Right before the performance, Stephanie Fierce and David Letterman sat down for a short and sweet interview. Stephanie Fierce happily discussed the new album ,”Free”, her record label Hot Eye Records, the “Newborn” tour, being a mother in the business, signing on to Mon on Fire Music and letting go of her old management team. But things got a bit more interesting when David went on to ask if she was single or not, Steph simply replied with a “no”, which was followed with a grin coming from both of them. David kept on trying to make her 'spill' on who she was dating now and even dared to mention Johnny, but no words but a grin would come out of Steph’s mouth. Due to the awkwardness David couldn’t help but cut to break with saying the following




The instruments were set for Stephanie and her band to do their performance. A flat digital screen that served as the alternative lightning stood behind of the stage and right before David Letterman introduces her to perform; he places her “Free” album atop of his desk and says the following:

“She’s a pop icon in her own right, her new album “Free” is out in stores now, performing a mini concert just for us; please give it up for the beautiful, the very talented and the very NOT single…. Stephanie Fierce!”. He then awkwardly applauds with the audience as the camera pans to Stephanie.


The lights undim and Stephanie Fierce is seen sitting standing on the middle of the stage. A piano and guitar rest alone before the band hinting that it will eventually be used by Steph, placing the microphone in front of her; she speaks the following as a beat builds up; her voice starts growing louder like a poet in the 5th line to add emphasis to the lyrics……. Back-up singers repeat some of the words as well .




Once finishing, Stephanie can’t hold back a smile as the audience applauds in amazement. In signal and preparation of staring a new song, the drummer starts hitting his drum sticks together,as Steph makes her way to the piano. Once sitting down, without hesitations she begins to sing “Tequila Shower” with no struggle as her drummer and guitarist play. Throughout the performance Steph sings while banging her head back and forth and plays the piano more upbeat towards its original melody. She also adds harmonized vocals to some of the lyrics to give it a different spin.



After finishing the shorter version of "Tequila Shower";. Steph walks over to the electric guitar guitar and places it on her body. "David.......this is my motherf*ckin man right now", Steph goes on to say joking to David Letterman for his previous interview question. Receiving a positive reaction from the audience, Steph begins "Electric Guitar Virgin". Immediately at the start, Steph bends her knees down to the ground to sing and play, all while on the floor. The song elctronica based composition, which is made of amen-break like build up, that's also converted to a trance like appeal is produced lively by her keyboardists. Stephanie Fiere plays a forceful and brawling guitar with driven bass, keyboards is still heard. They sound a bit psychedelic, with the guitar pedal effects. Her voice is laid back through most of the song and the lyrics are purposely sung as if Stephanie was reading them out. She almost sounds as if she’s under control and the soprano side is more present. Reaching up to the guitar solo, the spotlight is then set on her and she begins. The guitar solo mimics the chorus with emphasis and acts as a bridge. Due to Steph’s low experience with guitar solos, it’s composed to mimic the chorus. Once the guitar solo is finished, the band goes into this trance fusion like break, leading up to a classical music crossover section above a trip hop influenced beat. The band used a pre-recorded audio, since Stephanie Fierce arranged the beats with pre-recorded classical pieces. as the momentum of the performance picks up it leads to a non-stop 16 second vocal belt done by Stephanie Fierce, during so she manages to reach a vocal range from D3- E6 in her 16 second vocal belt. The audience amazed by her longevity applauds almost in disbelief. Doing so Steph moves her shoulders forward and back as she catches her breath. The band then proceeds to the trip–hop beat section while slowly fading out. While slowly fading out, you can hear distinctive melancholic noise that echoes created by a guitar pedal and Steph sings to mimic the sounds it creates. Once finished, she gets a roarring response.

"Thank you", Steph smiles to the audience. "Let me take out a moment and speak to you all (Steph smiles), This song is one of my favorite songs I've written and recorded. This will be my first time performing it live and televised and I'm very excited. It definitely relates to a lot of what was happening in the past few months, so here's "Dying in the Airwaves".

Steph takes a deep breath, putting herself together and begins playing the on-going electric guitar bit with a bassist and second guitarist backing her up. First building up with intense discordant chords, her vocals are present to the microphone. Steph sings the first verse with deep emotion squinting her eyebrows. Her vocals are heard as warm, mellow and melancholic in the beginning and as well as choruses. Also while singing, the rest of the band focuses on creating the ambient sound founded in the fierce atmosphere with the special pedals and as well by using other specially made instruments. Steph lifts her fingers in motion and stares deeply into the camera while singing.

Once the chorus reaches, Steph sings with all her might and suddenly everything stops. Steph looks up and beings the second verse, which 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.

After finishing the verse, Steph proceeds to a guitar solo that acts like the chorus, and leading up to that is the chorus repeat. Finishing up, she does the outro and once finished she drops her guitar to the ground. Mouthing "Free".




I want to end things on a bright note, Everyone knows this song, it's one of my favorites. Um, QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEN?, errrr....ever feel under pressure? Steph sarcastically says. Once her band begins to play the composition in which "Vanilla Ice" sampled, Steph begins to sing her cover of Queen''s "Under Pressure". Once reaching the bridge, the audience begins clapping and cheering as Steph struts around, pointing the mic towards them as the sing along loudly and after that the original vocals of Queen are heard to end it out. She finishes and says "Thank you" with a smile as the audience cheer on.

Edited by user 29 September 2011 08:44:18(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified