Monday, October 29, 2007
Vanessa Amorosi’s Spectacular Career Relaunch Delayed Due To Delta Goodrem’s Bed-Head Led Domination Of Press
2:26PM Jess McGuire | When we read this morning that the one thing standing in the way of Vanessa Amorosi forcing her way back into the hearts and minds of the Australian music purchasing public was the nation’s current mild interest in Delta Goodrem, well, we couldn’t help but condescendingly mutter a quick “Suuuuuuuure…” to ourselves.
Vanessa Amorosi will have to wait a few months before she gets to shine again.
There is industry speculation that her new album has been postponed for fear it would be overshadowed by Delta Goodrem’s latest effort.
The forgotten pop star had been due to release her comeback album, Somewhere in the Real World, this month, but it has been postponed until February.
The official word from record company Universal was that Amorosi had
decided to do some more work on it, but industry sources attributed the
delay to the media and marketing blitz surrounding the release of
Goodrem’s Delta.
It also reminded us of our favourite one liner from Brendan Shanahan after the 2000 ARIA Awards. You’ll have to excuse us as we are mustering this up purely from memory, but if we’re correct, he quipped that watching the smile on Amorosi’s face during the ceremony eventually turned to a frown of disappointment once she realised she was going to be walking away empty handed after being nominated for a massive six gongs was akin to witnessing “a slug being dropped into a bowl of salt”.
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YouTube Clip Of The Day
2:08PM Jess McGuire | Today one of our colleagues began running around singing a somewhat familiar song quite merrily as she went about her daily tasks (as she is wont to do from time to time) and, drawn in by the lure of the tune’s sheer jauntiness, we couldn’t help but ask her to jog our memory as to what this particular work of art’s title might be.
“‘Overload’, I think…” she responded, “from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack.”
Quick as a flash, we were on YouTube to see if we could find a clip which showed the scene in the flick where the song was originally used. Unfortunately we were distracted from this task once we stumbled across this young lady’s bedroom dance routine to it.
For some strange reason, we find the above completely hypnotic. There’s just so much to like about it! We particularly enjoy that, every thirty seconds or so, there’s a look in her eyes which says “Oh god, what move do I try next? I have not fully choreographed this!” before she inevitably goes with a hair toss/writhe combination. Which fucking works, don’t get us wrong.
We’re DJ-ing this ditty as soon as humanly possible, and we’ll more than likely – depending on how many Jager shots we’ve had – perform jessykabarbara’s moves as well. More » 
Sterling Work Labelling Your ARIA Photos, News Ltd!
11:06AM Jess McGuire | God love those scamps at Uncle Rupert’s Journalist Sweatshop – they’ve popped up a couple of happy snaps from last night’s ARIA awards (our thoughts on the results are coming soon, although so is Christmas…) and we couldn’t help but gently chuckle to ourselves as we sipped on a mug of hot cocoa, gleefully revelling in their double-whammy of a picture labelling fuck up.
Sure, the lovely Wally De Backer aka Gotye isn’t quite a household name yet, but ‘Gotyer’? Why not call the country’s Best Male Artist ‘Goiter’ and be done with it? And as for dubbing Missy Higgins – hardly an unknown figure in the Australian entertainment scene – ‘Sarah Blasko’… well, we applaud your sheer half-arsed approach to reporting. Cut that down to a quarter-arsed approach, and you’ll be running even with Defamer Australia!
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