"Chapter 6 ~Talent & New Words
I may utterly hate women and particularly these girls in the band Prodigy but believe me when I say they have talent. It’s beyond amazing, the way the play the instruments so easily, how their voices harmonise so perfectly. It’s like the guitars, bass and even the handmade drum set –I’ll never get over how Leanne just went picking boxes until she got the percussion she needed– are part of their bodies, another limb of theirs. Their voices match so perfectly I truly envy them. We’ve never reached that level and people say we were born to sing together, but these girls leave me speechless. And their songs are different, too. You expect a girl band to sing about love and breakups, you expect that from any band, to be honest, but they perform three songs and none of them is about that kind of love. They talk about struggle, they talk about being more than what you can and the other is about telling everyone that they can fuck off, you are who you want to be. All those songs are powerful and so full of meaning… they are exactly what these kids need to hear right now.
I kind of feel embarrassed to go now and sing about getting the girl after a long party all night. I feel like our songs have no meaning next to theirs. Niall is the only one who plays the guitar whilst we sing, meanwhile they made a drum set! How is that even possible?!
Still, as we sing One Thing, Little Things and a new song from our latest album, the kids enjoy our little performance. They don’t get as excited as when Prodigy was on stage and I honestly don’t blame them. We can do great things, we can blow minds… but next to them everyone looks like a bad joke. And these girls know that. Now I understand why Alex and Kay are fangirling right now. I’m sure that if Mila, Moni and Hannah were here they would be the same.
Like good competitors, the members of Prodigy congratulate us, but in their eye..." http://wattpad.com/story/4401058
