Tenney

A Second Chance

After dinner, Tenney is frustrated and upset, and her parents are fighting. She goes outside to hum her song to make herself feel better. Her mom walks up on her and overhears the song.

Her mother explains why she feels so hesitant about letting Tenney get into the music business. Apparently, Tenney’s mother’s mom pushed her very hard to be a successful singer-songwriter. She was writing her own music, and was very talented. When she was sixteen, her mother took her to perform for a producer, who wanted to sign her. The producer paid her a few thousand dollars to record a single.

But the song she ended up recording didn’t feel like her. After the recording session, the producer said that to keep it up, her mother would have to dye her hair blonde, lose ten pounds, and start wearing high heels. At that moment, Tenney’s mom realized that this wasn’t what she wanted to do—she wanted to record music that truly felt like herself.

But it was too late. During the signing process, she accidentally signed all of her music over to the producer. Legally, she couldn’t get any of it back. And when she tried to talk to other record labels about being signed over there, it turns out the first producer blackballed her… she was officially labeled as “hard to work with.”

But all of that being said, Tenney’s mom admits that if this is something Tenney really wants to do, then she has to let her try. Tenney’s mom won’t be able to block all of the potential pain and hurt from Tenney, but she’ll do her very best to make sure nothing similar to what happened with her will happen again.