But, shortly after finishing the LP, Potter realized that she had feelings for Valentine beyond just liking him as a producer. She was the first one to say, ‘I’ve got real feelings going on here; I’m in love with you.’ Shortly after that, I was like, ‘I feel the same way. As your first solo album after the Nocturnals, Midnight was perceived as a departure. First off, the title caught my interest...GRACE AFTER MIDNIGHT is not GIRLZ IN THE 'HOOD....it speaks of deeper, stiller waters...Ms Pearson grew up in the 'hood, and by a simple twist of Fate..found a way out...through TV...through the HBO series THE WIRE....through Michael K Williams, who was a member of that show's excellent cast. In order to be in the music industry, you have to be willing to join in that conversation a little bit but also not have too much stake in it. That was an important realization—that it just happened. She made bad choices even when she had the opportunity to make better ones. This book confirms the realness of hbo's the wire. That’s some real-deal songwriting, not just noodling. But going even more into that, I didn’t know that things hadn’t been working with my previous marriage or with my band. She literally could be a storyline on the Wire, but you hope this one actually has a happy ending. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2017. (Balancing out those mainstream moments, she’s also co-hosted the Jammys, collaborated with The Flaming Lips and recorded with everyone from Dan Auerbach to Warren Haynes. You’ll never see this producer again.” So I didn’t feel this imminent need to reflect on Midnight and bring it into Daylight or anything like that. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. After a period of hesitation, she decided to use the emotional turmoil of the previous few years as the basis of her future Daylight songs. That's sad to say, but what (was) I supposed to be, starving? I bought this book because Snoop's character in The Wire blew me away. The drug game seems other worldly to white America. The doctors brought her to life . This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Even when Midnight came out, I was sad that things had happened the way that they had with the band—how things had dissolved. One day Felicia met her mom in person. I didn’t want to do that. Everyone has a choice.”, “I should have read the sign,” she says, before looping back to her current domestic, but in-transit life. Grand Central Publishing (November 13, 2009), Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2018. One thing that must be said about this book is that Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson doesn't pull any punches. If it was, I do believe it would be have made a runaway sells total matching that infamous pimp novel, "Ice Berg Slim". Topanga is the happy medium between work and play that we want right now for our family. “We’ve considered it more recently because my parents are getting older and we’re looking into getting a place there that can be a foothold for when Sagan gets a little older. But there I was with a newly minted solo album. That was what the Midnight era felt like. Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? In a few hours, she’ll take the stage at the nearby College Street Music Hall with her current ensemble, which includes guitarist Benny Yurco. The runt of the ghetto showed an early aptitude for drug slinging and violence and thrived as a. But even behind bars, and/or waiting for their case to go to court, or trying not to give up when their parole date seems so far away, you've proven that there is always hope. I got to identify with each character...the cops as well as the criminals. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. “So to have a witness to my healing process who was also able to go, ‘I know what a hit record is supposed to sound like and that sounds pretty hitty to me’ made me feel like I was just having another conversation with myself. I didn’t want to have that victim, abandoned feeling, but it was hard to avoid. Grace After Midnight: A Memoir. I went from being totally isolated and really blacklisted from the “cool kid” group to having everybody want to hang out with me. She's an interesting person--undoubtedly smart, but raised in the rough Baltimore neighborhoods, dealing drugs, convicted of murder (she swears it was self-defense), a lesbian making her way through the testosterone-fueled streets of Baltimore--and the book (co-written with a well-known ghost writer) sounds true to her voice. You can make that change, as Michael sang to us. Do you still aspire for a certain level of mainstream recognition? So there's one star, I just liked this girl as well as her tv character. She wasn't totally screwed/disadvantaged from the time she was born. As I read this (well written) book, I didnt feel like I was reading a story about her. Sometimes a lyric would just fall out at the same time as a melody. It didn’t feel dangerous, it didn’t feel like, “Here we go again.” It felt new, like I was 12 years old, writing songs for the first time. I had this time in 7th-8th grade where I lost all my friends. But that song put it down on paper too soon for me. Matt was really banged up after everything, and I was banged up. Midnight peaked at No. Grace Potter is the first to admit that she has a habit of blowing up her life every time she makes a new record. You have hovered between the pop and indie worlds for years. I was out-to-here pregnant, so there was really no concept of when or how. It's easy to look past that, though, and in some ways makes Felicia seem more real. She chose to take a bad path. As days go by Felicia then started to realize how her mom was . The band Spirit actually lived in our house and wrote a song about it [“Topanga Window”]. Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2014. Felicia start out as selling drugs , then doing drugs. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. "[1], The book also depicts the difficulty with which Pearson attempts to adjust to life after prison; she was fired from two jobs due to her criminal background, which drove her to return temporarily to drug dealing. She's telling her life story, all the bad and all the good. Soon for me by grand Central Publishing ( November 13, 2009 ) reviewed. You a link to download the free Kindle App themselves incarcerated granddaughter too., did time, definitely my favourite box set of all time a shockingly frank on. 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