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| On Superchic[k] Superchic[k] was conceived after being on the road and listening to the issues junior high and high school girls face. As you well know, America has become a toxic environment for kids to grow up in� the only role models available to kids are beautiful, thin and sexually active. We've become a culture where good looking is valued more than being good. So many kids find themselves falling short of the TV standard of beautiful people and they cope with it in any number of harmful ways. We want to give an alternative role model. While the messages are universal, we wanted a girl up front to talk to the girls in the audience. Superchic[k] is a fun, energetic band with 2 girls and 5 guys, including everything from a DJ to break dancing. It's an aggressive, catchy all-live mix aimed squarely at high school and junior high kids. We've been playing shows steadily, and have had a terrific response with kids. Part of our goal is to send them home too exhausted to get into trouble� It's aggressive but not angry. Along with wearing them out, we try to send them home with hope and a sense that they are loved. So many kids feel like they're not lovable the way they are... and no wonder, because everywhere you look, our media drives home the message: thin, beautiful, sexually active is acceptable, the rest is not. We're trying to make the world "safe to be ordinary". We�re takin biblical truths and putting them in a very relevant context for the kids�including non-Christians. Our heart breaks for these kids - especially the 13 and 14 year olds girls who have learned that there's a very direct equation between being sexual and getting attention... which is the closest thing to love many have ever felt. We're trying to show them there's another way. What is a Superchic[k]? Superchick is a gender-neutral term referring to someone who has figured out who they're supposed to be. We believe that God has a destiny for everyone, a path to greatness. Society only offers a few options, most of which involve being beautiful or rich. We believe that there are many more paths to greatness than looking good. Everyone can be a hero, everyone has the capacity to do something amazing with their lives. The trick to it is letting go of our notions that life is primarily a beauty/popularity contest. A perfect example is the recent commercial for Cingular, that featured an artist with cerebral palsy who paints beautiful pictures with the paintbrush in his mouth. He was barely able to speak, but he managed to get out: "I am incredibly lucky". That guy understands what superchick is all about� he's not letting his circumstances define him. He isn't trying to be beautiful�rather he creates beauty. We believe that everyone has a destiny, that everyone can be great. Superchic[k] On the Record We are at the forefront of a change in the way music is made. We are riding the edge of a wave of self-made music. Cheap computer technology has made record production available to everyone. Computers have democraticized the record business� anyone can make a record, anyone can sell it, and 50 million people can hear it if they want to. The record was made primarily in our basement by ourselves. We know that many more bands will follow. We know that not everyone will like our record and that some will be critical of it. We encourage those people, in all sincerity to make their own records that they like. On our website (www.Superchick.net), you will find detailed information on how we made our record, and how you can make your own. We look forward to the freedom of creative expression that will rise up. Superchic[k] is Tricia - [front chick] � only sang in church/weddings/funerals before Superchic[k]. � sisters with Melissa � met at cor show, auditioned on the spot in front of everyone � common saying: "boys are bad, God is good" Melissa - guitar [chick guitar] � only been playing guitar 2 years, but rocks! � also plays some drums � licensed cosmotologist � songwriter � also works at Starbucks � Tricia's sister � Judson college, involved in musical groups � common saying: "anybody can do anything" Matt - bass [freak boy] � plays drums, guitar (gives guitar lessons) � Dad�s a music pastor � avid skateboarder � high school youth group leader � in numerous punk bands � Ben's brother � Supertones have his bag � common saying: "egg salad! egg salad!" Justin � lead guitar [cool guitar guy] � plays the accordion, piano, bass, and drum kit � studied classical guitar under David Crittenden � is a Leftie in all he does � loves to Snowboard � parents own and ride Harleys � common saying: "Shady at best!"" Brian � drums[ superfitch ] � Birthdate: September 11 � Hometown: Frankfort, IL � Age: 18 � Also plays piano, guitar. � Born in Germany while family stationed there with U.S. Army. � Dad West Point grad who worked in Pentagon, served in Persian Gulf war. � Brian in Germany during the bringing down of the Berlin Wall. � Youth Group leader in high school. � In every music ensemble possible in high school - jazz band, marching band, etc. � Passed on music scholarship to join Superchic[k]. Intended major: Theology � Big jazz music fan. known for his laughter and sense of humor. Max - keys, turntables, guitar, bass, some drums [band mom] � ZERO (with Ian Eskelin of All Star United) � contributed tracks Raving Loonatics, Echoing Green, Motion Factory � has composed stock music that has been used by the following NBC programs: Dateline, Days of our Lives, Law and Order, Leeza, Meet the Press, Pretender, Providence, Saturday Night Live, Sportsworld Nascar, Suddenly Susan, Third Watch, Today Show, Tonight Show, Veronica's Closet, World's Most Amazing Videos. � bad but enthusiastic snowboarder. � tries to learn one new thing a season. � was always the 6th man on the basketball team. sat on bench all year. � Parents are missionaries, grew up in Hong Kong at British school. � Wheaton Graduate - communications degree Superchic[k] Songs Barlow Girls An open letter to girls from the boys of Superchic[k]� Hey, we wanna say something to all the girls... we�re sure most of you girls have figured out by now that the sexier you dress, the more attention you get. It's a basic fact of life. Sometimes when you feel lonely or insecure, that attention can seem like a really good thing. But even though it feels good, it's really not good for you... you deserve to be loved, not just lusted over. I know it's a hard thing to walk away from when it�s all you know, but like everything else God asks us to do, its a step of faith, a step away from something we know... to something better for us. When you dress to impress, yeah, guys notice, but when you try to walk the narrow line that is honoring Christ, a whole different set of guys notice. You probably just can't tell... cause they're not going to look you up and down. Instead of thinking about you with no clothes on, they're going to think about you in your wedding dress. Instead of one night of sex, they're thinking about what it would be like to grow old with you. Instead of wondering if you're a cheap date, they wonder if you're gonna be a good mom. So if you've been feeling left out, cause you don't show off your body, you don't date yet, or if you're thinking about maybe taking it a little easier on us guys by dressing a touch more conservatively... I promise you're going to get noticed. In fact, I can name at least 5 skateboarding, guitar playing, skydiving, motorcycle riding, snowboarding, rock climbing guys in this band who are going to think you're the bomb. And if you're out there thinking like maybe it's too late for you... that maybe you've gone too far, lost too much, made one mistake too many... I have a promise for you too... God is a God of second chances. God will always love you. No matter what you feel about yourself, you still deserve the kind of relationship that loves instead of lusts. And yes, there are guys out there for you too... guys who will understand what you've been through and will still cherish you. I promise. Cause really, we're all on the road towards purity, we've all made mistakes and needed forgiveness.. and the same kind of guy who's looking for a wife, not a weekend will understand that. Not Done Yet When you're out of options, when you're out of hope, when there's no good reason to carry on, sometimes the only thing left to do is plain, stupid defiant hope. As Kelsey Grammer has been known to say: �Stagger onward rejoicing" In the chorus when the lyrics read: "we'll win in the end" it's not a surety that I myself will triumph, but actually the belief that in the end God's will is realized. In the very last balancing, God does return and makes all things right. And in the light of that, some of the rest is a little easier to wallow. The other important point is that the context is "we", as in "me and my friends" a point we'll return to later on. Life is not meant to be struggled through alone... so as we face our greatest crisis, it is important for us to seek support, help, feedback. Because alone we are too vulnerable, too prone to losing perspective and feeling hopeless. It's not that we need friends to give us hope, but friends to point to the hope that is there... the hope we don't like to see when we're smack in the middle of a pity party... The 2nd verse is meaningful to me... when we sin, we tend to sin in patterns. Sin is rarely an isolated single event, but a pattern, a history. And we read so many books about sin in which the author conquered it as an event... a final decision and then sinned no more by the grace of God. While such things do happen and make for great reading... life isn't always like that. In AA they talk about 4 seasons.. if you are to make a change in your life, it's typically at least 4 seasons of trying before you change the pattern. I know for me and my struggles, I would continue to sin again and again and again... and I used to think that I must be doing something wrong after all in those stories, the people prayed and never drank alchohol again, whereas I continued to hate what I was doing yet come back to it... I must have been doing something wrong. How could God love me when all my earnest promises were for nothing? Well in the end, ! I learned that it's a trick of Satan to make us feel like we're the unlovable ones, that Satan wants us to believe that God has as little patience as us human beings.. that God has given up on us for our inability to change.. which only makes us want to see God less... when at the moment of sin we most need to see God. A story that helps me relates to a priest giving communion and coming to a girl who was sobbing deeply and refused to take it.. he offered it to her again with these words: "go on lass.. it's for sinners" and that reminds me, that when I fall and make my stupid mistakes, that we're all sinners and that by the grace of God, we are forgiven to try again. Karaoke Superstars A Karaoke Superstar is someone who is singing along with the radio at the top of their lungs (preferably with hand motions and hairbrush microphones) because they think no one is watching. Yet I think that unself-conscious state is how we should live.. Instead of letting other people's withering disdain cripple our movements, we should paint, write, sing, live, talk about Jesus with all the natural enthusiasm of children. We consider the karaoke superstar a state to strive for, a way to live that reflects not caring if other people think you look stupid when you try things. TV Land Trying to make the world "safe to be ordinary". That's our motto. When you grow up in a normal community, you see all kinds of people... old people, young people, fat people, skinny people, pretty people, ugly people... it all ends up being real life.. yet what we've done with our "global village" our TV Land is to populate it with only young and pretty people, until we've normalized the supermodel. And as silly as it is, sometimes I need to remind myself that television is not real... that it's an airbrushed fantasyland that exists largely to sell products. Real life can seem so humdrum after MTV... on those shows no one ever sits at home on Saturday nights... and it's easy to feel inadequate when measured next to that. So repeat after me...TV is make believe...but I am real... TV is make believe... but I am real� Get Up This song is about trying. I believe God intends us to be risk takers. I wonder how many potential Billy Grahams and Mother Theresa's we have lost because someone didn't step forward to take the destiny God intended for them. When Peter left the boat to walk on water, mostly we remember that he sank. But what I remember is this: 1. Peter was the only disciple who dared to leave the boat. 2. Peter walked on water! I hope in my heart that when I look back on my life, I will have lived it in a way that shows that I was not afraid to leave the boat to walk towards Jesus. One Grrrl Revolution This song is obviously hyperbole... much akin to rap music's over the top approach. Yet it continues the Superchic[k] theme that fear of what people think keeps us from God's incredible plan for us.. A worried friend of mine came over to borrow a Superchic[k] CD the other day because his 6 year old daughter was singing "I'm not that innocent" (the words to a popular Britney Spears song) And if she was going to parrot words, he wanted her to at least sing things with a positive vibe.. so this song is for her. Help me out God I wrote a little blurb to explain this song, but I found something that explains it better: how long o God will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on me and answer O Lord my God, Give light to my eyes or I will sleep in death Alright For those of us that are fretting over life, this is a simple reminder to schedule some time not to worry. :) I'm especially fond of the last verse and the concept that it's easier to hope for someone else than it is for yourself, and thus by hoping for and believing in each other we can make the trials of life easier to bear. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has trouble of it's own" Matthew 6:34 Big Star Machine I was on my way to church, and a friend of mine commented that we should do "church makeovers" for some of the "fashionably-challenged" church-goers. However, as I sat there, it occurred to me--perhaps we were seeing it all wrong. I spent much of my adolescence trying to convince people that Christians were also "cool". I was always hoping to find Christian kids in the popular set. Being a Christian just wasn't very...well...trendy. Now I finally get it. Church is for losers. Christianity is for losers. It's true. You see, the "popular" people, "trendy" people, "hip" people...they're all winners. The problem with being "popular", "trendy" or "hip" is that for a small group of people to be considered "cool", a large group of people have to be considered "not cool". "Cool", by its nature, is exclusionary. As some become "winners", so "losers" are also created. It's the nature of the "big star machine". Today, these people are "cool"; those people are not. These people are "winners"; those people are �losers�. And that's where Christianity comes into the picture. In Christ's eyes, the titles of "winners" and "losers" don't exist. Winners or losers, Christ loves us the same. So...church is for losers. Or, you could say church is for winners--since, to Christ, there are no losers. What's fantastic about that is that the pressure is off. The edge of desperation you see on some people--who really hope they're still "with it" --just isn't relevant anymore. Because God loves us no matter what--no matter how much success we never gain, no matter how thin or beautiful we're not, no matter how trendy we are not. That's the simple truth of it. God loves you and will always love you--unlike the "big star machine" where you're only a day away from "where are they now?" So, the next time someone tells you that "church is for losers", just smile and tell them that it certainly is. And when they're sick of chasing the "big star machine", there's always a place for them at the church. Let It Be Let It Be is telling us to hand God all those things that have been said or done to us that have stuck with us� or we are holding onto without even knowing... all those things that weigh us down like a backpack full of bricks. God desires that we be free of the burden, all we have to do is ask that He take it away. It�s about learning to see ourselves the way God sees us and forgetting that person you see when you look in the mirror. We need to see ourselves through God�s eyes and learn that the things we thought were ugly outside don�t matter much to Him� but some things that we forgot to clean up inside are much more important to Him. And you can�t cover those things with makeup. Super Trooper Spotlight Let�s not look back on our lives and have to say that we wish we had done more for God, let�s take every chance we get to tell people how much we love God, and how His love has changed our lives!! We need to stop taking the safe route, stop hiding the joy that only God brings to your life, and stop being afraid to tell the world what you believe. We all are here for a reason, and have been equipped in some way to bring some light into this dark world, so let�s not take that for granted, let�s live life to the full, let�s take a risk, let�s try out for the leading role� let�s be God�s spotlight to the world�. shine that light everywhere we go! Superchic[k] on the air: � �Karaoke Superstars� featured in the movie The Glass House released through Sony Pictures April 20, 2001. The film stars Leelee Sobieski (Deep Impact, Eyes Wide Shut, Jungle 2 Jungle, Never Been Kissed). � �TV Land� to be featured in the casting special of the new 2001 season of �The Real World� on MTV. � �Get Up� and �One Grrl Revolution� also featured on ESPN�s Winter X Games � �Get Up� featured on the WB show Jack & Jill � �One Girl Revolution� featured as #2 track on MGM�s Legally Blonde (starring Reese Witherspoon) soundtrack and as the closing credits song. � �Barlow Girls� video shown on closing credits of E! News Daily. � �One Girl Revolution� featured on ABC�s fall show �Alias� select promo commercials.Superchic[k] was conceived after being on the road and listening to the issues junior high and high school girls face. As you well know, America has become a toxic environment for kids to grow up in� the only role models available to kids are beautiful, thin and sexually active. We've become a culture where good looking is valued more than being good. So many kids find themselves falling short of the TV standard of beautiful people and they cope with it in any number of harmful ways. We want to give an alternative role model. While the messages are universal, we wanted a girl up front to talk to the girls in the audience. Superchic[k] is a fun, energetic band with 2 girls and 5 guys, including everything from a DJ to break dancing. It's an aggressive, catchy all-live mix aimed squarely at high school and junior high kids. We've been playing shows steadily, and have had a terrific response with kids. Part of our goal is to send them home too exhausted to get into trouble� It's aggressive but not angry. Along with wearing them out, we try to send them home with hope and a sense that they are loved. So many kids feel like they're not lovable the way they are... and no wonder, because everywhere you look, our media drives home the message: thin, beautiful, sexually active is acceptable, the rest is not. We're trying to make the world "safe to be ordinary". We�re takin biblical truths and putting them in a very relevant context for the kids�including non-Christians. Our heart breaks for these kids - especially the 13 and 14 year olds girls who have learned that there's a very direct equation between being sexual and getting attention... which is the closest thing to love many have ever felt. We're trying to show them there's another way. |
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