Her performances have become more than just singing in front of a crowd. Laussade brings her famous stool. Besides sitting on it, she asks the audience, who have watched her grow as a musician, to sign the legs of the stool.<\/p>\n
She even recently started playing some of her original songs that she saves for the end of her performance. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think that I gained almost all of my confidence as a performer by performing my own music because I get to showcase my own stuff,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n
Laussade has five completed songs but typically plays only two at a time. She began writing her first song, \u201cBurn,\u201d in eighth grade, imagining a young girl wishing for her ex-boyfriend to burn after he\u2019s finished lying to her. <\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Burn\u2019 has definitely changed over the years as I\u2019ve grown into it,\u201d she says. \u201cI hadn\u2019t had any romantic experiences then when I wrote it, and I kind of imagined how it would be.\u201d <\/p>\n
With college around the corner, Laussade hopes to produce and release \u201cBurn\u201d on streaming platforms before she graduates high school.<\/p>\n
But as she looks toward college, Laussade is still figuring out where music fits into her future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been conflicted with that for a while,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve been looking at UT-Austin, which has a very intimidating music program, but I\u2019ve also been looking at Belmont University in Nashville that has a lot of majors regarding business music and songwriting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her performances have become more than just singing in front of a crowd. Laussade brings her famous stool.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[154913,154914,154915,88741,962,80696,154916,160,162,161,2471,143542],"class_list":["post-450423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-alice-laussade","tag-belmont-university","tag-craig-bradley","tag-guitar-center","tag-lake-highlands","tag-lake-highlands-high-school","tag-penny-laussade","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-ut-austin","tag-vector-brewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}