Terra Naomi posted a cover of Justin Bieber’s hit ‘Baby’ on her YouTube channel. The performance was a rare case when she received some negative reactions, writing to her Twitter followers (@terranaomi):
Wow. Poor Justin Bieber. People are so mean. Even to me, & all I did was cover his song. Poor little dude. :*( At least he’s rich as f*ck.
Watch it via YouTube below.
Terra Naomi checked in on her YouTube channel with a message for the holidays. “Christmas means a lot to me. It’s a great time of year and I love to decorate my home,” the singer songwriter said before a receptionist answered a phone call and she had to confess the Christmas scene wasn’t actually her house.
The video at YouTube has since been removed.
Terra Naomi posted an unreleased demo called ‘Time’ on her YouTube channel, featuring footage from her iPhone filmed through the window of the bus on her last US/Canada tour. Watch it below.
Terra Naomi posted footage from her ‘The Other Man’ performance at Teatro Gentile in Fabriano, Italy on December 11th, the first night of her Italian tour. “What an experience…one of the highlights of my life,” she writes. “Thank you to all who made these shows possible!” Watch it via YouTube below.
Terra Naomi checked in on her YouTube channel to promote her weekly online broadcasts at Ustream. Terra is on live every Thursday from 7-8pm PT, taking song requests and chatting. Watch the message below.
Terra Naomi posted a cover of the Michael Jackson 1995 single ‘You Are Not Alone’ on her YouTube channel. “Learned this in memory of one of our greatest recording artists,” Naomi writes, “and a tragic example of the way we love to chew people up and spit them out, build them up and tear them down…. RIP Michael. Sorry your life was so painful.” Watch below.
Terra Naomi checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace, offering thoughts on her brief tenure at Island Records and suggesting a semi-humorous list of how (not) to make friends at a major label and walk away with as much free sh** as possible, such as:
1. When they send you shopping with a stylist, buy every possible thing you can and spend every cent of that budget! Don’t bother thinking about the money you’ll have to recoup (pay back) somewhere down the line. Chances are, you’ll never sell the number of albums needed to pay the label back anyway or make any real money.
2. When you have a photo shoot, always try to keep the proof sheets from the session. The label owns the photos, and you cannot technically use them for anything, but it sure is fun to make collages with them and write nasty things about the dumb way they made you look!
3. When your album is released, always take as many boxes of CDs/records/promotional merchandise as you possibly can. Once they shelve your album or drop you from the label or keep you legally bound to the label but stop putting any money into promoting your album, you will love having these things to sell at shows. (That is, if you still derive any pleasure from playing music.)
4. The label also gives you the opportunity to take CDs/promo sh** from their other artists. You should do this. Somewhere along life’s journey you will meet someone who would absolutely LOVE a little wooden boat manned with figurines of the boys from Mcfly. (Who?)
Check out more of Terra’s advice here.
The final day of Terra Naomi’s Christmas performance series ’12 Days of Hair Metal’ features the singer songwriter covering Bon Jovi’s 1989 chart topper ‘I’ll Be There for You’, with filmmaker James Gunn behind the camera. Watch the acoustic performance via YouTube below.
Day eleven of Terra Naomi’s Christmas performance series ’12 Days of Hair Metal’ features the singer songwriter covering Poison’s 1988 hit power ballad ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn’, with filmmaker James Gunn behind the camera. Watch the acoustic performance via YouTube below.
Day ten of Terra Naomi’s Christmas performance series ’12 Days of Hair Metal’ features the singer songwriter covering Warrant’s 1989 hit power ballad ‘Heaven’, with filmmaker James Gunn behind the camera. Watch the acoustic performance via YouTube below.