Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Elisa Jordana has come a l… Read Full Bio ↴Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Elisa Jordana has come a long way since her days as “one of those troubled girls with a guitar writing sad songs.” As “Nymphomaniac” – her down ’n’ dirty reinvention of the Flashdance chestnut “Maniac” – attests, the girl’s developed some genuine joie de vivre and a wickedly delicious sense of humor.
She wields the latter to excellent effect in the frequently downloaded “Unstable,” a not-so-thinly veiled recollection of her days playing keytar in the dance-rock outfit Cobra Starship, with whom she toured extensively. (That track is so beloved by Jordana’s legion of online fans that a handful have gone so far as to create YouTube videos to accompany it.)
Not that Jordana is a one-note gal. “Sweet Rosalyn” is a contemporary “I lied on the stand for you, baby” torch song, and “Young Love” is a balls-out alt-rock classic in the making. Equally at home performing pop, new wave, hip-hop, rock, disco and various combinations thereof, she’s also skilled in piano, guitar, the aforementioned keytar and a host of electronic music-making tools.
And she knows how to pick collaborators. She’s recorded with up-and-comer Secondhand Serenade and written with Colby Odonis (“What You Got”), currently signed to Akon’s Konvict Music, as well as *NSYNC’s JC Chasez and The Summer Obsession’s Lucien “Luke Skywalker” Walker. Skywalker is a particularly apt partner, as evidenced by his rhyming on “Nymphomaniac” and “Unstable.” “Madonna was my idol growing up,” Jordana volunteers, “partly because she always collaborated with such great people.”
Another influence, The Beatles, inspired Jordana to add guitar to her repertoire. “I started taking piano lessons when I was four,” she says. “But then I fell in love with the Beatles. I went from singing their songs to wanting to play their songs – on guitar. I thought guitar was the cooler instrument.” She remembers seeing and being “all over” Sade, Whitney Houston and New Kids on the Block, but it was Debbie Gibson who really inspired her. “I was drawn to her,” she confirms. “I thought I was just like her because she sang pop music and she wrote her own material, and I was writing songs just like hers.”
Jordana’s first composition, written when she was seven, was about a lost dog named Chessie who was wondering around the ranch where she and her family vacationed. She recalls, tongue firmly in cheek: “It had two chords, D minor and A. It was sad but still poppy, with a monster hook. And it had that great chorus lyric: ‘I love Chessie.’”
Come middle school, Jordana tried to put together a band. “But I was the only one who took it seriously, so I was forced to become a solo artist,” she says. Her efforts paid off in high school when she was asked repeatedly to write songs for the school musical. “That was my reason to live,” she insists.
Raised in Old Bridge, N.J., Jordana lit out for New York City at 17. She fell in with Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit crowd, and eventually found herself in a studio with Wyclef Jean, who encouraged her musical ambitions, and, of all people, Tom Jones. During these vagabond days, she occasionally found herself homeless, which she’d remedy by spending the night at Penn Station or couch-surfing, i.e. “meeting people at clubs and staying with them for as long as they’d have me.”
Clubs were also fertile ground for performing, employment and gathering ideas. A stint as a go-go dancer was particularly instructive. “I loved the music,” she says. “I’d hear it in my head after I left the club and it would inspire all these melodies. By the time I got home, songs would be pouring out of me.”
It was also at a club that she met Cobra Starship frontman Gabriel Saporta, whom she’d seen perform years before. She marched up to him and, after very little preamble, said, “I should sing in your band.” “Of course he said, ‘I’m singing,’” she relates. “So I said, ‘I can play any instrument in that band; what do you want me to play?’ And that’s how I ended up in Cobra Starship playing keytar.”
Her tenure in the band saw her sharing stages with Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Gym Class Heroes, 30 Seconds to Mars and Jack’s Mannequin, among others. She also appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” playing “Bring It,” Cobra Starship’s contribution to the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack.
In 2007 her membership in the group was revoked, about which Jordana remains philosophical. “Gabe gave me a huge break,” she says, “and he really inspired me. Being in that band was an important experience for me. I’d watch Gabe onstage every night, and it just made me want to write and sing and do my own thing.”
Her own thing took a giant leap forward after an afternoon of playing Guitar Hero with a seven-year-old. He subsequently turned her on to the recording program GarageBand. “I bought a Mac that day,” she says, “and started playing around on GarageBand. I recorded a bunch of songs” – some of which feature her dog barking in the background – “and put them up on MySpace, and all of a sudden people were contacting me and telling me how much they liked my music.” Music-industry types began sniffing around not long afterward.
Jordana, meanwhile, is well on her way to amassing enough material for an album, with “Nymphomaniac” likely its first single. This would surely please the commentator who recently opined on the music site www.threeimaginarygirls.com: “If you … have spent the last several years lamenting the dearth of upper-middle-class suburban wink-wink hip-hop song recasting, you will dance the dance of joy when your ears are massaged by the songs ‘Nymphomaniac’ and ‘Barbados.’”
Speaking of the dance of joy, Jordana declares: “A lot of people complain about where music’s going these days, but I like it. I love progressive, innovative, crazy dance music and I hear interesting stuff like that all the time. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, and neither do I.”
She wields the latter to excellent effect in the frequently downloaded “Unstable,” a not-so-thinly veiled recollection of her days playing keytar in the dance-rock outfit Cobra Starship, with whom she toured extensively. (That track is so beloved by Jordana’s legion of online fans that a handful have gone so far as to create YouTube videos to accompany it.)
Not that Jordana is a one-note gal. “Sweet Rosalyn” is a contemporary “I lied on the stand for you, baby” torch song, and “Young Love” is a balls-out alt-rock classic in the making. Equally at home performing pop, new wave, hip-hop, rock, disco and various combinations thereof, she’s also skilled in piano, guitar, the aforementioned keytar and a host of electronic music-making tools.
And she knows how to pick collaborators. She’s recorded with up-and-comer Secondhand Serenade and written with Colby Odonis (“What You Got”), currently signed to Akon’s Konvict Music, as well as *NSYNC’s JC Chasez and The Summer Obsession’s Lucien “Luke Skywalker” Walker. Skywalker is a particularly apt partner, as evidenced by his rhyming on “Nymphomaniac” and “Unstable.” “Madonna was my idol growing up,” Jordana volunteers, “partly because she always collaborated with such great people.”
Another influence, The Beatles, inspired Jordana to add guitar to her repertoire. “I started taking piano lessons when I was four,” she says. “But then I fell in love with the Beatles. I went from singing their songs to wanting to play their songs – on guitar. I thought guitar was the cooler instrument.” She remembers seeing and being “all over” Sade, Whitney Houston and New Kids on the Block, but it was Debbie Gibson who really inspired her. “I was drawn to her,” she confirms. “I thought I was just like her because she sang pop music and she wrote her own material, and I was writing songs just like hers.”
Jordana’s first composition, written when she was seven, was about a lost dog named Chessie who was wondering around the ranch where she and her family vacationed. She recalls, tongue firmly in cheek: “It had two chords, D minor and A. It was sad but still poppy, with a monster hook. And it had that great chorus lyric: ‘I love Chessie.’”
Come middle school, Jordana tried to put together a band. “But I was the only one who took it seriously, so I was forced to become a solo artist,” she says. Her efforts paid off in high school when she was asked repeatedly to write songs for the school musical. “That was my reason to live,” she insists.
Raised in Old Bridge, N.J., Jordana lit out for New York City at 17. She fell in with Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit crowd, and eventually found herself in a studio with Wyclef Jean, who encouraged her musical ambitions, and, of all people, Tom Jones. During these vagabond days, she occasionally found herself homeless, which she’d remedy by spending the night at Penn Station or couch-surfing, i.e. “meeting people at clubs and staying with them for as long as they’d have me.”
Clubs were also fertile ground for performing, employment and gathering ideas. A stint as a go-go dancer was particularly instructive. “I loved the music,” she says. “I’d hear it in my head after I left the club and it would inspire all these melodies. By the time I got home, songs would be pouring out of me.”
It was also at a club that she met Cobra Starship frontman Gabriel Saporta, whom she’d seen perform years before. She marched up to him and, after very little preamble, said, “I should sing in your band.” “Of course he said, ‘I’m singing,’” she relates. “So I said, ‘I can play any instrument in that band; what do you want me to play?’ And that’s how I ended up in Cobra Starship playing keytar.”
Her tenure in the band saw her sharing stages with Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Gym Class Heroes, 30 Seconds to Mars and Jack’s Mannequin, among others. She also appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” playing “Bring It,” Cobra Starship’s contribution to the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack.
In 2007 her membership in the group was revoked, about which Jordana remains philosophical. “Gabe gave me a huge break,” she says, “and he really inspired me. Being in that band was an important experience for me. I’d watch Gabe onstage every night, and it just made me want to write and sing and do my own thing.”
Her own thing took a giant leap forward after an afternoon of playing Guitar Hero with a seven-year-old. He subsequently turned her on to the recording program GarageBand. “I bought a Mac that day,” she says, “and started playing around on GarageBand. I recorded a bunch of songs” – some of which feature her dog barking in the background – “and put them up on MySpace, and all of a sudden people were contacting me and telling me how much they liked my music.” Music-industry types began sniffing around not long afterward.
Jordana, meanwhile, is well on her way to amassing enough material for an album, with “Nymphomaniac” likely its first single. This would surely please the commentator who recently opined on the music site www.threeimaginarygirls.com: “If you … have spent the last several years lamenting the dearth of upper-middle-class suburban wink-wink hip-hop song recasting, you will dance the dance of joy when your ears are massaged by the songs ‘Nymphomaniac’ and ‘Barbados.’”
Speaking of the dance of joy, Jordana declares: “A lot of people complain about where music’s going these days, but I like it. I love progressive, innovative, crazy dance music and I hear interesting stuff like that all the time. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, and neither do I.”
Hangman
Elisa Jordana Lyrics
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7xvn Vampire Hunter D, I gotta nasty bite No werewolf, I might…
Allen Wolf Hangman Rainman I come out full throttle it's the same thing…
Angel Forrest I sent my letter, to tell you how I felt You…
Arankai Spent last night watching flies crawl Hearing TV static down…
Axel Ian You and I together. This is not the way it's gonna…
Bear On Bear You aim for the bullseye Shoot your foot Blame the gun and…
Beat Happening There's a little village near the center of Spain, Where a…
Billy Woods Matisse without the colors Sharp-teethed new lovers suck me …
billy woods Kenny Segal Matisse without the colors Sharp-teethed new lovers suck me …
billy woods/Kenny Segal Matisse without the colors Sharp teeth, new lovers Suck me d…
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Billy Woods;Kenny Segal Matisse without the colors Sharp teeth, new lovers Suck me d…
Black Wolf Mountain I saw the devil And he knew my name He said, Come…
Blind Lemon Jefferson Hangman's rope is so tough and strong Oh, the hangman's rope…
Buntai A ja sam radio svašta kako bi došo do bezbroj I…
Chris Pureka Bottoms up, looks like a mess we've got. You want to…
Clonez Why you so afraid of me I know you always hated…
Cooked I died three times this week My futures looking bleak Excuse…
Cyanide Walking to my death Want the help but I just don't…
Dave It's Santan ST, look I see a lot of man let their jealousy…
Dead Sons You're living the easy lie back and go Life down in…
DIRTYXAN Ayy (Talk shit we gon' hang him from a noose, cut-throa…
Doobie - Topic The days grow short, the nights are long Since you were…
Drugstore Fanatics hold me close feed me those feasts you know you need, you…
DYG All my brothers think I'm Hangman Amen Almost lost the horse…
Exciter Hangman [x2] Slayer of mutants has summoned you to fall …
Fictional The moon shines through the clouds See the black bird on…
Grim Chiefa I take another sip oop hope it numb me I think…
Ha Ha Tonka Hangman, hangman, hangman Slack your rope awhile I think I…
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Ian Axel You and I together. This is not the way it's gonna…
Jane When I wake up in the morning it is the…
Jean Ritchie Hangman, Hangman, slack up your rope, oh slack it for a…
Jeff Beck Hopkins, Beck, Newman, Stewart, Wood) Hangman, hangman, sla…
Kai Straw May rain pour and bring me outside my home To chase…
Kid Mountain Some are good and some are bad The goal is to…
Kill Devil Hill Ashes to ashes, dust to dust We live together and die…
Krokus A beacon, lights in the dark The poison is deep…
Left Unsaid Sixty seconds From now i Won't hear you screamin' Don't g…
LIVING ROOM - Motion City Soundtrack Fed up with "I made you look" And Dirty Crooks without…
Madder Mortem I know that death hides in my eyes And screams from…
Marty Stuart I killed another man today, it's hard to believe Well I…
MEGAMI I'm just a hanged man I'm just a lonely man I'm but…
Mercy Fall Can't hold a love inflatable In line to be rejected Cover …
Motion City Soundtrack Fed up with "I made you look" And Dirty Crooks without…
Packs All choked up Sweating through my shirt Drooling on the shee…
Pale Hell The buyers have moved in there's nothing to see But somebody…
Paloalto This is part of your make-up To look as though to…
Pestilence Hang Hangman Mind is set to the unexplainable As cries …
Peter Paul & Mary Slack your rope hangman, slack it for a while I think…
polair So much efforts for so long and we are still…
Queen I've never compared myself. And I couldn't care anymore. I'v…
Reliqa Speak no evil, and let it infect your mind The braveheart's…
Rev Theory Take your places please, you'll need to sit for this…
Ringworm Hangman, why are you so cold? The burning desire to…
Rivermaya Koo-koo-ka-choo I shot the eggman Under an April morning sky…
Roy Harper Last night I wasn't sleeping I knew it was my last I've…
Sheavy Take your memories, the things you've seen Close your eyes a…
Sick Minds I wear a noose on my neck, just to help…
Sidelines Stuck in a past That never existed Given the world And now…
Slow Walk The gallop of fingers on keyboards Here comes another frenzi…
Spite Learning to walk Held up by stilts A taste of the pavement…
Streetwalkers Chapman-Whitney Pulled the switch, it cold, black as pitc…
Swingin Hammers I′m holding a fistful in my hand My pockets full of…
The Dead Milkmen Hangman! Is now lynch mob TV fun The game you played as…
The Kingston Trio Nick Reynolds/Adam Yagodka Hangman, hangman, hangman, slack…
The Lonely Forest Morning light saves from darkness. Her son lay dead before …
The Poets People dying People screaming Drop dead right in your arms T…
The Walkabouts Hangman take these heads from me And swing 'em from your…
Tia Blake Slack you rope, hangman Slack it far and wide I think I…
Tia Blake & Her Folk-Group Hopkins, Beck, Newman, Stewart, Wood) Hangman, hangman, sla…
Tigress Hangman on a train Have you got some news For me? Have you…
Van Tastik Riders on the sun, We never stopped for anyone And so I…
Vendetta Red The sweetest symptoms of stupidity are lies Embed themselve…
Vestigial I hear the reaper calling to me Step by step, walking…
Young Fathers I'm almost there. I'm almost there, but not quite Traveling …
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Barbados It was just another night in NYC Me and my girls…
Be My Lighthouse Crash, Crash The waves are crashing in Crash, Crash The w…
Buzzed With U I wanna get I wanna get buzzed with you So we can…
Carried Away You get carried away I'm searching for a meaning To pull m…
D.I.G. Gold... If you want my kisses I get three wishes I want…
I Can't Believe That He's Gone I can't believe that he's gone, oh I can't believe that…
I'm Glad I Got Out I was to afraid to ask for your help I was…
It Wasn't I I wish you well I wish you knew Just how much I…
Like Butta Soon as I open my eyes I see you lying…
Line Up Crazy, Crazy He drives me crazy (uh huh) I wanna be his…
My Manolos He left quietly and I'm feeling so empty And I'm not…
Nymphomaniac I get excited by all the money in the club I…
PINKBERRY All the boys lined up with their little spoons They just…
queen Tell my how you feel girl You got me feeling lucky You're…
Sweet Rosalyn I drove by your house today I didn't stay that long,…
The Dark Side of The City I feel like I've been locked up They stole my soul…
Them Dollars Both mother and daughter Both mother and daughter Both mot…
Twisted Up Don't know what keeps me here There's something about you I…
Unstable I'm unstable What? I'm unstable Damn I'm sorry that I …
Whatever You Like It was a warm summer breeze and she made me…
You're In Love I want you so bad I feel like I could fly I'm…
Young Love I'm in my studio, hearing my stereo Listening to Young Love…
Your Love Is Like Crack I want you, I want you, I want you I want…
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@bensnow2688
Normally I’m mad when the start of the video doesn’t correspond with the name of the video, but this Richard segment is great
@EricSchmerick
Totally agree. But it at least sets up the whole night terrors discussion that leads into Benjy’s herpes.
@ALT_RIGHT
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@howdareyou41
it makes you mad when stolen content provided to you by free in the comfort of your moms basement isn't exactly the way you want it? look into that bud. plus it does correspond, it's a great setup for benjy hijinks
@kiowahorse2561
Correlate.
@ryanhauck70
@@howdareyou41 no kidding
@thebadaids
I go to sleep every night listening to ETM, that’s kinda like going to bed to a Halloween/Monster soundtrack.
@justmissjamey
Same
@howdareyou41
I love Benjy's hearty laugh
@ffvffv5709
Howard is so jealous Richard actually found someone he seems to actually get along with, as opposed to the billion dollar mare he’s saddled up with.