konstantine

Bonnie is Launch's Emerging Artist of the month and I think that was an excellent choice for them. If you haven't heard of her, I highly suggest her music. You can listen to some of her songs at her website right now.

Coming Attractions: Bonnie McKee (From Blender.com)
There may be budding pop stars more flirty, bratty, world-weary and dangerous than 18-year-old Bonnie McKee. If so, Blender can’t wait to meet them! Part ultradepressed poetry girl, part Lolita and self-described “attention whore,” McKee has one of the most provocative new records of the fall, and the personality to match.

“When I was 8 years old, my mother would say, ‘You’re such a sexpot,’ ” recalls the former Seattle raver. “I was always putting on lipstick and lying on top of my grandmother’s piano in sunglasses. I wanted to be a bad girl so much.”

Written entirely by McKee and heavily influenced by one of her heroes, the delightfully unhinged Fiona Apple, Trouble is confessional dance-pop at its most slick and sultry. The album mostly documents the fourteenth and fifteenth years of her turbulent life, when she got kicked out of high school, developed a nasty meth habit (she has since cleaned up) and, if her lyrics are any indication, had a fair amount of sex.

Trouble’s most eyebrow-raising moment comes in “January,” a song in which McKee feverishly awaits the day she reaches the age of legal consent.

“It’s about the 30-year old boyfriend I had when I was 14,” McKee explains matter-of-factly. “There’s a lot of that in the rave scene: men who have Peter Pan syndrome and little girls who want to grow up fast.”

McKee’s relationships with men have become no less complicated and only moderately less illicit. Shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she married her longtime Seattle boyfriend; though still hitched, she has started seeing someone else, a clean-cut guy who lives down the hall from her in Los Angeles. She doesn’t recommend this sort of thing.

“Cheating is bad,” she says. “That’s a big mistake that I’ve made, and I’ve really hurt people. I’ve never lied about it, though. I’ve always been honest.”

McKee’s relentless truth-telling, especially regarding her sexuality, is Trouble’s chief asset. It is also giving her label headaches. “They’re like, ‘It’s a little too sexual,’ ” McKee says. “I’m like, ‘Do you know how much money this is going to make you?’ It’s not like it’s something I’ve contrived. It’s just the way I am.”

kalipinay23

Aww, I like Bonnie McKee! I found out about her last month and I instantly fell in love with the song 'Somebody' that I DLed! It's one of my top played songs.

DaNNi x

i think she's really good and has alot of potential!

~*grace*~

I recently downloaded Somebody and I could honestly listen to it on repeat for hours. It's such a heartfelt melodic song. Oh, and I love Bonnie's flame red hair!

For anybody who hasn't heard her music ,you can download a free legal copy of Somebody here (right click + save as). I highly recommend it!

TheCheshireKitten

Her whole album is really good. I bought it a couple of weeks ago.

konstantine

I've been so busy with school stuff lately (which is now over thank God!) I haven't been able to run out to Best Buy and pick up her CD. I've heard a bunch of good things about it, so I'm excited to get it. I'm hoping to pick it up later this week.

TheCheshireKitten

It's probably one of the best CDs I've bought in a while. My favorite is probably "Open Your Eyes".

konstantine

I'm going to pick it up this week. And here's a few avatars if any of you want one. It's the same picture, but they're all a bit different.