Let’s get one thing straight– the Pretty Boys are girls. Girls with rad hairdos, ghetto couture wardrobes and powerful vocal cords.
Glamour Magazine and Nissan North America partnered up to promote woman in male-dominated entertainment fields with their short film series Glamour Reel Moments. Their latest new spin-off from that endeavor, Glamour Reel Music, creates opportunities for emerging female recording artists to be recognized on a national level.
For Glamour Reel Music, multi-platinum LaFace recording artist P!NK selected three female artists to participate in a online contest. Glamour readers logged on to become familiar with the musicians and cast their vote. The three contestants were Sandi Thom, The Ditty Bops and Pretty Boys. Tens of thousands of readers voted online and the winners, Brooklyn based Pretty Boys had their music video “Hello Bonjour” directed by P!NK.
The video premiered at a live event on January 16 on the Fox Studios lot in Los Angeles. Singer/Lyracist Galadriel Masterson and singer/guitarist Hopey Rock performed live with their band after the premiere.
It’s refreshing and encouraging to see that in an industry so often promoting the latest singer fresh out of high school, emerging artists don’t have to be teenagers. Not that Masterson and Rock don’t do their best to seem as if they could be adolescents (the rebellious type with lots of tattoos). But this is no pre-fab act and they unabashedly note on their Myspace site that they have indeed been around the block.
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The music bears echoes of ABBA, Blondie, Gwen Stefani and Garbage but with their own unique style which tends toward bouncy rhythms and a prominent base line. The hook laden dance floor anthem “Hello Bonjour” will have you spinning in your chair wishing you were somewhere under a strobe light.
You can see the video at www.glamour.com/reelmusic.com
The Glamour Reel Music runners-up are worth checking out as well. Scottish singer-songwriter Sandi Thom was a street musician in Europe before being accepted into the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts where she refined her folksy style.
Six of The Ditty Bops songs have been included on the hit show Grey’s Anatomy. Their charmingly quirky music has elements of bluegrass, jazz and ragtime.
