Cheyenne Kimball is unlike any other artist who has a reality show; she’s not crazy.

While audiences watched The Osbournes to see Ozzy’s erratic lifestyle and the Newlyweds to see what ditsy line Jessica Simpson would say next, audiences tuning in to MTV’s “Cheyenne” have been seeing a normal 15-year-old.

Of course, that normal girl was once named America’s Most Talent Kid by a nationally televised competition and has a recording contract with Sony-BMG, but compared to her reality show colleagues, Cheyenne epitomizes normality.

“I’m just a normal little 15-year-old girl,” Cheyenne tells andPOP, in Toronto recently. “I don’t really go to parties or anything like that.”

Yet people tuned in, and enough of them that MTV is considering a second season.

“I guess people want to see a little normalcy,” she says.

The first season of “Cheyenne” chronicled the Texas-born teen as she created her debut album, “The Day Has Come,” which debuted at number 15 on the Billboard album chart last month and will be released on August 8 in Canada.

With the album complete, the cameras have disappeared.

“I miss them. The whole crew felt like family to me so it’s weird not having them around to document everything,” Cheyenne said.

Cheyenne got used to the cameras filming her every move and sees the experience positively.

“Being able to know that I ‘m going to be able look back and see all that stuff happening – like being on TRL for the first time or releasing my record or playing on stage with Sheryl Crow – (these are) things I never want to forget. My kids will be able to watch it,” she says.

Cheyenne will soon see if the fans will stick by her now that she isn’t on MTV for a half hour every week.

So far, it doesn’t seem to be a problem. Cheyenne has tour dates lined up for the rest of the summer and plans to continue touring across North America into the fall.

“It will be nice for people to finally hear my music because it’s been cut in into the show in little bits but now they’ll be able to hear the full album and they’re really going to get me.”

Cheyenne wrote every song on her album, and like most songwriters, experienced writer’s block.

“I get so stressed out that I can’t write (sometimes),” she says. “Sometimes I get that spark of inspiration and I really take advantage of it.”

Cheyenne says people who only know her from the reality show will see a different side of her on the album. However, in person, Cheyenne is the same normal girl people met on TV.

“People come up to me and say, ‘you’re so much like you are on the show,’ and I’m like, ‘well, it’s reality!’”






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