This is an illustration of a Plumb song by the same title. The music video (see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRzJrfNyAtA) was exactly what I envisioned when I listened to the song, but I still wanted to illustrate it and I wanted to do something different. So I decided to take another image that came to me from the song: a young entertainer, nervous and insecure, about to take the stage for the first time. I also decided to frame the image in the glitzy glamour of the 40s and 50s, even modeling the girl herself after the film and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn (though I made her blonde to disguise the allusion). The underlying message of the song is about the emptiness, the fakeness that surrounds the life of a celebrity. Even that which is real in a normal person's life--friends, home, self--can seem fake when you're famous. Plumb, as a Christian, has found reality in God, and is hoping to point others to the same reality through her music. If anyone is wondering what the dress is, it's just the MFD with a modified version of Bill Baggins lamé shaders (which I also used on the little girl's dress in "Sweethearts"); the gloves are the same shader on the gloves from the Sensibility Expansion 1. Curtains are from Love Poison by Fabiana and Ilona (with a velvet shader from Parrotdolphin's free Holiday Shaders); stage is Sage Babylon with the wood shader from the Sage Babylon Expansion table. Character is (as usual) a mish mash, but include VAMP Siobhan's morph, LRP's Giselle's morph, some dial spinning, Modern Muse Zoe's texture, and eyes from MelancholiX Golden Girl. The hair is the gorgeous Hadara Hair by Propschick which I just picked up in fast grab; jewelry is from the same. Oh, and they're barely visible, but the shoes and stockings are from Hot Uniforms: Secretary. Lights, as almost ever, are from Synthetic and Blackhearted's ProLuma2.