INTERVIEW WITH BREE SHARP FROM TheCelebrityCafe.com ARCHIVES
The beautiful and talented Bree Sharp shows a few of the other sides of her personality. She's a little more than the sex symbol performer we've come to know and love.
DM) The infamous first question that we need to begin with is, "How did you choose the album title of "Cheap and Evil Girl"?
BS) Isn't it a great title? (laughs)
DM) I like it, but how much truth is there in it?
BS) The song's really inspired by those pulp fiction novels of the '50's and '60's. And I just love those words together so much. I think they roll "tripplingly" off the tongue. They really paint a picture. Just right away, you get an image.
DM) Well, the title certainly struck me.
BS) I think that's the most important part about an album title, actually, that it sticks in people's heads. Well, I guess it's different parts of my personality, and she was the one that felt most comfortable stepping forward.
DM) You seem to be saying, "She was the ego," as if there's more than one?
BS) Yeah, I have a few different personalities, or personas, as most people do... as Billy Joel said, "We all have a face that we hide away forever"... you know?
DM) Yeah, I'm familiar with the song. Well, what are some of the other egos that are within you?
BS) There's a softer side, and then there is the more sensible side, and also there's the dangerous side, and the sexy side. There are just different places to go within. Then there's the funny side, the cute side, the angry side, and the social commentary side. (laughs)
DM) Which side or sides of you do your fans see?
BS) All those that I mentioned are represented at some point on the record. Hopefully, if the listener is paying attention, all them.
DM) Do you find that when you perform, you have a different side of you pop out?
BS) No, not so different. When I said "alter ego," maybe that was too strong a word.
DM) I understood. I didn't think schizophrenia was involved here or anything. (laughing)
BS) It's all me at the end of the day. I am in the performance mode, which is different from the "hanging out and having tea mode." I would say it's more "on" or heightened when I perform. But it's all me.
DM) So how did you start in on all this?
BS) It all happened by mistake, actually. I picked up the guitar when I was fifteen; I started writing when I was in college, and I also started acting about then. When I sang in a show or I sang for friends, people kept saying that this was what I should be doing. I finally made some demos, sent them out, and got a response. It's a very, sort of, backwards story.
DM) Where did you grow up?
BS) Philadelphia.
DM) So when did you move from Philadelphia to New York City?
BS) I moved here six years ago, to go to New York University. I came to study acting.
DM) And what's going on with your tour now?
BS) We've been on tour since the past summer. We've done Lilith Fair, Regis and Kathy Lee, and a lot of radio stations...on-air interviews and gigs. You know, meet and greet...Put on a publicity face.
DM) Do you like doing that "publicity thing," though?
BS) Usually, if I ever find that I'm not enjoying myself, it's because I'm traveling, performing or switching time zones.
DM) You were saying before about having to put on a face and do the publicity thing.
BS) I don't like it right before I have to do it. But then, when I get there, the feeling just comes out from inside me. And then I always end up having a good time. I drag my feet, drag my feet, thinking that in that way I might get there and really enjoy myself. Have you ever known any other person like that?
DM) It sounds like you're an "introverted ham," to some degree.
BS) "Introverted ham"? (laughing) Yeah, I kind of am. Sometimes I feel that I'm shy, but since I'm really good with people and performing, most people are very shocked when I say that I feel shy. I guess I forget that I enjoy it, or I just look at my negative side.