Melissa Etheridge Arena Project by Ren

A fan of Melissa Etheridge's and a friend of mine has a interesting project going on for her graduate art class. Please if you would read the information below and participate. (Perhaps this will save me from buying the next round ;)! Oh wait that's if I stay in my seat. NEVAH!!! LOL!!

"Hello Fellow Melissa Fans,

I have been a long time fan of Melissa Etheridge, yet I have only been attending concerts and connecting with other fans in the last few years. The strength, the depth, and the breadth of this world-wide community has been astounding to me. Prior to making this connection personally, this incredible community was totally invisible to me. In this community, I see a connection through music that transcends space, time, culture, gender,
politics, and religion.

I am writing today to invite you to help me do a little project for one of my graduate school courses in Arts and Consciousness. I am enrolled in a Community Arts class where the objective is to work with people in a community to artistically document or raise awareness about a social issue. My personal interest in social issues, as an artist, is to highlight relationships between people, and between people and the environments they live in.

Please join me in celebrating Melissa's new album, Fearless Love, by contributing to my community arts project as part of my graduate school requirements. Participating is simple. Just answer as many of the questions as possible that I have made available at the SurveyMonkey website. I've set up the SurveyMonkey page to provide freedom of anonymity so not to infringe on anyone's privacy.

I'd to collect everyone's response and use them to put together a creative map illustrating something about the relationships between fans and Melissa. I am calling my project the Melissa Arena Project (MAP). I have to do a little presentation in my course in early March, so I'll work with whatever responses I get until the end of February. If anyone is interested, I'll think about a way to post something about the resulting map and presentation where you can see it online.

The Melissa Arena Project Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NHHS6GW

Your help would be super fun for me, and much, much appreciated!

Peace,
Ren"

To see more responses from other Melissa Etheridge fans or to leave your own please go to M.E.I.N.

Melissa Etheridge - Fearless Love Video on Amazon

Thank you M.E.I.N. for making us hip to Melissa Etheridge's newest video for FEARLESS LOVE on Amazon. To see and get more details on this video, please click here.

GREAT VIDEO!!! "I won't settle for anything less!"

Melissa Etheridge Interview w/ The Eco - Friendly Street Team

With the hard rocking single Fearless Love hitting the airwaves and an album by the same name not far away, Melissa Etheridge was kind enough to answer a few questions for the Eco-Friendly Street Team.

Street Team: The obvious message about the single Fearless Love is just that. What extended message would you like your fans and new listeners to get from the whole album?

Melissa Etheridge: If there is a message that the listeners can come away with I hope it would be one of the choice of love and fear and how we can let fear run our lives or we can begin to make choices from love.

Street Team: We've asked fans, band and crew members what one word would they select to describe you, and some of the words we've received are: Rock, Complex, Strong, Survivor, Butterfly, Spiritual, Inspiring, Love, Real, Multi-Faceted, Vivacious, Universal, Strength, Extraordinary, Awesome, Funny, Positive, Passionate. What one word would you use to describe yourself, and why?

Melissa Etheridge: I guess that word would have to be Grateful. Grateful that so many would say such strong and positive words about me. If I can stay in gratitude then I can see the perfectness in everything and that will always keep me in the vibration of love.

Street Team: What one word would you choose to describe your fans and why?

Melissa Etheridge: One word to describe my fans? Perfect. Why? They send me the greatest feeling of love everyday.

Street Team: Thank you so very much for taking the time to answer questions for us at the Street Team!

Melissa Etheridge: Thank you.


We here at the Street Team would like to send out waves of love and gratitude out to Melissa Etheridge for so many things she does for her fans around the world.

. . . and we are now envisioning Melissa swooping those waves of love and gratitude right back to all of us. Because she rocks like that.

The single Fearless Love by Melissa Etheridge is available here on itunes. The album Fearless Love is available for pre-order at Amazon. Catch Melissa performing Fearless Love and other songs from the new album April 1 in Palm Springs, CA and April 3 in Primm, NV. You can find all Melissa Etheridge's Tour dates at www.melissaetheridge.com/tour

Melissa Etheridge's New Song - Fearless Love is available NOW on Itunes

Melissa Etheridge's new single "Fearless Love" is now available on Itunes. Check out www.melissaetheridge.com for the link.

Melissa Etheridge Exclusive Fearless Love Video Footage

Thank you M.E.I.N. for sharing Melissa Etheridge's exclusive making of her Fearless Love video. Directed by Jay Martin.

Check out the video here.

To see what other fans have to say about this go here to Melissa Etheridge's forum here.

Primm, NV Melissa Etheridge Travel Package Update

The Melissa Etheridge Travel Package will NOT be available for the Primm, NV show. For more information go to www.melissaetheridge.com.

Fearless Love by Melissa Etheridge coming out April 27th.

Melissa Etheridge Fan Club Tickets & Travel Packages for Primm, NV

Didjoo hear that Frank. Of course you did! LOL!!

Click here to get all the details from M.E.I.N.

Fearless Love Single - Melissa Etheridge on Itunes - Digital Download

Melissa Etheridge's new song "Fearless Love" the single will be available via Digital Download on Itunes on Feb. 2nd. Thank you M.E.I.N. for making us hip.

If you're in your car singing your brains to this lyric "heads will shake and heads will turn and sometimes you just get burned."

Be sure to go here to buy Fearless Love by Melissa Etheridge on Itunes. on the 2nd of Feb.! ;) Sales create buzz and who doesn't like a good buzz. WHAT!

Album will be available in the Spring 2010!

Fearless Love - Melissa Etheridge New Music

Thank you M.E.I.N. for letting us all hear Melissa Etheridge's newest single Fearless Love. You can click this link here to LISTEN NOW!!! Call or email your radio stations and get it on the waves y'all.

Melissa Etheridge on the Radio w/ FEARLESS LOVE

Please call or email all your local radio stations and get them to play Melissa Etheridge's new single FEARLESS LOVE! The DJ's in some states I have heard totally dig this tune and have played it over and over.

We as fans can make this happen. Melissa makes it easy for us with great music. ;)

Happy New Year

Thank you everyone for such a great year and your participation in the street team. Next year is going to so rock with Fearless Love coming out and to be out there doing it all again. To each of you be safe and keep on rocking! To Melissa ... thank you for the new album FEARLESS LOVE ... if the first single is any indication of what we have in store for us ... LET'S ROCK BUD! ;)

Melissa Etheridge - Tribute To Bruce Springsteen

This is a much better video. Thank you very much Nano!

Melissa Etheridge - "Born To Run' Tribute

WOW!! Way to get the folks on their feet. Get er done Melissa!

Melissa Etheridge - 32nd Kennedy Center Honors - Tribute Bruce Springsteen

*Photo by Zimbio*

Melissa Etheridge had the honor to pay tribute to one of her IDOLS Bruce Springsteen with the song "Born to Run."

"The 2009 Kennedy Center Honors will be broadcast on the CBS Network for the 32nd consecutive year as a two-hour primetime special on Tuesday, December 29 at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT)."

Check out The Kennedy Center Honors Red Carpet Video here.

Melissa Etheridge VEVO YOUTUBE

Check out the new VEVO Melissa Etheridge You Tube. You can subscribe to it and other artist that you may dig.

Fearless Love - Melissa Etheridge

Thank you Woodenshoeangel for this video. As you all know in recent interviews we ask "what one word comes to mind when you think of Melissa Etheridge, and why? Same question but about the single FEARLESS LOVE.

What is one word that comes to your mind about this song FEARLESS LOVE, and why?

Merry Christmas

Melissa Etheridge on the radio- Fearless Love - VOTE TODAY

Thank you RAINDDA CLAUS!

You can go listen to Fearless Love by Melissa Etheridge and then vote ... like vote all the time or whatever. I mean I am just sayin' the song rocks and belongs on the radio A LOT. It's one of those songs that just might change the longitude and latitude of this delicious mother earth. Angelina Jolie will have to do a little tattoo adjusting.

Please go here to New Music Wednesday at 88 Nine Radio Milwaukee to listen and vote.

Go here to see what other fans are saying about the Fearless Love single by Melissa Etheridge.

Melissa Etheridge Interview - KINK FM

Thank you DRG for the link to this Melissa Etheridge Christmas Interview.

To listen go here.

Ring The Bells - Melissa Etheridge & Salman Ahmad

Ring The Bells

Continuing the tradition started last year by Melissa Etheridge and Salman Ahmad, we encourage everyone to Ring The Bells for Peace on the winter solstice, December 21. At noon your local time, Ring a bell, light a light, and send out an intention of Peace for the world.

Let's go further now, than we've ever gone before. Spread the word. Peace on Earth!

Fearless Love Single - Melissa Etheridge

Thank you RAIN!!!

"if you haven't heard Fearless Love yet, i've located a site where you can hear the song in its entirety.

head over to M:M Music, a music promotion company, at http://www.mmmusicsite.com.

FL is located at the top of the 2nd column. click on the far right red box under the "BDS/MB" column. MLE's name and Fearless Love will now appear at the bottom tab. click on the green button that states "click now to hear Fearless Love".

the song will play on a loop until you stop it.

hopefully, this will work for those who aren't located in North America, too.

*rhondda*"

Melissa Etheridge Interview w/ Melinda Newman @ Spinner.com

Thank you RAIN!!! To see what other fans are saying about this interview please go here.

Melissa Etheridge Returns to Rock on 'Fearless Love'
Posted on Dec 16th 2009 5:00PM
by Melinda Newman www.spinner.com

Melissa Etheridge has long been a crusader, whether it's as a gay rights activist, an environmentalist or breast cancer survivor. On 'Fearless Love,' the first single and soaring title track from her forthcoming album, she is a zealot of a different sort, championing our inalienable right to love unafraid and, as she sings, never "settle for anything less."

Buoyed by her excitement about her 10th studio album, the Grammy and Academy Award winner told Spinner she's in "an amazing place," both physically and emotionally. Here she talks about her first kiss, her activism and her return to rock.

Q: The first line of 'Fearless Love' is "I was 17, you kissed my lips." What inspired that line?

It was the first time I kissed a girl. I try to put my own experiences in my songs, of course, and yet have them remain universal. It was intense going through that experience and having the fireworks go off: "Oh my God, this is greatest thing ever! This is what all my girlfriends have been talking about when they kiss boys" and stuff. I was like, "Hmmm I don't feel that" and then all of a sudden I felt it and I had to keep it in to myself. It will eat you
up. It's horrible to have to put a lid on something.

Q: The song features the line "You are what are afraid of." What do you mean by that?

That's what I'm trying to push forward in this song. I am what I am and we all are. We are exactly what we are: what we look like, we feel, that's what we are. We take that and become whatever we are afraid of. If you take that on and say, "Oh I'm afraid of this" and it stops you from doing, then you become what you are afraid of.

Q: What was the impetus for this song?

When I first sat down in January, I really started working on the songs. I knew I would be recording in July and I wanted to give myself months to really bring this together because the whole concept of the album is just that everything in our lives comes down to fear and love. There are only two vibrations in the world and you're
either making a love choice or a fear choice, so the working title of this album was 'Songs of Fear of Love.'

Q: Why did you change it?

As I started writing these songs, my older kids said "Mom, what are you going to call the album?" I said "'Songs of Fear and Love'" and [my daughter, Bailey] said, "It's too many words, mom." I said, "Okay, How about 'Fearless'?" and she said "Taylor Swift album. Why don't you say 'Fearless Love'?" So 'Fearless Love,' that's kind of perfect, but I have to write a song for that now. I think she said that in the morning, I dropped her off at school and I came home and I wrote this song.

Q: What does loving fearlessly mean to you?

It means everything. It means loving myself fearlessly. That's where it starts -- by saying I love myself enough to make the choices that are out of love and not out of fear. I love myself enough to not be fearful, just loving yourself fully and clearly. Once you do that, you understand that you can love fearlessly in the world.

Q: What else can you tell us about the album?

The whole album just rocks and rocks and rocks. It doesn't give up. Every song is very emotional and very intense. There are all kinds of different subjects in it. There's a couple where I sing about other people, situations where I'm the third person observer and I don't do that very often. I decided I want to do that more.

Q: Bruce Springsteen, whom you love, talks about his lifelong conversation with his audience. What's your lifelong conversation with your fans like?

My first album started my lifelong conversation. When I write an album, I know there are layers, I know there are people who will go, that's a nice song, she does that 'Window' song and they listen to it on that level and that's great. Then there are those that go a little deeper and then there are those who are really looking for what I'm
trying to say, my intention, the emotional background of where I was coming from when I wrote those songs. What was I questioning? What was I expressing? Sometimes I'll use a phrase that goes back to something early and these fans, they catch it. There are things that I write just for them. There are songs that you'll never hear on the
radio, but they'll hear it. They'll take it as when I listen to my Bruce albums. They'll take everything in and listen to it on that level and I wanted to give that.

Q: You, at various points, have been the poster child for breast cancer survivors, gay rights, environmentalism. Do you ever worry that that's all going to overshadow your music?

I don't worry about that. Sometimes it does overshadow. I know there are people who know me as that lesbian who sang bald on the Grammys, the Janis Joplin song, and that's what they know. That's okay and I'm hoping that this album can actually reach those people who know of me, who know that 'Water' song and can go, "Oh that's what's she's doing." Because, yeah, a lot of times the universe puts me on the edge of stuff sometimes and I've agreed to speak about it and here I am."

Melissa Etheridge Fearless Love on the Radio

Thank you RAIN for this

"i just spotted this tweet - 100.3 The Q!, a Victoria BC radio station, will be playing the new single very soon.

http://twitter.com/TheQdotFM/statuses/6738732304


"Getting ready to play the newly minted Melissa Etheridge tune just before noon. -SKJ
32 minutes ago from TweetDeck
TheQdotFM"

if you're not in the Victoria area, you can still listen online. head over to http://www.theq.fm/?q=listen_live and click on the "Listen Live to The Q! Now" link. a player will pop up in a separate window. you don't have to be in Canada to listen - i'm in NoCal, and i'm listening to AC/DC on the station now."

*rhondda*

Melissa Etheridge on "The Pulse"

Thank you Nano for making us hip to this!

Melissa Etheridge on "The Pulse"

http://www.xmradio.com/thepulse


Thurs 12/17 12:00 pm ET
Melissa will release her next album, Fearless Love, in 2010. In this interview, she discusses her life, family and new music. (1 hr)

Rebroadcast:
Thurs 12/17 8:00 pm ET
Fri 12/18 7:00 am ET
Fri 12/18 10:00 am ET
Fri 12/18 5:00 pm ET

Sat 12/19 12:00 pm ET
Sat 12/19 6:00 pm ET

Melissa Etheridge vs Adam Lambert

Thank you DRG for the information. You can hear and vote on Melissa Etheridge's new single Fearless Love here @ Sophie 103.7. Get on over there please and be a part of this radiosphere vote.

FEARLESS LOVE rules.

Melissa Etheridge - Fearless Love Single

First off I love the artwork on the cover and the song is absolutely great. The music, lyrics and emotion Melissa expresses vocally. GREAT SONG!! You can hear this song if you're a member at M.E.I.N. there is a sneak peek of the song in the members only area. Thank you Melissa Etheridge for giving us that gift of your single and M.E.I.N. for ruling the school of fan club cool. Thank you for the lyrcis Lora.

Fearless Love Lyrics

When I woke up I was 17
You kissed my lips in a bad bad dream
Showed me things aren’t what they appear to be
Called me angel and set me free
You gave me life in the cold cold dark
But you ran away in the mornings spark
Made me think that reality
Is not where I want to be

I am what I am and
I am what I am afraid of
Oh what am I afraid of
I need a fearless love
Don’t need to fear the end
If you can’t hold me now
You will never hold me again
I want to live my life
Pursuing all my happiness
I want a fearless love
I won’t settle for anything less

I’ve walked my path had worlds collide
I lost my way and I fooled my pride
This lover’s ache wouldn’t feel so strange
If I could only change

But I am what I am and
I am what I am afraid of
So what am I afraid of
I need a fearless love
Don’t need to fear the end
If you can’t hold me now
You will never hold me again
I want to live my life
Pursuing all my happiness
I want a fearless love
I won’t settle for anything less

Now I’m not here to lay the blame
I understand when you hold a flame
Heads will shake heads will turn
And sometimes you just get burned

Melissa Etheridge Singing Bruce Springsteen's ...

"Born to Run" at the Kennedy Center Honors. Melissa Etheridge will be performing this song in front of Bruce Springsteen himself along with a host of other great folks. You can see all about it here.

The Kennedy Center Honors will air as a two-hour primetime special on CBS on Dec. 29.

Thank you Nano for the heads up.

Fearless Love Lyrics - Melissa Etheridge

Fearless Love Lyrics

When I woke up I was 17
You kissed my lips in a bad bad dream
Showed me things aren’t what they appear to be
Called me angel and set me free
You gave me life in the cold cold dark
But you ran away in the mornings spark
Made me think that reality
Is not where I want to be

I am what I am and
I am what I am afraid of
Oh what am I afraid of
I need a fearless love
Don’t need to fear the end
If you can’t hold me now
You will never hold me again
I want to live my life
Pursuing all my happiness
I want a fearless love
I won’t settle for anything less

I’ve walked my path had worlds collide
I lost my way and I fooled my pride
This lover’s ache wouldn’t feel so strange
If I could only change

But I am what I am and
I am what I am afraid of
So what am I afraid of
I need a fearless love
Don’t need to fear the end
If you can’t hold me now
You will never hold me again
I want to live my life
Pursuing all my happiness
I want a fearless love
I won’t settle for anything less

Now I’m not here to lay the blame
I understand when you hold a flame
Heads will shake heads will turn
And sometimes you just get burned

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Birthday Tammy Etheridge

Congratulations to another revolution around this delicious sun.



Keep on keeping on T to the ammy. ;)