{"id":23941,"date":"2014-01-22T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T05:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=23941"},"modified":"2014-01-22T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T05:09:11","slug":"skylar-greys-necklace-and-new-song-and-my-cher-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/skylar-greys-necklace-and-new-song-and-my-cher-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylar Grey&#8217;s Necklace and New Song, and My Cher Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gorgeous singer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylargreymusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skylar Grey<\/a> was interviewed on the music channel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuse.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fuse TV<\/a> last week, and I was thrilled to see she had on the special double-ax necklace I made for her last summer! You can see it in this screen cap. (P.S. Her new chest tattoo says &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/stealherstyle.net\/skylar-grey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Woodrat<\/a>.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23957\" style=\"width: 532px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/skylar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23957\" class=\" wp-image-23957\" alt=\"skylar\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/skylar.jpg\" width=\"522\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/skylar.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/skylar-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the whole interview.<\/p>\n<p><center><script height=\"440px\" width=\"729px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=kzZmE0azp0otGhoUyAkeYqKAv8k80wwk&#038;pbid=adf2ca2f4a994bb4b460f8f585bfedf3\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about this necklace <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/wendy-brandes-jewelry-in-skylar-greys-get-lucky-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>, but here&#8217;s the back story for those who don&#8217;t want to rummage around in my archives. When Skylar released her album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dont-Look-Down-Skylar-Grey\/dp\/B00D3HYLP2\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t Look Down<\/a><\/em> last July, I was drawn to her double-ax logo.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23960\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylargreynews.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23960\" class=\" wp-image-23960\" alt=\"SkylarGreylogoresize\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SkylarGreylogoresize.jpg\" width=\"391\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SkylarGreylogoresize.jpg 489w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SkylarGreylogoresize-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Skylar Grey News.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Specifically, I thought, &#8220;That would be a great necklace &#8230; and stud earrings would be cute, too!&#8221; I got to work and made an 18K gold double-ax necklace and matching earrings and delivered them to Skylar with help from a friend (Hi, Jay!). I was tempted to give them to her right after the concert I went to last year, but we decided it would be too hectic to be handling jewelry post-show. Instead, I wore the sample I made for the necklace and gave her a preview. I&#8217;m wearing it in this photo with Skylar.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23961\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/what-wendy-wore-special-jewelry-for-skylar-grey\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23961\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23961\" alt=\"skylarandwendycrop\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/skylarandwendycrop.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/skylarandwendycrop.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/skylarandwendycrop-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Hello, here&#8217;s your necklace, sorry you can&#8217;t keep it!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I sent her the jewelry after her tour.<\/p>\n<p>The size and style of the necklace and studs complement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Letter-Necklace-%252d-Small%2C-Silver%2C-NSFW\" target=\"_blank\">the letter necklaces<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/search.php?search_query=emoji&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" target=\"_blank\">emoji earrings<\/a> I make for my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/store\/categories.php?category=WendyB\" target=\"_blank\">WENDYB by Wendy Brandes<\/a> diffusion line.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23962\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23962\" class=\" wp-image-23962  \" alt=\"Cross Axe designed by Wendy Brandes.\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cross-axe-necklace-gold.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cross-axe-necklace-gold.jpg 2906w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cross-axe-necklace-gold-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cross-axe-necklace-gold-927x1024.jpg 927w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up of the necklace. This is the sample. Skylar&#8217;s version has a tiny diamond on each ax handle.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I designed the diffusion-line necklaces and earrings to be easy to wear on a daily basis. These pieces are petite, yet still noticeable. You can also layer longer chains over the necklaces and combine the studs with other earrings. Basically, I envisioned customers wearing the jewelry so often that the pieces would become a signature look. (Worked for me! When I&#8217;m seen without my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Letter-Necklace-%252d-Small%2C-Gold%2C-IDGAF\" target=\"_blank\">IDGAF necklace<\/a>, people ask where it is.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23965\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23965\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23965\" alt=\"crossedaxearringsresize\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/crossedaxearringsresize.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/crossedaxearringsresize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/crossedaxearringsresize-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Again, the sample earrings didn&#8217;t include Skylar&#8217;s diamonds.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s all very well for a designer to make something with a particular intention, but customers get to interpret jewelry and use it their own way. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so pleased to see Skylar still wearing her necklace six months later.<br \/>\nI should note that the crossed-ax designs aren&#8217;t for sale at this time &#8212; they&#8217;re for Skylar&#8217;s use only (well, I have a set too). But, if you want a similar lumberjack\/woodrat vibe I&#8217;ve got single ax stud earrings in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Ax-Stud-Earrings-%252d-Silver\" target=\"_blank\">silver <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Ax-Stud-Earrings-%252d-Gold\" target=\"_blank\">gold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a big January for Skylar. Early in the month, she was named <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/music\/news\/variety-breakthrough-of-the-year-awards-skylar-grey-1201029634\/\" target=\"_blank\">Variety&#8217;s 2014 Breakthrough of the Year<\/a>. Then, this Monday, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/code\/5876992\/skylar-grey-pairs-with-david-guetta-for-bang-bang-cover-talks-awkward\" target=\"_blank\">Shot Me Down<\/a>&#8221; came out &#8212; a track from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/01\/20\/david-guetta-origin-magazine_n_4619505.html\" target=\"_blank\">DJ\/producer David Guetta<\/a>, featuring Skylar&#8217;s vocals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatport.com\/release\/shot-me-down\/1224915\" target=\"_blank\">BUY &#8220;SHOT ME DOWN&#8221; HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had an &#8220;OH EM GEE!&#8221; moment when I listened to the song, because the hook is from Cher&#8217;s 1966 song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bang_Bang_%28My_Baby_Shot_Me_Down%29\" target=\"_blank\">Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)<\/a>.&#8221; (Some of you might be more familiar with Nancy Sinatra&#8217;s cover of it, but it was written by Sonny Bono for Cher and it&#8217;s forever a Cher song to me.) Cher was a big part of my childhood. I can remember watching <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sonny_%26_Cher_Comedy_Hour\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Sonny &amp; Cher Show<\/em><\/a> in the &#8217;70s &#8212; probably the second post-divorce series, rather than the earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sonny_%26_Cher_Comedy_Hour\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sonny &amp; Cher Comedy Hour<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/08\/21\/cher-bob-mackie-farewell-tour_n_3789745.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Mackie&#8217;s extravagant beaded and belly-baring costumes for Cher<\/a> were a must-see. And I adored Cher&#8217;s songs about oppressed women, whether they were a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0NZbkuPi2_Y\" target=\"_blank\">Half-Breed<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; Cher has some Cherokee in her background &#8212; or betrayed by a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dnYAkvCpom0\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Lady<\/a>.&#8221; But the Cher song to end all Cher songs was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gypsys,_Tramps_%26_Thieves\" target=\"_blank\">Gypsies, Tramps &amp; Thieves<\/a>.&#8221; It came out in 1971, but it must have made a comeback five years later when Cher performed it on <em>The Sonny &amp; Cher Show<\/em>. (She was pregnant with her son by her second husband, rocker <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Allman\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Allman<\/a>, while working on that show with her ex, Sonny.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23969\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ca71UcEYOQw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23969\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23969 \" alt=\"cher\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cher.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cher.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cher-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the screen cap to see the video.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As a result, the song was used for a skit for a talent show at the day camp I reluctantly went to when I was around eight.\u00a0 Parents were in attendance and some of them were momentarily alarmed by the choice of music. I remember my mother deciding it wasn&#8217;t too bad because &#8220;they [the kids] don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s about.&#8221; I was like, &#8220;What is she talking about? It&#8217;s about a lady dancing and bad people are mean to her.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure when I figured out the rest of it &#8212; that the 21-year-old &#8220;boy from south of Mobile&#8221; took advantage of the 16-year-old narrator and left her pregnant &#8212; but it was YEARS. Years! By the way, Mom said the same thing about lack of comprehension to my father when we went to see <em>Evita<\/em> on Broadway, and she was right about that too. As far as I was concerned, the only thing all those men were doing with Eva Peron was dancing and singing. Maybe that provides a little comfort to you parents who are worried about whether the line is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/22\/miley-cyrus-molly_n_3634422.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;dancing with Miley&#8221; or &#8220;dancing with molly&#8221;<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/i-had-to-call-a-psychologist-and-its-miley-cyruss-fault\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miley Cyrus<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LrUvu1mlWco\" target=\"_blank\">We Can&#8217;t Stop<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, getting back to Skylar&#8217;s necklace, if you want a custom necklace of your own &#8212; initials or an animal or emoji or whatever &#8212; holla at me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com. Till then, I&#8217;ll leave you with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x1toys_will-grace-cher-jack_people\" target=\"_blank\">Jack trying to out-Cher Cher<\/a> in this 2000 episode of <em>Will &#038; Grace<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gorgeous singer Skylar Grey was interviewed on the music channel Fuse TV last week, and I was thrilled to see she had on the special double-ax necklace I made for her last summer! You can see it in this screen cap. (P.S. Her new chest tattoo says &#8220;Woodrat.&#8221;) Here&#8217;s the whole interview. I&#8217;ve written about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/skylar-greys-necklace-and-new-song-and-my-cher-memories\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,341,42,13,626,644,591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","category-custom-work","category-music","category-necklaces","category-skylar-grey","category-stud-earrings","category-wendyb-by-wendy-brandes","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23941"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23995,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23941\/revisions\/23995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}