01. How on earth did the label afford to make the Believe Again video? It definitely looks like one of the most expensive from the last few years. It always baffled me that a (now strictly) Australian artist with declining sales would get that sort of treatment (ESPECIALLY after the video she did prior for about 50p). Was it supposed to be her defining moment? Did she plan on releasing it in other countries?

 

02. Why did she suddenly disappear from Europe? Awkward interviews about Kerry Katona and Chinface? Doesn't seem like a good enough reason especially seeing how nobody really cared when she released the third record. She didn't exactly flop if I recall and she is easily marketable. She had the post-cancer sympathy on her side too...

 

OBVIOUSLY I AM SO INTERESTED IN DELTA GOODREM AND EXPECT LENGTHY EXPLANATIONS.

1. I guess they felt that they needed to do it to almost 'buy' a hit. God forbid it should have ended up peaking at #13 like a couple of the other singles surrounding it did. I wouldn't say she was 'declining' in Australia. She certainly wasn't as huge as in her Innocent Eyes heydey but In This Life and Delta had given her a respectable selling #1 single and album upon her comeback. But if the label didn't put some effort in, maybe they fearted that her career would sink quickly, hence the high budget video. The album's 4th single debuted at #13 before dropping out of the top 40 the following week - for somebody of Delta's status there, this was a Bionic moment. I'm not certain that she'll be that big in Aus anymore when she finally releases her 4th album - I do think it will get to #1, and the single might do, but I can't see her being the force in Australia that she once was. The one thing I'm gutted about is that she didn't make a directors cut of the video, with the full album version of the song - the single mix is an absolute culling. How could they remove that glorious intro? :drama:

 

2. In regards to the UK, I think you hit the nail on the head. Coming back just two years after Kerrygate when Kerry was queen of the trashy media would have ended her comeback before it had even begun - for good. At least a good 5/6 year gap, which has given Kerry the time to self implode, will have made people in the UK forgive and forget. If she has a flop comeback here upon her next release, it won't be because of Kerrygate, but moreso because her sound and style are not 'in' at the moment. And she was never that big in mainland Europe anyway, although I maintain that Believe Again would have been huge there if she'd given it a go in Germany and Scandinavia. If anything, you would have thought the post-cancer sympathy would have aided Mistaken Identity, yet instead it flopped in at #25 after a HUGE #2 album less than 18 months before - not exactly the result anybody expected I don't think - I recall it being #3 in the Woolies chart that week. The same with Kylie - X - wasn't exactly as huge as expected, yet Aphrodite has been much bigger, because it's so much better. Sympathy can only do so much, maybe sell magazines and books telling of their ordeals, but if the music's not up to standard people won't buy it. Now I'm not saying that Mistaken Identity wasn't up to standard, because it was incredible - but it was incredibly dark and I've honestly never seen so much artistic progression in the space of 18 months, hardly appealing to most of the fans of the lightweight pop and love ballads on Innocent Eyes. And Out Of The Blue was hardly the best single to flaunt the album's quality...

1. I guess they felt that they needed to do it to almost 'buy' a hit. God forbid it should have ended up peaking at #13 like a couple of the other singles surrounding it did. I wouldn't say she was 'declining' in Australia. She certainly wasn't as huge as in her Innocent Eyes heydey but In This Life and Delta had given her a respectable selling #1 single and album upon her comeback. But if the label didn't put some effort in, maybe they fearted that her career would sink quickly, hence the high budget video. The album's 4th single debuted at #13 before dropping out of the top 40 the following week - for somebody of Delta's status there, this was a Bionic moment. I'm not certain that she'll be that big in Aus anymore when she finally releases her 4th album - I do think it will get to #1, and the single might do, but I can't see her being the force in Australia that she once was. The one thing I'm gutted about is that she didn't make a directors cut of the video, with the full album version of the song - the single mix is an absolute culling. How could they remove that glorious intro? :drama:

 

2. In regards to the UK, I think you hit the nail on the head. Coming back just two years after Kerrygate when Kerry was queen of the trashy media would have ended her comeback before it had even begun - for good. At least a good 5/6 year gap, which has given Kerry the time to self implode, will have made people in the UK forgive and forget. If she has a flop comeback here upon her next release, it won't be because of Kerrygate, but moreso because her sound and style are not 'in' at the moment. And she was never that big in mainland Europe anyway, although I maintain that Believe Again would have been huge there if she'd given it a go in Germany and Scandinavia. If anything, you would have thought the post-cancer sympathy would have aided Mistaken Identity, yet instead it flopped in at #25 after a HUGE #2 album less than 18 months before - not exactly the result anybody expected I don't think - I recall it being #3 in the Woolies chart that week. The same with Kylie - X - wasn't exactly as huge as expected, yet Aphrodite has been much bigger, because it's so much better. Sympathy can only do so much, maybe sell magazines and books telling of their ordeals, but if the music's not up to standard people won't buy it. Now I'm not saying that Mistaken Identity wasn't up to standard, because it was incredible - but it was incredibly dark and I've honestly never seen so much artistic progression in the space of 18 months, hardly appealing to most of the fans of the lightweight pop and love ballads on Innocent Eyes. And Out Of The Blue was hardly the best single to flaunt the album's quality...

 

I totally agree, and picking up on Out Of The Blue being the lead single, whoever allowed that to be the big post cancer comeback single needs to be sacked... out of all of the amazing tracks on that album, that was released :/ tbf virtually every single released from that album was wrong, the just totally messed it up.

 

Also i wish that the people in charge would just listen to us ha I mean, if they did, Believe Again would have been huge all across Europe (not including the UK) I guess it is too late to give it a shot, but maybe if it is a double disk album for Europe (Album 3&4 as 1) and she has a new single which does quite well/ gets noticed across Europe then just maybe she could give Believe Again a shot as single #2 in Germany, which if it took off it would get it big in Austria/Switzerland and then take it to Scandinavia... as soon as it/she takes off in Scandinavia, the rest of Europe will follow... considering that is *the* place to be looking towards at the moment for cutting edge music/fashion etc (which mainland Europe def is following)

Edited September 3, 201014 yr by Jack89

I totally agree, and picking up on Out Of The Blue being the lead single, whoever allowed that to be the big post cancer comeback single needs to be sacked... out of all of the amazing tracks on that album, that was released :/ tbf virtually every single released from that album was wrong, the just totally messed it up.

That was Delta's mother Lea whom Delta sacked and replaced. Lea had no prior experience so I don't know why Delta ever allowed her to do it. I guess so they could be close together after the health scare but i'm sure there would have been another role for her mother to play instead of first time manager

I totally agree, and picking up on Out Of The Blue being the lead single, whoever allowed that to be the big post cancer comeback single needs to be sacked... out of all of the amazing tracks on that album, that was released :/ tbf virtually every single released from that album was wrong, the just totally messed it up.

 

Agreed. Out Of The Blue, Almost Here and A Little Too Late, seriously? :lol: I guess they were the most 'old style' Delta type tracks on the album and they were trying to appeal to the Innocent Eyes crowd - the problem is that they were much weaker than the likes of Born To Try, Lost Without You, Not Me Not I, Innocent Eyes and Predictable.

 

They should have gone a different route - I wouldn't have ever considered A Little Too Late for release, Out Of The Blue shouldn't have been lead (and probably not a single at all), although Almost Here was fair enough as it was moreso Brian's single. I would have gone with Mistaken Identity for lead and any of Electric Storm, Be Strong, Last Night On Earth for subsequent singles. And if they wanted something slightly breezier they should have gone with Sanctuary over A Little Too Late. My favourite song on the album is Extraordinary Day but that would never have worked as a single...

Out of the blue was a poor lead single for the 2nd album. They should have gone with almost here and followed it up with another decent track rather than just leave it there.

Out Of The Blue must rank up there with the most forgotten UK top ten hits of the noughties. I couldn't believe it did so well. I mean I do adore the song, particularly her arrangement of it on the Believe Again tour, but ask 100 people in the street (in the UK) and you'll be hard pressed to find somebody who can recall the song.