Jacob's Song Embed Code Fixed

Uhm... someone pointed out to me that the Embed Code for my music vid "One Wolf/Jacob's Song" which I provided in THIS POSTING, didn't work.

Duh!!

Ok - just wanted you to know: I fixed it!! Embed away...

And the winner is...

Artsie and Fanny have decided.

They picked the winner of a free album download or physical CD from the Art House CD repertoire in the Music Giveaway to celebrate song download #50.000 of "One Wolf (Jacob's Song)".

AND.....

...THE WINNER IIIIIIIISSSSS...

Tess !!!

Congratulations!

You won a CD or complete album download!

Why did you win?

Artsie and Fanny say: "Because the new Trixi & Tess blog is such a fun place to hang out !!! Those girls are charming and witty, and whether you're robsessed, taylorated, twispired or going bananas with eclipsapalooza... they definitely deliver!!

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But Artsie and Fanny have been reeeeeally nice, and picked two runner-ups. Yay!!

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Winner #2 is... Chloe !!!

Congratulations!

You've won three song downloads!

How come?

Fanny says: "Artsie said Chloe's joke was lame, but I told her it was from David Bowie - that shut her up! And I laughed my ass off. Well, not about the joke, but about Artsie's face. That's why Chloe won!"

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Winner #3 is... AzureEyedI !!!

Congratulations!

You've won one song download!

But why, oh why??

Artsie says: "I pitied her. She kinda begged..."

What? Oh, come on...!

"Ok, ok... she writes good fan fic too. But apparently, she had a hard day. Plus, she called you a rockstar, Betti."

Well, then... uhm, ok.

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Thanks to everyone who entered and said Hi! :)

The winners will receive emails soooooon... so they can make their choices.

Since it's indie music, and not every artist is known, I'll be glad to provide sound snippets or youtube links etc., to help you pick music you like.

Smooches,

Twilight-Music-Giveaway!

Today I unsuspiciously checked on the stats of some

of my places on the internet I had pretty much neglected

during the last months. My humble homepage, for example.

And what I saw made me spill my coffee...

Just yesterday, the MP3 downloads of my Twilight song

"One Wolf" had exceeded 50.000! WTF?!?

OneWolf (Jacob's Song)

After I had taken my blood pressure meds

and wiped the coffee of my keyboard, I thought

this is truly something to celebrate.

I mean, I don't even dare to think about the number of iPods and

MP3 players that little piece of music is actually rotating on...

how awesome! So... here's my first ever...

Win an independent artist album (physical CD or complete

album download) - free choice from my CD store!

There's artrock, trance, pop jazz, vocal music and yes, my own albums

are there too, of course. Click on the pic above to be taken there.

All you have to do is say Hi! to me,

either by commenting to this post

or via eMail to betti@bettigefecht.com

The winner will be picked by Artsie & Fanny, LOL!

They'll judge your greetings by style, humor, originality,

creativity or chutzpah... who knows?

The winner will be announced on Saturday, May 8th!

Random. Betti. Music. History.

Sorting old photographs is a funny thing.

Well, it was for me when I did... I wasn't really aware of 

how many bad hair days one can have in a single 

lifetime - it's fascinating. 

Anyway - I don't want to bother you with my past private 

disasters. But I felt like sharing some of my public ones.

I actually had my first appearance on a public stage 

at the age of nine. Honestly, no school production or else: 

Me. Guitar. Club. Concert. 

Unfortunately undocumented... so this starts age 16.

 

The real fun though is to say: "Look, no hands!"

I play several instruments - guitar, piano, drums, flutes - but 

do I like it? Nah... can I please have a band? 

And a stage big enough to perform my ass off... running, 

jumping, dancing? Thanks! 

The pics below are all "nowadays"...

'New Moon' soundtrack hopeless

PREFACE

I was thinking about the Twilight Examiner article 'New Moon' Soundtrack Hopefuls. It's not the first time that I was mentioned in connection with that term. So - just because I wrote a twi-spired song - am I a 'New Moon' soundtrack hopeful? Straight answer: No. I'm not. I can't be - for several reasons. I'll give you three. But before I do so... 

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JUST FOR THE RECORD 

Getting "One Wolf" on the soundtrack was neither my intention nor my motivation for writing and recording it. It was a thought I admittedly had allowed myself to think some time later though, in pleasant moments of daydreaming ;-)

"But you've uploaded it and promoted it on the internet", you might say. Yes, I did. Sure! I'm an artist/performer, and like any other of that species, I long to be heard. With artists, this is very common (you can google it... LOL). So I made my work public. But unlike certain other well known young singer/songwriter ladies, I didn't campaign.

I don't want to dish these surely talented fellow artists, but lately... 

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SOME REALLY OVEREGGED THE PUDDING 

During the last couple of days alone, there've been daily mailings from one of these 'New Moon' soundtrack hopefuls on myspace and elsewhere, asking its multiple recipients to write to certain media and persons in charge and say: "Hey, I just found this artist and her song must be on the soundtrack!" There are petitions and circular letters they demand to be signed. 

Besides the fact, that such behaviour has to be treated simply as spam (which maddens me), it's also quite ridiculous. What do they think? Like this is the way to gain a director's or music supervisor's artistic respect? It's like these crazy fangirls throwing themselves on Robert Pattinson, as if that would be the way to make him fall in love with them... a wee bit embarrassing, huh? Even worse, some of their songs are really good - but this begging kinda depreciates them. Just my two cents though. But ok -  these girls are young. And here we are:

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THE FIRST REASON

I'm NOT young. Which plainly is one of the main causes why I'm not a 'New Moon' soundtrack hopeful. Just in case you haven't noticed yet: I'm even too old to play Bella's mom in the movie, ok? And even if I had recorded the musical masterpiece of the century, there'd be no way it would be considered for a movie with a target audience like 'New Moon'. Briefly: If you can't put me on MTV, you can't put me on the soundtrack. In case you're a Twilight Mom, about to shout "Objection!" right now - face it: in financial terms you are merely part of a minority, providing a welcome extra income to those whose job it is to bloody sell as much cd copies as possible.

(Just to save what is possible of my self esteem, I'd like to point out that at least I still look younger than Madonna - before breakfast, that is. Ok? Good.)

•••

THE SECOND REASON

I'm German. And I'm in Germany. Big obstacle! 

It is almost impossible to bring yourself to the attention of the people in charge over such a distance. Even if I lived next door, I'd still have to hang on the phone and keep on knocking all the right doors literally day and night. (Did you know that this was exactly what Paramore, respectively their management did to get the deal? Or were you deluded into the romantic idea that they were accidently brought to light by some talent scout? That's not the way such things happen.) 

So, with no badass agent spending his nights sleeping on the music supervisor's threshold, your demo cd is most likely to rot in some abandoned paperbox, among thousands of others, unnoticed.

Actually, I do have an agency agreement with a Hollywood-based film music library where my music (including "One Wolf") can be cleared and licensed. But that doesn't help to prevent my songs from the rotting process mentioned above. And last but not least:

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THE THIRD REASON

I'm indie. No fame here, at least no international fame. And with respect to the success of the first movie, they'd rather go big time now. Even if this might be a misjudgement on my behalf and Alexandra Patsavas will be going to fight for her beloved indie musicians with claws and teeth - in what parallel universe would I be possibly one of them?

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RESUME

All this (plus several other points) considered, I really never was a 'New Moon' soundtrack hopeful. I just wrote that song, because I was moved and drawn into that romantic overkill by the books of Stephenie Meyer, and creating music was my way to deal with it. It still is. Creating my animated little vids is my way to deal with it. Writing this blog is my way to deal with it. And guess what? It works. I am having a lot of fun. Especially with my fellow twi-bloggers.

So f*ck the soundtrack, I'll keep going. Take or leave it. Love or hate me. I am a 'New Moon' soundtrack hopeless" and I'm having a ball!

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New Moon Soundtrack Hopefuls

Presenting less than a handful 

of "small" music productions 

possibly suitable for the 

"New Moon" soundtrack, 

to my surprise popular Twilight Examiner Amanda Bell 

was so kind as to include my 

twi-spired tune "One Wolf (Jacob's Song)" (featuring my first pathethic attempt of making something like a video, that is) in her list. 

I am really, really honored. Thanxalot, Amanda!

congrats, twilight clue winners!

I love the video of Twilight Clue winners, Susie and Aimee! 

See below. They found out that Jasper used Tyler's van to kill Bella in Seattle quicker than anyone else and made the 1st and 2nd place in the contest of Peace. Love. Twilight. Which means they will receive loads of Twilighty stuff, including two maxi cds with my Twilight inspired music. 

Congratulations, girls!

The two have their own blog, too. 

Visit them over at  Apples 'n Feathers.

Jacob's Song Reloaded

I've been asked frequently for a direct embed-code of the "One Wolf (Jacob's Song)" animated video to be streamed in the same quality as "Bedtime Stories". Ok. Your wish is my command. (Some credits would be nice though... please? I've noticed a lot of blogs and sites with my videos, and there's no credit at all. Ts, ts, ts...)

One Wolf

Click the image to be taken to the streaming video in good quality. It will open in a popup window. Embed code below. Just help yourself...

For the sake of completeness:

Bedtime Stories

Click the image below to be taken to the streaming video in good quality. It will open in a popup window. (Don't miss the explanatory "package slip"). Embed code below.

team taycob had a few questions...

Go check out Team Taycob (A really HOT site!!). Really nice girls over there, lots of interesting and funny stuff to rummage around. They interviewed  me an hour ago... or so... darn, it's 4:05 a.m. here in Germany. I should sleep now. 

But go visit them! Here's an excerpt of the interview:

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Interview with Betti Gefecht, 

Artist of "One Wolf". . .

. . .And the now infamous Rob video. That's another story. Anyway, I have been talking to Betti via email for a few months now, and she offered us up a interview. So read away!

 

TT: When did you know music was what you wanted to do?

BG: I didn't get into music on a deliberate decision. Actually the music rather got into me.

It never had been something I WANTED to do - I just did it.

Music loved me and I simply loved it back.

For many years I did it for a living which went well but I actually hated it.

Not the music itself but everything that came with it: the record deals, the inevitable faking and affectations, the pressure, the publicity and everything around (...) Read more over at TT

Other questions were:

• What inspired you to write "One Wolf?"
  
• Working on anything new for the Twilight saga?
  
• When did you start reading Twilight and which is your favorite?
  
• How has music changed your life?
  
• Any advice for new artists?

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hysterical historical pics

1: 1978 (open air festival) the microphone is almost bigger than the girl - 2: 1982 (tv show) bad hairdo due to the 80s common bad taste. hubby Freimann in the background (he' a gorgeous musician and singer too. Check out mp3 snippets of his albums if you're curious enough) - 3: 2006 (album promo tour) rational-sized microphone at last ;-)

TELL ME BEDTIME STORIES

Didn't post anything lately. This is why:

I am currently working on a new videoclip which is taking a lot of my spare time.

This blog isn't meant to cover all the twilight news anyway (there are countless blogs fulfilling THIS task, who would need one more?). Even if I tried I could no way keep up with all the exciting news every day. So this blog is and will be just about my music and my twilight addiction, simply very personal. Therapeutical, so to say.

About that new video. It's for a song called "Bedtime Stories", a lush lullaby I wrote quite a while ago. I wanted to improve my manufactured-animation skills which I tried with the clip for Jacob's song "One Wolf" for the first time. For this one, I needed a male face to model the leading role of a really handsome guy. Can you guess who came to my mind? Well... I'm afraid I lost it a little while drawing more and more swoonsworthy images. It's half done now and I hope it's not going to be too steamy to put it on the internet. Here's a first teaser pic.

Hint: if you want to be updated when the clip is done, it might be a good idea to subscribe to this blog as a follower. Don't mean to allure you. But since I only post occasionally, it could be quite annoying to stop by every once in a while to just find nothing new...

• tvmag raffles off twilight music cds

The big German TV-Magazine "Fernsehwoche" is wondering "why billions of mother and daughters love Edward" and goes into the matter in their latest edition, publication date: may 29 (so this is an exclusive sneak peek, kind of...). They made my day by deciding to feature "One Wolf (Jacob's Song)". Addionally they'll raffle off some "One Wolf"-CDs. How cool is that?

Due to the opportunity for German Twilight fans, here's a translation:

Die große deutsche Programmzeitschrift "Fernsehwoche" geht in ihrer neuesten Ausgabe der Frage nach, "warum Millionen Mütter und Töchter Edward lieben". Das Heft, Ausgabe 23, erscheint am 29. Mai (insofern ist das hier ein exklusiver First Look vorab, sozusagen).  Das Magazin versüßte mir den Tag, indem sie "One Wolf (Jacob's Song)" erwähnen und zusätzlich einige "One Wolf"-Maxi-CDs verlosen.

Zum Mitmachen: die "Fernsehwoche" ist ab Freitag am Kiosk (kostet 1 Euro) - angegebene Hotline anrufen (oder Fax schicken), Kennwort nennen ("Twilight"), fertig. Viel Glück!

• one wolf, many tounges

I really love how "One Wolf" made me learn foreign languages. :-) Examples?

- In Taylor Is Jacob, a "non-official source about Taylor Lautner in the Twilight Saga", it's said in Español:

"Una canción para Jacob: One Wolf (...) queríamos compartir con todos vosotros su bella canción" 

Ha, love it!  

- This Spanish one is from Luna Nueva Pelicula:

"Aquí podéis escuchar la canción de Betti Gefecht inspirada en Jacob Black de la película Luna nueva"

- It's also very nice in Portuguese, as seen at Into Twilight Portugal:

"Uma cantora alemã, Betti Gefecht, grande fã da saga Twilight escrveu uma música para o Jacob Black."

Yep, can't deny that...

- My favourite is the Swedish feature:

"En sång till Jacob: tack snälla Betti Gefecht för att hon vill dela med sig av denna fantastiska låt till Jacob Black! Betti är en tysk sångare/sångskrivare och är också ett stort fan av Twilight. Klicka på denna länk så kan du ladda ner "Jacob´s Song"

It's even more fun if you read it (attention - Edward-quote:) OUT LOUD! Honestly, give it a try! Love that "Klicka på denna länk" part.

• one wolf is given "a twilight kiss"

"A Twilight Kiss" featured "One Wolf (Jacob's Song)" in a blogpost today. Blogger Lorna wrote a sweet review:

"I was immediately struck by the tribal percussion that echoed the Quilete ancestry, as well as the poignant notes that evoked the trees, the air and the throbbing lope of a lone wolf in search of burning answers before he can rejoin the pack."

And a little later:

"The song struck me the same way the Annie Lennox song for The Lord of the Rings did. It’s haunting, sad with a hint of hope. Actually, I see it making more of an impact in Eclipse… in that scene when Jacob receives the invitation to Bella and Edward’s wedding… He morphs into a wolf and as he runs the song fades in…"

You're right with that, Lorna. I can see it... thanks a lot. 

A Twilight Kiss back atcha!

BTW: the quote in my head banner emerged from my email conversation with Lorna...