In 2012 Bonnie McKee co-wrote two songs that appeared on Adam Lambert's album 'Trespassing', which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, and she appeared as a featured performer on 'Thunder' from Rusko's album 'Songs', released on Mad Decent. It was during this time that she signed a recording contract with Epic Records, who had spotted her unusual fashion sense when she featured on E!'s Fashion Police, and appeared on the pages of The New York Times, New York Post, and Schön! Magazine. In 2013 she was awarded three more BMI Pop awards for her songwriting work on Katy Perry's 'Wide Awake' and 'Part Of Me', as well as Britney Spears' 'Hold It Against Me'. McKee's first single under Epic Records was 'American Girl', which was released in July 2013, followed in October by another new song titled 'Sleepwalker', which McKee confirmed was not a single, but rather an "inbetweengle", to tide fans over until her next official release. The plan was to record and release her second album, under a joint deal between Epic and Kemosabe Records, in the summer of 2014, and a second single titled 'S.L.A.Y.' was performed at a number of venues while she was on the road with Karmin on their Pulses Tour, but it was delayed many times and eventually cancelled. Feeling that she had lost control over her career and the creative direction that she wanted to take, she left Epic and Kemosabe Records, and her official second album was shelved. As the recording of a lot of songs had taken place over 2012 and 2013, these began to leak on the internet, and before long there were enough of them for fans to start to put together their reconstructions of the shelved Epic album. I've looked at a few of them online, variously titled 'American Girl' or 'Electric Heaven', and distilled them into a definitive track listing of the legendary Epic album that never was.
Track listing
01 American Girl
02 S.L.A.Y.
03 Forever 21
04 Hot City
05 Hit Me Up
06 Don't Get Mad, Get Famous
07 Electric Heaven
08 Everything But You
09 Somebody's Gonna Get Hurt
10 Sleepwalker
11 Rewind Your Heart
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