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Not sure where to post this, so here goes. Fantastic articlle on Brian, as it paints Delta in a very good light, as it should be!

http://www.heraldsun...o-1226509818290



IT'S taken a while but magnificently mercurial Irish crooner Brian McFadden may have finally worn out his welcome in Australia.
Now that his television vehicle Australia's Got Talent has been axed from Seven's line-up, and with new owners Nine declaring they will co-opt their own judging panel, he and beautiful new wife Vogue Williams suddenly have less reason to be here.
So it looks as though it is bye-bye Brian.
It certainly hasn't helped his cause that the nation has not warmed to his recording career. The former Westlife boy band member has pretty much left us cold with most of his singles falling short of chart success.
Look at it this way: Thanks to his toxic tweeting and very public "brawls" involving his ex-wife Kerry Katona those love songs of his are just not believable.
And not helping his image is that one of his recent singles - There You Are (Drunk At The Bar) - which he intended as a tribute to then-fiancee Delta Goodrem - rightly or wrongly ended up being criticised for inciting date rape.
Sometimes it seems that McFadden just can't win, but he really is his own worst publicist. At his best he is lovable, cheeky and good company. At worst he can also be a bit of a brat.
Just ask the high-profile Seven executive who was rumoured to have been the target of his displeasure when it was revealed the hugely expensive-to-produce Australia's Got Talent was not rating as well as it should.
The word from the gossipy TV industry is that McFadden resigned from the judging panel in a huff and had to be coaxed into staying.
It certainly did not endear him to Seven nor do a great deal for any ongoing career as an Australian television personality.
His colourful Twitter wars, which have included this columnist in the past (though we publicly patched it up), are the stuff of legend, with McFadden often using the social media site to vent against his foes with the sort of language that would do a wharfie proud.
Now his ex, Goodrem, whom he dated for seven years, seems set to cop it soon with McFadden tweeting on October 26 with this dire warning: "One day all the truths will reveal themselves. For now. Zip."
The cold war between the two has been simmering for some time with Goodrem seemingly writing about the failed relationship in her recent album, Child Of The Universe. In her song I'm Not Ready, she sings: "I am broken; there's a stranger on the phone, something is missing from seven years ago."
Goodrem told The Sunday Telegraph's Jonathon Moran that it is "one of the most powerful songs I have ever written. The lyrics pretty much say it all. I am pretty obvious. I can't skirt around that."
McFadden may seem intent on putting forward his side of the split, but what he has to understand is that it would be a fatal mistake to criticise Goodrem  an Australian musical treasure who is also a cancer survivor. He is never going to win that battle or co-opt us to his side when he takes on one of our own.
He would do well to concentrate instead on his new wife and show us all just how a great relationship should look.
Williams, who was an early evictee from the last Dancing With The Stars, is nevertheless popular with everyone she meets because of her warmth, accessibility and poise. But her fledgling career as a DJ does not seem enough to keep her and McFadden here. The fact is that there are lots of other beautiful young women in Australia who are seemingly just as talented.
Next year, McFadden joins Ronan Keating (who has pretty much wrapped up the market in Irish talent judges) on his 2013 UK Fires Tour. Maybe it would be an opportune time for him to then fall in love with Ireland and the UK all over again.
You see, while it's certainly been interesting having him over here as a token Aussie, maybe this time, he has overstayed his welcome.

I thought that the Janoskians were signed to just Sony Music Australia, BUT it turns out that they have a worldwide record deal.... they have never marketed themselves as 'singers'...

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Here's a recent interview - I get a sense that Delta doesn't really like the radio edit of DWABH...

http://www.popsugar....-Songs-24709951




Delta Goodrem Interview on Dancing With a Broken Heart and Writing Songs

DELTA GOODREM ON DANCING WITH A BROKEN HEART AND FEELING EXPOSED IN HER MUSIC

Music · Delta Goodrem · Celebrity Interviews · Pop Exclusive · Child Of The Universe

Earlier this year, Delta Goodrem spent months sharing her talent, wisdom and music knowledge with up-and-coming stars as a coach on The Voice, resulting in the discovery of her “angel” Rachael Leahcar, and now she’s pouring her energy into the release of her next studio album, Child of the Universe. The first single off the album was the joyful “Sitting on Top of the World,” and the second song, “Dancing With a Broken Heart,” is a departure from the classic Delta we know, featuring dance-worthy beats and a sound the 27-year-old singer describes as “a little more extreme.” We caught up with Delta on Friday to talk about the new single, her favourite songs to dance to, and what she wants to say in her music.

"Dancing With a Broken Heart" is quite a different sound for you. What was it like to enter that more dance-y territory?
It was interesting because the song in its original, raw form is just piano, and I have a version of that on iTunes. I do love my songs in their raw form — it’s my favourite way to play and my favourite way for people to hear them. When you’re in the studio you start dressing it up. You think, ‘We could do this, we could do this,’ and you start pulling different synths, different sounds — I just started painting that song. Originally I was thinking Robyn meets Kate Bush, that’s where my head was at. It’s a different production to what’s actually going to be on the album, too. We went a little more extreme, I guess, but I love the original form.

How do you like to perform it? The radio version doesn’t have those piano riffs we’re used to hearing in your music.
When you hear it in its piano form, it does. [Sings to demonstrate] I’ve been playing a piano/cello version. I really do love that version like that, actually.

More from Delta when you keep reading.

Would you perform it the way the track sounds?
Possibly! It’s funny, while we’re talking, I’m getting my tour together, I’m getting my show together, and when you were just saying that I was thinking in my head, ‘You know, I’m stripping back a lot of songs. Maybe I’ll do that full version.’ It’s good fun to do that too. I mean I love dancing. It’s one of my favourite hobbies. When I’m in LA I go to open hip-hop classes with my girlfriends.

I saw that video you posted on Twitter this morning of you dancing to Montell Jordan.
[Laughs] That was this morning! I was just like, “Getting ready!” It’s like a playlist I have where it’s like “Jump Around,” “You Can Do It” by Ice Cube . . . It’s just like a full-on, hilarious playlist. I love it.

What other songs do you like to dance to aside from "This Is How We Do It"?
I’ve been obsessed with “Let It Rock,” that song from Kevin Rudolf. I love hip-hop to dance around to. I love Fatboy Slim’s “Rockafeller Skank” — that’s one of my favourite songs to dance to.

With a song like "Dancing With a Broken Heart," as with other songs, people will read into the title and lyrics, so does that affect your song writing?
No. I am somebody who is a constant thinker, but when it comes to my art and my music, that’s where my strength comes in. I want to reflect, and I want to be able to be as open as I can be in my songs. I say to myself, “There is no restriction. The sky’s the limit.” I can do whatever I want. If I want to change a chord here, I can. It’s completely freedom of expression and I really do love to express through music. I don’t feel any type of restriction on worrying about what anyone says. It’s different when I speak in public, obviously, but in singing and writing a song, no.

Do you write music for yourself? Or do you write for other people?
It’s a bit of both. I would say that I have to write from a place of experience. You can’t write a song if you don’t have something to say, so if I’ve got something to say, then I can write a song. I am very opinionated in general, even though it’s not something that I like to bring out as much in general, because again that’s something in my songs. I want to be able to say everything in song. But I also just want to be able to relate — that’s what every artist says and it’s true. You want to be able to write about what you’ve gone through because you know that someone else is going through it. And it’s the same universal laws of what we’re all experiencing. Some people might feel the same.

Have you ever written something where you’ve thought, ‘Maybe that’s too much I’m revealing of myself’?
I’ve released songs where at the time I’ve thought, ‘Oh, I feel a little bit exposed.’ “Out of the Blue” was that for me. When I released “Out of the Blue” I was very, like, ‘Did I need to say that?’ But it was such a killer song and I love that song so much. And I look back now and I go, “I’m really glad I said that. I’m really glad that I expressed that.” You’ve just gotta be honest and truthful in songs. Bob Dylan says it’s just three chords and the truth.

Child of the Universe is released in October

Any fans of Havana Brown here? She's doing big things ATM and her single was getting heaps of airplay in the states when I was there!

Latest single 'You'll Be Mine' is pretty cool too!

I've always been curious as to how much Australian singers and artists earn when you factor everything in..

I know the major international artists would be making millions, but what about Australian singers like Guy, Jess, Delta etc?