"When you broke my bones I told the school I fell down the stairs."

[David Zephyr]

Crystal Bowersox is breaking a lot rules, a lot of conventional expectations and orthodoxy as a "pop icon" in releasing her first album to the public including "dropping the f-bomb" in one of her tracks. There aren't many Cinderella stories in America today and these are truly very tough times, but here's a young woman that I greatly admire who has her own hard-time stories to tell in song and apparently is not running from who she was with lyrics like: ""When you broke my bones I told the school I fell down the stairs."

I think she is going to be the real deal and that she will transcend the milieu of pop culture and leave a mark on our culture.

She says: "I have a million stories of digging through garbage cans for food and sleeping on park benches...When my son was born, he slept in a Moses basket on my nightstand. I didn't have money for a bassinet and all that...But he had love, constant love, and now he has all the fancy little things that make life fun."

On Friday Night here at the DU, here's a ray of sunshine from a young woman that lived the other side of the American tale. I love this young woman.



Full Story: http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/realityrocks/409721/crystal-bowersox-the-reality-rocks-interview-pt-1?nc

[walldude]

1. Reminds me of Jewel...

I did a tour with Jewel and she has some freakin stories man. Tough woman for sure.

I hope pop music starts trending towards people like this. If I have to listen to one more Taylor Swift song I'm gonna barf.

[RKP5637]

2. Same here ... Taylor Swift song I'm gonna barf. n/t

[David Zephyr]

4. I hope so, too.

:)

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. K&R

[BlueIris]

5. Kick. nt

[pamela]

6. Check out this video if you haven't already...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT7JJjX6U2Y

It's Crystal when she was 13.

[cbdo2007]

7. She needs to start digging herself out from under Idol ASAP.

I love American Idol but their album producers are really horrible. Hopefully she can get out of her contract with them soon and *really* get to do things her way.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. kick