Kitty In 2008

As many are well aware Kitty Brucknell aka Kimberley Dayle has been in the entertainment industry for many years. She has web sites dedicated to her tributes to Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Lady Gaga, but what about Kitty?

Well to answer that she has a Facebook page Kitty Brucknell  and a Twitter Account and has used YouTube as a promotional vehicle as Kitty. Then there is the Kitty Brucknell web site that is part of the popvideo STAR network. This was set up in 2008 after Kitty submitted videos of herself performing into a competition. The site had this to say …

“And the winner is…
Kitty Brucknell!
popvideo STAR Season 2 winner.

Congratulations to Kitty Brucknell for winning popvideo STAR Season 2! Voting for the final round was extremely close. Kitty received 7209 votes and Selyne received 7146 votes, a difference of only 63 votes!

Kitty is a rising young country and pop star from London, England. She has an amazingly powerful voice that seems to boom out of her effortlessly. She has connected with thousands of fans through her popular YouTube channel and is destined for stardom.”

I think that can be called high praise. It is also interesting how Kitty aka Kimberley was described then and how she described herself 3 years ago.

“Singing since she could talk, and performing in many stage shows as a child, she slowly developed her unique style which offers something for everyone. “I was always singing, it wasn’t ever a question as to what I wanted to be when I grew up, everyone already knew!” she says and as her reputation grew, she started performing at different events across the country.

In 2002, she was signed to Rock-It Music, which took her under a 2 year development deal, which enabled her to discover her songwriting skills, and to record an album of cover and original material. Around that time, Dreamworks Music was also taking an interest, but as the development deal fell through as the company lost their funding, the stateside interest was put on a hiatus as the executive in charge of the artist was held up on IRS charges for unpaid taxes.”

Kitty In Her Then Famous T Shirt

“Her famous T-shirt slogan “God sees inner beauty” has become somewhat of a trademark, and Kitty is adamant that it’s definitely something that she lives by. “I wanted to give people trust back in the music industry”, she says. “There are so many artists who are so incredibly talented, but seem to get caught up in their own hype and celebrity status, and I really wanted to bypass all of that and give people a role model that they can believe in. I really want to be known for my music and my performances, rather than who I date, or how many clubs I fall out of at 4 in the morning. Of course I have fun every once in a while, but my real wish is that not only that people will be interested in my music, but respect me for the morals that I uphold and the dignity that I think has been lost on a lot of young artists these days. If I have inspired just one person to go out and live their dreams and still stay true to who they are, then that’s all I care about, it’s just fantastic to have that opportunity.”" You can read the full text here

I think those are great sentiments and I applaud them. So I ask myself what has happened in those 3 years to change all of that. If we look at the press we can see that what is reported is a far cry from, even at odds with, the sentiments expressed back then. In fact the Kitty aka Kimberley we have seen and whom is portrayed within the press is a far cry from that person.  3 years, 36 months, 1095 days, whichever way you look at it that is not an overly long time. As a Lady Gaga tribute has she become a victim of “The Fame Monster”? Has she given up the ideals she once held or has she simply gotten herself lost in the world we call entertainment and looking for a way back? To be honest I don’t know. I don’t have the answers. I do know that what would appear to be such a radical shift of viewpoint in so short a time must have a catylist somewhere, but what that may be I do not think is a matter for speculation and whatever hypothesis I came up with would be just that and that would be unfair to Kitty aka Kimberley. I have always believed in reporting facts not conjecture.

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