Princess X (musician)
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Princess X is a Siberian born American dance-pop
singer-songwriter
. Princess X began her music career in 2009 co-writing songs with Australian born American composer Allyson Newman (best known for Dottie's Magic Pockets
). The songs Write Me and Remember Me received rave reviews from a critic. The songs Remember Me, Take Me to the Moon, and Insane in F# were optioned for the Lifetime groundbreaking original movie Five (2011) directed by Jennifer Aniston
, Alicia Keys
, Demi Moore
, Patty Jenkins
, and Penelope Spheeris
. Insane in F# was aired on Lifetime (November 5, 2011) in the short film "Cheyenne" (a part of Five) directed by Penelope Spheeris
(Wayne's World, The Decline of Western Civilization
) and starring Nikita
's Lyndsy Fonseca
and The Vampire Diaries
's Taylor Kinney
.
In 2011, Princess X co-wrote the song You Turn Me On with Grammy Award
nominated songwriter and producer Mike Burns
. A departure from her previous songs that heavily employ syncopation
and polyrhythm
, You Turn Me On combines dance-pop
with dubstep
by Johnny Reyes, a dance club music remix by Grammy Award
nominated composer and remixer Luigie Gonzalez, and a progressive house trance music
mix by Nynex. Princess X's You Turn Me On was nominated for a 2011 HMMA Hollywood Music in Media Award (Dance Category).
of the television series American Idol
. She was the first auditioner on the February 9, 2011 installment of an hour-long episode that showcased the would-be pop stars from San Francisco. Her three and a half minute TV appearance consisted of her YouTube
music videos, belly dancing, yoga
asana, and Betty Boop
impersonation generated a flood of controversial reviews on major media outlets: MTV News
touted her as a "sexy video vixen," Yahoo! Music
News described her "bizarre music videos," The Hollywood Reporter
called her "lovably delusional," and The Wall Street Journal
declared that "she filled the room with cuteness and youth."
Dance-pop
Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
. Princess X began her music career in 2009 co-writing songs with Australian born American composer Allyson Newman (best known for Dottie's Magic Pockets
Dottie's Magic Pockets
Dottie's Magic Pockets is a children's show featuring Dottie and her magical friends as they sing, dance, and learn. Dottie's Magic Pockets is the first LGBT children's programming created for gay families, single-parent families, adopted families and traditional families.The Dottie's Magic Pockets...
). The songs Write Me and Remember Me received rave reviews from a critic. The songs Remember Me, Take Me to the Moon, and Insane in F# were optioned for the Lifetime groundbreaking original movie Five (2011) directed by Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress, film director, and producer, best known for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends, a role which earned her an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.Aniston has also enjoyed a successful film career,...
, Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano...
, Demi Moore
Demi Moore
Demi Guynes Kutcher , known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress. After minor roles in film and a role in the soap opera General Hospital, Moore established her career in films such as St...
, Patty Jenkins
Patty Jenkins
Patricia Lea "Patty" Jenkins is an American film director and writer. She grew up in Lawrence, Kansas and attended the AFI Conservatory. She graduated from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1993. The most famous film she has directed to date is Monster, a docudrama about...
, and Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization...
. Insane in F# was aired on Lifetime (November 5, 2011) in the short film "Cheyenne" (a part of Five) directed by Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization...
(Wayne's World, The Decline of Western Civilization
The Decline of Western Civilization
The soundtrack was released in December 1980 by Slash Records on LP. In the late 1990s it was released on CD as well. It is currently out of print. Germs singer Darby Crash appears on the soundtrack album cover. He died shortly before the film was released, though the promotional images for the...
) and starring Nikita
Nikita (TV series)
La Femme Nikita is a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and Warner Brothers. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow...
's Lyndsy Fonseca
Lyndsy Fonseca
Lyndsy Marie Fonseca is an American actress known for playing Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and The Restless, Dylan Mayfair on the ABC series Desperate Housewives, and Ted Mosby's daughter on How I Met Your Mother. She also played Katie Deauxma in the 2010 superhero film...
and The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels written by L. J. Smith. The story centers around Elena Gilbert, a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers. The series was originally a trilogy published in 1991, but pressure from readers led Smith to write a fourth...
's Taylor Kinney
Taylor Kinney
-Early life:Kinney was raised in Neffsville, Pennsylvania along with his three brothers by his single mother and studied business management at West Virginia University before developing an interest in acting.-Acting career:...
.
In 2011, Princess X co-wrote the song You Turn Me On with Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
nominated songwriter and producer Mike Burns
Mike Burns (songwriter)
Mike Burns is an American Songwriter, Music producer and entrepreneur who currently resides in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is best-known for his Dance music project known as "Interstate"...
. A departure from her previous songs that heavily employ syncopation
Syncopation
In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak but also powerful beats in a meter . These include a stress on a normally unstressed beat or a rest where one would normally be...
and polyrhythm
Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm is the simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms.Polyrhythm in general is a nonspecific term for the simultaneous occurrence of two or more conflicting rhythms, of which cross-rhythm is a specific and definable subset.—Novotney Polyrhythms can be distinguished from...
, You Turn Me On combines dance-pop
Dance-pop
Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...
with dubstep
Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....
by Johnny Reyes, a dance club music remix by Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
nominated composer and remixer Luigie Gonzalez, and a progressive house trance music
Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...
mix by Nynex. Princess X's You Turn Me On was nominated for a 2011 HMMA Hollywood Music in Media Award (Dance Category).
Singles
| Single | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Write Me" | 2009 | Me |
| "Remember Me" | ||
| "Play With Me" | ||
| "Take Me to the Moon" | 2011 | — |
| "Insane in F#" | ||
| "You Turn Me On" | 2011 | You Turn Me On |
| "You Turn Me On" (dance music club mix) | ||
| "You Turn Me On" (radio edit) | ||
| "You Turn Me On" (progressive house trance) | ||
| "You Turn Me On" (mix show and ringtone) |
Music Videos
| Year | Song | Director | Director of Photography |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | "Take Me to the Moon" | Thomas Mignone Thomas Mignone Thomas Mignone is an American feature film and music video director. Mignone is best known for directing music videos for hard rock and heavy metal artists such as Slipknot, Mudvayne, System Of A Down, Suicide Silence, Avenged Sevenfold, Sepultura, Danzig, Cradle of Filth, Type O Negative,... |
Peter L. |
| "You Turn Me On" | 007 007 (disambiguation) 007 is a codename of James Bond, a fictional character.007 may also refer to:* 007 , a 2009 album by Taiwanese Mandopop artits Wilber Pan* 007 A musical theme by John Barry that has appeared in several of the James Bond film series... |
David S. | |
| "You Turn Me On (dance music club mix)" | 007 007 (disambiguation) 007 is a codename of James Bond, a fictional character.007 may also refer to:* 007 , a 2009 album by Taiwanese Mandopop artits Wilber Pan* 007 A musical theme by John Barry that has appeared in several of the James Bond film series... |
David S. | |
| "You Turn Me On (radio edit)" | 007 007 (disambiguation) 007 is a codename of James Bond, a fictional character.007 may also refer to:* 007 , a 2009 album by Taiwanese Mandopop artits Wilber Pan* 007 A musical theme by John Barry that has appeared in several of the James Bond film series... |
David S. | |
| "You Turn Me On (progressive house trance)" | 007 007 (disambiguation) 007 is a codename of James Bond, a fictional character.007 may also refer to:* 007 , a 2009 album by Taiwanese Mandopop artits Wilber Pan* 007 A musical theme by John Barry that has appeared in several of the James Bond film series... |
David S. | |
| "You Turn Me On (mix show and ringtone)" | 007 007 (disambiguation) 007 is a codename of James Bond, a fictional character.007 may also refer to:* 007 , a 2009 album by Taiwanese Mandopop artits Wilber Pan* 007 A musical theme by John Barry that has appeared in several of the James Bond film series... |
David S. |
American Idol
Princess X, appearing as Inessa Lee, gained international fame in early 2011 as a result of her audition on the tenth seasonAmerican Idol (season 10)
The tenth season of American Idol premiered on January 19, 2011 and concluded on May 25, 2011, on Fox. The show underwent a number of changes from season nine, including the reduction of the judging panel to its original number of just three judges , a returning executive producer, a new music...
of the television series American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
. She was the first auditioner on the February 9, 2011 installment of an hour-long episode that showcased the would-be pop stars from San Francisco. Her three and a half minute TV appearance consisted of her YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
music videos, belly dancing, yoga
Yoga
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...
asana, and Betty Boop
Betty Boop
Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in...
impersonation generated a flood of controversial reviews on major media outlets: MTV News
MTV News
MTV News is the news division of MTV, one of the first and most popular music television network in the U.S., as well as some of MTV's related channels around the world. MTV News began in the late 1980s with the program The Week In Rock, hosted by Kurt Loder, the first official MTV News correspondent...
touted her as a "sexy video vixen," Yahoo! Music
Yahoo! Music
Yahoo! Music, owned by Yahoo!, is the provider of a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming...
News described her "bizarre music videos," The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
Formerly a daily trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter re-launched in late 2010 as a unique hybrid publication serving the entertainment industry and a consumer audience...
called her "lovably delusional," and The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
declared that "she filled the room with cuteness and youth."