To be honest, I wasn't all to fond of my producer either. But Joe said he was the best. And buy Joe. I mean Joe Jonas. Him and I where just really really good friends. He was helping me make my big break.
"OK." My producer named Derek said, while showing me the lyrics. "This song. This is something that people might actually listen to." He told me. I knew what he was getting at. I wanted to rip his throat out. But Joe give me a look and I calmed down. I was thinkeful that Derek ignored the fact that I rolled my eyes at the insult. "Sing it exactly how I show it to you. No adding your own 'spunk' to it. No upping the sound.I don't want none of that rock 'ba da ba da.' crap. Nothing. Just do it how you are told. Got it?" He hissed, making me narrow my eyes for a moment. Okay so he clearly noticed the eye roll. What the hell was this guy going on about? "Yeah." I mumbled quietly, thinking abouts something. Which earned me some strange looks from other people in the room. I shrugged them off.
Nick, Kevin, and Joe Jonas my band mates, watched in disgust. I am not sure if they where watching me or the producer like that. The label practically owned them at the moment. I knew that they hated it how Derek bossed me around as if he owned me too. I took a long deep breath. I then jumped hearing Joe yell out.
"Demi's songs are amazing! What the hell are you talking about that not a lot of people listen to them?! So she's never won a fucking Grammy?!" he said sarcastically. "Who gives? Your the one holding her back! You never give her a shot!" He glared at Derek, who returned the hateful stare. "I swear." he muttered. "Demi, you need to pick a new band." He shook his head, pushing those thoughts aside. I looked at the guys and mouthed. "Never." I honestly couldn't see myself doing it without my three best guy friends. "OK. Moving on." he continued on about the song, as if Joe never said anything.
I took a deep breath and tried to listen to Derek as he spoke about what the song was about. Without zoning out again.
"The song talks about how a girl is caught up in her fantasy land. Everything crashes down, making her sad. Whatever." I sighed at that. Lame right? "That's why, the chorus is about rebuilding her 'castle' in her fairy tale land. So it is a happy song. With a happy ending." He smirked as if he were satisfied. I narrowed my eyes at him. "But.." I started quietly. "Are people actually going to believe this? Life doesn't always-" Derek then cut me off.
"Have happy endings. Yeah we get it. But this is just a song." He then looked at me as if I was stupid. I gritted my teeth and just nodded. It took everything I had to not punch him in the face. I heard a collective round of sighs from the Jonas Brothers. I glanced at them sighing. I then read the chorus of the song out loud to myself, realizing how stupid I sounded saying them. Because they where so untrue. So fake. I heard Joe snickering as I finished. They quieted down a bit when Derek glowered at them. "Are you serious?" Joe laughed at him. "That is so corny. Are you kidding?" I kept trying my damn hardest to make the song work in my mind. I read the lyrics over and over again. We all had to have this...song...if we could call it that...down by the next day. Or did we? I smiled thinking about the fact we were having a live radio show and playing the song so that they could broadcast it. But I knew that no one could take us seriously if they sung this. Regardless, Derek had three people come in. Two with guitars and one female back up singer. That I knew of. But this song was so...slow. So corny. I couldn't handle it. But I had no choice. Or did I? I looked at Joe then back at the lyrics.
"See?" Derek asked to me. "It isn't stupid or sad. It doesn't have that annoying ba da ba sound to it." He said again, repeating himself from earlier. I just rolled my eyes at his comment. What exactly was he going on about? I knew one thing for sure. I wasn't going to be singing this bullshit song tomorrow.