About Imee

Imee is a 24-year-old aspiring musician from Manila, Philippines. Having started singing on stage at the tender age of five, music is no stranger in Imee's life. She was formally trained in vocals, keyboards, and other instruments, and is also self-taught in piano and guitar. Having started seriously writing songs at age 15, this girl won't back down when it comes to finding new ways of expressing herself through song. Her music has been compared to the likes of Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Paramore, and Alanis Morissette. Influenced by an even wider range of musical styles, you know this girl's got attitude. Read more about Imee »

Invitation Only – EP

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Invitation Only – EP

March 25th, 2012 by Imee received 2 Comments »

So as some of you may know, I have a band with my coworkers called The Saboteurs. We performed an unplugged set about a month ago for our office’s post-Valentine’s event (see previous post)… I’m really proud of our performance back then, that I decided to compile the audio from that particular set and turn it into an EP. Why “Invitation Only” for the title? First, it’s a line from Stolen, our last song in the set. Second, it was an office-only event. So there. :)

The Saboteurs

Tracklist:

  1. Yellow (Coldplay cover)
  2. My Hero (Foo Fighters cover)
  3. Stolen (Dashboard Confessional cover)

DOWNLOAD: Cloud (free) / BandCamp (free or name your price)

I was intending on creating a digital booklet but I got lazy. So take what you can get. Hehe

 

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Clarity

March 19th, 2012 by Imee received Comments Off

I need clarity. I’ve been so out of it lately that I sometimes I pretty much feel like I’m floating… an out of body experience, for lack of a better term. It’s like I see myself as things are happening, but I don’t. It’s contradiction in all sense of the word.

Anyway, I’ve been pretty busy lately. Lots of crazy stuff happening. I’m here at work on my lunch break taking advantage of the 1.5-hour window we can surf the web without any filters and what not.

So… music-wise, I’ve been hanging out with my bandmates The Saboteurs a lot last month – we played a post-Valentine’s day event at the office. It was an unplugged/acoustic set, and we performed Yellow (Coldplay), My Hero (Foo Fighters), and Stolen (Dashboard Confessional). All in all it was a cool experience. I loved doing that set – the songs were great, the arrangement was pretty casual and relaxed, and I guess the only complaint I have is a lot of the crowd were too busy minding the food instead of the entertainment. It’s not just our band they treated that way, so… Hahaha!

HD footage at my youtube:

Hopefully in the company’s summer outing we get to play again. We’re thinking of going electro :)

…or maybe not. Depends. Haha!

PS: Forgive me for acting like a teenage fangirl, but OMG Colton Dixon and Reed Grimm noticed me on Twitter the other day! :)

That is all.

 

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It’s a Sabotage

January 22nd, 2012 by Imee received 2 Comments »

Hello! As I write to you now I am hunched over my laptop in my living room trying to figure out certain things in my life. A few weeks ago I turned 25. Ohoho. That went well – I had a toothache so I’ll let you figure out the rest.

Over the past 2 months I was having the time of my life. Me and a bunch of friends from work formed a band, now called the Saboteurs, and played 4 songs during our company’s year-ender shindig. ’twas fun! We performed Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz), Hallelujah (Bamboo), Crushcrushcrush (Paramore) and Antukin (Rico Blanco). Sadly, only the first 2 songs got recorded, so… just look for them in Youtube, yeah? :p

Saboteurs

Left to right: Raizza Videna (rhythm guitar/backup vocals), Nico Africa (lead guitar), Alan Chiu (lead guitar), me (vocals), Abes Abenoja (drums), Mond Merle (bass/backup vocals).

We played at the Makati Shangri-La’s Rizal Ballroom. Whut! Two of my bandmates even met Apl.de.ap from the Black Eyed Peas…that was wicked. I’m jealous.

We’re planning on joining our company-wide battle of the bands. Mind you, we have about 10 offices throughout the country. This is gonna be interesting. There might also be a kind of Valentine-ish acoustic night, I’m sorta interested, but we’ll see.

Herp. Derp.

I’m going to the Evanescence concert next month! They have Bush with them, so that’s gonna be amazing. I might go alone, haha. That’s ’cause everyone’s pretty much focused on the Singapore concert of the Foo Fighters – which I might go to as well. I just need to get my passport sorted, then off I go! I’m mega excited as that will be my first time out of the country. Hopefully it’ll kickstart my year of going abroad! I plan on taking over England ya know.

…or not.

As far as new songs and covers go, I haven’t gotten any for you just yet. But wait. I’ve pulled crazier tricks out of the hat before. ;)

Peace, love, rock & roll…

Imee

 

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Word.

October 22nd, 2011 by Imee received 1 Comment »

Whaddup yo yo yo.

So I’m writing in from a brand new iPad 2 which I won about a week ago or two. Yes, I won it! Ain’t that grand?

For the past few days I have been using it as:

  1. Internet & e-mail thingemabob
  2. Twitter device
  3. Facebook device
  4. A gaming thingy
  5. A camera
  6. Musical instruments
  7. Notebook

I have yet to use it as a recording studio. My coworker beat me to it – he bought Garage Band already! But no matter, I have that app on my MacBook anyway so…

So… The seasons are slowly arriving. In the words of Charlie Simpson, “cannot believe a whole year has gone…” This year has been great (mostly). I’m pretty bummed about a few things (Brigade being semi-retired, Westlife are breaking up, John Mayer is sick, I’ve nobody to go with to Jason Mraz’s concert…) but let’s not focus on that.

Enough about me, how are youuu? :)

 

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RIP Steve Jobs

October 6th, 2011 by Imee received Comments Off

A man who is already missed. A true innovator. Accomplishing the things you have, with the battle you fought, in just 56 short years? You just gave me a whole new perspective. Thank you.

May you rest in peace.

That is all.
X

 

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A few minutes before seven

September 25th, 2011 by Imee received 1 Comment »

Writing in from my new old iPod Touch. Ha! It’s almost 7am, I’m bored, and kind of sleepy. Devastated my MacBook does not have proper wifi here in the room I’ve currently made residence in. A wee bit hungry. Oh, and I need a muse. Hit me with a tweet on how and why you should inspire me and my music. K. Outta here.

Imee x

 

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Of cliches and tired souls

September 13th, 2011 by Imee received Comments Off

What’s crackin’ what’s shakin’ what’s a-percolatin’ y’all?

…and the winner for most cliches in an opening sentence is… ME.

So heyy. I’m back, sort of. I’m still in some crazy type of slump, however. I have not written anything on here in a while and I do apologise. Basically, I’ve been at my current corporate job for a year now. To the day. Yes, my friends… I lasted 1 year at the same job! Congratulate me. Please. I need it more than you may ever realise.

ANYWAY. I have redesigned the website, using one of them free WordPress templates, but still customised it to my own liking. I’m quite the nitpicker-slash-perfectionist when it comes to webby thingies. So the cityscape background shall be replaced next time, by I have no idea what, but I’m sure it will represent something about me. Butterflies, perhaps? No, that’s Paramore (although I do have a fascination with butterflies way before BNE). Moths, then. No, that’s Evanescence. Fireflies!!! Yes. Fireflies. No… I was thinking of dragonflies but ended up typing fireflies. I’m so absentminded. Whoo.

In other news, my school UST is in the Final 4 of the UAAP. So whazzaaaaap. I can’t watch on Thursday though, so I’m just crossing my fingers, hoping they’ll win. Basketball used to be at the top of my priorities, but heh. Just wishing them all the best of luck now, and I hope they support me as much as I supported them for the past (counts…) 8 years. Wait… EIGHT?! Mothereffing freak that’s a long time.

Anyway, I’m babbling by myself and I’m 95% sure nobody really cares. Sorry ’bout that. I’m in a quarter-life crisis so let me be. Yes, that partially came from a song. Speaking of which, I have written something I think is real cool… I wrote a song called “Broken Bride” today (I mean yesterday)…well okay I have written only the chorus, but it’s dark yet catchy. How that came to be, well… I just think this will turn out really cool and potentially amazing.

So it’s nearly 2am now and I’ve to wake up in like 3.5 hours… Why the hell am I still even up?! Lord help me, I need therapy.

I’m out. Live a little, love a little. Peace!

 

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Escape.

June 4th, 2011 by Imee received 1 Comment »

I’m working on this song, with the working title of “Escape.” In my head, it sounds good, but there’s been history of my brain making things sound more amazing than in real life. Haha. So anywho, here’s a bit of the lyrics that I’m working on for it:

I wanna escape
I wait for the day
That I lose the pain
I wanna escape

It’s not as impressive on paper (or in this case, on screen), but I really do think this has the potential of being real cool. I just need a band to help me out with the technical/musical details, that’s all.

ANYWAY. The past week, not to complain, it has been pretty much hellish. Monday, I lost my iPod on the way to work. Not a good start to the week. It all went downhill from there. I need change in my life. Maybe that’s why I’ve been inspired to work on Escape – I’m kind of looking for a change in my life, and sometimes I just wish I could escape my life and start over from scratch. It’s bizarre… Up until lately, I was happy with my life. I don’t know what the hell happened! I just…need to “escape” I guess.

 

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Prft.

May 14th, 2011 by Imee received Comments Off

Well hello. Posting from my iPod onto here for the very first time. Ever.

I’m a bad musician. Not that I’m bad in making music – it’s just that I can’t seem to stand by my word. I haven’t written a full song in a long while. I have not touched a guitar longer. I am failing really bad with my piano skills. I keep saying music is my life, but I can’t seem to live up to my own motherfucking expectations.

Life has been pretty good in general to me since I last posted here. I’m 8 months into my job yesterday (Friday the 13th). Should have stayed home and freaked people out with Twitter/Facebook statuses like “damn it where’s my hockey mask when I need it?” but nooo. I had to go to work for the last day of the week and go through a shitty day within a shitty week. And for what? Just so I can get paid. Pah.

But enough about that rant. Here’s an entirely different thing – LOVE. I have come to the conclusion that (and follow me on this) I am the exception to the rules of it. Why? They say when you love, you will be loved in return, sevenfold even. Am I feeling that? No. They also say the law of karma basically means what goes around will always come back around. Has all the love, passion and affection I’ve given come around? No. Lastly, everyone around me is pretty much hanging on. Me? Barely. I claim to be happy, which I am most of the time, but I die in misery every single time I’m reminded that I’m alone, I’ve been single for a looong while, and that every guy I like either fucks me over or is just not that into me. I’m extremely sad and disappointed about this. You can’t even begin to imagine how much.

I want to relocate. I already have a place in mind – a place I love and I know I’ll be comfortable living in. Problem, then? No passport. And I need loads of money to make that happen. Like, shitloads. Gawd. What do I have to sell and/or sacrifice? No, do not say my body because I will fucking kill you.

So what is to become of me and this site and my so-called music career? We may never know until I get a grip and start anew. Properly.

Right. Trust that I’m still around. I may not be on here that often, but you can find me everywhere online.

Until then, so long, y’all…

 

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Too busy for my own good

August 24th, 2010 by Imee received Comments Off

I haven’t written proper anything in a while… Scribbles of verses or a few notes, but never a full song. I need inspiration and time. Been really busy, with stuff I don’t even want to be busy with. Hey guess what, I’m employed again. I’m starting sometime next month I’m told. Since I signed a contract, I’m tied to the company for the next two years, else I’ll have to pay a LOT of money. Oh well. Someday I’ll escape this hell I’ve dropped myself into. For now, I should be grateful for everything I currently have.

If you feel you need to keep in touch with me, I’m almost always online at my official Twitter [@r0ckergirl14]. Sometimes I’m also at my Tumblr blog. :)

Current side project: FightstarLyrics, a Fightstar/Charlie Simpson typography website.

 

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