No matter who you are rooting for on The Glee Project, it’s hard to deny that Shanna was a frontrunner from the beginning, making her elimination probably the most surprising of the season. I spoke with Shanna and she gave me some honest answers on why she thinks she was cut from the competition.
Ology: Hi Shanna. I was really shocked by your elimination because you had been so consistent throughout the show. Why do you think you were sent home?
Shanna: I think that it came down to the top three were put in the bottom three. And Blake is the strongest male and they couldn’t get rid of the strongest male. I mean, at the end of the day if they got rid of him, then, I mean that was just not going to happen.
And then it came down to story between me and Aylin. And Aylin’s story has never been done on Glee before. And I think that, not that my story has been done on Glee because it hasn’t, but I definitely left out some very eye-opening and like audience entertaining aspects of my story. And I think at the end of the day that ended up biting me in the butt and sent me home.
What was it like going from being at the top week after week and then being in the bottom and then your first time in the bottom three going home?
It was devastating. At the same time I said since the first week that if I was in the bottom three against Blake and Aylin I knew I would go home, because I knew that it wouldn’t be about talent, it would be about storyline.
And I have been around the industry long enough to understand that that happens every day. It’s just how it is. If you’re not what the producer, the writer wants then they go to the next person. And so I was not shocked being in the bottom three. I was not shocked going home but I was shocked with the combination of the bottom three because I didn’t think that one of us deserved to go home when there were other people that were still there that I think did deserve to go home.
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You and Aylin kind of struggled with the music video. Did having to play a same sex couple throw you off at all?
No. It didn’t throw me off at all actually. And I think that we took the criticism and I think that we made it look very believable for the video. Because we were getting positive feedback after, positive feedback from the fans on how realistic we looked. And so I was happy with the end outcome of that video. And I think that we took the criticism and ran with it.
So what are your plans now that you’re done with the show?
I am living in Nashville and I am going to work my butt off to hopefully get a Grammy and potentially be on Broadway. That’s what I’m really wanting to do. And I’m going to - I have like a five-year plan scoped out and I’m really wanting to make it happen.
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