The team

 

Hiya Grace!  Hi there, my beautiful and courageous lioness!  Are you ready to kick some ass?  Don't think about being rich and famous.  Visualize that you are in heaven and playing for God.

I'm feeling a bit speechless right now.  I finally got a lead vocal on "Gyrlie Roxtar".  It's not perfect, but it will do.  Mary simply cannot express innocence, but she tried her best.  Grace Bowers captured pure innocence with guitar and songwriting: she didn't have to sing.  Maybe being young has something to do with it.  I can't seem to stop weeping...

Anyway, here's to your team!  You have a good team, Grace.  There's no need for fear.  InshaAllah.

Lucy

 

Hi Grace!  I suppose you're waiting for my in depth analysis of your first album.  Well, here it is: I like it!

LA is famously full of fake people, and the next few days will be full of them.  Stay out of sight if you can, but you're becoming so big so fast all them poseurs will want a piece of you.  They may look OK but they practice witchcraft, so don't give nor accept anything from people you don't trust, like hair, tokens, trinkets, etc.  Trust is a difficult thing anywhere but worst in Hollywood: they can be so convincing, and they might put years into securing their act.  You are a Rock Star and you will have to make personal appearances.  Don't hang around for the after party: it will be dangerous.  Cameras are everywhere.

Hollywood used to be the entertainment capitol of the world.  The greatest movies were made there.  Nowadays, anyone can make a movie.  They post it on YouTube, and even the major studios post whole movies on YouTube.  But that's not the real problem.  Hollywood has run out of ideas, so it steals as much creativity it can from real life.  You still have your inner circle to help shield you, to a certain extent.  But people like the homeless are subject to cruel movie making.

Your first album is a hit, Honey.  It is well arranged and produced.  When I heard "Lucy", I thought it was an Allman brothers cover.  But Google didn't know of an Allman brothers song called "Lucy", and I was delighted to realize that you wrote it.  Grace, it's the most beautiful song I've heard since "The Rain Song".  The feeling it gave me was like a happy sadness, tears of contradiction.  The fadeout fadein is ingenious.  The other songs orbit around "Lucy".  I wish I had written that song.  I know you like funk and what not, but your strength is beautiful melody.  You can still make beautiful melody upbeat and energetic by putting it over intense drums and bass.

Funny Thing

 

Hi Grace.  It's awesome that you're on the billboards in NY and LA!  Wasn't it both the State Dept and YouTube that made you ambassador?  They're not supporting you, Honey.  YouTube is fulfilling an agenda made with the US government.  I'm sure you know that.  Your responsibility is to do a good job.

It's OK to be afraid!  But don't be afraid of people, be afraid of God.  Hide behind me when you're afraid.  Since I can't be there, then bring your guitar with you wherever you go.  Tell them I told you to do so.  Use it as a weapon if you have to.  Don't let anybody touch your guitar.  Make sure you have strap locks!  Ya Allah, please protect my Grace.

I asked Anna Wintour to offer you a subscription to Vogue.  Please accept it.  It shouldn't be too expensive, and you need to study the ads.  Also please exercise, don't assume your body will keep its shape, it needs to be maintained.  Letting your body go to fat is unprofessional.  I hate to scold you on this and post a picture of your behind (actually, you're the one who posted this photo), but you didn't listen to me the first time when I told you to take care of your body.  You can bet your ass that I'm going to nag you about your looking after your body.  Especially now you're becoming more high profile.  Pump iron to pump away the fear.  Stop eating sugar.  Work out your butt and shoulders.  Both you and Esi need to work out.  You're in showbiz!

"Them Changes" is a good song, but my favorite Thundercat tune is "Funny Thing".  I'm sure many people agree with me.  It's so danceable!  He can't seem to get the same vibe live, though.  That bass line tells a story, which matches the lyrics.  Listen closely to it.  The story is, "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boink!  Oh boy, oh boy, oh boink?  Oh boy, oh boy, oh BOINK!  BOINK!  BOINK!  BOINK!  BOINK!  BOINK!"  Anyway, the original version is too short.  Less than 2 minutes?  Are you kidding me?  So some guy pastes together a 10 hour mix of "Funny Thing", and it's absolutely great!  You and Esi can dance to it the whole 10 hours.  That would be a good workout.

The sick dog

 

Did you give up the funk, Grace?   Don't turn your mother up!  She does your makeup!  

Congratulations on your Opry debut.  You are well on your way to being the next Taylor Swift, if that's what you really want.  That's a gorgeous photo of you in front of the mirror.  You look absolutely stunning in that glitzy mini dress, and your performance sounds awesome.  I look forward to watching it on YouTube.  Don't worry so much about numbers, Grace.  Focus on creating excellent original music.  You have plenty of time to perfect your vision, and you have people who love you and give what they have for you so you don't have to suffer for your vision.  This is more important than numbers.  Please be grateful to God for what you have.  P.S. Love the cake!

It's a shame that you had to replace Eric.  He's a great bass player and has great enthusiasm on stage.  I'm sure you will get the lineup you need, just be patient and keep working at it.

Carl Jung was a sick dog.  A sick dog that a boss kept hidden in a box in the mansion.  Someone freed the sick dog, and it made the cattle sick.  Jung believed in the unseen but he refused to have faith in God.  What a waste of intelligence.  God guides whom God wills.  Jung is dead now, so he knows for sure.

Two fingers

 

I got the funk, Grace.  Do you have the funk?  You gotta have that funk.  We got the the funk.  Give up the funk.  Are you sure you have the funk?  You might not really got the funk.  Just give up the funk.  Don't bother with the funk.  Do a square dance.

All the video of guitar shredders made me think of Django Reinhardt.  He only used 2 fingers, and he played an acoustic guitar.

Guitar

 

Hi there, beautiful Grace!  Keeping busy?  Welcome to your world!  Please get adequate rest, and pray.  I'm doing OK over here.  I've been trying to get a perfect vocal take from Mary for the song "Gyrlie Roxtar".  I might as well get a kid from the elementary school down the road to sing it: Mary might be too old for this song.  One element that Mary doesn't have in her voice is innocence.  It's all tears, tears, tears.  Wah, wah, wah.  In the end, she gave me an OK take, now I have to edit it to make it sound better.

Ah guitar!  Jared Dines put together a list of shredders on YouTube that you should check out, Grace.  Jared said it right in the intro: gone are the days of guitar heroes, now everyone can shred.  Which may explain why guys like Slash are turning to the blues.  Well, there's guitar everywhere now.  And the problem with everyone playing fast is that they all sound the same.  Even Jared's favorite, the guy at the end of the video, is just a modified piano player who doesn't look good in a dress.  People have been playing fast on the piano for centuries already.  In the end, these guitarists can only play with themselves, because no singer would ever want to work with them.  Perhaps Jared could get them together for a yard party, and they can play dodge ball.

Thailand

 

You're proud of that wah part, aren't you Grace?  It is skillfully executed.  But I'm sure you have more than one funk tune to write.  Did you know that funk turned into disco?  Are you trying to make them dance?  Lol do you dance?  I wanna dance with you, Grace!  Anyway, check out the disco tune below.  It needs wah, probably.

The border to Thailand is only about half an hour casual drive north of my house.  Many Siamese live locally.  Thailand has the highest percentage of transsexuals of all the world.  I discovered the singer above on YouTube maybe 10 years ago.  I have no idea what happened to the singer since.