I first stumbled across Lennon and Maisy
when they appeared on my YouTube suggestion list, thinking they looked cute I
thought I’d give them ago. The song they were singing was their own take on
‘Call your girlfriend’ with their margarine pots what I then found out was that
they were a bit of a YouTube sensation, especially for this song. Although my
first impression of them was ‘cute’ Lennon’s voice was far from it; with her
being the older of the two sisters, but still only 12 years old, she had a
voice which made you believe she felt and believed everything she was singing.
Maisy added another dimension to the song with her harmonies and backing vocals
and the mix of young and slightly older seems to work like a charm.
Although ‘Call your girlfriend’ gave them
their first taste of viral stardom, I think my person favourite cover of theirs
is ‘I won’t give up’ by Jason Mraz, this song again demonstrates their amazing
harmonies but also showcases Lennon’s guitar playing. However, it is not just
Lennon who is gifted at the guitar, in Maisy’s solo cover of Missy Higgins’s
‘Secret’ she also shows of her guitar playing and surprises us all with her
tuneful yet also mature voice. Their ‘Call your girlfriend’ cover has inspired
other YouTubers to also try making music with cups or empty cartons and it has
now become a bit of a craze.
Their new Christmas song ‘Christmas coming
home’ is an upbeat joyous song that makes you want to sing along, it was
written by Lennon and Maisy’s parents and Maisy herself said “I love to sing it
because it makes you feel happy.” They
have millions of twitter followers, however perhaps the most exciting of these
are One Direction and teen heart-throb Harry Styles even tweeted one of their
YouTube videos.
When I was trying to find out more about
the two Stella sisters I found out that their parents are also musically
gifted, they finished in fourth place CMT’s Can
you duet?I also found out that they grew up on a 170-acre farm without
Phones or even TV and Internet, which is ironic since they now appear on both
the internet and TV being watched by millions of
viewers.
viewers.
Not only are they showing the viral world
what they can do, they have also booked the roles of Maddie and Daphne Conrad
in the ABC hit show Nashville and wowed the world of TV with their great acting
and their cover of ‘Telescope’ is one of the best music moments from the
season.
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Ellie Kay
