The Michelle Chamuel Update Scavenger Hunt Thread

She is so sneaky! Making us work for our daily fix hahaha

It's adorable that she's sneaky like this right now. But I hope one of the things Usher works with her on is..um..marketing, and how easy access for new listeners is a good thing. Haha.

Her cousin has been more active with her fan site so hopefully that will help!

Doesn't she have a publicist? In that Afterellen interview when the interviewer asked that rude question about Usher, her publicist intervened. At least that's what the article said.

My vote would be on The Voice forcing a publicist on her via ridiculous constricting contract.

I'm glad the publicist was there for that interview though..

Those contracts are the absolute worst. I'm almost surprised she went along with it, except that she seems like she really did want the learning experience and probably didn't except to make it all the way to runner-up status. I wouldn't be one bit surprised if that's why she's being so sneaky, though. It seems like it's kind of worth noting that she didn't say anything about audio snippets on her @michellechamuel twitter account, the one she had to start for The Voice. 

Along that lines, I wonder if she's planning on releasing music from her name "Michelle Chamuel" and from "the Reverb Junkie." The Michelle stuff being more "official" and the Reverb Junkie remaining in the hide and seek/scavenger hunt vein.

I'm not surprised about Josiah, considering where he finished. He was probably let out of his contract immediately following the finale. A lot of the lower place finishers (Vedo, Cathia, C. Perkins, etc.) released new music like, the very day after the finale results show aired. Many of them (like Holly with the Southern Baptist Convention) were already making performance commitments as well. It's a bit surprising that the Swons have put out new stuff, since they were in the finals. I haven't looked it up or anything, so I don't know if it's new new or old new. With Michelle being the runner up and having a pretty solid fan base, though, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out NBC Universal is trying to hold onto her for awhile, since they have first right of refusal. At the same time, I'd bet anything that they're not really paying any attention to The Reverb Junkie accounts. I posted to tumblr earlier with the comparisons between her official Michelle Chamuel social media accounts vs. The Reverb Junkie accounts and the difference is staggering. 

Another reason why I think people who are following her in any capacity for the "Michelle Chamuel" accounts should also do the same for the "TRJ" ones. Don't know why TRJ gets less followers, I guess maybe people don't know about it. =/

Remember that interview she did where she said that she was a little nervous about releasing music because it wasn't exactly what people were used to? I think that this is the disparity she was anticipating in the way that strictly Voice viewers respond to her music vs MDD/ER fans respond to new stuff. I think that if more people took the time to look into her career pre-Voice they would love it.

Hello onetoglow! 

Here it is:

I may have screamed out of excitement when it was the FIRST thing I saw on facebook this morning.

team4eyes and I were actually discussing that on her blog a little bit ago. Given that she's only posted the snippet to her Reverb Junkie accounts (all of which have less than 3,000 followers, individually), we decided that it should probably be kept on the DL for the time being. The Michelle Chamuel social media accounts have 90K (Facebook) and 100K (twitter) followers, so right now, we feel like there's a reason she hasn't shared the snippet on those accounts. Whether it's to make a fun little game out of it (which would be awesome) or whether it's hiding from NBC Universal/some sort of record exec (which is probably more likely), we don't know. Because we don't know, we're going to err on the side of caution with it.

Don't you think, though, that if some figure in the industry was so concerned with Michelle and what music she was or wasn't releasing, they would probably know about TRJ? I mean it's right on her MC Twitter, she's mentioned it in interviews. Maybe it's not worth speculating about (although it is interesting what she's doing) since might not ever know for sure, but given all her talk about how she was nervous about how the audience from The Voice might receive her new music since it's so different than what she did on the show, and how what she's doing now is pretty experimental in nature I just figured she was keeping these snippets a little more low-key because maybe it takes a little of the pressure off. She knows that these fans are likely to be more invested in her/her music since they've done a little more digging and/or knew of her pre-The Voice so it might be more comfortable to get feedback from a smaller, more intimate crowd first.

Anyway, I'm curious about how long she'll balance the two (accounts, Michelle Chamuel and TRJ). At some point, you think it would make sense (and be easier for her and the fans) to have one persona to look to for updates and things, but I did see conversation on Tumblr earlier (that I think was actually the conversation between you and team4eyes that you referred to) about how maybe she had visions of releasing different or certain types of music under each of the two.

To be honest, I'm very much a Top 40 kind of girl so Michelle's methods are new to me and really intriguing. I'm curious to see how this all will pan out. Also, sorry for writing a novel. I've just been wondering about this dual account thing and what better place to discuss