I have a painful friendship crush on Anjulie already. What do you want to hear about first? Her compulsive farting problem? Why she thinks she's really a guy? She only scratches the surface of these little nuggets of oversharing in her "The 5" interview below. Also, I am obsessed with Anjulie because, during an internship at a recording studio, the company fired her for accepting a date -- but more on that later.
First, let's get to Anjulie's video, "Boom," a dark, willowy and almost lurid number -- yet oddly, it's totally pop, and I want it on my party mix NOW. The video -- Anjulie in a tutu, alongside pop-up-book sets -- offers child-like Alice in Wonderland allusions. Damn, this video is almost as good as Anjulie's shoulder pads and deadpan farting stories. (I'm still pinning down the biological connection between singing and farting, by the way.)
Anyway, Anjulie grew up in Canada, and she's half Guyanese (like Leona Lewis, FYI). You may also have heard two of Anjulie's unreleased singles on The Hills and The City; although her musical stylings and even her vocals are so disparate track to track that you might not even make the connection. Speaking of disparate, Anjulie opened for Jesse McCartney last year... Anyway, Anjulie's self-titled debut album comes out August 4, and already I can tell it's the kind of spiked pop I NEED in my lifestyle. Daily.
Oh yeah, this isn't in the interview you're about to watch, but Metalworks Recording studios in Canada fired a 17-year-old Anjulie from her internship for accepting a lunch invitation from Jon Levine, of the Toronto band The Philosopher Kings. Oh, well! Jon went on to become a huge champion and even a musical collaborator of Anjulie's, so it looks like office flirtation has its benefits.
'Kay. Watch Anjulie tell you all about her flatulence and more, and watch her "Boom" video after the jump.
