“We just couldn’t believe what was happening,” Chance says. It took about a week after the video was posted online for Chance’s mom to receive a call from Los Angeles: Ellen DeGeneres wanted her son on the show the next day. The boy could never have imagined that that local performance would change his life. A shaky videographer captured a then-12-year-old Greyson Chance performing Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” in front of his schoolmates in early 2010, marking the first time that Greyson sang in front of a crowd. The piano chords rang loudly as a sixth-grader’s prepubescent voice echoed in the Oklahoma middle school gym. “I’ve never met someone more manipulative, more self-centered, and more blatantly opportunistic than her,” he says. Speaking to Rolling Stone last month, Chance wants to get something off his chest: the trauma he says he felt as a teenager after being discovered and later “completely abandoned” by Ellen DeGeneres. “I’m barely holding on by a thread.” It’s the only visual he’s dropping for Palladium, his recently released new album. “I figured we could start with this,” Chance says, cueing up the emotional video for his latest single, “ My Dying Spirit.” “I’m barely on my feet, mama,” he sings over haunting piano.
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“‘Give me more cunt!’” Chance remembers, with a chuckle, hearing from McLaughlin’s studio.)īut today, the room is still, filled only with the palpable nervous energy of a musician unsure of how to start a conversation he’s been wanting to have for more than five years. ( RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Ginger Minj was recording a song here the other day. The place is typically filled with the boisterous energy of the artists McLaughlin works with. The quaint spot is where Chance - the 25-year-old musician who got his start on The Ellen Show as a tween - stays when he visits L.A. Greyson Chance and I are sitting in the Hollywood Hills home of producer Brett McLaughlin on a warm August morning. ‘This is the first time I’ve been honest about her, and this is the last time I want to talk about it.”
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