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Natalie Gauci Sets The Charts On Fire (If By "Fire" You Mean "Damp Squib")
Posted by Clem Bastow at 2:40 PM on December 3, 2007
Looks like the Idol curse has claimed another female winner and Natalie Gauci's debut single, Here I Am, has limped in at a "disappointing" #2.This gives her the dubious honour of being the first Australian Idol winner not to have their single debut in the top spot, and is - all in all - a rather fitting end for the fifth season of the talent quest, which looks to have terminal rot setting in.
It debuted at No.2 with the less-than-stellar response partly due to the sledgling it got from Idol runner-up Matt Corby.Well, honestly, Blind Deaf Dumb Freddie could have told you this would be the likely result.Gauci herself had admitted she as at first confused by the song but her overhaul of the track written by American hitmakers Lindy Robbins and Tom Leonard was undoubtedly a far better version than Corby offered.
...Download sales have yet to skyrocket in Australia hampered by broadband speeds. Even though Gauci's Here I Am was available via Bigpond straight after her win a week ago, it only reached No.3 on ARIAs Digital Track Chart.
If they insist on importing these wet power ballads for Idol releases, they need to be prepared for this result. Maybe back in 1997 when Faith Hill was big news they could've gotten away with it, but the Kids Of Today™ want something with a happening beat!
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Comments
brent Cataldo
Posted December 11, 2007 3:07 PM
she may have only debuted at No.2, but look at whats at No.1!
AND she managed to sustain it, and keep her No.2 position, and not just immediately fall off the charts
Saviour Gauci
Posted January 15, 2008 12:39 AM
Hello Natalie,
We are proud of you. Keep it up. You made us proud, even that you were born in Australia, but you are Maltese.
Saviour Gauci
Malta.
No relation.
Saviour Gauci
Posted January 27, 2008 8:06 PM
27th January 2008
Hello Natalie Gauci,
Last Friday 25/12/08; I wanted to come to the airport to welcome you to our beautiful island, but time was not possible to find.
Last Night I watched the Malta Song for Europe after many years, mainly as I wanted to watch you and hear your voice echoing on your father’s birth place.
The Songs of the Maltese Singers were great as much for the presentation, lighting and Camera work, Very professionally presented.
What about you? You looked great on my 8feet X 6 feet High Definition Screen. Your talent, poise, relaxation; (I don’t know what was like inside you!) your voice and of course your beauty. You are the product of Maltese Talent and Italian Beauty. The right ingredients!
I understand your father had to leave this island to look for success in a young land far, far away. The 50’s and the 60’s very hard, even the seventies. But if he did not do so we probably could never show our pride in having a Maltese Australian Idol. This makes me proud, as proud to be Maltese and as proud with all those known Maltese both those born here, and abroad.
Malta produced a lot of talent in every sphere. We live on a small piece of rock floating in the Mediterranean Sea, which has one of the oldest histories, so rich and too crowded for such a small island, which today we are proud to say, that from a colony we are a proud Nation (the smallest) in the European Community. Sure that since you arrived here had already noticed and you said it yourself, you already felt at home.
On that stage you looked great and with Ciara you looked marvelous, fantastic singing Angel together. You should record this song, or better the two together.
Since many years, we had Hollywood actors, Joseph Calleia, Opera singers among as Oreste Kirkop (made the film Vagabond King 1956). Soprano Mirian Gauci, Tenor Joseph Callejja who is still young and many others like Ciara, Ira Losco etc and many others in different fields and also many unknown. I’m Proud about all of you here and out there who made Malta proud.
God Bless you all. Keep your head up for a brighter future and more accomplishments.
Saviour Gauci