History
Bubbles & Cheesecake grew out of the songwriting partnership of Allee Willis and Holly Palmer, who were originally introduced in 2001 by music publisher Marla McNally. At first they came together to compose songs for Palmer's third solo album, I Confess. Their collaboration was interrupted when Willis left to co-write the music and lyrics for the Broadway production of The Color Purple. She was involved in the project for close to five years. The music & lyrics went on to be Tony-nominated, and the soundtrack album was GRAMMY nominated.
During that time, Palmer formed her own independent record label, Bombshell Records, and released "I Confess" in 2004. She also went on the road singing with the Gnarls Barkley live band.
In 2006, Willis and Palmer renewed composing together at the multi-media studio at Willis' Los Angeles-area home, an art deco landmark known as "Willis Wonderland." They originally intended to write songs for what would be Palmer's fourth solo album, Songs For Tuesday. Released in 2007, Songs For Tuesday features the Willis-Palmer co-write "Girl In Lust," which, like "I Confess" from Holly's previous album, also was later recorded and performed by Bubbles & Cheesecake.
Instead of continuing to work on Palmer's solo album, however, Willis and Palmer were inspired to write, perform, and record together in full collaboration under the name Bubbles & Cheesecake. Their first official single and video as Bubbles & Cheesecake is "It's A Woman Thang," which was introduced with the launch of their website in October 2007.
It is part of what will be an ongoing series of songs under the banner of The Soul Of Bubbles And Cheesecake. Each Bubbles & Cheesecake song will be treated as an individual experience and sensory universe, with matching music, art, video and web components. There is no "album" collecting them – Willis and Palmer instead see the songs as singular modules that will snap together to continually expand The Soul Of Bubbles And Cheesecake, which they describe as driven by a spirit of "soul, kitsch and self-expression."
The site's hyper-interactive functionality is an outgrowth of Allee Willis' background as an Internet pioneer. Throughout the '90s, she developed willisville, an evolving prototype for the first sonic/visual/interactive social network in cyberspace. Its then-revolutionary merging of narrative frameworks and multiple technologies and platforms into a cohesive thematic environment was written up by Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other publications. It now serves as the archetype for Bubbles & Cheesecake. The website's visuals all feature artwork by Bubbles the artist, Willis' alter-ego.
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