Goldy Locks Interview
Posted by David Damage on Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Under: Interviews
Recap of Goldy Locks' appearance on World Wrestling Insanity, available at WorldWrestlingInsanity.com.
Few
fans can forget Goldy Locks. Early on TNA's days, she was all over the
show doing both interviews and managing. Her face was recognizable each
and every show. Today, TNA fans may be more familiar with her voice. She
currently sings the theme song for a
number of TNA stars including Winter and Dixie Carter. She tells James
Guttman how honored she is to be able to do that and how supportive TNA
has always been of her musical aspirations. They gave her the
opportunity to work regularly for the wrestling business while still
creating music. Her latest video for "It's a Sure Great Day For a
Wedding" is already creating a buzz and she tells ClubWWI.com members
about the very personal feelings behind it.
"That story is that I
was dating a pretty famous country artist in town who comes from really
amazing lineage and stock. I'm in my 30s and I really don't plan on
getting married or having kids. I just want to rock and do what I do. I
met this guy and, for the first time in my life, I was actually thinking
about what it would be like to be married to someone like this. We're
both in the business. Obviously, he's in at a different level and his
family is. What if I ever had a kid with someone like this? What a
voice. This is about breeding! (laughs) I would marry into something
really special and spectacular.
"Everything was going great. He
brought me out at the Grand Ole Opry and introduced me to everybody as
"this is the woman I'm going to spend my life with" and I was really
getting into it. I wrote this song, "It's a Sure Great Day For a
Wedding", and I spoke to his mom. She's like, "Oh, we're going to have
the wedding at my house in the back" and we started to go down that road
of thinking about that stuff - which I never did (before then). Then,
then next day, it was off. The promise ring was off. Everything was off.
So I came up with this idea that I wanted to give this song away free
as a free download for everyone who is getting married or going to a
bachelorette party or bachelor party."
Goldy's song is up on her site and also on Youtube. You can hear it yourself on GoldyLocks.net or directly on Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuchsolIyhU
One
thing that might strike long time fans is Goldy Locks's admission that
her run in TNA had moments she wishes had gone differently. Coming from a
non-wrestling background, Goldy didn't properly understand the business
and handled herself in ways she wishes she can take back in some cases.
She speaks to James about discovering respect for the wrestling
industry and things she wishes she could do again including listening
closer to advice from long time veterans. As Guttman points out, though,
Goldy had a flair for what she did and her reactions to many on-air
situations seemed real and related often to what the audience was
thinking. While Locks appreciated his sentiments, she points out during
her ClubWWI.com shoot that not everyone feels that way about her.
"It's
so great of you to say 'someone so great in the ring' when there's so
many things, there's so many shoots I read online, with some of the
people I worked with and actually tried to help get into the league and
into the promotion, and then they're just complete a**holes and pricks
and talk a bunch of junk about me. But I'm really happy to have anyone
diss me who feels like it because it's just more publicity for me. So, I
always like to say to those people, thank you for keeping my name alive
in the wrestling business. I appreciate it very much."
JG asks
if there is someone she specifically takes issue with and she does.
Goldy points to her former "Baby Bear" client, Alex Shelley, as someone
who has taken aim at her. Shelley has publicly called her a "headache"
and, as the ClubWWI interview goes on, she has something to say about
that.
"I remember when they brought Alex Shelley in and I was
just like, oh cool. I was excited to work with him and I was trying
different things to push my character to just be nuts and insane and do
all this crazy stuff. I've heard nothing but just complete negative crap
that he said about me and it's just like I don't even know him that
well. If he had such a problem with me and thought that I sucked so bad,
I wish he would have had some balls and came up to me and said, "Hey,
you suck" or "you can't do anything in the ring" or "this is awful, let
me show you how to do it better" or "let me teach you something". I wish
that. If someone sucks at something, let them know. I let people I work
with know all the time."
Goldy goes in-depth about her work in
TNA including times with Shelley, Abyss, Erik Watts, and others. From
the background story behind her famous midget trash can segment to crazy
fans thinking she genuinely was dating Watts to the shocking case of
being sexually harassed early on, she shies away from no subject. As
Guttman points out, during the trash can interview segment on TNA, she
stated, "When my music career takes off, I am so out of here." Meant as a
joke, it had a ring of truth because when she was done with TNA, she
continued music as opposed to going up to WWE - something many fans and
ClubWWI.com members assume is the usual next step. James asks her if
that was ever even a consideration…
"It never was. I don't have
the talent it would take. Maybe to be a manager over there or to be an
interviewer, but I started to get the point where people - like Vince
(Russo) and Jeff (Jarrett) - said, "Once you enter the wrestling
business, you'll always end up in the ring." You know what? I'm not a
wrestler and I'm not going to go to school to try to cram in that
education when there's people who have been doing this ten, fifteen, or
twenty years since they were little kids trying to abuse their bodies so
they can be ready to do this.
"That's not really what I was
brought on to do. I was brought on to interview and I was brought in to
do musical segments and then it developed into management. If I had gone
to WWE, they would have wanted to just see me get splattered and that's
not where my talent lies. I know that and I would never try to act like
that. I've done some independent things and kicked some people's faces
in at shows, but I'm not a wrestler and I know that. "
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