Steph's (callmeadreamer8) Story
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Nellie & Michael Live in LA: Meeting Nellie, Michael, Abraham, and Aylin
Here’s my recap. Sorry it’s long but it’s really me blabbering off everything I can remember before it all becomes a blur.
The performance was in like the back room of the restaurant. It was super intimate, just a handful of tables and booths all facing the performance area. When I got there, Nellie and Michael were like a few tables over from me, talking to some friends. A few minutes before their set started, Abraham, Aylin, Lily, and a few more of their friends strolled in.
I’m going to leave reviews of the actual performances for when I post the audio clips in the near future (yes, I’m teasing you all LOL), but I can say they sang 7 songs; 2 covers and 5 originals (2 of which, I’m sure all of you reading this already know; so let me know what you all want to hear first). Now, I am just going to talk about what happened after their performance.
But first, I do have to say one thing… I don’t know why I didn’t figure it out sooner that Nellie and Michael were meant to be a musical duo because they just gelled so well together.
After they finished their set, Lily left so I didn’t get to meet her. I saw that Abraham was standing like 5 feet away so I said hello to him. I introduced myself and then mentioned that he had tweeted me while back because of the TGP tribute montage that I made and when he realized what video I was talking about, he was like gushing about my video and telling me how everyone has seen it, which really just made me feel proud but it was like unreal. He told me how he showed it to Charlie and Aylin and even Robert Ulrich (um…what?!) and that everyone who had seen it, loved it. He told me how he was wardrobe shopping for the “All the Lights” show with Aylin earlier in the day, when they ran into Randy Jackson, who tried to convince him to by an $1800 jacket which he did not buy haha He also mentioned another guest and some rumors of possible guests to be present at the “All the Lights show (which I will keep hush until he reveals them himself). Anyway…
Then I moseyed my way over to Nellie and introduced myself, pretty much immediately handing her the DVD I had burned (of the montage I made). She looked confused for about 2 seconds (I really did magically whip the DVD out of my tiny purse that didn’t look like it could hold anything) until she saw what was written on the DVD and made the connection that I was the girl who made the video. She gave me a hug and then she retold how she came across the video and well the hole conversation was really kind of a blur but hey, can you blame me?
After that I saw Abraham again and he wanted Aylin to meet me because she had cried watching my video and so he was like trying to get her attention for a few minutes and finally when he did and he told her that I made the video, she was like “oh my gosh can I give you a hug” and then gave me a hug LOL
Lastly I talked to Michael. He was like in between Aylin and I during our conversation about the video but hadn’t seen the video I made so I told him I’d tweet it to him and of course I complimented him on how amazing he and Nellie were.