
Brandy…
On her engagement:
I’m very happy. I’m definitely on Cloud 20. At one point I gave up on love, so to have this feeling and for it to be like the first time, with the person that I feel like God has created for me to be with, it feels magical. And I want it to stay like this so every married couple that we have been meeting over our vacation, I’ve been asking them, ‘So what’s the secret?’ They’ve been giving me a lot of great tips. Communication is the key, clearly, so we’ll see what this thing does.
If she knew that Ryan was going to propose
It was a surprise but I felt something was gonna happen. It was definitely a surprise. Your imagination does the actual moment no justice. I said, ‘Oh my God!’ so many times that I forgot to say ‘Yes!’ He was like, ‘Yeah, are you gonna marry me or not?’ It was good.On Her Dream wedding
We have a lot of homies that probably won’t come if we have a destination wedding so I wanna keep it as local as possible. I haven’t set a date yet but I definitely have been imagining it and thinking about what it will be like so I’m gonna get started.
On if she has any advice for Kim K on motherhood
I’m very happy for Kim and very happy for Kanye. I was looking at pics of them online and they look so happy. I’m really happy for her. The key to being a good parent is to remember that you were once a child and I think if you have that perspective, everything flows.
This girl is killing it on her EP: Canon Aphaea. I started listening to Mélat a couple of weeks ago, and especially like the songs ‘Anybody’ and ‘Balance’. Mélat’s voice sometimes reminds me of Brandy, but with a lighter quality to it. On a track like ‘Anybody’, that husky tone strengthens the emotional delivery of a combined sense of misery and passion. Her vocals are classy, understated and she clearly knows how to work her instrument. Like other artists I’ve mentioned before, Mélat isn’t easy to categorize. Again, it’s all about multiplicity, crossing genre-barriers and experimenting with new sounds. Download the EP, and keep an eye out for her on beholdmelat.tumblr.com.
I heard a couple of Brandy runs yes, but she reminds me a lot more of Leona Lewis. Thanks for posting. -Annie
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Brandy @ Best Buy Theatre 10.15.12