J Sutta – CRAZY TOUR STORIES

In this Crazy Tour Stories segment, the pop artist, J Sutta, talks about some of her crazy moments from touring. You can check out the feature, after the break.

The Jay-Z incident…..

I was only a few months into being a Pussycat Doll. We had just gotten off a long flight from LA to the South of France. We were booked for some performances in Monaco and St Tropez. I’m from Dade County, Florida, which is the South. It’s close to Miami but trust me it ain’t Miami!! Geography classes at Art School are not that informative in America, particularly in Dade County!! At that point, I thought Monaco was in North Africa and St Tropez was next to San Antonio!!

We landed and were treated like royalty. I was so jet lagged but my excitement for this new experience and adventure kept my adrenaline pumping. The first night we were there we all made an appearance at a plush and high-end night club called Jimmy’s, in Monaco. I had never experienced anything like it. Champagne bottles the size of rhinoceroses being carried to tables by 4 waiters at a time, sparklers and Star Wars theme music every 5 minutes to celebrate that someone was about to grossly overpay for alcohol that would end up being sprayed and not drunk. It was complete lavish, over the top, debauchery.

I’m not a big drinker and the closest I had come to drinking champagne was St Ives tropical breeze fruit punch or Uncle Billy Bob Joe Jr’s fine sparkling wine which at the time could be purchased for $6 per bottle without ID. After I had a couple of glasses of champagne I was starting to feel buzzed. Suddenly I was told that we were all going to move to another party.

We arrived and were all totally starstruck! Bono, Jay-Z and a host of other A-listers were there. We were all so excited. This was all very new to us. As the party wound down I remember all of us girls competing for attention, trying to impress some of these A-listers and all I remember was that “oh no” feeling because every time one of us tried to tell a joke or an interesting story it kept falling flat and being met with looong awkward silences. When that happens the natural step to take is to have another glass of bubbly right? I subscribed to the theory that the more you drink the more interesting you will become. I was about to prove that theory very wrong once and for all.

The next thing I remember, was Jay Z patting me on the back and waking me up, as I had fallen asleep, sunken and leaned back on the world’s most uncomfortable chair. He was very nice about it and the girls and I laughed hysterically later but at the time I was so embarrassed! I went completely red and just wished that I had packed my Harry Potter invisibility cloak that I had spent a good portion of my new found money on E-Bay!!

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