Series on life: Fans (Behind The Scenes)

After a decade of being a fan for awhile in the music and entertainment business I have learned quite a number of things here in the Canadian scene.
What's that you may ask?
Well a number of things, it includes your popularity in the States if you get lucky will get you places ie move out of Canada and then come back home, post your stuff online and you may get some kind of recognition from it to be posted WORLDWIDE!, Joining Twitter is a must because celebrities do post stuff and read your post (but don't beg them to follow you because Believe me i've tried and it depends all up to them if they want to follow you or not), Join their fan bases because 90% they sometimes will know the artist through the sites that promote them. But whatever you do don't get too stalkerish or their security may just handle you out, be kind and help out your follow fans out if you get a advantage because we are all try to meet the same celebrity.
I mean I used to be real nervous and real scared to meet my favorite celebs and personalities, but not as much now. I have met quite a bit and talked to a few now i sometimes don't know what to say anymore to them. I question myself and ask myself say "Hello" Sir or Miss, may I get a autograph from you I am super excited to meet you because I am a super fan.

I am in definition as a fan who was nervous on meeting popular people to having a partial confidence to try to get a autograph or pics from them.

I am now using my experience when I see other fans get over excited to meet to their favorite stars and if I get the advantage to give it to them because I see the joy, excitement and tears in their eyes. I never had someone helped me out, so I feel real happy and overjoyed to help fellow fans out when their parents don't know what to do.

I think what scares some fans is that we get categorized as crazy people because of our habit of some of us staying at their hotels just to see them. I mean we all don't do that, some of us need to pay our bills and as much as we would like to do that, there is a lot of time constraints and payments we average class got to deal with.

After being a long time fan of entertainers, I have struggled to get my payments right and have to skip out on some of my favorite events, sacrifices I have to make to go to them. It has been hard, but the ones I do go to are real satisfying to attend to when I can. I feel when I don't go I miss out, in the events I don't attend I feel real good, but due to my sickness the last few days I haven't been much of a fan.

It has been super hard in the last few months to be part of the scene. I want so much to be seen to go to places for recognition and hopefully be noticed by the art you love but cannot be more than recognition to be paid for it. I have struggled for years and still until this day tend to struggle. I am behind the scenes to work super hard with no kind of education for promotions and special events degree. I am mostly learning it through my street smart ideas and thoughts. I try my hardest though and it doesn't get unnoticed. The recognition that I built myself around is AMAZING. I do love what I do and now that I think I have reached a point, I really need a little bit of money to get by because I ain't getting any younger by the moment. I struggle with my concept in trying to get through with these chances I have taken to get through with what I have faced. It's never easy being a fan of the industry just being on some kind of being a familiar person but with no pay.

It's been years to make my path in the industry because I have been trying to make something out of it and I don't quite fit into any category of the bloggers world because I represent a lot of categories, or trying to learn to get into. Most people affiliate me with the music industry or the poetry/lyricism world, but I have learned now to go beyond into the sci-fi world. I try to read a lot of other things. I know I haven't been posting very often as much as I can. I hope to do more so that people can read more about what I am.

As a fan in the industry for a long time I have learned that most fan bases are family and not just fan bases. Most people think that fans are just people that know each other randomly but to tell you the truth, someone knows someone personally or gets connected like a family member. If one person praises you it is like you become a society of family or relatives by the connection you make from one person to another. It becomes a small world and community. Every fan base is very intertwined with each other and it isn't real small or very stalkerish like most people think, but a big society of many people affiliated with many walks of life, just like family members you know each other.

Nina Sky Night 2010

Hey Everyone,

   This is MusicAddictJane just doing a quick throwback to my night with Nina Sky. To be honest, I was just there to watch the ladies not to join them on stage, but that was fun. Getting on stage with Nicole and Natalie Albino was I think the greatest experience to feel what a artist goes through the eyes from a fans stand point. Here are some video of that night from February 10th, 2010.

My Review from my personal Facebook account and experience:

So Friday night was a amazing night. The reason why I think so i was contemplating about not going because of the lateness of it supposedly starting at eleven pm which didn't start until after one am. It supposedly started at The Skybar at The Guvernment nightclub but because of the wind and the coldness of outside, the DJ announced that it was cold and breezy to perform there so it was moved one floor down to The Drink. But before all that I was thinking of not coming but while doing chores (mowing the lawn) I heard "I Got A Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas and some go out song I didn't know where it was coming from but I think it was a sign to just go. I am glad I did because it turned out to be a amazing night. I mean it started out for the longest night but the wait was very much worth it. After one pm and proceeding from the windy night and seeing Nina Sky come and head down one level, I didn't know where they were so i had to track down the assistant to the event co-ordinator at around one-fifteen to one-twenty am and songs being played . I found him and he was pointing that the two ladies were sitting there. It didn't click that he was pointing were they were sitting right where I was. I had to walk at first to notice that they were there. Of course I went over without any nervousness because I met a couple of famous people before.
I went to introduce myself of who I was the lady who asked for the flyer by twitter and my gmail account and introduced myself by name. My guy friend who I brought that night to take two pictures. It was supposed to be one, but I wanted to be sure that they turned out great. That is all I wanted to get pics and enjoy the night of their performance.
Later that night say around one thirty-five and on ward they did a song interlude and Nicole was singing "This is fun" and then the music played on.

By the two am hour the ladies of Nina Sky performed a couple of songs like Beautiful People, Move Your Body by request, a tribute to The Eurthymictics "Sweet Dreams" sung by Natalie, and had a interlude after Move Your Body later into You Ain't Got It. During the time between Move Your Body and You Ain't Got It Nicole picked me up stage and got me to move the George Brown students; also during those songs Natalie passed me her microphone during that time. But I got to help out singing You Ain't Got It with Nicole and let me interlude with them with Natalie beside me cheering me on. I think I got the crowd going when being flat cause they were busy taping it and it took my energy and confidence with Nina Sky beside me had me forgetting that I was on stage and getting off the stage and thanking the ladies for inviting me and let me perform with them. I got a lot of stares and looks of people wondering who I was. Honestly that was FUN and if I had to do that again I would.

I appreciate this out of of anything and meeting certain people this is one of the things that tops everything I have done meeting famous people around 2004, 2006-2007.

By the end of the night after having a wonderful time at the club and leaving the club by 3am I saw the assistant event co-ordinator of George Brown college, Nicole, her girlfriend (i think) and maybe a bodyguard or a rep of Nina Sky leaving the club and heading into their car and I yelled out to Nicole and told her to have a wonderful night and thanks for everything again and the co-ordinator and I heard her say "You're welcome" and I think from a far say "thanks for ripping the mic with us and you're pretty good up on the stage up there with us" and them waving bye at each other/Nicole giving me the thumbs up and pointing at me. This whole experience was definitely the highlight of this whole week for me, even months I say cause I never experienced what it was like to get up and rep, even sing in front of a crowd with your favorite artist I never experienced something like that before. I never even have been on stage in front of audience but I guess when you are in the moment, you forget where you are when you get on stage and just feed off the energy of the crowd.

Sure pics and autographs I have done before but nothing like I experienced with Nina Sky that night have gotten me to experience what it feels like to be a fan and perform with the artist on stage.

I truly thank them for that opporturnity and they know that.

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