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Last Updated: 11/18/2009

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Status: Single
City: LOS ANGELES
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/7/2007

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Sunday, November 15, 2009 



Hey everyone!

Now you can listen to the official Standing Up For The Lonely radio edit before it hits a radio station near you (listen out in about 4 weeks)

And to everyone who has already taken a listen (wow 100,000 plus hits in under 3 weeks) thank you soooo much for the positive feed back! I'm so glad you're feelin it!

ALSO! This JUST in: There is a SUFTL remix by Moto Blanco available NOW IN STORES and ONLINE on Ministry Of Sound's 2010 Annual Dance Compilation!

 (It's 3 cd's packed with hits from everyone like Calvin Harris, Kid Cudi, BassHunter and of course Yours truly! ) 

So go out and support ya' girl!

XO

Jessie 

ps. I walked into an HMV and bought mine today! It felt sooooooo cooooool!!!!! 

Friday, October 16, 2009 

Current mood:  adored
Category: Music
"Standing Up For The Lonely"

(written by Jessie Malakouti/Xenomania)


Everyone told me to stay away from you
But I couldn't listen, I couldn't shake the way that you move
I saw the warning signs from the start
But I never thought you'd break my heart- my heart

I'm standing up for the lonely
and the lovers that you left behind
and baby every time...
You said you're sorry and call me
Oh, if only you could read my mind
you'd figure in time

My dirty angel you've done it now- it's too late
You put your footprints into the ground- a careful mistake
I lay in your bed cold, craving the sun- Oh no...
And I used to think you were the one- the one

I'm standing up for the lonely
and the lovers that you left behind
and baby every time...
You said you're sorry and call me
Oh, if only you could read my mind
you'd figure in time

Feeling down and so vulnerable
we're calling your bluff
give me a reason why you can't keep your story straight-
And babe I've had enough!
I refuse to get emotional
No, this will take more...
Put fire out with fire- dirty liar gonna even up the score!

I'm standing up for the lonely
and the lovers that you left behind
and baby every time...
You said you're sorry and call me
Oh, if only you could read my mind
you'd figure in time


xo




Sunday, September 20, 2009 
Waddup yo!

I have some BIG THINGS happening in the next few months, and I wanna stay connected with you all and take ya along for the ride :D 

I don't always have time to sit down at my computer and get on myspace, but (like most PPL) I'm usually glued to cell-phone and MY TWITTER

So if you aren't already, follow me on twitter to get exclusive updates from ME PERSONALLY, view my twit-pix, participate in CONTESTS or just tweet back and forth with me!!

and if you want to use this blog to give a lil shot-out to your own twitter page, feel free to leave a comment with your link!

xo
Jessie 
Thursday, August 27, 2009 

Current mood:  optimistic
Ok, so pretty much on a daily basis mail comes in my various social networking inboxes asking me "Where did Trash Me go? Did you know Britney did a song that sounds just like yours?!" or "Why did you take Trash Me down off of your myspace?"... I have ignored these kinds of messages up until now, but I do feel like I owe my fans an explanation.

Let me put it this way: "Trash Me" has been TRASHED- literally and figuratively. 

I wrote Trash Me over 2 years ago while I was still in my old band Shut Up Stella, with the intentions of shopping it for another artist to cut. However, I then realized I sounded way better than any of the unmentionable artists who attempted to sing it... and also realized I wanted to stop making rock/rap music and start making pop music, so I kept it for myself.

I then worked my ass off and saved up enough money to independently write, produce and finance my own music video for it. With about $3,000 and lots of favors I created this and am still very proud of it :D 

I felt like I was on fire! If I could create such a kick ass video without a label's help, then I could surely go to radio without a label's help right??? Wrong. In fact not only wrong, but virtually impossible today. 

Sometime in between all of this, "Trash Me" was circulating around the industry and getting lots of buzz. So much buzz, that I was flown to Sweden to write and record with some other unmentionables for a week. A couple of okay songs came out of the trip, but I didn't have the same connection with the unmentionables that I did with Xenomania. So I signed to Xenomania and began working on my debut album.

Fast forward a few months, and a little tune called Trash Me "If U Seek Amy" comes out by Britney Spears, which was funny enough stolen written by these same Swedish unmentionables I had thought were my friends. Of course, Britney being on a major label was able to do something I could not do, go to radio with my song go to radio with her song, and thus ruin any chance I had at releasing my ORIGINAL material. To add even more salt to the wound, Heidi Montag decides to murder  cover my song, and gets more recognition than I ever did for my own art. 

So you see people, "Trash Me" has become a bit tainted for me, and to be honest a bit old! I've always prided myself on being ahead of the sound, and really feel like the songs I am writing with Xenomania are the future of pop! :D

Thank you for all the love you are showing "Standing Up For The Lonely"! I'm so glad you all love it! And I can't wait for you to hear the other pop smashes we are currently cooking up! 

So in closing, I leave you with this: facts are facts, and karma is a bitch.

xo

Jessie 

Ps. Thank you PEREZ HILTON for your support, and for standing up for what is right. Luv you. 


Sunday, June 07, 2009 
Unlike most 13 year olds at the start of the new millennium, my room was not covered in Backstreet Boys or NSYNC posters, and Freddie prince Jr. Did not sit in a fuzzy pink heart frame next to my bed.

Instead, my boy band of choice was actually a band. Five syllables made up of 3 boys that I was completely obsessed with:  Blink 182.

For my 14th birthday I begged my mom for tickets to their "Take Off Your Pants And Jacket tour"... but all the Cali dates were sold out... just when I thought there was no chance to see them that year, she surprised me with tix to their Vegas show at the MGM... It was going to be the most amazing day of my life! There was so much to think about: What was I going to wear? Who would I bring? Would Mark propose to me on stage that night? Or was he going to wait til we had a moment alone on a beach? 

Then, 6 days before the concert I had to go and get in a fucking fist fight at school (defending one of my dumb ass friends) and ruin any chance of walking down the aisle as Mrs. Hoppus. I was suspended for 3 days, (which initially I thought was fantastic! I would get to watch "Saved By The Bell" re-runs and eat mint chip ice cream till my face turned green! Woo- hoooo!)  Then my mom came home super mad and took my T.V. out of my room, and replaced it with the biggest bomb ever when she said that because of my behavior there was no way in hell I was going to that concert...  No Zack Morris? Fine. But no Blink 182? AHHHHHHHH!!!!!! What's an angst filled tween supposed to do?! At one point I came up with a plan to steal my mother's car and road trip the 4 hours to Vegas myself, but my friends bitched out and I couldn't drive stick. 

So, years went by and Blink broke up... My music tastes changed and matured, but I always had a weakness for Mark, Tom and Travis, and would clean my apartment to Cheshire Cat every now and then, but that was that. Nothing could be done, and I would never get to see them live.

Or so I thought...

Fast forward to a few weeks ago- I was back home in LA for a couple of days, and my very good friend Yamile hit me up about some T-Mobile Party in Hollywood with a "surprise musical guest"... I rolled simply because I wanted to catch up with Yamile, and figured there would be free food and drinks, rock on. 

 
 
I was not expecting what came next: ALL 3 members of Blink- one-eighty-fucking-two hit the stage and I just about fainted!!! I completely GEEKED out and lost any trace of that "I'm at an Industry thing" attitude and kick-boxed my way to the front of the stage. It was 15 minutes of absolute heaven! I was jumping up and down like a kangaroo singing every word to every song, it was so satisfying. They were magical! They were electric! And they made punching that bitch in the 7th grade feel even more awesome than it already did!  I am SO glad they reunited!

And if that wasn't enough, guess who got Travis's drumstick? 

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Ps. Come catch me on my own tour this summer with The Saturdays. Dates on the space. 


Pss. But don’t get in a fight (Unless of course it’s AFTER one of my shows ;)

Psss. Thanks Jimmy ;)

 
 
Xo
 
Jessie
Friday, March 13, 2009 
Wa' DDDDDUUUUPPPPPPPP!

Ok, so two things:

ONE: The new video for "Outsider" is up! PEEP it Kittens!

TWO: You need to buy/download the new PET SHOP BOYS album, because not only are they pop icons and the record kicks some major ass, BUT.... wait for it, wait for it.....

YOURS TRULY is singing bv's on a few trax! So now you REALLY need to get it!!! haha...

xo

Jessie


Monday, February 09, 2009 
YO!

New demos are up! (I know they are super rough versions) But I wanted you guys to hear a little sneak peak of what I'm working on here in London...

So holler at your girl :)

More to come... So many exciting things happening this year.... I will own 2009, that's a promise!

BIG LOVE!

"Cherrio!"

xo
Jessie
Sunday, December 07, 2008 
Lots of you have asked, so here you go :)

The lyrics to "Bad Guy" xo

______________________________________

BAD GUY

You're the last thing I look at before I fall asleep
But the image of your face my mind can't seem to keep
When I wake up in the A.M. there's a shadow in my place,
Feel so guilty that I'm laying in your arms and to your face...

So close, but you and I both know-

I bought some bubble gum at Dee's, he said "Thanks have a nice day.."
Things that used to make me smile seem to be so far away,
Reach for water on the night-stand- the glass is half empty,
Why'd you drink so much? You know I've never been so damn thirsty...

You blame it all on me...

Why am I the bad guy?
For wanting something better then how I feel when we're together?
This good night is a crime,
There's no escaping- got my white flag waving I'm ready to do my time...

My shrink blames it on my father, this co-dependency...
I don't wanna be a prisoner, but I'm scared of being free-
Sometimes I think you're always shouting cuz you like to hear your voice,
The day I realized I don't love you was the day I made a choice..

To try, I can't look you in the eye.....

Why am I the bad guy?
For wanting something better then how I feel when we're together?
This good night is a crime,
There's no escaping- got my white flag waving I'm ready to do my time...

Beautiful, turned so miserable
Who's gonna rescue me?
Guess I went too far- wishing on a star...
There's a price to pay,
Baby why'd it go away?

Why am I the bad guy?
For wanting something better then how I feel when we're together?
This good night is a crime,
There's no escaping- got my white flag waving I'm ready to do my time...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 
What a week it has been (and it's only Tuesday)

To start off, I thought Los Angeles knew how to party- until I partied in London.

Let me just tell you, those Blokes and Birds know how to get DOWN...

Saturday night I went out to a proper London house party in Camden Town with my new friend Dogmarette (who works in fashion here, but is originally from Orange County) and Andy, Jonny and James from The Electric City, a clever Indie Rock band recording here at Xenomania. (I Call them "The Durans" cuz both Andy and Jame's fathers were in the 80's band Duran Duran! LOL)

The party was very um, ________________ (choose your favorite adjective)

Then Sunday, Flo (my roommate here) and I thought we had a burglary, because our GIANT Mirror suddely went missing!

Let me explain:

9:00 AM- Florrie wakes up, get's ready...
9:30 AM- Florrie checks her make up in the HUGE mirror we have in our kitchen, and leaves the apartment.

10:00 AM- I wake up, get ready...
10:30 AM- I eat a bowel of Lucky Charms, read the paper, glance up at the wall and notice something is off, but can't figure out what, so I drink the pink milk and go take a shower....
10:45 AM- I walk back into the kitchen with wet hair, stare at the wall for a few seconds and try to put my finger on what is wrong with our wall??
11:00 AM- I'm dressed and ready to leave, I go to grab my computer off the kitchen table and it hits me! "Where the hell is our ENORMOUS mirror that used to be hanging on our wall????"
11:05 AM- I walk around the apartment to look for it, thinking Florrie must have moved it or something (although it would take at least 2 people to lift)
11:08 AM- The mirror is MIA and I'm late, so I shrug, and bounce....

So sometime in the 30 minutes that I was asleep and Flo had left, our mirror mysteriously went missing! Doors were locked, and we live on the top floor... Now you tell me what you think happened, because we cannot figure this out!?

I wish that was the end of my chaotic week, but last night was worse...

I came home around 11:00 PM to the smell of rotten egg in our building, I was so tired and hungry I completely blocked it out of my mind...

Then Florrie came home an hour later, and she had smelled rotten egg too, maybe someone was cooking something foul!?? I got in the bath, and all of a sudden I realized: GAS LEAK. I shout for Florrie to call the Emergency Gas Company... While I'm rinsing out my conditioner Florrie shouts back "Jessie, they said we have to get out right now!"

Me: "I've got wet hair and it's fucking snowing outside!??"

Flo: "We don't have an option. The Police said we must evacuate our building at once!"

Me: "Holy shit! Okay, Okay... Open up some windows"... (btw it's like 2 degrees, and about 1 in the morning at this point..)

Then as Florrie is opening up our biggest window the handle breaks off and flys out.. Just our luck. Now the window won't shut and we have to get out... We have to leave it be, or we run the risk of blowing up...LOL
So we went to her boyfriends house and slept in his bed. (very weird, Let me tell you)... and this morning we had to rush to the studio.... (where I am now, writing this blog). Who knows if our building is even standing still when we get back tonight.... and if it is, who knows if our BIG Table will go missing next? LOL (since the window is wide open for anyone to get in)

Or maybe the enigmatic mirror snatcher will feel bad, climb right in our flat and return the mirror... ??

Hey- Now that would be a wicked ending to this story... I'll keep you posted.

Xo
Jessie

ps. "Outsider" and "Trash Me" both avail on iTUNES (in case u didn't know)
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 

Current mood:  tired
'SUP YO?

I'm writing this blog from the freezing freaking city they call London Town- curled up in my blanky, sipping P.G. Tips and staring out the window and wondering why the fuck I can't adjust to this time schedule as it is day 3...

Other than my severe jet lag, I can't really complain... Seriously, I have the coolest job ever, I get to travel the world and make music- Um, duh?

I've been @ Xenomania with Brian and Miranda and the rest of the crew all week, writing, recording, taking meetings, hanging out with rockstars, WAIT- BACK UP??? DID SHE SAY "ROCKSTARS"? Yeah, only JONNY MAHER... yes THE SMITHS JONNY? MODEST MOUSE JONNY? and um some little 'ol band called THE PET SHOP BOYS- but it's really no big deal, ;) Syke.

Brian is producing their next album- it's kind of a mad house right now... Yesterday around 5:00 UK time I clunked out on the studio couch, I have no idea how I slept through drums in one room, Mixing in another, vocals being tracked, food being prepared, people running in and out etc... But somehow I did and it made for a very interesting soundtrack to my dreams...

I guess you could say it's been quite a week, "Trash Me" on The Hills was wicked awesome! Did you watch? Well, In case you missed it- don't worry because I just got word that my song "Outsider" will be in the next episode! YAY :) So set your TiVo... and if you haven't already peep my MTV Soundtrack page ....

I'm going to post new music soon.. so check back.

Cheerio Mate's!

Xo
Jessie

ps. UPDATE! 10/7/08

So today in the studio Pet Shop Boys asked me to sing back round vocals on their new record, which I gladly did :) SU-WEEEEEEET!