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The Veronicas
Scris de D33a chan Dum Noi 09, 2008 4:27 pm
With the release of their new album HOOK ME UP, 23-year-old twin sisters Lisa and Jessica Origliasso known as THE VERONICAS, exploded onto the airwaves in their native Australia garnering two Top 5 singles including their first #1 hit with the title track and rocketing their sophomore effort to multiplatinum levels. Thanks to an amazing collection of original songs, a hot new electro-rock sound, killer hooks and incredible vocals, their second album remains in the Top 5 on the album charts five months after its initial release last fall.
Hook Me Up, expected to be released in the U.S. on Sire Records Summer 2008, is a powerful step up from their incredible debut album, The Secret Life Of which sold more than 300,000 copies Down Under, racked up three of their five Top 10 singles and won a slew of awards (including a coveted ARIA), making the girls international stars.
While The Veronicas showed their talent for writing catchy pop-rock tunes on Secret Life Of(which Teen Vogue called both sweet and vicious), the girls go into hyperdrive on Hook Me Up by exchanging the pop-punk stylings for a dynamically, unrestrained electro-beat.
"It's been more than two years since we wrote the first record so our musical tastes have changed a bit," Lisa says. "We've been living in Los Angeles where we got into the whole electro-pop rock scene. When it came time to write the album, we were really inspired to go in a new direction."
"We didn't want to make a record that was the same as the first," Jess adds. "We definitely wanted to create a different sound for ourselves and reinvent The Veronicas. A lot has changed in our lives over the past two years. And we've changed quite a bit personally, so we had a lot to say."
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA mostly at Lisa and Jess's Hollywood Hills home, Hook Me Up finds the girls collaborating with a host of top-notch hitmakers, including Shelly Peiken (Christina Aguilera), Greg Wells (Mika), John Feldmann (The Used, Good Charlotte), and the legendary Billy Steinberg (Madonna). Most of the songs, however, were written with their long time collaborator Toby Gad, who contributed three tracks to Secret Life Of. Each day, Gad, who wrote Fergie's 2007 smash hit "Big Girls Don't Cry" would drive over to the girls townhouse, where heâ'd set up a makeshift studio.
"With Toby, we'd gossip and tell him all the drama in our lives," Lisa says with a laugh. Adds Jess: "That's why a lot of the songs we wrote with him come across as emotional and dramatic. I'd have to say this record is even more personal than the first one, which was hard because the first record was very much us."
Their collaboration resulted in eight tracks, from the album's dramatic first single "Untouched" to such razor-edged epics as the impassioned "This Is How It Feels" and the heated "Revenge Is Sweeter", to the raunchy "Take Me On The Floor" and the electronic "Popular." "It's a very beat-driven dance record, though The Veronicas always throw in a few ballads," Jess says. "We're proud of the record. It came out exactly how we wanted it to. We're stoked."
Hook Me Up is the beginning of a new chapter in The Veronicas stateside career. Secret Life Of was released by Sire Records in February 2006 and debuted at #3 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. Named a "Breaker Artist" by AOL and called "Australia's rockingest twins" by Blender, the girls were also praised by Entertainment Weekly for making most of their female pop-rock rivals seem like jugheads. Indeed, critics agreed that the Veronicas were "the real thing" (as the New York Post put it). Having performed together since they were five, Lisa and Jess, who hail from Brisbane, were primed for the fuss that was to follow, including being selected to appear in a Fall 2005 promotional campaign for Choice Calvin Klein and being feted by Teen Vogue and Jane magazine. They were also chosen to sing the title song for the WB show Related and appeared as themselves in an episode that aired in February 2006. In March, the album's first single "4Ever" was featured in the Amanda Bynes comedy She's the Man, as well as on the soundtrack.
"These last few years have been crazy," Lisa says. "We recorded two amazing records, toured the world with our bad ass band and had a taste of superstardom in Australia. We actually have our own clothing line, can you believe that? Now it's time to really turn up the heat. And are we ever looking forward to it!"
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Hook Me Up, expected to be released in the U.S. on Sire Records Summer 2008, is a powerful step up from their incredible debut album, The Secret Life Of which sold more than 300,000 copies Down Under, racked up three of their five Top 10 singles and won a slew of awards (including a coveted ARIA), making the girls international stars.
While The Veronicas showed their talent for writing catchy pop-rock tunes on Secret Life Of(which Teen Vogue called both sweet and vicious), the girls go into hyperdrive on Hook Me Up by exchanging the pop-punk stylings for a dynamically, unrestrained electro-beat.
"It's been more than two years since we wrote the first record so our musical tastes have changed a bit," Lisa says. "We've been living in Los Angeles where we got into the whole electro-pop rock scene. When it came time to write the album, we were really inspired to go in a new direction."
"We didn't want to make a record that was the same as the first," Jess adds. "We definitely wanted to create a different sound for ourselves and reinvent The Veronicas. A lot has changed in our lives over the past two years. And we've changed quite a bit personally, so we had a lot to say."
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA mostly at Lisa and Jess's Hollywood Hills home, Hook Me Up finds the girls collaborating with a host of top-notch hitmakers, including Shelly Peiken (Christina Aguilera), Greg Wells (Mika), John Feldmann (The Used, Good Charlotte), and the legendary Billy Steinberg (Madonna). Most of the songs, however, were written with their long time collaborator Toby Gad, who contributed three tracks to Secret Life Of. Each day, Gad, who wrote Fergie's 2007 smash hit "Big Girls Don't Cry" would drive over to the girls townhouse, where heâ'd set up a makeshift studio.
"With Toby, we'd gossip and tell him all the drama in our lives," Lisa says with a laugh. Adds Jess: "That's why a lot of the songs we wrote with him come across as emotional and dramatic. I'd have to say this record is even more personal than the first one, which was hard because the first record was very much us."
Their collaboration resulted in eight tracks, from the album's dramatic first single "Untouched" to such razor-edged epics as the impassioned "This Is How It Feels" and the heated "Revenge Is Sweeter", to the raunchy "Take Me On The Floor" and the electronic "Popular." "It's a very beat-driven dance record, though The Veronicas always throw in a few ballads," Jess says. "We're proud of the record. It came out exactly how we wanted it to. We're stoked."
Hook Me Up is the beginning of a new chapter in The Veronicas stateside career. Secret Life Of was released by Sire Records in February 2006 and debuted at #3 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. Named a "Breaker Artist" by AOL and called "Australia's rockingest twins" by Blender, the girls were also praised by Entertainment Weekly for making most of their female pop-rock rivals seem like jugheads. Indeed, critics agreed that the Veronicas were "the real thing" (as the New York Post put it). Having performed together since they were five, Lisa and Jess, who hail from Brisbane, were primed for the fuss that was to follow, including being selected to appear in a Fall 2005 promotional campaign for Choice Calvin Klein and being feted by Teen Vogue and Jane magazine. They were also chosen to sing the title song for the WB show Related and appeared as themselves in an episode that aired in February 2006. In March, the album's first single "4Ever" was featured in the Amanda Bynes comedy She's the Man, as well as on the soundtrack.
"These last few years have been crazy," Lisa says. "We recorded two amazing records, toured the world with our bad ass band and had a taste of superstardom in Australia. We actually have our own clothing line, can you believe that? Now it's time to really turn up the heat. And are we ever looking forward to it!"
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