Idol Gossip by Alexandra Leigh Young

Author:Alexandra Leigh Young [Young, Alexandra Leigh;]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2021-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

OLIVIA

ASHKLJFJAJALLLHGH

OMFREEEAKINGGOODDD

I’M DED

ALICE

lolll

OLIVIA

HOWWHATWHYHOW?????

I grinned at the screen, then looked down at our picture in my hand. Joon was right; I didn’t feel bad at all anymore.

The sound of Aria’s voice inside So-ri’s office gave me that twisty feeling in my stomach, like right before you get a shot at the doctor’s.

“Alice-yah, iriwa!” exclaimed So-ri when I turned into her office for my voice lesson. Aria and I smiled stiffly at each other from across the tiny room. At least she seemed to be in a better mood than she was this morning.

“Chicas, today I want to know you as a duo,” said So-ri. “So! We begin.” She scooted behind her little electric piano and brushed off an empty bag of fish jerky. We started with lip trills to warm up, and Aria and I stood there next to each other, lips buzzing up and down the scale like a pair of singing bees.

When So-ri felt like we had warmed up enough, she plucked two wrinkled pieces of sheet music off her desk and handed them to us. “I want to start with something little bit different. Aria, you know this. Alice, this is new for you.”

I looked down at the sheet music and saw that the lyrics were in English, but I didn’t recognize them and there was no song title. It was a melancholy song in the saddest of the keys: D minor. With anything else, I would have been anxious about the fact that Aria had a leg up on me since she knew the song, but I was pretty confident in my sight-reading and the song seemed slow and simple.

“Sing this,” So-ri said to me, tapping her stubby finger on the top staff. “And you,” she said to Aria, “sing the harmony. I will not direct too much; this is only to get comfortable together.” She plopped back down at the piano and dropped her hands down onto the keys, playing the first chords.

It sounded like a Celtic folk song—melancholy and ancient. It sort of reminded me of Simon and Garfunkel or the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young stuff my dad played when I was growing up. I always thought the two- and four-part harmonies in some of those songs were so pretty.

Then it was our turn to sing.

“There was a house not so far from my ooown . . . Not a one lived there; t’was nobody’s hooome.”

Right from the start, Aria and I had trouble finding each other in the music. So-ri had us start and stop a couple times just to play us our opening notes, and when we finally got going we sounded shaky, like two people dancing together who didn’t know who was supposed to be leading. It was almost like we were singing two completely different songs.

“A mother, a child, and a broken heaaart . . . Once did dwell until the three did paaart.”

“Watch your intonation, Aria!” shouted So-ri over her piano. “Jaw is too tense, Alice! Wider, please!”

Once we really got going, it was immediately clear Aria had amazing control over her breath.

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