SCV: So tell us, did you and Adrien really place that ad looking for an intern to hold your bags while being photographed on the red carpet?
AA: You know, for the life of me we still haven’t figured out who put it out the ad. Cause it wasn’t us.
SCV: And I know it wasn’t Kristian Laliberte, cause he had to text me at midnight to let me know it wasn’t him.
AA: I think it’s amusing, but really silly. As if we would advertise for an intern to hold our bags? That’s what I mean by society. I think what’s happened is that the words ‘society, fame’ no longer hold the same meaning they used to. After all you can become famous for just been seen at enough parties, hanging out, or being in some reality show.
SCV: Which aren’t so real after all.
AA: The only reality about reality shows is that they are not real. They’re so scripted, but that’s what people in the middle of the country are being sold.
SCV: Let’s not forget the east coast and the west coast too.
AA: To have been famous, or society, you used to have to either come from money, make money, invent something or be a Broadway star, and I don’t think that applies anymore.
SCV: So you want to be a Broadway star?
AA: I want to be me. Whole. I want to excel in what I do.
SCV: Which is?
AA: A musical performer.
SCV: You were a Broadway star over in Finland?
AA: Star? That’s a big word. But I am certainly very well recognized over in Finland. I played the part of ‘Lil Inez,’ in the theatrical production of ‘Hairspray,’ for two years.
SCV: How does an American girl born and raised in Manhattan manage that?
AA: Well my mom is Finnish and when I was fifteen (Alexandra is now 23) she thought it would be a good idea if we moved back there for a while. So whilst I was there I kept at my singing, perfected my Finnish and started going to auditions.
SCV: So how was that?
AA: Amazing. I never worked so hard. Even days I was feeling ill the box office would beg me to come in. I don’t think my understudy ever got to go on stage.
SCV: How’s your tea?
AA: My god, out of this world.
SCV: Can I show you something?
AA: Sure?
(I reach over take a dollop of whipped cream and a smidgen of strawberry preserve and marinate the thing over my scone).
SCV: Divine. I’m sorry, where were we? Fame?
AA: (laughing) Well working for fame.
SCV: So how does one work for fame?
AA: Well not for fame’s sake, but for talents sake. (pausing to take a tiny dollop over her scone). You should have seen me over there in Finland, I’d call up these nightclubs in Hong Kong, sure I’ll come by and play your club. So there’d I be getting on the midnight flight booking gigs in another time zone.
SCV: You really want this don’t you?
AA: If I could describe it to you, it would be this; when I was on stage, they were embracing my stage character, but now I want people to be rallying for me, for my own voice, my own identity.
SCV: How do you go about writing your music?
AA: It’s a mix of things. Producers will send me beats, I’ll be going through something and I’ll use music to come to a kind of catharsis. An honesty of sorts.
SCV: You mentioned earlier it’s come to the stage where when you go out you are very conscious of how you conduct yourself. Why is that?
AA: When you choose to live in the public life, by virtue of being a theater singer, pop singer people are always going to be paying attention to everything you do. They will look for chinks, ammunition to say or do with you as they will.
Hello???! This person is a total unknown in Finland. She has once had her picture published in a gossip rag for having been at some F-list party witn some F-list “celebrity” who became “famous” from some F-list reality show called “Popstars”, called Kana (in English: “Hen”!).
Nobody knows about this Alexandra person. She’s never published music in Finland. The way she is trying to come off as an already established superstar in Finland and some future nternational mega celebrity is such a tragic, though hilarious, joke. This is obviously a person who has totally lost touch with reality. Although, I seriously doubt even she, herself, is that illusioned about what she is. Just trying to put on a show, most likely.
She could very well be this nice, positive, exciting person in real life (what do I know. I don’t know her personally), but please, Alexandra, stop making a complete idiot of yourself. Get real.
You know,I think she’s just being honest,I don’t know alexandra that well..but she comes off as a smart,together gal who knows where she’s going in life,what’s so wrong about that?I think its great that someone has a passion that drives them,I’m still trying to find myself..
Kels
Alexandra frequents many of our events,she is always polite,always pulled together and a wonderful example of what a young budding star should be!
hi !
As a ” big sister ” of Alexandra for many years in Finland ( she was my flatmate and used to co-ordinate fashion showsfor me in discos at the age of 16 ) I want to share that she is one of the most inspiring , positive , contagiously happy and spiritual people I know .
Go , Alsie !!!!!
Nisa
It’s so odd, she sounds like she thinks she’s already famous. I’ve never heard of her before reading this linked from gawker. Honey, live your life — have a drink, hold hands. At this point NOBODY CARES!
“i know Alexandra personally”. Ha, fucking loser you are. I’m glad you know her “personally”, you are SO lucky.
I think the idea of high society being more closely related to low society is instinctively true, carnally true. When polarities like this are distinguished it makes for good writing, in the immediate ways. I think your paper understands itself, and resides in itself for that reason. Without acknowleding “morals” (I remember often telling ppl I did’nt believe in such a thing when I was in the city as a student: it allows people to be as they are, in their own skin, and reveal themselves to you. More importantly, your free to go about your own conversations with the outside world.), I can’t tell whether you’re eqauting most everyone, and or mocking them, and if humility is the confronting nature of it, where humor is the passifyer. Either way: it allows the writing, and issues, and the personal nature of it, a kind of mobility; one that is still fully assured of itself. It rides the fence, and so takes allowances with itself. It’s pillow talk, accesible, marketable, in the way it’s interesting bc of this? It’s also in continual states of provoking the world around it.
I know Alexandria personally, she’s an amazing woman. Very sweet, nice, and a great role model. Good luck with the music and great article. Nice vagabond found someone worthy to write about.