Pickleball Party, sing-along to pickleball parodies~!

My whole mission from the get go was to get people singing along together. It always has been. Even when I was in a touring band I would hold the microphone out to the audience to hear them sing. It's my favorite part of being a musician, hearing you. 

Me onstage  as Agnetha in Arrival Canada's tribute to Abba....and the awesome singers who helped....

These last few months my brain has been filling with pickleball songs and images I need to create, but  instead of doing so I've been spending every blipping moment figuring out the Shopify  platform.

It felt like work. So I jumped ship. Well I jumped off the expensive superliner and onto little moterboat. I understand that boat much better and have no need to cross oceans anyhow so that ticket was just too expensive. 
 

The whole reason I started the Shopify is because my previous  ARTist shops were not related solely to me and so when I sent customers to my store they could easily get lost on the site (since it could direct  them to other artists). That's tough when you spend a lot of time catching peoples attention. 

So I thought if I controlled the store, then at least I wouldn't lose people. 
What I didn't anticipate was the enormous cost of involving a platform such as Shopify as well as all the other pieces of the puzzle which  eat up every penny you might make. 

If a shop owner gets lucky and needs a web developers help to deal with expanding, well  you now have to pay what feels like lawyers hourly rates to get things done, and finding someone you trust to do that in a faceless internet world, is not easy. 

So just as I was about to start ramping up advertising I pushed the big red button instead of the green one. 

You see as all this was happening the ARTist platforms began streamlining so that ARTists wouldn't lose their customers so easily, they gave us a shop, not just a spot in their shop. Smart. 

SO, my problem was, I was ahead of the curve and started solving my problem a just a bit too early. It took the larger platforms a bit of time to reach my needs. 

And I realized, since  they do now, just as I was getting more and more bills to my store, my old platform was offering to do it, right. SO I thought, why am I not making use of it? And so I dove into this place ARTIST SHOP



The result is I have time to do more of the things I love, including taking my Pickleball Parody songs out on the road. This Christmas season for any pickleball event I went to I brought my little guitar and a handful of parody lyric sheets. (Taken from my Pickleball Sing - Along book). and PS I realize I need to make a Sing Along book 2 because I have a whole paddle bag full of NEW tunes that are not in book one, so stand by for those..... but I digress....... on with the show.....

A few of these people had seen my videos but not even close to all of them....so this was the first time that MOST of these people had seen or heard any  of my songs. But with my handy lyric sheets, it was easy to get them singing.........so easy.........

 

How much fun will this be for any pickleball event?  Pickleball dinner, tournament, festival or getaway? 

I'm your Pickleball Parody girl, let me know if you would like to know how I can help you do this! :) 

Rachael! 

An Older Mom's video response to: Used to be young, Miley Cyrus.

I was compelled to make this song/video after hearing Miley Cyrus's new tune: Used to Be Young. 

I took the song personally since I was one of the people who called her out. (not that she ever saw me or my video but this is my quantum world here so roll with it)   
I love the tune but I was triggered by it. While I have long grown past it and even made the video private for the last several years....I have relisted it and updated the description below. 

In the meantime here is the new video. Watch it then keep reading to follow the story. 

 I made the video NO SECOND CHANCES below, many years ago, with all my opinions, based on what was going on at the time..... and all of these ladies have since, grown up. As have I. You will have to watch my old video No Second Chances to understand where I am coming from here. Much like my art, things are layered, hidden right here in plain sight. You must watch to the end  to get to the punch line and eventually, the point. 

Video description for No Second Chances with update I appreciate where they are today, better places all of them. And I love Miley's new tunes, but in response to her latest deflection and lack of understanding or, empathy for the little man's reality (USED TO BE YOUNG), I do still hold the opinion that there were better ways for all of them to use their mega platforms. And she was young, I don't blame her. Whomever was handling or even just advising Miley at the time, however, would have known the various images would go viral, they likely expected it and were excited for it, maybe even hoped for it. But as a Mom of a Hannah fan at the time, it was such a cheap grab and also tone deaf. Because at the time, the internet was fresh, and children were being introduced to it, and it was heartbreaking to see so many young girls were being slut shamed and bullied for THEIR bad decisions, some to the point of suicide..... meanwhile their heroines were being celebrated right in the supermarket aisle on the tabloids sitting right at eye level near the candy in almost every grocery store. The images of starlets in my video above were not only pulled directly from pictures in the tabloids, many of them they made the talk shows, news and newspapers. So for kids and fans all over the country who loved their heroines and sometimes copied them? Those kids didn't have a big saftey net protecting them from "their" stupid young decisions. No, the world didn't celebrate them, in fact some of those kids are still dead.)

It is what it is.... find the song on iTunes if you like it xo http://www.reverbnation.com/rachaelchatoor A thank you goes to Miley Cyrus for providing the images I needed to complete this musical thought..... which had to be said....me being a Mother and all.

Lyrics for Video above: Hey girl with your fancy dress just who are you trying to impress? What's it like to get up everyday just to make sure your make up is all in place? Gee it must be a big heavy load since the whole world cares about your fancy clothes..... hey yeah. The front door don't work both ways.... do you know what's inside that place? Life is more than one big dance sometimes my dear we get...no second chances... Hey girl with your platinum key what do you want history to say? You've got everything right on your plate despite all you could do you choose to play it away you are not the only one out on the road surely you can afford someone to drive your Rolls.....hey yah Ch The young girls who want to be you think they are gonna live the way you live so be loud now, but be proud now make your choices like we gotta live with them...... even if you don't (no you don't)

The Pickleball Sing - Along book (with art and memes) is HERE!! now on Amazon!

 

Do you love to sing? Do you like to laugh??

The Pickleball Sing along book is for YOU!! Full of QR codes that take you to videos you can sing along to.... plus some memes, drama and a couple pages to color. This is where pickleball meets art and music!

Pickleball Sing - Along Book: With art and memes: Chatoor, Rachael: 9798397629911: Amazon.com: Books