I Blame Coco

Coco Sumner

I was never one of those girls who lusted my 13 year old heart out over JTT, or ripped out every single existing picture of anything remotely relating to the Backstreet Boys, and plastered it to my bedroom walls. [Some of my friends had really creepy bedrooms. The fact that the Backstreet Boys and Nsync even existed was disheartening to the music scene enough. It just made me straight up uncomfortable seeing multiples of them. In one room. All staring at me ... or posing in some ridiculous 90's get up/bad dance move.]

When my older sister first got her license, I'm pretty sure one of the first things she did was go to Home Depot to buy a lock for her bedroom door. She'd come home to me sitting indian-style on her bedroom floor, with either the Barenaked Ladies, Dave Matthews Band, or Smashing Pumpkins blasting from her stereo, as I had the booklet from the cd case up to my face, trying to sing along. Needless to say, I've been thrown out of her room one too many times. 

I thought that she listened to the coolest music. My sister had as good taste in music as David Bowie was cool, was as musically inclined as Jim Morrison was musically well rounded, and in my eyes, as cool as Johnny Cash was ... well ... almost. 

I credit my sister Nicole for teaching me that mainstream music is not the good music that's out there. I remember being in my mom's Astro Van and getting more excited to hear Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin'' or 'I Won't Back Down', than I was to hear Britney Spears. I knew I wasn't a typical teenager. And I liked it.

I may have never had a crush on a boy band, but I can say that I've hit the pavement for Coco Sumner. The daughter of Sting [her birth alone made her cooler than any female on planet earth], a model, actress and singer. She's a triple threat to society, not just the entertainment industry. If I could wake up one morning and be anyone in the world, I would choose her. [Sorry Obama.] With a face, a voice and talent like that, you don't need much else in life. 

I stumbled upon her existence completely on accident, [Best accident I ever encountered] and am now completely entranced in her music. Check out her video for Caesar by clicking HERE. This video reminds me of this one day/night in Brooklyn. [We'll save that story for another day.]

Turn off your radio. Go to an indie cd store and just pick something up. See what other people are picking up and maybe just buy it on a whim. There's SO much good music out there if you just turn your radio off and find it. If you want the names of some good bands that you've never heard of, that's practically the entity of my vocabulary, so hit me up!

Current Listen: Caesar/18 With A Bullet - I Blame Coco