Ashley Tisdale’s Aliens in the Attic did as well as Hayden Panettiere’s I Love You Beth Cooper; actually better. Attic made $8-mill compared to Cooper at $5-mill for its opening weekend. It landed at #5 and will fall FAST.
Yawn – who cares? Tisdale has been all over the Internet, Twitter, MySpace – and it wasn’t promoting Aliens, either. It was hyping (in her case, SUPER hyping) Guilty Pleasure. I’ve already gone out on a limb and said it would be #1 on Billboard’s 200 next week, right out of the box. Let’s see if I’m right.
I give Tisdale kudos; why I’ll explain in a minute. I’ve spent the last 24-hours doing NOTHING but listening to the Bandslam CD version of Vanessa Hudgens singing Everything I Own.
Hudgens has said she is giving up singing for acting. Big mistake. I have said Alyson Michalka has the finest voice ever, but look whose song I’m listening to off the soundtrack. I’ve bestowed the POSE-OFF QUEEN title to Hudgens. Wait until you see Bandslam and how she poses so well during her song performance – she was meant for music, not movies. What a fantastic voice!
Let me be brutal here – Ashley Tisdale does not have the voice either Michalka or Hudgens have. Like me, she is able to spot music trends and where pop culture is going – how else did she land on Zack & Cody as well as High School Musical enterprise? I love her marketing finesse. Unlike Hudgens, she is using that to her advantage. So what if Aliens bombs – she’s delivered her image to her HSM, Zack & Cody audience and is going after her passion with Guilty Pleasure. What’s not to love with that marketing finesse?
As I’ve said, you don’t see the WHOLE song on the Everything I Own video you’ve been watching. Matter of fact, you only get half the song. The video tracks just under 3 minutes. The movie CD version tracks 5:40!
The great part about the movie CD version is it is like a live performance. Hudgen’s voice is tepid to begin but by the second minute she is performing like a trooper – just like a real live performance.
If you think Hudgens talent was wasted throughout the movie, just concentrate on the nearly A cappella part of this clip. So the movie stars two of the finest singers in the world – her and Alyson Michalka.
The screaming you hear at the beginning IS Lisa Kudrow. Yes, the CD features the piano solo of Alyson Michalka singing Phil’s Song, which you’ll come to know as Someone to Fall Back On.
Not violating any copyright laws here. Any good advertising person knows any song under 8 bars is not a copyright infringement.
From YouTube, which has part of Michalka’s solo voicing:
Okay, this is getting like Alyson Michalka’s outfits – changing daily. Here’s the latest set list on the Bandslam soundtrack. It Does have a clip of Aly singing Someone to Fall Back On. Listen to this track and fall in love with the sweetest voice God ever created! Wait until you hear the part with her at the piano in the movie!
1. David Bowie - “Rebel Rebel”
2. I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On - “Amphetamine” (feat. Aly Michalka)
3. Shack - “24 Hours”
4. Honor Society “Where Are You Now?”
5. Seventeen Evergreen - “Lunar One”
6. Velvet Underground & Nico - “Femme Fatale”
7. Exist - “Twice Is Too Much”
8. Nick Drake “Road”
9. I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On - “Someone to Fall Back On” (feat. Aly Michalka)
10. Aly Michalka - “I Want You to Want Me”
11. Scott Porter & The Glory Dogs - “Pretend”
12. The Burning Hotels “Stuck in the Middle”
13. The Daze “Blizzard Woman Blues”
14. I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On - “Everything I Own” (feat. Vanessa Hudgens)
15. Wilco “What Light”
Expect songs from Bandslam to be up on places like YouTube today or tomorrow. Spoke to a PR guy from Hollywood Records on Monday who said he had the CD in his hands. Since I’m a blogger in Technorati’s top 8 percent of all blogs, I’m not important enough to get a copy. But that radio station in Belen, New Mexico probably has a copy and will be posting it on YouTube real fast – there’s not that much to do in Belen.
So here’s the songs by the original artists. Check the Bandslam song list
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