Huffington Post Haley Interview

[Miguel]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragog...um=twitter

MR: Now, in the "Free" video, you have said dude that you're breaking up with in the background. Why would one break up with said dude? In other words, did you have a story line going through your head when you were singing this?

HR: Yeah, well, it was really cool to be able to set the tone for the video as far as the '50s style diner and the attire as well as the storyline. You know, I didn't want to have this boy being fully aggressive and angry about what's happening. I wanted him to just be able to listen, although it tears him up a little bit. I like the whole mature factor about a breakup.

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MR: How would you describe the feel of the album?

HR: It's very retro, yet it has this modern twist to it, so you'll hear different elements of soul, R&B, kind of a new wave Motown feel, and some rock in there. As far as vocals, it has all that and a little bit of a jazzy flair on them. It's just all the stuff that I really, really enjoy myself, and I've just kind of made this marriage between all these different genres and created a sound of my own, which I haven't made up one word to describe yet. That's as much as I can tell you.

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MR: Nice. Listen Up!'s deluxe edition has this display flip-book thing as well as this sort of vintage postcard theme going on.

HR: Yes, yes! The original album is ten songs, and then the deluxe is fourteen. I highly recommend the fourteen because there are some really, really cool tracks on the four left. As far as the fan booklet, it's all different kinds of postcards. There are behind the scenes shots--very vintage looking. We turned them into postcards. I wrote a couple lines each about each song, a little behind the story, behind the scenes stuff. Some of it is even really personal. Well, it's all very personal to me, and there are even some shots of places that I've been to all over the world, so I hope everybody enjoys it.

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MR: You're just living the dream right now.

HR: (laughs) Yeah, I know! You'd think it's all easy-peasy, lemon squeezy. I try telling all my friends, as much as my dreams are coming true, it is a lot of hard work, so you'd better believe it! (laughs)

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MR: Since we can put the word out there right now, who are some performers you would like to tour with? Does anybody come to mind?

HR: There are some upcoming people that we were checking out--even people like Mayer Hawthorne--just different acts that have a very retro feel to their music that I feel like I could mesh with. Right now, it's all a matter of who's actually going out on tour, and I really hope that it's somebody that I mesh perfectly with, you know?

[john]

easy-peasy, lemon squeezy

[My Alter Ego]

easy-peasy, lemon squeezy

Yah -- where/how does she come up with these phrases. (So cute!)

[Miguel]

I looked the phrase up and found it began as a commercial statement in the UK for the first liquid detergent for dish washing that came in a squeezable bottle, circa 1965. It entered the popular culture there.

[Miguel]

Someone on the Internet said they first heard this around 1940:

Uncle Tom! Uncle Tom! What makes the grass grow so green, Uncle Tom?

Bullshit, Little Eva, bullshit!

Probably related in some way to:

After Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, outraged slave owners produced a number of works called “Anti-Tom literature.” Very few of them were targeted at kids, though, which is where Little Eva stands out from the pack. In Philip J. Cozan’s Little Eva, a young girl teaches the child slaves on her father’s plantation how to read and write. When the slaves are set free, they opt to stay on the plantation with Little Eva because she was so kind and good to them.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archive...z1tJ4YUAr4

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Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by the stage name of Little Eva (after a character from Uncle Tom's Cabin), was an American pop singer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Eva

[My Alter Ego]

Someone on the Internet said they first heard this around 1940:

Uncle Tom! Uncle Tom! What makes the grass grow so green, Uncle Tom?

Bullshit, Little Eva, bullshit!

Probably related in some way to:

After Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, outraged slave owners produced a number of works called “Anti-Tom literature.” Very few of them were targeted at kids, though, which is where Little Eva stands out from the pack. In Philip J. Cozan’s Little Eva, a young girl teaches the child slaves on her father’s plantation how to read and write. When the slaves are set free, they opt to stay on the plantation with Little Eva because she was so kind and good to them.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archive...z1tJ4YUAr4

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Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by the stage name of Little Eva (after a character from Uncle Tom's Cabin), was an American pop singer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Eva

Miguel, thanks for the research (the current pearls of wisdom "easy peasy, lemon squeezy" and "bullshit, little Eva").

In fact, thank you once again, for all you have done and continue to do regarding this site!

You are the Best!