Saturday I had to get up super early for the Nick Carter listening party I had gotten myself tickets for. I really didn’t know what i got myself into and certainly didn’t realize it was going to start at 11am. (At least I had Friday to sleep in after all my trips?)
Once I arrived we were informed that they were going to rig everything up to the house speakers but apparently hadn’t thought of that sooner so we had to give them some time to get it set up.
Nick came out and did 3 songs acoustic for us – Larger than Life, As Long as You Love Me and Help Me. (Which he is re-recording and said it is easier to sing if he is standing)
Then they took our phones from us and Nick played several potential tracks from his new album. Some were done, some weren’t the final arrangement and some were demos. We had to rank them from 1 to 10 and after each track we were able to ask questions. He wanted some immediate feedback and asked if anyone rated a song 5 or below not to raise their hands and then he found out almost everyone just gave everything all 10s. I was actually critical and had no 10s, but nothing 5 or below either. Some of the songs were written by him, some weren’t but they resonated with him and one was a cover.
After the listening and rating we got our photo with Nick and then were able to get our phones back. We got to keep our sheet of paper and then got sent a link to digitally submit our rankings.
