Post by Blake Emma Renner on Dec 13, 2012 21:44:30 GMT -5
Blake brought her hand up to her hair and shook her bangs out. That was so much easier when you didn’t have any product in your hair. Tomorrow was Kenzie’s first birthday and it was insane to think of how far both her and Logan had come in that time. To say that they took over the music world was an understatement. She had already been successful before she signed over to Logan’s new label, trusting him with her career. But it really felt like she was allowed to be what she wanted without being marketed a certain way. This new album didn’t sound anything like her previous stuff. Instead of scolding her and telling her that it wasn’t ‘her’ Logan valued it, let her go where she wanted, supported her. But when had it sort of gotten away from her? She could sell out a concert, an entire tour, quicker than anyone else at the label. It felt like the persona of who she was had taken over and she was just riding the wave with no control of it whatsoever. She was getting mad at awards shows. She had never cared about those before. It had always been about being a diva in the sense that she wanted the best for her fans, the best concert, the best performance, best lyrics. Fans didn’t give a shit whether or not you had shiny awards on your shelf. She just wanted to ground herself, to get a taste of who she was before all of this got out of hand. So here she was. Curly blonde hair left wild, a glittery dress, some cowgirl boots and a sparkly guitar. The room was packed ; but it was an intimate event. There was only about seventy-five people packed in the small venue. Presidents of fan clubs, fans that had repeatedly written her. She’d selected a few, flown them out, and led them to believe that they were going to participate in a video chat that was going over a few cities as she announced tour dates and waved to them all. But this was it. No camera, no videos, nothing set up with a mic on her dress. Just a girl with a guitar, a microphone on the stand, guitar strap around her shoulders and for the first time in what felt like a couple of years – nerves.
Now that she was successful she was able to entertain her fans by using theatrics and keeping them dazzled. But would they still love her when she was stripped of all of it? After all she only had her back up singers, someone playing drums, and someone playing bass while she played guitar. But there wasn’t any sense in delaying it. Blake took in a deep breath, holding it in tightly as she walked out onto the stage of the small venue. She smiled to herself as she looked out at the fans, who had no idea she was even there. They still hadn’t caught on, talking amongst themselves. Then there was the one pair of eyes that locked on her. “ Are you..” she started off and Blake nodded slowly, “ Yes,” she said simply, giving a small smile as the girl screamed at the top of her lungs, causing the rest of the fans to turn and see what she was screaming at. The recognition for them came quickly and Blake smiled, almost embarrassed, as she walked up to the microphone, “ Hey y’all,” she said, bringing her hand up to put some hair behind her ear. “ Thanks for coming out tonight. I’m Blake Parker. Renner… You know, it’s an everyday battle,” she said before laughing as she referred to her last name and which she should go by. “ I hope y’all don’t mind but I was hoping to give you a little show,” she said as she adjusted the strap of her guitar before she scrunched up her nose and took it off entirely. Who had time for those things anyways. Blake tossed it off to the side of the stage before she held the guitar against her body and coughed quietly. “ I think you know this one,” she said with a small smile before her fingers began to softly pluck the strings to start off the song for Love Story.
Speak Now, Tim McGraw, Picture to Burn, The Story of Us, Sparks Fly, and Enchanted had already been finished. She was tediously playing the chords to Stay,Stay, Stay as she looked around the stage at her band. She offered a small smile at the back up singers before she quit playing, holding her fingers against the strings. Later in the show she wanted to play You Belong With Me, Stay,Stay,Stay, I Knew You Were Trouble, We Are Never Getter Back Together and finish things off with Long Live. “ Maybe we should take just a momentary break,” she said without realizing she had gone back to mindlessly plucking away at the strings of her guitar. “ Here, let’s do this,” she said as she walked to the side, handing the sparkly guitar off to one of the assistants on the side before she grabbed the stool and walked back to the center of the stage. Blake pulled the microphone out of the stand before she sat carefully and crossed her legs. “ Does anyone have any questions?” she asked before pushing some of her hair back. “ What’s it like being married to Logan Renner?” someone screamed out and Blake pointed out into the audience with a smirk before she brought her hand back to her lap. “ Obvious first question. Why didn’t I think of it myself,” she said jokingly before she licked the corner of her lips. “ You’ve all heard the song Every Night, right?” she said before nodding slowly as they all cheered. “ It’s exactly like that,” she said before laughing dryly as she scooted back further on the stool. “ No, it’s great. Who wouldn’t want to marry their best friend? Everyone says that. It’s so cliché. The best things in life are cliché.” she said before biting the inside of her cheek. “ What is your biggest accomplishment?” someone else asked and Blake immediately brought the microphone to her lips, “ Kenzie, hands down.” she said, twirling her wedding ring around her finger as she looked at all of them. “ I would love to say it was something work related, but I can’t do so honestly. I would give up everything for her, that’s gotta mean she’s my biggest accomplishment, and I would say Logan would say the same exact thing,”
“ What’s your favorite song you’ve ever written? How long did it take you to write it?” Blake narrowed her eyebrows as she tried to think of the answer to that. No one had actually ever asked before. “ Long Live has a sort of special place in my heart. I wrote it for those around me that I consider family about everything we’ve overcome and how we get to cherish it all together, so it’s really .. I mean I’m going to narcissistically say that it’s our ‘groups’ anthem. They can all disagree if they like, but it’s them and how I feel about them, how far we’ve come, in musical form.,” she said before giving a nod. Yup. That was her favorite song she had written in that aspect. She’d have to file that in her memory incase anyone ever asked her that again “ What are some of the songs about Logan?” Blake puffed out her cheeks before repeating quietly, “ Some of the songs about Logan..” she said before snapping and pointing her finger. “ Off my new album there’s Stay,Stay,Stay, Red, Begin Again.. I Knew You Were Trouble. The entire Speak Now album is basically Logan’s.. You Belong With Me is an obvious one,” she said while scratching the side of her neck. “ Are those your favorites, too?” she heard and Blake narrowed her eyes in thought. “ My favorite is Never Grow Up for Kenzie. Otherwise I just think fun ones to sing are like.. 22.. and Stay,Stay,Stay.,” she offered before looking to someone else for a question. “ Why did you take such a different sound for I Knew You Were Trouble?” Blake nodded while tightening her lips uncomfortably, “ That was actually Shane Madden’s fault, but it’s turned out pretty well so I guess I can’t complain too much. He told someone else that worked in the studio to give it a dubstep feel because he thought it would be funny,” she said before rolling her eyes lovingly at Shane’s behavior.
“ How does Kenzie take after Logan”.Blake pushed some of her hair away from her face, “ She’s really into multi-tasking for a baby. She’ll be playing with her toys and blacks while simultaneously trying to coo or say what little words she knows. She can’t focus on one thing. She has to be doing eighty different things at once,” she offered. “ And how does she take after you?” someone asked and Blake pursed her lips, thinking for a moment. “ Well while she is doing those Logan behaviors she really wants to be the center of attention. She’ll look at you to see if you’re watching her. She likes putting on a show,” Blake said with a slight laugh. “Okay one more,” she said, standing up from the stool. “ Tell us something we don’t know about you!” someone yelled and Blake pondered it as she moved the guitar over just a few feet before walking back to the center of the stage. “ Something you don’t know about me… Despite all of my love and break-up songs I have only been in love once in my life. It was too powerful to ever let anything else live up to it for the moment I first heard his laughter across the classroom,” she said before taking in a deep breath. “ That being said it’s time to move on. “I have to bring out someone else to play guitar for the rest of the show For this first song, I just had him learn it this morning, so don’t judge him too terribly. And if you’re nice he might answer a few more questions later in the evening. This is the first time he’s played it.. ever, I think. Shane Madden has played it, but I don’t think he has. Pretty special moment for me right now to have the guy who inspired the song playing it for me on stage. If you could all give a warm welcome, to Logan Renner.,” Blake said happily as she watched Logan come onto the stage so he could play You Belong With Me for her, to only kick star the fact that he was going to play for the rest of the show. Blake wrapped her arms tightly around him in a hug, shaking her head at the ‘aws’ that came from the stage. “ You think it’s cute now. He used to call me a bitch.” she said as she waited for him to make himself comfortable.
Now that she was successful she was able to entertain her fans by using theatrics and keeping them dazzled. But would they still love her when she was stripped of all of it? After all she only had her back up singers, someone playing drums, and someone playing bass while she played guitar. But there wasn’t any sense in delaying it. Blake took in a deep breath, holding it in tightly as she walked out onto the stage of the small venue. She smiled to herself as she looked out at the fans, who had no idea she was even there. They still hadn’t caught on, talking amongst themselves. Then there was the one pair of eyes that locked on her. “ Are you..” she started off and Blake nodded slowly, “ Yes,” she said simply, giving a small smile as the girl screamed at the top of her lungs, causing the rest of the fans to turn and see what she was screaming at. The recognition for them came quickly and Blake smiled, almost embarrassed, as she walked up to the microphone, “ Hey y’all,” she said, bringing her hand up to put some hair behind her ear. “ Thanks for coming out tonight. I’m Blake Parker. Renner… You know, it’s an everyday battle,” she said before laughing as she referred to her last name and which she should go by. “ I hope y’all don’t mind but I was hoping to give you a little show,” she said as she adjusted the strap of her guitar before she scrunched up her nose and took it off entirely. Who had time for those things anyways. Blake tossed it off to the side of the stage before she held the guitar against her body and coughed quietly. “ I think you know this one,” she said with a small smile before her fingers began to softly pluck the strings to start off the song for Love Story.
Speak Now, Tim McGraw, Picture to Burn, The Story of Us, Sparks Fly, and Enchanted had already been finished. She was tediously playing the chords to Stay,Stay, Stay as she looked around the stage at her band. She offered a small smile at the back up singers before she quit playing, holding her fingers against the strings. Later in the show she wanted to play You Belong With Me, Stay,Stay,Stay, I Knew You Were Trouble, We Are Never Getter Back Together and finish things off with Long Live. “ Maybe we should take just a momentary break,” she said without realizing she had gone back to mindlessly plucking away at the strings of her guitar. “ Here, let’s do this,” she said as she walked to the side, handing the sparkly guitar off to one of the assistants on the side before she grabbed the stool and walked back to the center of the stage. Blake pulled the microphone out of the stand before she sat carefully and crossed her legs. “ Does anyone have any questions?” she asked before pushing some of her hair back. “ What’s it like being married to Logan Renner?” someone screamed out and Blake pointed out into the audience with a smirk before she brought her hand back to her lap. “ Obvious first question. Why didn’t I think of it myself,” she said jokingly before she licked the corner of her lips. “ You’ve all heard the song Every Night, right?” she said before nodding slowly as they all cheered. “ It’s exactly like that,” she said before laughing dryly as she scooted back further on the stool. “ No, it’s great. Who wouldn’t want to marry their best friend? Everyone says that. It’s so cliché. The best things in life are cliché.” she said before biting the inside of her cheek. “ What is your biggest accomplishment?” someone else asked and Blake immediately brought the microphone to her lips, “ Kenzie, hands down.” she said, twirling her wedding ring around her finger as she looked at all of them. “ I would love to say it was something work related, but I can’t do so honestly. I would give up everything for her, that’s gotta mean she’s my biggest accomplishment, and I would say Logan would say the same exact thing,”
“ What’s your favorite song you’ve ever written? How long did it take you to write it?” Blake narrowed her eyebrows as she tried to think of the answer to that. No one had actually ever asked before. “ Long Live has a sort of special place in my heart. I wrote it for those around me that I consider family about everything we’ve overcome and how we get to cherish it all together, so it’s really .. I mean I’m going to narcissistically say that it’s our ‘groups’ anthem. They can all disagree if they like, but it’s them and how I feel about them, how far we’ve come, in musical form.,” she said before giving a nod. Yup. That was her favorite song she had written in that aspect. She’d have to file that in her memory incase anyone ever asked her that again “ What are some of the songs about Logan?” Blake puffed out her cheeks before repeating quietly, “ Some of the songs about Logan..” she said before snapping and pointing her finger. “ Off my new album there’s Stay,Stay,Stay, Red, Begin Again.. I Knew You Were Trouble. The entire Speak Now album is basically Logan’s.. You Belong With Me is an obvious one,” she said while scratching the side of her neck. “ Are those your favorites, too?” she heard and Blake narrowed her eyes in thought. “ My favorite is Never Grow Up for Kenzie. Otherwise I just think fun ones to sing are like.. 22.. and Stay,Stay,Stay.,” she offered before looking to someone else for a question. “ Why did you take such a different sound for I Knew You Were Trouble?” Blake nodded while tightening her lips uncomfortably, “ That was actually Shane Madden’s fault, but it’s turned out pretty well so I guess I can’t complain too much. He told someone else that worked in the studio to give it a dubstep feel because he thought it would be funny,” she said before rolling her eyes lovingly at Shane’s behavior.
“ How does Kenzie take after Logan”.Blake pushed some of her hair away from her face, “ She’s really into multi-tasking for a baby. She’ll be playing with her toys and blacks while simultaneously trying to coo or say what little words she knows. She can’t focus on one thing. She has to be doing eighty different things at once,” she offered. “ And how does she take after you?” someone asked and Blake pursed her lips, thinking for a moment. “ Well while she is doing those Logan behaviors she really wants to be the center of attention. She’ll look at you to see if you’re watching her. She likes putting on a show,” Blake said with a slight laugh. “Okay one more,” she said, standing up from the stool. “ Tell us something we don’t know about you!” someone yelled and Blake pondered it as she moved the guitar over just a few feet before walking back to the center of the stage. “ Something you don’t know about me… Despite all of my love and break-up songs I have only been in love once in my life. It was too powerful to ever let anything else live up to it for the moment I first heard his laughter across the classroom,” she said before taking in a deep breath. “ That being said it’s time to move on. “I have to bring out someone else to play guitar for the rest of the show For this first song, I just had him learn it this morning, so don’t judge him too terribly. And if you’re nice he might answer a few more questions later in the evening. This is the first time he’s played it.. ever, I think. Shane Madden has played it, but I don’t think he has. Pretty special moment for me right now to have the guy who inspired the song playing it for me on stage. If you could all give a warm welcome, to Logan Renner.,” Blake said happily as she watched Logan come onto the stage so he could play You Belong With Me for her, to only kick star the fact that he was going to play for the rest of the show. Blake wrapped her arms tightly around him in a hug, shaking her head at the ‘aws’ that came from the stage. “ You think it’s cute now. He used to call me a bitch.” she said as she waited for him to make himself comfortable.
