Katie Rush is
the creation of Katie Wagner, Zak Mering, and Sam Mehran. With Sam and
Zak's ever-innovative musical wizardry and the sum of all of their
visions for dominating the indie pop 80's vibe, Katie Rush is born from
the ashes of Katie Wagner's dying dream of pop superstardom.
Over
the years, worshiping the likes of David Bowie and Ariel Pink, weirdo
pop became an obsession for Katie, who went to many rock shows to
develop this taste, a merger between more experimental sounds and her
earlier dedication to pure mainstream pop and musical theater/rock
operas, in particular, Tommy, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lagaan, Gypsy,
The Little Mermaid, Dark Side of the Moon, Phantom of the Paradise,
Hair, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Labyrinth. Having left
hometown NYC and returned in her 20's to discover Brooklyn, Katie found a
new appreciation for music a little less predictable, a little more
raw. That's when the flames of her love for performing and singing were
reignited, going to places where performance and art thrived with no
limits. At some point she learned of Sam's and Zak's musical acts,
Outer Limits Recordings, and Raw Thrills and Greatest Hits,
respectively. There was no way these guys weren't musical geniuses,
out-of-this-world in their craft.
So
it manifested. In the summer of 2013, coinciding with Katie's newfound
but always festering passion for all things the Law of Attraction,
Quantum, metaphysics, outer space, and existential, and after a night
watching Rhonda Byrne's The Secret with Zak and Sam, the first song "Law
of Attraction" was written. It's an homage to breaking old patterns
and finding yourself, freeing yourself into a new possibility. For
Katie, the possibility was fulfilling a dream, that of singing and
recording her own mind-blowing, catchy, meaningful songs, markers in
time of the reality of existence, the ultimate goal, the ultimate dream,
the expression of self. That and finally finding love. The songs are a
self-fulfilled prophecy, the means and the end.
Says
Katie, "I hope that everyone who listens to the songs on the Law of
Attraction EP, through the power of belief, through listening and
sending those feelings out into the Universe, opens themselves up to
awakened perspectives as I have, and feels the loving force that Zak and
Sam and I have put into these songs as a testament to the power of
thought manifesting for oneself and for and with others. I hope that
people feel what I feel when I hear and sing the songs, making them feel
riveted and want to just groove hard to life's possibilities!"
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