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01-08-2007, 05:16 PM
JEWEL GIVES UP ON ACTING
Pop star JEWEL has quietly quit her budding acting career - because she's too lazy to make it work. The pretty singer starred in western RIDE WITH THE DEVIL and recently appeared as herself in US TV series MEN IN TREES, but she insists acting won't be a part of her future. She says, "After I did Ride With The Devil I started doing auditions and realised I am definitely too lazy to have a second career in acting. I got scared to tell you the truth. "A lot of my heroes did their best work and their best writing in their 40s and 50s, but most of them died really estranged from their families and alone. "I'm not totally sure I've got another shot at acting in me, so I kind of just decided I'd rather be home on my days off than go and audition for a movie." 08/01/2007 02:06
JEWEL GOES CHEAP TO PROVE HER POINT TO LABEL BOSSES
Pop star JEWEL is determined to show her former bosses at Atlantic Records how cheap it can be to record, release and market acts after filming a new music video for just $5,000 (GBP2,560). The Alaskan singer/songwriter is in between record deals after parting ways with Atlantic, and she's out to prove you can be a star on the cheap. She says, "From the time I grew up I sold records and I worked free to promote myself. I think it's pretty much swapped where you pay to advertise yourself with records and you start to look at music now as a promotional tool. "I'm going to continue my career by trying to make records that are affordable. I think records cost too much and have such a big burden that you can't make it back as an artist or as a label. "I just made a video for $5,000 and filmed it on Super 8 (film) on my ranch. I think you have to make cheap affordable videos and try to make music about music again which for me works because I was never about being very cool anyway, so sincerity works in low-fi." 07/01/2007 23:35
Pop star JEWEL has quietly quit her budding acting career - because she's too lazy to make it work. The pretty singer starred in western RIDE WITH THE DEVIL and recently appeared as herself in US TV series MEN IN TREES, but she insists acting won't be a part of her future. She says, "After I did Ride With The Devil I started doing auditions and realised I am definitely too lazy to have a second career in acting. I got scared to tell you the truth. "A lot of my heroes did their best work and their best writing in their 40s and 50s, but most of them died really estranged from their families and alone. "I'm not totally sure I've got another shot at acting in me, so I kind of just decided I'd rather be home on my days off than go and audition for a movie." 08/01/2007 02:06
JEWEL GOES CHEAP TO PROVE HER POINT TO LABEL BOSSES
Pop star JEWEL is determined to show her former bosses at Atlantic Records how cheap it can be to record, release and market acts after filming a new music video for just $5,000 (GBP2,560). The Alaskan singer/songwriter is in between record deals after parting ways with Atlantic, and she's out to prove you can be a star on the cheap. She says, "From the time I grew up I sold records and I worked free to promote myself. I think it's pretty much swapped where you pay to advertise yourself with records and you start to look at music now as a promotional tool. "I'm going to continue my career by trying to make records that are affordable. I think records cost too much and have such a big burden that you can't make it back as an artist or as a label. "I just made a video for $5,000 and filmed it on Super 8 (film) on my ranch. I think you have to make cheap affordable videos and try to make music about music again which for me works because I was never about being very cool anyway, so sincerity works in low-fi." 07/01/2007 23:35