disBAND: KaraMel

October 30th, 2008

You can see KaraMel on episode 7 of disBAND tonight (Thursday) at 6:30pm ET! (For more show times go here). Here’s what KaraMel has to say about their experience on the show.

Making music is a an intimate, sweat-inducing experience… It’s a lot like making love, really. Soooo, when MuchMusic followed us along our music-building journey, it was a lot like making love on national television. We virtually bared it all to for you CANADA!

Pop music is a weird thing. Writing pop is an art form, but a science all-the-same. It’s a craft that takes research, innovation, and a load of commitment. KaraMel, made up of Kara & Mel (we’re too damn clever), is really just about two energetic performers, playing pop music to make people feel good. Most of the songs were written in a Mississauga bedroom (poorly decorated with Buffy the Vampire Slayer posters) about people the band when to high school with. We love what we do, and disBAND really started what we know will be long journey for us. The only regret we have looking back on disBAND, really, is defying Oprah’s wise teachings, and not always FOLLOWING OUR HEARTS!… I know… would you like some wine with that cheese? But it’s true, we see now, that no matter how hard we wanted to “fit the popstar mould” at the end of the day, the most important thing was always staying true to our own passions and talents. There’s not a lot of pop music with integrity left out there, so it’s important to us to hold on to that, and keep things unique.

We’d like to send out a big kiss to Leslie, our beautiful producer slash former YTV goddess. Secondly, God bless Jonathan, for always being there to capture those not-so-slimming camera angles! Thanks also to the gorgeous Antonella, for being a true KaraMel fan and putting us on the show. When you called us and told us we would be on MuchMusic, we lost our shit, we were so excited!… that was before we knew the show was called disBAND ;) haha, all kidding aside…

We really became like a family throughout this experience. To every one who believed in us, put time in for us, or even called one of our songs “catchy” or “HIT WORTHY”, it means so freakin’ much to us. It’s the simple things, like getting our melodies stuck in people’s heads, that drive us to tread on. We met a lot of TALENTED people who even in light of their successes were all very humble, cool, and wicked to spend time with. This means Janet Castillo (the hot dancer), Jessica Albano (not Jessica Alba… but just as awesome), Greig Nori, and especially the KUYA BROTHERS. “Most girls just wanna have fun, most boys just wanna get some”. Working with KUYA is an UNBELIEVABLE EXPERIENCE, and we ain’t just kissing ass, we mean it.

Finally, thanks to the fans who have been with us since our first recording of “POP”, you know who you are. KaraMel fans, believe it or not, are not just 12 year old girls, they come in all shapes and sizes and we love, and owe a lot to them. Everyone else, check out our MySpace, and bare with us as we record new material and start booking more gigs in Toronto (most of the indi booking agents are used to booking rock bands, not girls in dresses, so it’s hard for us sometimes to find our niche!) Finally, thanks to Bucket Truck, your music is our inspiration. Cupcakes, dice-blocks, pencil-skirts, weaves.

Xoxo from the Love Faktory

-KaraMel

Posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at 12:30 pm by danielb and is filed under We <3 TV.