One of Haley's unreleased tracks is on Christina Grimmie's new album

[Tusk]

As someone reminded me on Twitter, she should be given props for attempting the song, raw, with a band, and no backing track. How many pop stars nowadays need the security of a backing track, even to the point of lip syncing to a track.... So that she did it like this is pretty ballsy. (Of course it's Stageit, lip syncing would be weak, but she could have taken it to a lesser extent than she did)

I'll also give her credit for attacking what sounds like a vocally difficult song, head on. I like that she is genuinely giving it an effort to give it the raw interpretation the song deserves, it's just she doesn't have what Haley does naturally within her voice, that warm and natural rasp)

They do need to do something about the background vocals, the guitar player's 'attempt' was barely passable and left a lot to be desired.

As a first, live, run through, I like what she's attempting with it, her interpretation (raw vs pop), so it's a good start. They can work on it to a spit shine by performing it more while tweaking it.

In a perfect world she would be a superstar by now but then y'all probably wouldn't get to enjoy her at the Halien Shindig coming up soon. Food for thought

You have no idea how often my Overthinker's mind has reminded me of that. It's extremely conflicting.

If Haley had blown doors open right out of the gate, many of us would not have had the opportunities we've had to meet her, she would be living in an entire different strata of life

So take the opportunities to enjoy these relatively 'intimate' performances while we can