Jordan McCoy fans may have noticed that an audition video was
posted on her YouTube channel yesterday. Titled "Jordan McCoy Ruby Audition," no other details are provided. I have some info. But, first, the video:
In any case, I reached out to Debbie Hammond, CEO of ClockWork Entertainment, McCoy's co-label. She couldn't tell me much. But, what she did tell me was that it's for a new TV show on ABC Family. One of the writers of the show is
Shaun Cassidy, the half-brother of
David Cassidy of The Partridge Family fame. Apparently, the show shares similarities with the life of David Cassidy.
In doing a little research, however, I found other audition videos posted on YouTube where girls were working from the same script as Jordan, but they gave away a show title. "Ruby and the Rockits" is how one clip spelled it. Stay tuned.
Debbie Hammond, CEO of ClockWork Entertainment, the label that has a joint venture with Bad Boy to release Jordan McCoy, posted a
blog entry on Jordan's MySpace today.
In it, she goes into great detail about the situation with
"Big Girls Don't Cry", a song written and released by Fergie, after it had been
sold to Bad Boy for Jordan's use.
Hammond paints Toby Gad, the song's producer, and David Sonenberg, attorney and manager of The Black Eyed Peas, as underhanded and blames Fergie, and the situation, for delaying Jordan's album at least a year. She claims that Diddy was too busy to care about the situation.
The post then switches to "Hannah Montana," the popular Disney series. According to Hammond, Jordan was given the lead role until Billy Ray Cyrus offered to work for free on the show for the first season, if Miley Cyrus was given the role.
"Just Watch Me" was recorded with the intention of being the theme song to the TV show. In any case, Hammond says that Diddy loved and selected it as the first single. But, she says, he went on vacation and, when he returned, it was too late to do a video for the song.
The TV show,
Good Girl/Bad Boy was an effort to make up for that.
According to Hammond, 3 networks wanted the pilot and Diddy told her they didn't have a show. "He's wrong again... But, Diddy is a perfectionist and it's his show," she says. "He also put himself all over the trailer and decided he had no time to do the show. We can take it, though. It makes us stronger, and better. We move on, and don't complain."
Watch below for an acoustic cover of "Big Girls Don't Cry" (by Fergie) from Jordan McCoy. This track has some backage attached to it. See
past coverage for
more details.
You can listen to a snippet of "Unnoticed" by Jordan McCoy, on
her MySpace.
Jordan McCoy will be performing in Addison, TX, at
RockHouse Grille, on August 21. The performance will be a part of
Rock 2 Cure, with proceeds going to a local musician that is fighting an advanced form of cancer. See the flier below.
There is a new dance remix of "Just Watch Me" posted on
Jordan McCoy's MySpace.
Jordan McCoy has decided that Tuesday will be "Cover Video Day," for her, as she plans to post covers of other songs every week. This is
according to a MySpace blog post where two new covers were posted. The first is "Fall to Pieces" by Avril Lavigne:
And the second is "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin:
