Making it her own

[Tusk]

^I enjoyed your post, Tusk, and it got me thinking....specifically this comment;

So we see, the 3 songs on the sticker. "Free", "OM" and "Undone". We have now seen Haley take two songs on a test drive, put it back in the garage, reworked it....then roll out songs that were more "Haley". They are the same songs....but "better", with more of her essence.

Of course, my thinking is pretty simple and it is this: When Haley records in the future, be it a song or an album, that music will be more "Haley" (as you aptly put it). That will be a result of the lessons learned in her second year course on how to be a star -- writing and recording. And she will connect with a label that lets her do her thing. There will be no speed dating with writers...she'll collaborate but without the broad sampling. There will be more songs with Haley as the first writer. It will be more "Haley's way" because she is getting clearer about what her way is.

Listening to the Vegas songs, and seeing Haley AI in general, I get the sense that she has been liberated and she is back in touch with parts of her musical self that have been missing for a while. Her Vegas performances were just so rich and authentic.

That's the Haley that writes, reworks, records, and does all the other things she's going to do.

Thnx for getting the jist of my post, John. I know it's hard to see since it's such a long post, but I wanted to set the factors to my point before I presented it.

My point wasn't necessarily that I liked the Vegas "Free" better than the studio composition, the point is that she wasn't ready to give up on it, so she worked with it and put something out that was the same, but different. That she did the same with OM, and I was wondering if she continues this potential pattern and thinks about reworking "Undone", making it "her own".

Not only is Haley feeling her way through her talent, not afraid to apply different treatments to familiar songs, but now there does seem to be a 'freedom' and ease about her. At least that's my read on the performances in Vegas. I like that she's able to give us different sides of her own songs.

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Did they play "now that you're here " in Las Vegas.

I love this performance 6 months (or more) ago that she did with the assistance of some real creativity from Keith and Courtney whitch was equally enjoyable to me as her singing ... complimentary maybe I should say.

I'd call this pretty close to a jazz performance?

That was where I first met Haley, Courtney and Keith. It might have been Keith's first performance with Haley, in Spokane Washington. This was where I planned to first use the camera I use now, but they wouldn't allow filming or photography.

And yes she did perform NTYH in Vegas