[Music]
have you ever been bullied do you know
anyone who’s been bullied have you ever
bullied someone when we were younger we
looked a lot different when I was in
sixth grade I was diagnosed with
spondylolysis which basically means that
I fractured my spine I had to wear a
three-inch thick plastic brace from
front to back and I had to wear that 23
hours every single day couldn’t play
piano couldn’t even walk because I
couldn’t move and because of the side
effects from the multiple pain killers I
was taking I started to gain a lot of
weight and because I couldn’t do
anything
the only thing that would make me feel
better was eating and I ate a lot
pizza donuts ice cream I was huge fast
forward three months later brace comes
off ready to go back to school I’m
expecting to hear Martina oh my gosh how
are you I miss you so much let’s make
plans on Friday and Martina are you okay
instead I heard Martina Hey whoa are you
pregnant
kids called me pregnant fat and
disgusting
they wouldn’t even want to be around me
or associated with me because they
didn’t want to be with the fat kid any
self-confidence that I had was gone
and I felt like I had no friends except
for my family well Martina was at home I
used to go to school and I would come
home I would watch her cry herself to
sleep every single night I watched as
her body images all of her confidence
was completely destroyed and she was in
so much pain
but at school kids thought she was
faking it she didn’t want to go to
school that day she just wanted more
attention they had no clue when I was a
lot younger I had a speech impediment it
was really hard for me to pronounce
certain words now my parents would be
the first to tell you I cannot stop
talking but when I was a lot younger
that was a huge problem for me the
struggle to communicate with people made
me feel as though my ideas and what I
had to say wasn’t worth saying and I got
really insecure about myself when I was
in sixth grade kids called me weird
psycho creepy awkward you name it one
day after school I’ve been bullied
particularly bad and I got home and I
was just I was beyond upset and I kind
of just thought to myself okay you can
continue to be insecure continue to be
upset and feel this way you can do
something to make yourself feel better
Martina and I at that point we playing
piano for many years and we loved
writing songs together as a hobby today
we did the exact same thing and we wrote
make me happy make me happy is all about
empowering yourself to be the gatekeeper
of every positive and negative thing
coming your way and to say okay no no
you do not get to make me happy it does
not take you to make me happy
it takes me it was black or white was
never alright that’s what he taught me
hinto little control
I learned to see with only one eye far
from living in total control
[Music]
didn’t understand they don’t understand
about me they don’t even know how to
make me happy all they ever do is think
about them well I’m breaking out of my
shell I got places to go
help people to me will you ever tell me
it takes you to make me happy that I die
doctor
well you don’t get to make me happy let
I thought that done well you don’t get
to make me happy we wrote that song we
didn’t think anything was going to
happen we still had two more months of
sixth-grade to get through and that was
that until the summer during that summer
before seventh grade we went to a really
cool songwriting camp and basically what
you did was everyone at the camp wrote a
song together and you would go to a
studio and get it recorded one and done
we brought our song make me happy in and
the kids liked it so much that they
wanted to record that one too so we went
we recorded it and we didn’t think
anything of it again
until two weeks later when Steve Wagner
of del mark records called my mom and
said did your girls really write that
song yeah they did well I don’t ever do
this they’re totally out of my genera
but I love your girls the song and the
message so much I want to give you guys
a record deal oh my gosh that’d be
amazing we were so excited it was so
cool to think that when we’ve been
bullied and feeling so terrible about
ourselves in unfortunate ordinary
situations so many people go through we
were able to do something we loved to
make ourselves feel better and start a
music career so when the start of
seventh grade rolled around and kids
asked us what we did that summer we just
said nothing
little did they know make me happy was
about to come out to the whole world so
make me happy comes out and we get a ton
of publicity everyone came together to
help spread our ideas especially on one
interview where a blind DJ from Waukesha
Wisconsin heard us and messaged us on
Facebook saying hi girls I love your
song and I love your message would you
please come up to Waukesha and meet my
kids oh my gosh of course so we went to
meet his kids and it was an entire
school not only did we perform for the
entire school but we also led 570 minute
breakout sessions with those sixth
graders talking about anti-bullying
self-esteem and finding what you love
and using it to get through a tough time
we also started performing a lot in
Waukesha Waukesha is the birthplace of
Les Paul a pioneer in the making of
electric guitars so it’s kind of like a
mini Nashville there are tons of places
to play and we played almost every place
we could as we started performing more
and more we realized we loved what we
were doing and we wanted to start a
music career but we were 13 we had no
clue what we were doing so rather than
wait for someone else to tell us we
including our parents decided to do it
by ourselves writing more songs
collaborating with amazing artists
producing and arranging music and
putting our songs all over the internet
so that the whole world could hear them
because that’s what we want to do as our
gigs started getting bigger and better
and we played more and we built our
career from the ground up we started
getting some amazing opportunities in
fact no bully org invited us to play at
their broad way against bullying benefit
at 54 below in New York a really famous
Club we were also invited in to that
Club in San Francisco and New York and
it was so cool it was a huge step up
from Waukesha it was really fun and that
actually gave us a cool idea we wanted
to go to New York we wanted to play we
wanted to make connections we wanted to
get our names
up there so we begged our parents and
then we begged them again and begged
them again and finally they said yes and
we drove up to New York and we were so
excited and we got out of the car and we
saw these big giant skyscrapers and
everyone walking around like they knew
exactly where they were going
where were we gonna go I even remember
it was a gorgeous day out it was sunny
it was Saturday
it was June in New York we step out on
the street ready to go and my dad asks
us all right guys what do you want to do
you’re here we can relax we can sightsee
we can walk around a little bit just get
used to it
what do you want to do we wanted to play
so we took to the Internet and we
searched up every single open mic in New
York we started in Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village is really cool because
it has places that people like Bob Dylan
Lady Gaga and Neil Diamond started their
careers in when we played at these
places that people like them have played
at you could feel the history and the
energy it’s almost like a buzz of all of
this talent it was it was really cool it
was really cool and as we started
playing these open mics every single
place we played out wanted us back for
our own set in our own show soon after
we were booking our own shows all over
Manhattan and we were booking them just
about every single night we also
recorded our debut EP in New York and it
was so cool it was so much fun
and we realized that this is what we
want to do for the rest of our lives so
here we are we are still taking risks in
our career every single day we have no
clue what the future is going to hold
we’re just beginning when we were
bullied we went to something we loved to
make us feel better about the situation
about ourselves and that inspired a
series of kinetic reactions that
inspired a music career so what do you
love what do you really want to do it
only takes one spark of imagination to
find
it and do it and do it every single day
and when you do it to turn an ordinary
situation into something a little bit
better to make any day a little bit
better it’s like throwing darts at a
dartboard you’re gonna throw ten million
and something is going to stick and you
just might wake up and realize you’re
following your dreams we were so
inspired by this TEDx talk we decide to
write a song with Daniel Simmons and
it’s all about recognizing everyone has
their opinions they’re gonna say what
they want to say but we’re gonna think
what we want and that’s what’s most
important
it’s called think what I want people
have a habit of just talking say that
they know one is for me they say that I
only got one option that I need to wake
up from my dreams
you try to change me but you’ll never
fave me baby there’s no baby in my heart
you can say I’m stupid that I’ll bet the
do we go ahead and pro meeting you’re so
smart I’m a singer I’m a sink with a
wall whoa
imma be little one imma be little watch
your words all some in the same change
[Music]
your words are found in the finger woods
ain’t making me change we want to get
everyone set up
[Music]
i’ma think when I want I would think
what I want
i’ma be what I want y’all were
compounding the same go words ain’t
making me change so you could say what
you want
[Music]
I’m a bee when I’m on I’m gonna be your
words all done in the same your eyes
ain’t making me change so you could say
what you are I think I won
thank you thank you watch
have you ever been bullied do you know
anyone who’s been bullied have you ever
bullied someone when we were younger we
looked a lot different when I was in
sixth grade I was diagnosed with
spondylolysis which basically means that
I fractured my spine I had to wear a
three-inch thick plastic brace from
front to back and I had to wear that 23
hours every single day couldn’t play
piano couldn’t even walk because I
couldn’t move and because of the side
effects from the multiple pain killers I
was taking I started to gain a lot of
weight and because I couldn’t do
anything
the only thing that would make me feel
better was eating and I ate a lot
pizza donuts ice cream I was huge fast
forward three months later brace comes
off ready to go back to school I’m
expecting to hear Martina oh my gosh how
are you I miss you so much let’s make
plans on Friday and Martina are you okay
instead I heard Martina Hey whoa are you
pregnant
kids called me pregnant fat and
disgusting
they wouldn’t even want to be around me
or associated with me because they
didn’t want to be with the fat kid any
self-confidence that I had was gone
and I felt like I had no friends except
for my family well Martina was at home I
used to go to school and I would come
home I would watch her cry herself to
sleep every single night I watched as
her body images all of her confidence
was completely destroyed and she was in
so much pain
but at school kids thought she was
faking it she didn’t want to go to
school that day she just wanted more
attention they had no clue when I was a
lot younger I had a speech impediment it
was really hard for me to pronounce
certain words now my parents would be
the first to tell you I cannot stop
talking but when I was a lot younger
that was a huge problem for me the
struggle to communicate with people made
me feel as though my ideas and what I
had to say wasn’t worth saying and I got
really insecure about myself when I was
in sixth grade kids called me weird
psycho creepy awkward you name it one
day after school I’ve been bullied
particularly bad and I got home and I
was just I was beyond upset and I kind
of just thought to myself okay you can
continue to be insecure continue to be
upset and feel this way you can do
something to make yourself feel better
Martina and I at that point we playing
piano for many years and we loved
writing songs together as a hobby today
we did the exact same thing and we wrote
make me happy make me happy is all about
empowering yourself to be the gatekeeper
of every positive and negative thing
coming your way and to say okay no no
you do not get to make me happy it does
not take you to make me happy
it takes me it was black or white was
never alright that’s what he taught me
hinto little control
I learned to see with only one eye far
from living in total control
[Music]
didn’t understand they don’t understand
about me they don’t even know how to
make me happy all they ever do is think
about them well I’m breaking out of my
shell I got places to go
help people to me will you ever tell me
it takes you to make me happy that I die
doctor
well you don’t get to make me happy let
I thought that done well you don’t get
to make me happy we wrote that song we
didn’t think anything was going to
happen we still had two more months of
sixth-grade to get through and that was
that until the summer during that summer
before seventh grade we went to a really
cool songwriting camp and basically what
you did was everyone at the camp wrote a
song together and you would go to a
studio and get it recorded one and done
we brought our song make me happy in and
the kids liked it so much that they
wanted to record that one too so we went
we recorded it and we didn’t think
anything of it again
until two weeks later when Steve Wagner
of del mark records called my mom and
said did your girls really write that
song yeah they did well I don’t ever do
this they’re totally out of my genera
but I love your girls the song and the
message so much I want to give you guys
a record deal oh my gosh that’d be
amazing we were so excited it was so
cool to think that when we’ve been
bullied and feeling so terrible about
ourselves in unfortunate ordinary
situations so many people go through we
were able to do something we loved to
make ourselves feel better and start a
music career so when the start of
seventh grade rolled around and kids
asked us what we did that summer we just
said nothing
little did they know make me happy was
about to come out to the whole world so
make me happy comes out and we get a ton
of publicity everyone came together to
help spread our ideas especially on one
interview where a blind DJ from Waukesha
Wisconsin heard us and messaged us on
Facebook saying hi girls I love your
song and I love your message would you
please come up to Waukesha and meet my
kids oh my gosh of course so we went to
meet his kids and it was an entire
school not only did we perform for the
entire school but we also led 570 minute
breakout sessions with those sixth
graders talking about anti-bullying
self-esteem and finding what you love
and using it to get through a tough time
we also started performing a lot in
Waukesha Waukesha is the birthplace of
Les Paul a pioneer in the making of
electric guitars so it’s kind of like a
mini Nashville there are tons of places
to play and we played almost every place
we could as we started performing more
and more we realized we loved what we
were doing and we wanted to start a
music career but we were 13 we had no
clue what we were doing so rather than
wait for someone else to tell us we
including our parents decided to do it
by ourselves writing more songs
collaborating with amazing artists
producing and arranging music and
putting our songs all over the internet
so that the whole world could hear them
because that’s what we want to do as our
gigs started getting bigger and better
and we played more and we built our
career from the ground up we started
getting some amazing opportunities in
fact no bully org invited us to play at
their broad way against bullying benefit
at 54 below in New York a really famous
Club we were also invited in to that
Club in San Francisco and New York and
it was so cool it was a huge step up
from Waukesha it was really fun and that
actually gave us a cool idea we wanted
to go to New York we wanted to play we
wanted to make connections we wanted to
get our names
up there so we begged our parents and
then we begged them again and begged
them again and finally they said yes and
we drove up to New York and we were so
excited and we got out of the car and we
saw these big giant skyscrapers and
everyone walking around like they knew
exactly where they were going
where were we gonna go I even remember
it was a gorgeous day out it was sunny
it was Saturday
it was June in New York we step out on
the street ready to go and my dad asks
us all right guys what do you want to do
you’re here we can relax we can sightsee
we can walk around a little bit just get
used to it
what do you want to do we wanted to play
so we took to the Internet and we
searched up every single open mic in New
York we started in Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village is really cool because
it has places that people like Bob Dylan
Lady Gaga and Neil Diamond started their
careers in when we played at these
places that people like them have played
at you could feel the history and the
energy it’s almost like a buzz of all of
this talent it was it was really cool it
was really cool and as we started
playing these open mics every single
place we played out wanted us back for
our own set in our own show soon after
we were booking our own shows all over
Manhattan and we were booking them just
about every single night we also
recorded our debut EP in New York and it
was so cool it was so much fun
and we realized that this is what we
want to do for the rest of our lives so
here we are we are still taking risks in
our career every single day we have no
clue what the future is going to hold
we’re just beginning when we were
bullied we went to something we loved to
make us feel better about the situation
about ourselves and that inspired a
series of kinetic reactions that
inspired a music career so what do you
love what do you really want to do it
only takes one spark of imagination to
find
it and do it and do it every single day
and when you do it to turn an ordinary
situation into something a little bit
better to make any day a little bit
better it’s like throwing darts at a
dartboard you’re gonna throw ten million
and something is going to stick and you
just might wake up and realize you’re
following your dreams we were so
inspired by this TEDx talk we decide to
write a song with Daniel Simmons and
it’s all about recognizing everyone has
their opinions they’re gonna say what
they want to say but we’re gonna think
what we want and that’s what’s most
important
it’s called think what I want people
have a habit of just talking say that
they know one is for me they say that I
only got one option that I need to wake
up from my dreams
you try to change me but you’ll never
fave me baby there’s no baby in my heart
you can say I’m stupid that I’ll bet the
do we go ahead and pro meeting you’re so
smart I’m a singer I’m a sink with a
wall whoa
imma be little one imma be little watch
your words all some in the same change
[Music]
your words are found in the finger woods
ain’t making me change we want to get
everyone set up
[Music]
i’ma think when I want I would think
what I want
i’ma be what I want y’all were
compounding the same go words ain’t
making me change so you could say what
you want
[Music]
I’m a bee when I’m on I’m gonna be your
words all done in the same your eyes
ain’t making me change so you could say
what you are I think I won
thank you thank you watch
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