Allison Iraheta is at once, an irrepressible teenager, and wise beyond her years in this latest video interview with Lyndsey Parker of Yahoo music.
In part one of the two-part interview, Allison talks about working with Max Martin in Sweden, the criticism that her single is too “poppy” and those comparisons to Kelly Clarkson.
Plus, Allison’s discussion of the deeper meaning of songs from her album–”Robot Love”, “Scars” and “Just Like You,”–is funny, grounded and intelligent. Tough chick. Seriously!
Part 1 of the video interview, after the JUMP…
BTW, for those of you familiar with Shakira’s “Vuelve”, wouldnt that be an awesome song for Alli? Alli will kill it in Spanish, but I was thinking translated to English. The song is not Shakira’s English vibe, so Shakira may allow Alli to make it an English rock song.
Actually, Allison won’t miss the big holiday sales weeks. As Kirsten pointed out recently, the two biggest sales weeks for music are the two weeks before Christmas — Thanksgiving week isn’t even #2.
Having said that, I don’t expect her to sell that well that quickly. I think Jive is planning to build her success slowly, and I think that’s the right approach. Will she go multi-platinum? Platinum? Gold? No one knows. Given the trend in recent years, the odds of anyone going multi-platinum are extremely small, and even the odds of just going platinum are very small as well. Gold records are starting to mean something again. So, based purely on statistics, I have no expectation that she’ll go platinum, or even gold.
But then, I’ve kept my hopes low all along, and they keep being happily exceeded. I didn’t expect her to get as far as she did on the show. I didn’t expect the record execs to be smart enough to give her a contract. I didn’t expect them to let her make a record that sounds as good as these clips do. So maybe she will go platinum!
But my own goal for her doesn’t have a metal attached to it — I just want her to sell enough to make a good living for herself and to keep recording and touring. If she can do that without going gold, that’s fine with me. Plenty of the artists I love don’t go gold but sell enough to keep their careers going. Anything more is icing on the cake.
I hope she gets the support to sell some albums but given her finishing position, I suspect she’ll get the messy end of the payola stick. Unless she is the next Chris Daughtry.
She isn’t a very interesting interview subject.
.Good thing she’s an excellent singer then.
love that she remains herself… that’s the most important thing. She’s still very young. She’ll get deeper as she ages
Second interview is up:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/realityrocks/294420/allison-iraheta-the-album-preview-interview-pt-2/
Its amazingly awesome.
I finally can see the interview. I love her she’s so youthful, charming and funny. I’m buying her cd too because I love her voice! She should drop “man” from her vocabulary. It’s just as bad as saying “eh”.
I’m glad that she is still a little awkward and why would she need speech lessons. This is “her”, she is a real teenager and it is so refreshing. I don’t want her to sound like a robot or to stray away from who she really is.
Allison’s great! I love her realness! While they were discussing idol I just kept thinking how much she could have taught Carley Smithson last year.
That was a chirp shot!
ppwars, I’m not sure if you were referring to my statement about Carly or not, but I liked her a lot! I just meant the fact that Allison didn’t let the judges get to her, but I really believe Carly did. I probably wasn’t clear on that. It just amazes me that a 16/17 year old could handle that kind of pressure so well.
And people still say she’s immature. I think not. She may be hyper and not all that articulate, but I think she’s got an incredible work ethic and is really mature when it comes to her career and knowing very well who she is. It is amazing that with as much criticism as she received about her image and her personality, she never gave in ot it just to conform to what others thought she should look or act like. I think for such a young person that’s pretty amazing.
I think her emotions, her behavior, her tweets, all of it is appropriate for a teenager. Is she mature teenager? Yes, in some ways i’m sure she is. Does that mean I now relate to her and her music, because she’s handling the business well? Nope.
She’s got some good music here, and one or two songs sound really good to me, but for me, right now that’s as far as it goes in my ability to connect with her. I really hope to see and hear more of her in the future, though.
I don’t expect everyone to be like me, though, and i’m not trying to sway anyone, either. To each his own.