Single #2 For Delta Goodrem Now Confirmed!!
Delta's follow-up to the chart-storming 'Out Of The Blue' has now been confirmed! The second single to be released from Delta's new album 'Mistaken Identity' will be the title track...'Mistaken Identity'! Expect to hear it on radio from December 6.
It's been one that's kept you'll guessing for sometime now, but we can now confirm that the second single from Delta Goodrem's new album 'Mistaken Identity' will be the title track 'Mistaken Identity'! The follow-up to her #1 smash 'Out Of The Blue' and already a firm favourite among fans, 'Mistaken Identity' will be released to media nationally on Monday, December 6, with an instore date to be announced shortly.

Co-written by Delta and famed songwriter Billy Mann (who can take the credit for Pink's 'God Is A DJ' and Jessica Simpson's 'With You' among his many accolades), 'Mistaken Identity' beautifully reflects the more sophisticated, and occasionally introspective, aspect of Delta's new album - the song's poignant lyrics leaving little...

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Mistaken Identity
Having confirmed her place in history as one Australia's most successful and popular singer/songwriters, Delta Goodrem returns with her second studio album 'Mistaken Identity' - the highly-anticipated follow-up to her 14 x Platinum 2003 debut 'Innocent Eyes', which found its way into over a million homes, and hearts, around the nation.

'Mistaken Identity' is available in both a standard version and a beautifuly presented limited edition CD/DVD package that includes the video for 'Out Of The Blue', plus behind the scenes footage for the video shoot, footage from Delta's recent European promotional tour, behind the scenes footage of the making of 'Mistaken Identity' and Delta's own track by track rundown of the songs on the album.

Deeper and more intense than her debut, 'Mistaken Identity' is the emotional and inspirational multi-layered product of the past 12 months of Delta life. Every note, every lyric and emotion has been placed on the album precisely that way for a reason: plenty of outsiders have told their side of Delta's story - this is hers.

"It's a more grown up album," Delta says. "My music changed because my life had changed; the whole world around me had changed. My music had to reflect that."

The first single to be released from the album, 'Out Of The Blue', debuted at #1 on the Australian charts and instantly became the most added and most played song on Australian radio. The gorgeous and uplifting song is just one of several key tracks on the album co-written by Delta and Guy Chambers - the British songwriter/producer whose CV includes co-writes on most of Robbie Williams' hits.

In addition to Chambers, other songwriters Delta co-wrote with include Billy Mann on Mistaken Identity and Last Night On Earth, Cathy Dennis (who co-wrote Innocent Eyes' Throw It Away) on Sanctuary, Matthew Gerard (who wrote Delta's second #1 Lost Without You) on the emotional Be Strong, Gary Barlow and Elliot Kennedy (who co-wrote Not Me Not I) and Delta's close friend Vince Pizzinga (co-author of Innocent Eyes) on Extraordinary Day.

The album also includes her eagerly-anticipated first duet, (Only) Almost Here, with former Westlife singer Brian McFadden.

Overall, 'Mistaken Identity' is the ultimate statement on the highs - and lows - of the last two years of Delta Goodrem's life. Get ready to listen, learn and fall in love with Delta all over again.

CD Album

Out Of The Blue (Album Version)

The Analyst

Mistaken Identity

Extraordinary Day

A Little Too Late

Be Strong

Electric Storm

Almost Here (Duet With Brian Mc Fadden)

Miscommunication

Sanctuary

Last Night On Earth

Fragile

Disorientated

You Are My Rock
Release Date: 08.11.04
Catalogue: 5189152000


Mistaken Identity

MUSIC has always been there for the good times in Delta Goodrem's life.

And it was music that was there yet again during the bad times. Indeed, music was one of the main comforts for Delta during the most testing period of her life.

Songs kept whizzing around in her head: melodies, harmonies, lyrics - many deeper and darker than those that helped her debut, Innocent Eyes, find its way into over a million homes - and hearts - in Australia.

Her second album, Mistaken Identity, is the multi-layered product of that well-documented year.

"It's a more grown up album," Delta, notes. "My music changed because my life had changed; the whole world around me had changed. My music had to reflect that."

The childlike fantasies that fuelled Innocent Eyes were replaced by a new and often harsh reality that provided endless fuel for lyrical inspiration.

?Extraordinary Day' (July 8) freeze-frames the day Delta was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma ("who would have thought when chance came calling that this would be my defining story"), ?The Analyst' captures the hours of self-analysis the singer conducted ("trying to make sense of her life, digging round in the dirt, she's a slave to the work"), ?Be Strong' is a rallying call for confidence while ?Mistaken Identity' is Delta stating for the record exactly where her head is at.

"There are a lot of lyrics I wouldn't have used on the first album," Delta admits.

"In ?Mistaken Identity' I sing 'I played the role of the nice girl next door who gets cut like a knife', I mention 'emotional suicide' in Electrical Storm: there's some intense lyrics in there. It was an intense year. I mean, it wouldn't be right if I didn't acknowledge what went on; everyone knows what went on. I feel like I know people personally - even though I don't, but I feel I had to go into depth; get things out of the way, go through the journey and end with ?You Are My Rock', which is a thank you song."

Every note, every lyric and emotion has been placed on the album precisely that way for a reason: plenty of outsiders have told their side of Delta's story - this is hers.

"There are dark songs on there like ?Extraordinary Day', but if I'd brought out an album that was all happy and had only songs about how great life was people would think 'What is she talking about?' It wouldn't make any sense.

"But while there are some intense tracks on there it's still a very listenable record. There are some really relaxed songs on there, some motivational songs and there's some really heart-wrenching music that still makes me cry when they come on. And there's songs that make you want to get up and dance around. I think there's a really nice mix. I'm really proud of the record."

It was a record whose gestation was completely different to Innocent Eyes.

In those days, Delta would film Neighbours from early morning to late at night, then zoom into a studio from 9pm to 4am to get those songs out of her head and onto a CD.

This time around Delta had nothing but time. Her illness and subsequent recovery cleared out a ridiculously busy schedule. She could concentrate on her first love: music.

"This time around I had time to think 'What kind of song do I want to create here?'," Delta says.

"I really felt the sky was the limit with this record, you could do anything in a song. I didn't feel limited at all. There were a lot more options, a lot more paths I could go down, more directions I could choose. "

One of the key changes in the songwriting personnel was Delta meeting Guy Chambers; the British songwriter/producer behind most of Robbie Williams' best songs. He's also worked with everyone from Jewel to Charlotte Church to Andrea Bocelli.

Chambers had been keeping an eye on Delta's career - impressed with her songwriting skills and heartfelt vocals. The partnership resulted in several of Mistaken Identity's key tracks - including the No.1 hit ?Out Of The Blue'.

"'It's really unusual to work with somebody so talented, young, and brave. Who's not scared to take risks and who has the most emotional voice in pop music," Chambers says. "You cannot help but believe every word Delta sings."

"Guy's such a classy producer," Delta says. "He was such an inspiration to work with. I felt we had a really good connection on a musical level; he does a lot of classical music as well. We tried to make sure we found a sound together, to find what we could both bring out of each other to create something unique and special. Once we had ?Out Of The Blue' we knew we'd found it and we took it from there and wrote ?Sanctuary' and ?Electric Storm'."

Other songwriters Delta co-wrote with include Billy Mann on ?Mistaken Identity' and ?Last Night On Earth', Cathy Dennis (who co-wrote Innocent Eyes' Throw It Away) on ?Sanctuary', Matthew Gerard (who wrote Delta's second No.1 Lost Without You) on the emotional ?Be Strong', Gary Barlow and Elliot Kennedy (who co-wrote Not Me Not I) and Delta's close friend Vince Pizzinga (co-author of Innocent Eyes) on ?Extraordinary Day'.

"This album has more different colours and shades, it's got more colours of me than the first album did," Delta says.

It also houses her first duet: (Only) ?Almost Here', with former Westlife singer Brian McFadden. "I loved singing that," Delta says. "It's a break-up song where we're talking to each other - the girl's saying when she's with him he's almost there and that's not enough. I just loved that song. I think it's a really important element to have on the record."

Overall, Mistaken Identity is the ultimate statement on the highs - and lows - of the last two years of Delta Goodrem's charmed life.

"There's a definite story in the tracklisting," Delta says. "I felt I had to be really honest. Songs that people could still relate to but songs that also confronted issues. This past chapter of my life has been such an intense one and I wanted people to know my thoughts."

Get ready to listen, learn and fall in love with Delta all over again.


Innocent Eyes

It's just the beginning, is something that Delta Goodrem says all the time. But what a beginning - Born To Try, the first single from Delta's debut album, took the Australian charts by storm, going to number one just after Delta's 18th birthday. It stayed in the Top 5 for more than three months, going triple platinum for sales of more than 210,000 copies.

"I love how Born To Try connected with people," Delta says. "I've had all sorts of people come up to me, from all age groups who tell me, 'I play this at home all the time.'"

But Delta's right - it is just the beginning. Now she has delivered Innocent Eyes, her stunning debut album. With a voice that soars, this is a young pop discovery, brimming with youthful zest, energy and innocence. And it's an album full of surprises. As Delta sings in Running Away: "Running away from predictable, Miss Reliable, so methodical/Be individual, an original". This is no manufactured star straight off the pop production line.

Delta's worked with a stellar cast, including the True North production and songwriting team (Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy), Ric Wake (the producer who has worked with Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez and Mariah Carey), Matthew Gerrard (Mandy Moore, BB Mak), Vince Pizzinga (Midnight Oil, Danielle Spencer), David Nicholas (INXS, Elton John, George), The Rembrandts and Mark Holden.

But this is Delta's story. She's forging her own path, creating her own history. Much of Innocent Eyes sounds like pages ripped from her diary. She wrote or co-wrote nearly all the tracks. The album's striking opening line is, "Doing everything that I believe in".

"Every song holds a significant memory" Delta explains. "wanted to make an album that reflected these times in my life".

Innocent Eyes is an album that heralds the arrival of a major new talent. An artist who's doing things her way. Grounded, focused and ambitious. "In my own time," Delta sings on one of Innocent Eyes' many standout tracks, "it'll be mine."

"Do you remember when you were 15. And the kids at school called you a fool. Because you took the chance to dream?"

Delta Goodrem is no newcomer. She started in the entertainment business at the age of seven, acting in TV commercials and Australian television shows such as Hey Dad, A Country Practice and Police Rescue. Delta loved sports, particularly basketball and skiing, but music is her passion so Delta saved her acting money to make a demo CD.

At the age of 12, Delta recorded her demo CD, with five songs she'd written. She included her version of the Australian national anthem because she dreamed of one day singing at a game for her football team - the Sydney Swans. "Anyone's allowed to dream, I say," Delta says.

Delta sent the CD to the Swans and they sent it on to one of the club's biggest supporters - the legendary Australian manager Glenn Wheatley, the man who guided the Little River Band and John Farnham to mega success. Seeing a red and white envelope in his letterbox, Glenn ripped open the package to find Delta's songs.

Over the next two years, Glenn helped Delta develop her career, before Sony signed her at the age of 15.

Inspired by everything from Silverchair to Incubus to Jeff Buckley and "the Diva Girls" - Mariah and Celine; at first, Delta struggled to find her own direction. Then she discovered her mantra: Just have fun and sing from the heart.

"No point in talking what you should have been. And regretting the things that went on. Life's full of mistakes, destinies and fate. Remove the clouds, look at the bigger picture".

The title-track of Delta's debut album is her story. "I really wanted a song with a bit of a classical feel because I've been doing classical piano for 10 years," she explains. "This song is about looking at the world with innocent eyes, that enthusiasm, which I never want to lose."

In 2002, Delta landed a role on the Australian television institution Neighbours, a show that started on air just a few months after Delta was born. Playing the shy singing schoolgirl Nina Tucker, Delta got to debut Born To Try on the show. Though she's always getting into trouble for singing on the set, Delta says, "Neighbours has been fantastic."

Now, the girl who plays piano barefoot wants to take her music to the world.

"I love performing. I do this so I can get up and sing for people. It's a big world and there's so much to work for. I do have a lot of goals. I want to take my music to people and tell my story, perhaps one day be singing at the Grammys and the Brits and the ARIAs. Just world domination, I'm not asking for much." She laughs, before adding: "It's just the beginning." Delta smiles, those innocent eyes sparkling.

Track By Track - Innocent Eyes

BORN TO TRY
"Doing everything that I believe in"

There were lots of changes happening in my life when I wrote Born To Try. I had just got the Neighbours job and I was moving to Melbourne. Before I left, I had two days songwriting with Audius, who came to my place. We wrote three songs before Born To Try and we thought, "Do we write one more or go for a swim?" Fortunately, we wrote another song. I knew it was something special when we wrote it. It was a song I simply loved singing. Lyrically, it sums me up. I might not have been born to win, I wasn't born to lose, I was born to give life a good shot. Audius is such a special person. I hope we work together again.

INNOCENT EYES
"I got lost in fantasies"

I wrote this with Vince Pizzinga, who I've been working with for a long time. He's such a talented and beautiful human being. I brought this to him and said, "I want to do something a bit quirkier." The lyrics are autobiographical. I was rehearsing to do a performance of Born To Try and I looked up to see my mum crying. I said, "Mum, what's wrong?" She said: "I'm just so proud of you." Then I was performing in front of thousands of people and I looked out to see that mum was still there. She's always there for me. This is a song for my family.

NOT ME, NOT I
"I won't cry, no, not me, not I"

This is one of my favorite songs on the album. An autobiographical track, I wrote it after a relationship breakup, my first heartbreak. I had a piano piece and I took it to songwriter Kara DioGuardi. I was pretty upset and Kara said, "You've got to write a song about it." It's a song I love to sing because it's got such a dynamic, real highs and lows. When I sing it, it makes me feel much better!"

THROW IT AWAY
"You wouldn't know what love is if it hit you like a rock"

I drove my record company crazy because I kept writing new songs and adding them to the album ? they thought it would never be finished! Then my A&R guy Michael came to me with this song. I said, "If I'm not allowed to put more songs on the album then you're not either!" But this is such a great song. Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy had written for me with Cathy Dennis, who was a pop star in the '80s. Now she's a big songwriter ? she co-wrote Kylie's Can't Get You Out Of My Head. I don't mind recording someone else's song, especially when it's written for me and as long as it's good and it suits me and my album. People hear Throw It Away and say, "That's a Delta song", which is cool.

LOST WITHOUT YOU
"I know I can be a little stubborn sometimes"
My second single! When I heard this, I just fell in love with it. It's not dark, but it's got a moodier feel to it. It was written by Matthew Gerrard and Bridget Benenate. Matthew has worked with Nick Carter and BB Mak, and he also produced the track. A lot of artists wanted to record this song, so I was lucky to get it. I love the video. I made it in the UK. Someone asked if the opening line, "I know I can be a little stubborn sometimes", could be applied to me. "Maybe it can, but no more than anyone else" she laughs.

PREDICTABLE
"I want you to know I know your game"

I can't wait to do this song live. The other tracks might be "nice Delta", but this one is a bit tougher, with more of an edge. This is another song I wrote with Kara, who came to Australia to work with me. John Fields produced it. He's great. He's very quirky and he's worked with a lot of rock bands, so he knew how to create something edgier.

BUTTERFLY
"Sometimes you just want to spread your wings and fly"

I went to work with the True North team at their place in Manchester. True North is a writing and production team featuring Gary Barlow (who used to be in Take That), Eliot Kennedy and Tim Woodcock. They're all amazing people, really inspirational. To be able to work with them was a real privilege. Butterfly was the first song we did together. It was such a beautiful song - I couldn't wait to record it.

IN MY OWN TIME
"So much is happening to me"

This is the song that got me out of my writer's block! I'd been busy learning all my Neighbours scripts and I hadn't been able to write a song in nearly three months. This is a song about everything that was happening to me. It started with the line: "My head is spinning around and it's making me dizzy." There was so much going on, but the song is about me realizing that you can't force things - they will happen in their own time.

MY BIG MISTAKE
"Amazing fairytale that had come true"

This is another song I did with the True North team. The album really picks up with this song because it's so up-tempo. All the instruments are recorded live on the album, which is great. True North got an orchestra in, which makes this track come to life. Lyrically, it's not really about me. That's one of the good things about co-writing - you can let go of your own thing and take something else and make it your own. That makes it really fun and interesting.

THIS IS NOT ME
"Do I stand alone?"

This was one of the first songs I wrote for the album. It came at a time when I was struggling to find my direction. It's a song about taking a step back, having a look around, and sticking to your guns. It's a really significant song to me.

RUNNING AWAY
"Running away from predictable, Miss Reliable, so methodical/Be individual, an original"

I can't wait to do this live with a band. We had so much fun recording this track. This is the song on the album where you get the hairbrush and sing in front of the mirror - well, that's what I do, anyway! It's a bit of a lighter lyric, but it's about growing up and not putting any limitations on yourself.

A YEAR AGO TODAY
"You went away, a year ago today"

This is a very special track to me. It's dedicated to my Aunty Sandra, who was such a wonderful influence in my life. It's also about a very close friend's mum's passing. I wrote this with Paul Wiltshire and Mark Holden, who's been a big help to me.

LONGER
"If only we had just a minute longer"

You know those times when you see someone but only briefly? It could turn out differently - if only you had just a minute longer! I love the lyrics and when I hear it, I can visualise all those moments when I thought if only I had a little longer. This is another song I'm really looking forward to performing live.

WILL YOU FALL FOR ME?
"My head's full of thoughts"

This is a song I've performed live a lot. I would play this before doing Born To Try. I wrote it after meeting someone. It's not me demanding, "Love me back!" I'm just wondering: "Will you fall for me the way I've fallen for you?" We also tried it with a full band, but I think it works better done very simply, which is why I produced it this way.


Lost Without You
March 2003

How do you follow up the biggest Australian single of the past year?

With a song just as strong and just as captivating.

Delta Goodrem released 'Born To Try' two days after her 18th birthday. It entered the charts at number three. A week later, it hit number two. Then, a week after that, it reached number one.

'Born To Try' stayed in the Top 5 for three months, being the most played song on Australian radio for more than two months. It went on to go triple platinum, for sales of more than 210,000 copies.

Now, Delta releases 'Lost Without You', the second single from her upcoming debut album, Innocent Eyes.

"Built around an inescapable chorus that rivals 'Born To Try' in its anthemic, soaring nature, 'Lost Without You' is mature, adult pop that will continue Delta's connection with radio listeners young and old ... a rich production carries this mid-tempo ballad whose starring element is Delta's unfaltering voice that reveals a true talent." (The Music Network - Feb '03)

'Lost Without You' is a song that showcases Delta's compelling voice and piano playing. Delta says "I love the track and I love the melody changes in it. It's a bit darker than 'Born To Try', a bit moodier, and I like that." Delta loves the video too, which she made in England with director Katie Bell, who has worked with Atomic Kitten, Liberty X and Emma Bunton.

'Lost Without You' comes with a striking lyric. Could the opening line - "I know I can be a little stubborn sometimes" - apply to Delta?

"Maybe it can, but no more than anyone else" she laughs.


Born To Try
November 2002

Delta Goodrem was already working on her debut album when the producers of the Ten Network's long-running nightly program 'Neighbours' approached her to fill the role of Nina Tucker.

Nina is the painfully shy new girl at Erinsborough High who has an amazing voice but is too afraid to sing in front of anyone. So she practices at night and finally decides to record a demo of her song, 'Born To Try'.

Delta wrote the song with Selwyn's producer and co-writer Audius after a frenzied one-day writing session at her Sydney home. When the script called for Nina to record a demo she presented the show's producers with 'Born To Try'. "Everything fit, in terms of the music and the lyrics, with what I'd heard they wanted to do with the character," Delta explained.

The 17-year-old pianist, who has been writing for the past five years, met Audius almost a year ago. "Audius and I got on really, really well and someone at the record company suggested we write together. He came out to our house, mum made some lunch and we wrote four songs. 'Born To Try' was the last one. "We just naturally clicked and there was no pressure so it was just music for music's sake."

Delta's love of singing permeates her long days on the Neighbours set, often to the amusement of the crew. "I always gets into trouble from the audio people for singing too much," she laughed. "I get told to be quiet all the time."

Her nights are spent at the studio, recording the songs which will feature on her debut album which will be released in 2003. "The album changes every day. It's kind of a process of elimination at the moment," she said. "Juggling Neighbours and recording isn't a problem because they are both so important to me and I want to take the opportunities and the experience. "I'll sleep next week."

Nina debuts 'Born To Try' on Neighbours on October 11 and is released by Sony on November 11.