We just felt we are building to something bigger than ourselves. Warner Bros. Records picked them up and released 's follow-up Here, Here and Here -- brash with newfound pop grooves and disco-rock influences -- but dropped them a year later after the album failed to meet commercial expectations. Shortly after, management suggested Dia try out for a then-unknown singing competition show, figuring the label-less band could use some traction. Masterful performances of hand-picked covers like R. After two grueling months, Shelton's guidance and the support of The Voice viewers -- most of which were unfamiliar with her band -- catapulted Dia to all the way to second place in the season finale.
Dia invited her sister to writing sessions she's credited with backing vocals on the LP and to join her band for a tour opening for Shelton, but tension abounded. Life wasn't easy for Dia, either. Post- Voice performance anxiety led her to consult a psychotherapist and even consider beta blockers to help manage her pre-show nerves.
She stresses the actual people behind the show -- its crew, celebrity judges, especially Shelton -- were kind and supportive, yet the cutthroat nature of online commentators, and the competition itself, left her shaken. Relegated to backing-band duties on the Blake Shelton tour, Meg found herself seething.
On the trek's final day, she stormed out of Dia's band. Despite a bit of post- Voice hype, Red failed to make a major impact, and Dia was eventually dropped by Universal. While she continued as an indie artist in subsequent years, she parlayed her on-screen experience into TV acting roles; she also graduated from Upright Citizens Brigade's improv program in Los Angeles.
Aside from briefly acknowledging each other on Christmases with the family, they remained total strangers. Finally, Dia started calling up Meg to shoot the breeze about work, boyfriends, the weather. Meg's intuition kicked in. The music's grown, too. The Framptons are more self-assured in choosing their collaborators now, too. For their newfound pop direction on Happysad , Dia heaps praise on Seth Jones, who co-wrote, produced, and mixed much of the album: "When you have a very small budget, the people you get are usually there because they believe in you.
Do you want it this slow? It made me feel weird, but he was a really big producer so I thought it was okay. I also went around Orchard Street, which was really nice. My impression of the people here are very nice, sweet, humble and polite. The city is very very clean which is very nice as well. I would say my family but I think everything basically inspires me.
I find so many inspirations all around, even in the simplest things. Also, travelling to see all different kinds of people. I could simply write a song over a really good bowl of chicken noodle soup. Meg and I actually wrote songs separately back then. On an album, she may write 5 songs, I would write 4 or 5 or 6 songs. We seldom collaborate while writing.
I miss it though when we work on the melodies and the arrangements of the music and producing it after writing our own songs but in terms of writing, it still has been very much the same. It was a lot of work. Now I was alone.
On stage, in front of millions. Competition in music was weird to me. Being judged by every move I made was new to me. What do you have to lose? The year-old goes on to cite her time on The Voice as the breaking point for Meg and Dia, which disbanded after Universal Records agreed to sign only Frampton to its roster of artists.
The album performed moderately well in Asia, though it peaked at No. She was later dropped by Universal, and her relationship with her sister and longtime collaborator , Meg, suffered. I stopped caring. A year passed. Another year. But who cares really? Did I? I was a washed up, bitter ex-musician who used to have a future.
Frampton admits that, between recording a new album with producer Daniel Heath, Bruises , due out in early , she now works as a server at the Grand Central Market in Los Angeles.
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