Quote:Toscano says these complexities slowed down the recording process. "There were a lot of opinions going on, and there was also mine," she explains. "The audience sees through everything, and if you are not true to who you are, they are going to know. I wanted an album that I could believe in and I could stand by, and I have the perfect team to do that right now.".......
..........The 23-year-old adds that she wants to create songs for her teenage fanbase to help them deal with bullying and other life issues. Says Toscano: "When they put on my album and listen to my songs, I want them to feel like, 'Everything’s OK. Pia went through that, I can get through this.'"
I think Pia is thinking in the right direction with her song subject choices.
As beautiful as a voice she has, she doesn't seem to connect with songs about love and hubba hubba type passion.
From what I've seen in appearances, especially post IDOL elmination where we got more than the edited image, she is a freindly person and has a love life etc.
I just don't think she is comfortable opening up the vulerable and forbiddend pleasure aspects of those things.
So many love songs are about loving what is gone, or dreaming of what you can't or shouldnt' have.
I don't think Pia is wired that way. Her psyche seems to be that of a realist. She wants to put things she doesn't like behind her. She doesn't seem inclined to dwell on what she shouldn't have.
That sort of thing that she doesn't connect to is what 90% of songs are about, and she's right to look for some some small other fraction that she does connect with.
Her prime energy that she conveys is Determnation. I do like that the emotion she takes doesn't turn to a directed anger like so many interpretations of musicians today. If she's singing about something past and done she couldn't really bring a true love to it but it was more like she didn't like the situation and was moving on than making the song about anger with the P.O.S who dumped her.
FWIW... I don't think any-one needs to bee a floozy to sing about forbidden pleasures or be weak to show emotion publically.
I can picture a big italian amercian 50 year old woman wiping her brow or fanning her neck smiling and talking about what a "dish" a movie star is or how good a slice of double chocolate cake with strawberrys looks. Or physically hugging someone she had hardly met who she sensed was in emotional pain at church whether it was a 5 year old girl, 25 year old boy, or 70 year old man. This imaginary person can cry openly in sympathy to stories conveyed to her.
I guess what I'm trying to say in that paragraph is that people are different emotionally and you don't need to be falling in and out of love to sing with empathy of love lost that expresses the love and the pain, or be a philanderer to express a swooning desire for a movie star or a piece of chocolate cake.
I just don't think PIA is wired to be openly effusive and vulnerable or dwell in a dream like way on what she shouldn't have.
She knows herself.. which is a great step. The subject matters she mentioned are perfect for her. She is great with the emotion of "determination" in songs, and seemed to make some songs about love lost about "cutting through the BS" rather than showing a vulnerablity.
She has an incredible voice and a strong camera presesnce that could take that dinstinguishing step beyond just a great voice and a pretty face , to an artist if she had the songs that related to who she is inside.
