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  • Battle Is Over But Not The Fight

    · By Alisa Apps

    Sun Tzu said “know thy self, know thy enemy.”  I wrote ‘Need to Know’ years before John Newman’s song.  I know my honed skills, and I know my unwavering discipline is what fuels me to write and perform music.  It will never stop.  My creativity will endure long after other artists wither and fade.  Universal heard my music years before they gave it to John Newman to record.  It was my song.  I wrote it.  But when they heard it, they quietly kept it, and then tried to pawn it off to a lesser artist who clearly could not make...

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  • Clarity During Covid

    · By Alisa Apps

      Being at home through Covid this year gave me a chance to really look at my life, it made me really appreciate being an Independent singer-songwriter, fighter and entrepreneur. Being told what to do by the government didn't sit well with me. It made me really happy that this is not how I have to live, because when it's all over I will be doing my own thing. But others in music will still be being told what to do, what to sing and say. That's no way to live for me, and staying silent through Covid gave a...

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  • SONG-STEALING JOHN NEWMAN BREAKS TIES WITH UMG

    · By Alisa Apps

    If you steal from Team Apps, we will find out.  And when we do, we will come after you legally and very publicly. We now have safeguards in place, and the right lawyers, so we will never stop until we win. We enjoy collaborating with other artists, and we love creating music, but if the corporations or the powers-that-be decide to ever again steal our music, we won’t care about their excuses.  We will fight them at every turn.  We exposed John Newman as a plagiarizing hack, who lacks the genuine talent Team Apps has consistently demonstrated year in and...

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  • MY LAWSUIT AGAINST UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP / JOHN NEWMAN | Q&A

    · By Alisa Apps

    Q: What is going on with your lawsuit against Universal? A:  I had – and still have – a great case… but there were complexities in the legal system and the court rules, that weren’t considered by my attorney, and my case was thrown out before I even got to a jury.   Unbeknownst to me – and to my lawyer as it turns out – Universal is a complicated web of parent and subsidiary companies, all with similar names but different locations and purposes, and my lawyer… sued the wrong one.  I’ve since learned this is a frustratingly common tactic...

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  • YOU AND ME MAKING MONEY

    · By Alisa Apps

    For those of you who have pre-ordered my album, I want to THANK YOU and tell you that you have just become a member of a “super group”.  While PRE-selling my highly anticipated ‘Top Of The World’ album, we are getting interest from every corner of the world, and remarkably 80 percent of all pre-orders sold are physical CD’s. It’s starting to remind me of Adele type record sales where lots of physical albums were sold. This is truly exiting. Because of the interest in, and significance of this album we will be moving the official release date a few months...

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  • DID YOU MISS MY TRIP TO D.C.? INAUGURATION

    · By Alisa Apps

    January 2017 is a month I will be proud to remember for the rest of my life. I was privileged to be invited to Washington, DC for the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Many thousands came to our nation’s capital for the event, but I was lucky enough to be there by invitation of ..
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