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Both of these questions do need to be answered at once. Starting with question number 2.
What's good in the world of Courtney? Well... she was just offered a JOB. A job she's very excited about and is hoping to talk about in further detail at a later date, though, as jobs go, will probably try to keep mostly quiet about. At any rate, it's a great opportunity and I'm really, REALLY excited about it.
So, those tour plans? Not on hold necessarily, but definitely going to have to change a bit. At least this year, I won't be able to do one giant road trip... I won't have enough time off saved up by then. I'm hoping I might still be able to get here and there in smaller increments, and if you'd really like to see me, Miss Kate, I will do my best to work it out. It may not be summer. It may be fall. It may be winter. But I will make sure you are on the list, and it WILL happen. -
Is it about the song, or is it about the way it's sung? Or is it both?
Dolly Parton wrote "I Will Always Love You." It's a great song. She sang it with Vince Gill, she sang it solo in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." It wouldn't have been forgotten. Never completely. But Whitney Houston took that song and made it exactly what it is today: an anthem. Dolly can sing, and she wrote one hell of a song... but be honest: which version do you consider the definitive version of that song? Whitney's.
That's all to say that there is no easy answer to this question. I love to sing, I love to write; I love them differently. I don't know which will ever be more lasting, if either will be. I'm no Dolly Parton and I'm no Whitney Houston and quite honestly I don't strive to be. I'm me. A person can make plans, but plans very rarely get carried through exactly as you expect.
I think some people will always remember me, 19 years old, vintage black dress and a flower in my hair, singing "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" into a classic 40s style microphone. My father would prefer to remember me with a microphone in hand singing "Stars Fell on Alabama" to a shabby little Minnesota auditorium. But many of you, the people reading this, and some of my best friends, will remember me as the girl who wrote "Better Not Settle." One or two might remember me as the girl who wrote "What If You Don't." Someone else might remember me as the girl with the ukulele and forget about the voice and the songs altogether.
I've recently accepted the fact that a girl can make music and be appreciated during her time and then be mostly forgotten about as the years go by. I'd give you examples, but hey, I don't remember most of the people it's happened to. I don't expect to be Mozart or Patsy Cline. Some names will be remembered forever, some for a few tiny moments. And I guess what really matters is that I made the best music I could make, music I was proud of, and that I loved the rest of my life just as much as I loved crooning into a microphone.
It's not about how many people remember you but who remembers you... and how you're remembered? Well... just make sure it's good. -
Do I think Gen Y will make the world a better place? Haven't we already? We stand up for what we believe in, but even more importantly, <a href="http://www.courtneyolson.com/2010/01/keep-loving-harder/">we take care of the people we love.</a> Many of us talk big, and not all of us act on the things we say. That's true of every generation. Those of us who are getting out there and doing things? We're not looking at the future. We're looking at NOW. Are we making the world a better place? Now?
Hell yes. -
I answered this on my blog! The post should publish on Wednesday. http://www.courtneyolson.com/blog
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The ocean. Pools are everywhere and remind me of being a lifelguard. The ocean is magical.
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Singer, songwriter, blogger.
