Nathan had about five lines, "always coming up to Megan at the party, trying to flirt and impress her, she's not interested." (Well, hitting on her character, Megan.)ĭan Schneider, who created both Drake & Josh and iCarly, told Seventeen that on the episode, "Megan goes to this cool party and there's this 'rich boy' who's shorter than her and looks about two years younger." Basically, Nathan's character "follow around and tr to flirt with her." However, he originally had a bigger role on the episode that involved him HITTING ON MIRANDA COSGROVE. Ultimately it's a bit like their approach to football, city centre traffic and recreational drugs, one more example of how the Dutch seem to know something we don't.Before Nathan Kress was Freddie Benson on iCarly, he played an uncredited kid on the " Battle of Panthatar" episode of Drake & Josh. Really, it's not rocket science - good songs sung well makes a great album. New Orleans-style syncopation causes no problems either as bounces through the quirky Dr Wanna Do and even a couple of thinner songs are brought back to life by singing of this quality. Numbers like Just One Dance and You Don't Love Me are Basie-type big band pushing Emerald to fabulous heights, while Back It Up shows off a croon so smoky it could extinguish most modern torches. The orchestrations, too, understand the styles to such a degree they can be subverted with subtle modern twists to stop this being a museum piece: the spectacular Absolutely Me is what Cab Calloway would have done if he'd ever had a drum machine The Other Woman features the funkiest xylophone you'll ever hear, mixed with the sort of electric guitar that ought to have its own 60s TV theme.īut while the arrangements add an almost cinematic setting to the narratives, this is all about the vocals. These dozen songs ease their way around swing, mambo, rumba and lounge, as big rich vocals weave the kind of witty, intriguing stories sure to draw you into a world of loves lost, found and betrayed. However, Deleted Scenes From the Cutting Room Floor is so thoroughly joyous and cleverly thought out it's almost impossible not to be seduced by it.Įmerald is a conservatory trained jazz vocalist and it's her consummate mastery of this specific skill allows her to hold her own against a fiery swing band, while focussing on interpreting the songs not just hitting the notes. It's also the sort of album that could only have been taken seriously somewhere like Holland - big-band jazz and lounge, fronted by a vocalist channelling Jane Russell's wardrobe. This album has spent longer at number one in the Dutch charts (27 non-consecutive weeks) than any other, and although that's a bit like saying "Sneezy was the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs" it shouldn't be taken lightly.
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