I THOUGHT THAT THE FACT SHE (WAS) 18 WHEN SHE DID THAT STUFFS, SHE'D BE A SINGER LIKE BRITNEY,
She was. Made an album that was basically a copy of Britney's music. They showed the videos of her rehearsals with full Britney-style backup dancers, etc on the aussie current affairs show "today tonight". The album never got released, and she then went on to release a single called "I DOn't Care", which was bland, standard teenage-girl pop. THat flopped, so she had an image and sound makeover, and started acting on the soapie neighbors so she could use that as a platform to release her single "Born to Try"... and it worked. The guys she made the first album with went on the show because they were trying to get the album released, but they didn't win...
EDIT: here is what I just said in the words of wikipedia:
Interested to see if Goodrem had potential as a recording artist, Wheatley signed Goodrem an artist development deal with independent label, Empire Records[6]. Between June 1999 to September 2000, Goodrem worked with producers Paul Higgins and Trevor Carter on thirteen tracks for an album called Delta, which saw
"an ambitious 15-year-old keen to emulate the pop sound of the Spice Girls, Britney Spears and Mandy Moore" [7]. The album has yet to surface, Goodrem preventing its release years later via civil action in 2004[8].
2001–2003: Career launch and Innocent Eyes
At the age of fifteen, Goodrem landed a record deal with Sony and began work on an album of pop-dance songs with various producers and songwriters (including Mark Holden)[9]. In November 2001, at the age of sixteen, Goodrem's debut single "I Don't Care", written and produced by Steve Kipner (responsible for Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle") launched her professional singing career. The single was unsuccessful when it peak at #64 on the ARIA Singles chart[10] and as a result, the album and proposed second single "A Year Ago Today" (for which a music video was created) were scrapped. The failure of "I Don't Care" allowed Goodrem and Sony to re-evaluate the future musical direction of her career. The following year, Goodrem joined the cast of Neighbours.
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Interesting. I don't like her music, but from a business perspective it's a very interesting story
