Fan Release Party Article

"Hi, My name is Brittany Buzzini. I am 14 years old and I live in San Jose, CA. This is the story of the most wonderful trip and time of my life. On November 5, 2002, my step-father received an e-mail from one of the executives at J records. To me, it was just an ordinary day. I let him get on (the computer) to check his mail after I went on to check up on any new O-Town info. I was sort of bummed out because o-town.com had just released the winners of the people who got to go to the LA listening party and I was not one of them. Who knew that I would be even more lucky than that!

Anyway, my step-dad gets on and calls me into the room asking me if I entered anyone in this O-Town contest to go to New York. I told him "Yeah, I entered you, me, and mom, it is to go to their record-release party in NY, but it doesn't really matter because I know I didn't win, why?" He said,"Well you won..." At that very second, it felt like my heart just went on a roller coaster ride and landed in my throat. I didn't believe it. I told him: "There is no way I could have won, there is like a one in a million chance you could win a contest like that, all of their fans enter, there is absolutely no way I could have won, it must be some cruel prank."

Well......it wasn't. The letter was sent by a J Records staff member. This letter said that we had won two tickets to NY to stay in a 5 star hotel and two passes to O-Town's record release party in NYC and I would get to actually meet them. I literally fell on the floor and started crying. I could not believe it. I was going to meet O-Town, my idols, my loves, the 5 guys I listen to in my CD player praying that one day one of them would come knocking on my door. Not to mention I was going to NYC!!!!

So, on Monday, November 11, the day before the party, a limo arrived at our house to take us to the airport. Although the flight was 5 hours long, I didn't care, because I was going to New York to meet O-Town! We got there at 9:00, had dinner, walked around a bit, and then went to bed to get ready for the next, best day of my life!

On Tuesday, November 12, we walked around for 8 hours (and got the new O-Town CD of course) and went back to get ready at 7:00 pm. I put on my brand new outfit just for them and we headed to the Lotus Club.

When we got there, even though they were not out yet, the atmosphere of it all excited me. At around 9:45 they came out. Of course I got first row, and when they sang "These Are The Days" and "From The Damage" I was right there with them. And, since I had already heard the songs, I was singing along with them and when Erik saw me he came up to me, held my hand and said that he couldn't believe what a great fan I was, Jacob kept looking at me and smiling, Trevor touched my hand and said hi, Ashley was just beautiful and perfect like always but close up so I could actually see his face, expressions, smile, etc., and Dan well, was just Dan, beautiful and all.