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Last November we first reported that Vanessa Amorosi would appear in a forthcoming issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, and it has now hit the shelves with Vanessa featured the February edition of the magazine.

Check out the four page photo shoot and article below.

Thanks to Anna for the scans!

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As we all know, Vanessa has achieved the greatest chart success of her career to date this year with ‘This Is Who I Am’, however one of her most recognisable song’s remains ‘Absolutely Everybody’.

‘Absolutely Everybody’ became the anthem of the new millennium celebrations a decade ago as we heralded in the year 2000. After becoming a smash hit in the final month of 1999, Vanessa performed the track in front of thousands of people during Sydney’s ‘Rock the Millennium’ concert which took place at the Opera House forecourt and was televised nationwide. The music video for the track was famously re-released to feature those New Years celebrations.

In the next year, ‘Absolutely Everybody’ went on to become THE party song of the Sydney Olympic Games and was performed in it’s Closing Ceremony to an audience of billions.

Now a decade on, the track has seen success in Belgium, Hungary, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Czech, UK, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Argentina, and has been used to spruik everything from cars, movie tickets, and even a Canadian political campaign.

To celebrate a decade since we welcomed in the 2000’s with ‘Absolutely Everybody’, we have decided to put together a special new remix of “Absolutely Everybody”, for you to bring some nostalgia to your New Years celebrations next week!

We’ve made this especially for you guys as a thank you for supporting the site this past year, and we can’t wait to bring you all the Vanessa news in 2010!

So play it, and dance along – and don’t forget to leave feedback for us >here< and let us know what you think!

Happy New Years!

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Today’s Sunday Herald Sun has revealed that Vanessa Amorosi will release her smash hit, ‘This Is Who I Am’ in Europe!:

VANESSA Amorosi has revealed plans of her assault on the European market next year.The singer will release her No.1 Australian single This Is Who I Am in Britain, France and Germany — markets where she has seen success.

She will go to London in April after finishing a local tour with Rob Thomas and hopes to then tour Europe.

‘‘Doing shows over there is unbelievable,’’ Amorosi said.

‘‘The festivals are just nuts.’’

Last week the artwork for Vanessa’s new single was first seen in both an Ad in ‘The Music Network’ magazine, and also a low quality thumbnail on Universal’s Business2Business site.

Now we’ve got our hot hands on the single artwork in higher quality. Check it out below.

What do you think of the cover? Be sure to leave a comment to this post!

The Music Network does not release their official ‘most added’ radio chart until tomorrow, but we predict that Vanessa Amorosi’s ‘Hazardous’ was the 2nd most added track to Australian radio last week.

Vanessa was added to 90 stations across the nation, narrowly beaten by The John Butler Trio’s ‘One Way Road’, which was added to 92.

Vanessa Amorosi appeared at Sydney’s Warringah Mall yesterday, to perform tracks from her new album ‘Hazardous’, and to sign CDs for fans.

We trialed our first ‘live stream’ yesterday also – and allowed visitors to this website to watch the instore online as it happened. For those who missed out on our live stream, you can rewatch it right here:

Also check out these great pictures from the instore, thanks to Anna!

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We will be attempting to stream Vanessa’s live instore appearance in Sydney’s Warringah Mall tomorrow over the net and on this very website.
The video and audio will be captured using a mobile phone, so the quality won’t be good, but still be sure to check it out from tomorrow at 1pm.

The stream can be found at:
http://www.vanessaamorosi.net/live

For those in different timezones, click here to find out when the stream will be live for you.

Vanessa Amorosi presented best pop release at last nights ARIA Awards, and turned heads with her amazing dress. Vanessa wore a sleek one shouldered black gown featuring gold safety pins on a thigh high split.

Vanessa Amorosi’s forthcoming single, “Hazardous”, will be released as a physical CD single released in stores 11-DEC-2009.

The tracklist for the CD Single has been confirmed as:
01// Hazardous [03:26]
02// This Is Who I Am (The Lonewolf Version) [05:54]
03// Hazardous (The MachoString Remix) [03:41]
04// Hazardous (The MotorPsycho Club Remix) [03:57]

A full colour page advertisement for Vanessa’s new track “Hazardous” appears in this weeks copy of ‘The Music Network’, promoting the track being serviced to radio stations nationwide.

‘The Music Network’ magazine the music industry’s weekly source for radio airplay charts and statistics, music sales data, both physical and digital, tour and live event information, industry & global news and feature articles impacting the music industry at large. It’s the industry’s only independent `tip sheet’ for new music reviews to radio, retail and other media outlets.

Vanessa Amorosi’s ‘This Is Who I Am’ has now sold in excess of 70,000 units, scoring the single Platinum sales accreditation from ARIA.
The track has sold a total of 73,880 units as of last Friday.

Here’s a breakdown of the figures week to week:
Week 1 Pos#1 Sold: 18530
Week 2 Pos#1 Sold: 14867
Week 3 Pos#2 Sold: 13766
Week 4 Pos#4 Sold: 9407
Week 5 Pos#4 Sold: 8435
Week 6 Pos#5 Sold: 8875

‘This Is Who I Am’ is Vanessa’s 4th single to go platinum in Australia. Congratulations to Vanessa & her team!!

After a bit of an impromptitude hiatus, things should start to return to normal here on VanessaAmorosi.net with more regular posts. Apologies for the lack of updates.

Here’s the highlights of what we’ve missed since our last post:

# Universal have taken ‘Hazardous’ advertising to the streets with a number of street posters being spotted in public places next to all the usual concert ones.

# ‘Hazardous’ debuted at number #7 on the ARIA album charts, making it Vanessa’s third Top 10 album in Australia.

# Vanessa will feature in a photoshoot in an up-and-coming issue of Rolling Stone Magazine.

# A post in a certain fan forum was first to reveal that the title track from Vanessa’s new album, ‘Hazardous’, would be the next single.

# ‘Hazardous’ was officially released to Australian radio on Monday. It would have been quite difficult to get it out at the right moment to promote the album, and yet not shorten the success of ‘This Is Who I Am’. But looks like Vanessa’s team have got it spot on!

# The Music Video for ‘Hazardous’ will be directed by Paul Brown, having previously shot Vanessa in her Hoobastank collaboration ‘The Letter’. Stuart Gosling (Director of ‘Kiss Your Mama’ & ‘Perfect’ ) also submitted a video concept for the track, which involved a whole heap of parkour (think Madonna’s ‘Jump’) as well as driving around in the desert. We’re not sure what Paul has instore for us but we can’t wait! Media reports last week suggested Vanessa had returned to LA to shoot the video, and with Vanessa having commitments in Australia later this week, we guess the video has been shot.

# Vanessa has been confirmed as a presenter at this years ARIA Awards, to be held this forthcoming Thursday night. The awards will be screened on Channel 9, so be sure to tune in!

# ‘This Is Who I Am’ was officially the most heard track on Australian radio for both the last two weeks (commencing the 16th and 9th November) according to The Music Network. TMN takes the radio play statistics of stations across the country and compares them to the station audience figures to work out the most ‘heard’ tracks in their weekly chart.

Vanessa Amorosi’s brand new album, ‘Hazardous’, is available to purchase today both digitally and instores.

So make sure you purchase it on iTunes, or visit your fav retailer to get the CD!

This is normally where I would put links to buy, but I actually wrote this post yesterday as I’m on holidays in Melbourne today – so PLEASE google it or search for it on the iTunes store and BUY BUY BUY!

What do you think of the album? Leave your comments by CLICKING HERE.

[05/11/2009 - Herald Sun - by Cameron Adams]

VANESSA Amorosi has found herself a therapist – the world – as she emerges intact from what some say is a dark past.

Her fourth album Hazardous, with some surprisingly honest lyrics, shakes off any lingering perceptions of her as the teenager singing Absolutely Everybody a decade ago.
The new album’s lead single and No. 1 hit, This is Who I Am, sees Amorosi sing “I spent years really hating me”.

It was the first song she wrote with Hazardous’ producers, Swedes machopsycho, who worked on Pink’s Stupid Girls and Bad Influence.
“It was like `Hi, I’m Vanessa and I hated myself, let’s write a song’,” Amorosi jokes of their initial meeting.
The song, full of self-loathing, was written in 30 minutes. The tune was so familiar they spent days trying to find out which song they thought they’d ripped off, even humming the melody into music identification service Shazam.
“It just fell out,” Amorosi says. “We just thought `That’s not ours, it’s too good!”

Amorosi struggled with keeping her lyrics, thinking she’d been “way too honest.”
“I say a lot of stuff in music I’d never say in real life. Music has always been like therapy for me and it’s always been very reliable,” she says.
The 28-year-old says her self-hatred came from a shyness that sat uneasily with her success as a teenager and the 2000 chart-topping album The Power.
“I was a country kid who could sing, but once I came off stage it was horrifying,” Amorosi says. “I was wild and crazy on stage but off stage I was hiding in a corner. I couldn’t stand my body. I felt guilty when I ate things like donuts and lollies.”
Having the harsh world of pop stardom pick her apart — from her dress sense to her weight — didn’t help her self-esteem.
“It’s like being in a bigger school yard — the school yard is the whole country.”

After releasing a handful of records “that definitely should have never hit the shops” Amorosi retreated from the spotlight for five years.
“Things got really tough,” she says. “I hit the floor in a horrid way. It took me a lot to get off rock bottom. I was doubting myself as an artist and a person. I just thought `It’s done, I’m over’.
“It wasn’t until I hit one of the darkest points in my life that I got to a point where I was happy again.”

While her comeback kicked off with last year’s album Somewhere in the Real World (fuelled by hit Perfect) Hazardous was the album she always wanted to make.
First, she wrote an entire album which she scrapped. “The songs just weren’t good enough,” she admits.
“The lesson I learnt as a youngster is to make sure I’m really confident in the material rather than release something because we have to.”

Amorosi wanted to mix ’70s rock, pop and her love of electro and trance.
When she met machopsycho she showed them YouTube clips of blues icon Janis Joplin to hard house act Showtek. She also wanted to open her heart lyrically after years of “censoring myself.”
“I would never have had the courage to come out and say `I hated myself’ two or three years ago. Never. And it would have probably confused people — `Hang on, you were gone forever, you were 16 and now you’re a woman and you want to talk about life experiences?’. Now I can be honest.”

Such as on Hazardous’ most unexpected moment — Baby’s on Ice.
Amorosi isn’t talking about keeping a man in the freezer; rather singing about an ex-boyfriend addicted to crystal meth.
“I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t about drugs,” Amorosi says. “It was a crazy relationship. You can’t choose who you fall in love with. No matter what habits they come with, you can’t control your emotions.
“You think you can save people but sometimes you can’t. It was a hard situation. I loved the person dearly but it didn’t work.”
The lyrics state “if the sun don’t shine that day, more reason to get hazed”.
“People freaked about over the line `his lips all chewed and cracked’,” she says of her team. “It’s not pretty but it’s the truth. There’s some ugly sides to it. There was talk about changing it to `He’s on thin ice’, like he’s been naughty, but I’d rather not use the song than do it that way.”
Amorosi also finds humour in the situation now — even singing “ice ice baby” during the song.
“The great thing that came out of it is that I learnt who I was as a person and I’m able to look back and laugh at it.”

Touch Me tells the tale of a woman getting “horny” from the bass sound at a club. There’s venting about cheating on Sleep With That and Blow Me Away (originally called Blow Me).
“I love dodgy guys, I must admit,” Amorosi says. “The worse they are the more I want them.”

Already Amorosi’s honesty is paying off. This is Who I Am has seen strangers coming up to her crying, thanking her for writing the song.
“We do such a good job putting up a big front for no one to see that stuff,” Amorosi says of self-esteem.
“It’s a huge pay off, I’m a real person and it’s taken a long time to feel like I’m connecting with people.
“I didn’t think I’d get a second chance. It’s taken a long time to get to the point where people don’t see me as a kid any more. And I’ve found my sound — whoever thought nailing your sound would take so long? I’m glad I could hang in there and have people hang in there as well.”