Emma Blackery
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🕑 Added 2020-07-06 15:41:00 +0000 UTCHey guys,
Time for another update! What have I been up to lately? Well, firstly, I hope July is serving you all well - it does seem as though daily life is slowly returning to normal, but please remain cautious and alert! The UK has drastically loosened the lockdown and pubs and bars are back open... it’s looking as though any second wave of COVID-19 will be pretty brutal judging by the photos of people out and about at the weekend.
Last week marked the first time I was able to see my family in person for over five months - I love living in Birmingham, and this isn’t the first time I’ve lived away from my hometown, but the current crisis has meant that this was the longest I’d gone in my entire LIFE without seeing my parents. My sincere respect to anybody who goes backpacking or lives at university because it’s been extremely hard not being able to see my family. I’m back home with Davey now and Leia has forgiven me for daring to be away for two days!
Today I’ve been laying down some scratch vocals for a fourth song I’ve written recently - what are all of these songs for? All will be revealed. I was able to visit the studio with Tom Gittins to finish off Ridicule last week (it’s sounding amazing, and what a great catharsis it has been for me to get a great song out of something painful!) and I’m hoping to be back again for the next song shortly!
Yesterday I finished translating the lyrics for Agenda into Simlish (the language spoken in The Sims franchise) and today I’ll be writing a script for the video that will accompany my effort - I’ll be posting the video on here once it is finished so you can all enjoy early access! Should be ready in around a week, hopefully. I’ve also been coming up with tons of video ideas that are based around playing The Sims 4 - I’ve realised that there’s no better time than now to just focus on making whatever the hell I want, and I’ve been playing a ton of games in lockdown, so we could be seeing a return of BirdyBoots... just on my main channel. (I have banned myself from making any more channels. It was necessary.) I might also look into streaming on Twitch if the videos go down well.
I wanted to also extend a massive thank you to any of you who have bought merch in my recent merch sale - there’s still tons available, including loads of shirt designs for £5! Visit here to grab yourself a bargain. Once I’m confident that worldwide shipping is resuming a reliable service, I’m considering an exclusive Patreon pin badge or shirt as a perk on here. I don’t want to offer any physical rewards at this time if I am not confident that they will get to you all. At least with digital perks I know I can control their delivery!
Once I have finished up the work for today I’ll be going over some of your video requests and I should have at least one of them up by the end of the week - until then, here’s a photo of me that I took yesterday that I didn’t post over on my Insta (please follow me on there if you don’t already!)
Stay safe and don’t forget to treat yourself today! Mondays suck but you don’t.
Emma
Comments
Catherine_I_M
Wow exciting definitely looking forward to those things all coming together.
Kia
Ayyyy the sound of seeing you play video games again is amazing!! I was really sad that you didn't upload you playing Life is Strange Before the Storm, although I also understand wanting to just play it for yourself without the pressure of having to do commentary etc. Whatever game you play, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing you share that with us again <3 Also super excited about you recording more music. Can't wait for all these things to be released ♥♥
Alannah Bradley
Yay I loved birdyboots not a massive fan of twitch tho
Jake
Sounds exciting love hearing when you're writing new music and I recently just two items I off the merch shop a Villain's poster which I know will look amazing and yet a another villain's t-shirt 😆 . Stay safe and keep up the good work 👏👏
Emma Blackery
I’m afraid that most of my songs are distributed by distro companies and many of those contracts include “alternate versions” and “remixes” which makes releasing instrumentals very difficult! Demos are a little different but official instrumentals could land me in some hot water.
Shane Rodgers
Hell yeah! Glad you were able to see the fam again. UH YES SIMLISH SONG. AND UH FUCK YES EVEN MORE TO EMMA GAMERY VIDEOS. Glad July has been well for you. Mine is sleep. But also good! Been getting slowly addicted to gta online again. Someone stop me. Im so hype now! Also I had a question/suggestion. Do you think you'd ever do something like Karaoke versions of your music? I know alot have probably been made by fans and stuff but some songs I have literally found nothing and I know nothing about making it myself. Have a great rest of your July!
Liz V. Art
I had to chuckle at the "I banned myself from making another channel" comment. I didn't realise you had so many new songs written! Looking forward to hearing them ❤️ The simlish video sounds great too!
Bee Singleton
exciting stuff!! hope you're well and I'm looking forward to seeing all of this come together 🥰
