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Natalie Gauci's Album Is Still Being Played...
Posted by Clem Bastow at 11:23 AM on March 4, 2008
...By members of her family.
Walking down Swanston Street in Melbourne, we heard some familiar tones - it was Natalie Gauci's winner's single, Here I Am, blaring out of a speaker system. We turned to face the din and realised it was pumping out of the Golden Tower "chat 'n' chew" restaurant, run by the Gauci family. The restaurant's covered dining area is still bedecked with home-made 'Vote Natalie' posters, which look more poignant with every passing day.
We couldn't help but feel that this was one of the last remaining places on earth where Gauci's music career was of any interest to anyone, and as such should possibly be submitted as a Heritage site.
Where did it all go wrong? Things looked set to soar for The Gauch when she took the Idol title while memories of her stirring renditions of Umbrella and Boys In Town were still fresh in the country's memory. Then things started to develop the stench of death: her album tanked, and, well, things got worse.
The latest we've heard from her is this blog on the Sony BMG site from last week, which sounds more like a gap-year traveller's email home than a missive from a busy music career.
Add to that the fact that Matt Corby, the last season's great white hope, turned down a recording deal, not to mention a decided lack of publicity regarding any 2008 auditions, and the franchise looks more or less dead in the water.
Is the Idol dream over, full-stop? Looking bloody likely from here!
Tags: au | australian idol | matt corby | natalie gauci | omg sad
Comments
samantha
Posted March 4, 2008 6:03 PM
We couldn't help but feel that this was one of the last remaining places on earth where Gauci's music career was of any interest to anyone´
Well i know a whole bunch of people who would disagree with that statement! We are all eagerly awaiting her next album!
joanne
Posted March 25, 2008 8:02 PM
I agree with samantha!
alot still love and support natalie even though idol is over!
were all waiting exictedly for her new album!
Samantha
Posted April 1, 2008 12:27 PM
I followed all the little highlighted links in this article because I've been idly searching for news on Miss Gauchi and this is the only story that came up in my search. I'm not a fan but I sort of hoped she was doing okay and that maybe I just somehow missed her blitzing the charts and rocking the Oz music scene since she won that hideously dysfunctional series of Aust Idol last year. But alas, I hadn't missed anything. It's all so terribly tragic. I wonder how that delightful Ben fella is doing. Got any news on him???