watch: interview and exclusive performance with cody simpson

Keeping up with our fun-filled week at work, Cody Simpson did a performance for the re-opening of one of our malls and Tax Free Weekend.

If you don't know Cody Simpson [even though this is the third time I've talked to him], he's a 16 year old heartthrob for teen girls. So imagine hundreds of them packed into a mall corridor, screaming at the top of their lungs.

Luckily I have a volume control when editing video, huh?! Make sure you stay tuned for the stampede at the end.

I think I did a pretty good job at capturing how insane it all was. Even Cody was pretty shocked/blown away/deaf after hearing them scream when he took the stage. And seriously... it was at least a hundred of them that chased him out of the mall, and some that ran after the car.

We also got a few minutes to talk to him in the back. Since we've done a couple interviews before, we didn't ask much... but it's interesting to see what he picks as memorable ways his fans have tried to win tickets.

Think I'll get attacked for laughing at his wallpaper?

He was a little different than the other two times we've met up with him, but I'm sure it's just cuz he's touring with bad boy Justin Bieber exhausted from touring and "being on" non-stop.

I wanna say that I would have never acted like any of that if I had seen NSYNC back in the day... but I don't think I would have ever even dreamt of getting such an opportunity, so it's tough to say. Fans have such awesome access to their fave celebs these days.

It was one of those days I'm going to look back on when I'm old and be like "my job was so freakin' cool," cuz it is. It's awesome to see people come out and give so much support for anything, and to say hi to us. It's awesome to be able to make so many people happy.

love,
elizabethany

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watch/see: everything from our merry hot mess fest show

Some radio stations may call their holiday shows "Jingle Ball," but we like to get a little more fun [and real/ironic] with ours... we put on the Merry HOT Mess Fest!
The Ready Set [who performed at the MTV TJ finale!], Cody Simpson [15 year old Australian Biebs], and Karmin [from YouTube "Look At Me Now" fame, duh] all came to Norfolk to perform!

I've met/hung out with Cody and the Karmin duo before, and they were all awesome, so I was beyond excited to have them back! Karmin immediately commented on our awesome music video to their song and asked us to play a cover song game again. They're also really good at remembering fans they've met and making every fan feel special. I'm impressed.

I also asked Amy why she doesn't do her suicide roll hair anymore, and whewwww, that set her off. She said she feels like an Indie hair stylist because everyone stole her 'do, so Rolling Stone asked her not to do it for the cover! Since then she's been trying to come up with something new to do!

When I saw Cody, I decided it was time to give his fans a new name to talk about other than mine. [They're STILL retweeting him talking about my name, and they say they're gonna name their kids Elizabethany! That just can't happen.] We tried.. and well... we need more help.



The entire show was just a lot of fun and totally enjoyable. Even though I was running around like a madwoman in 4 inch heels, I still had a great time [and fell in love with a new song I can't stop listening to- Karmin's "Comin Up Strong." Nick sings it!]! You can hear it and see all of what went down in the video I put together: [Make sure you have it in HD mode so it's better, duh!]


I also can't complain about listeners coming up and asking for a bajillion pictures between performances. It may have been my favorite part.

Every day I still think it's crazy that I'm getting to do a job I truly love, but days/nights like that one... Pretty unbelievable that I get to do this.

love,
elizabethany

PS: To see more pics, click here!
PPS: To know more about my dress that I'm obsessed with, click here!

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watch etv: exclusive interview with cody simpson

Some of you may not know who Cody Simpson is, but a LOT of you love the 15 year old Aussie-singer.

15 years old. Yeah.

This town went absolutely NUTS trying to get skip the line passes for his meet and greet at KMart yesterday, and some people were even lining up at 6am for the 3pm event! Cray.

Since they obviously know more about him than I do, I picked some of the biggest fans out of the crowd and recorded questions for Cody. I showed them to him backstage, then recorded his answers. It was fun! I really like getting the fans/listeners involved.


Look at that LOOK he can give! *He's 15, EB... 15...* HIS ACCENT!!! *15!!!!!*

And seriously... chicken and diapers?!? That's one of my top 3 speechless/memorable moments in interviews. What do you say back to that?!?!

Today we have Big Time Rush in the studio, AKA a ton more screaming teen girls. I'm not mad about it. It's good people watching totally fun.

love,
elizabethany

PS: This also happened.

just met a woman named Elizabethany. Apparently her parents weren't sure whether to call her Elizabeth or Bethany. #genius
— Cody Simpson (@CodySimpson) August 20, 2012

And now thousands of people are retweeting it, hundreds of people saying they're going to name their kid with Cody "elizabethany," andddd I think I feel pretty neat right now.

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