
Genres: Alternative-Rock, Spoken-Concrete, Minimal Techno-Trance & Electronica, Ambient-Downtempo, Fierce Atmosphere
Writer & Producer: Stephanie Fierce
Personnel: Stephanie Fierce (All)
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Singles: 1.
Dying in the Airwaves (Released: May 7, 2011)
Here's the track-listing to the album:
Standard
1. DYING IN THE AIRWAVES (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)
2. BIRD FLU SUNG (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)
3. LUBE (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)
4. ELECTRIC GUITAR VIRGIN (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)
5. IN LOVE ALONE (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)
6. SINK (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)
7. TEQUILA SHOWER (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)
8. TEMOR AL SOL (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)
9. MIND SICKNESS (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)
10. POETRY MONSTER (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)
EP/Deluxe
11. STEPHANIE...SAMPLED A TREE (Written and Produced by Stephanie Fierce)A Brief Look into the Background of
"Free":
"With the album, I'm representing my mind in the form of an atmosphere that reflects it. It contains not only an intricate musical soundscape which I created and named myself, (clears throat) "I will like to present to you the Fierce Atmosphere"!, I wanted to create something, that would later on grow and evolve into something else, for my albums in the future. This mimics the same idea of human society and it's development over time.
"Free" also contains the psychological aspect of a true writer, who's challenged by disgust and delusion. This is the reason most of the lyrics are written straight like a story, rather than a manufactured/processed song (with the exception of "Dying in the Airwaves and "Poetry Monster"). The pace they are sung in is also effected. This lead me to explore and include the "spoken" music genre. Somethings are just not meant to be sung. As I've said, this album is somewhat psychological, and I wanted to create boundaries so that my thoughts would not escape and the main idea sticks through.
The fierce atmosphere is a musical getaway, where everything nature is the architecture/blueprint of all things and all realistic thoughts dominate the delusional ones. Each layer is influenced by everything I've created musically in the past. Which my fans will recognize once they look at deeper details. Best way to explain this is to say a collage of my music known as "the Family Tree" will invisibly live in the atmosphere. However, the Fierce Atmosphere is often attacked by the poetry monster.
My next goal is to put the whole idea into a visual and create a virtual model of it, where you can actually 'see' it. I'm currently working on that and will be launching the website once it's completed. Speaking about visuals...... the artwork represented in the album, is heavily inspired by the songs. I didn't just slap in an image of myself and put a font over it. I actually gathered images, that represented the song. One of the song artwork (ps. Electric Guitar Virgin) shows my fingers literally bleeding, as I was trying to develop my guitar skills. It's all carefully crafted. Once again I'll get more into detail once the album is release. I've made something truly on my own and I really would like to congratulate myself for doing it. It's kind of crazy, the production span in comparison to my previous albums, this one turned out to be much more complex and developed in a shorter period of time." OOC: I love the award show, can't wait to see what happens!
