Megan Hilty from Smash to be releasing her very own debut album, titled ‘It Happens All The Time’ which will be available on March 12, 2013 from the partnership with Columbia records.
Gossip Center reports: For Hilty, the key to her debut album was finding songs that she could identify with. “Stylistically these aren’t the type of songs that I’m used to singing. It was exciting and challenging, for example, to take a song written by Ne-Yo and make it my own,” says Hilty.
“I was looking for lyrics I could connect with,” she explains, “which comes from another part of my theatrical background: I always feel that there has to be a point to what I’m singing, instead of it just being a pretty sound. The lyrics reflect the year I’ve had in breaking up and finding new love, whereas the music shows my eclectic tastes. Andy [Zulla] tied it all together with his arrangements.” While it wasn’t intentional, the album took on a break-up theme, “not a sad one so much as the end of a chapter and wondering what comes next,” she says.
For Hilty, the key to her debut album was finding songs that she could identify with. “Stylistically these aren’t the type of songs that I’m used to singing. It was exciting and challenging, for example, to take a song written by Ne-Yo and make it my own,” says Hilty.
“I was looking for lyrics I could connect with,” she explains, “which comes from another part of my theatrical background: I always feel that there has to be a point to what I’m singing, instead of it just being a pretty sound. The lyrics reflect the year I’ve had in breaking up and finding new love, whereas the music shows my eclectic tastes. Andy [Zulla] tied it all together with his arrangements.” While it wasn’t intentional, the album took on a break-up theme, “not a sad one so much as the end of a chapter and wondering what comes next,” she says.
Songs featured on It Happens All The Time include Hilty’s fresh interpretations of compositions by stellar contemporary songwriters as Aimee Mann , Sara Bareilles , Bruno Mars and Damien Rice . Also noteworthy are new songs by writers such as Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, Duffy), Wayne Hector ( James Morrison , One Direction), Glen Ballard ( Alanis Morissette , Wilson Phillips ), Ne-Yo and Carrie Underwood .
The repertoire is a significant step outside of both the musical theater world in which Hilty initially found fame – via Broadway roles as Glinda in Wicked and Doralee Rhodes in 9 To 5: The Musical – as well as her TV character Ivy Lynn in Smash, in which she’s sung such noteworthy songs as the Grammy-nominated “Let Me Be Your Star,” Carrie Underwood ‘s “Crazy Dreams” and the Rose Royce (and Mary J. Blige ) soul hit “I’m Going Down.”
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