I’m standing, I’m singing, and he gets up from behind the desk and he starts coming around to me and starts kind of moving around and dancing, and it’s not quite freaking me out but kind of freaking me out… cause I didn’t know what he was doing.ĪS: Because you’re singing along to a boombox.
So he’s listening to the tape and then he says, “Can you sing along with it?” So I started singing along with it. He’s listening and I’m kinda standing around and I’m waiting to see what this is gonna be because I don’t remember there being a piano or anyone there to play it or anything like that.
LF: I bring my tape and Mick is sitting behind a desk and he has the boombox and he puts the tape in.
And you get summoned to audition for Mick Jagger. Imagine being in your late 20s, building a career as a backup singer. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot, and need to talk about more. I feel like the normal girl, sort of visiting for a very long time in a not normal world, and trying to bridge the two worlds together.