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Like A Virgin Delta's touring for the very first time. Jordan Baker asks how it was for her.
Delta Goodrem uses words like wonderful, excited and happy. She is pretty and joyful onstage, like a fairy princess. Her audience is packed with adoring tweens.
At 20, she has stared death in the face, lost Mark Philippoussis to Paris Hilton and was labelled a homewrecker when she hooked up with Irish spunk Brian McFadden after he left his wife.
Surely Goodrem has hidden depths? What are they? Is Delta the messiah ... or just a very good girl?
When Metro talks to her, she has just played the first gig of her national tour at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre. She was the consummate professional - she played piano, managed umpteen costume changes, breezed through some minor hiccups and threw in some covers, such as Carole King's I Feel the Earth Move.
Was she nervous?
"I was nervous because it was the first show, but very excited that there were so many people in one room,"
She says. "It's not a matter of stage fright. It's more that I want to do the best job I can."
How does she deal with the nerves? Scotch, perhaps? No. Her rider includes tea, water and soft drinks.
"My rooms always have candles and little things that I think are really positive affirmations. Lots of flowers. Little crystal cards. Everything I can think of."
Hmm ... nothing incriminating so far. She found the concert exciting.
"When I see the kids' reactions or people singing along to songs that I've written, it's a really wonderful feeling," she says.
What would Goodrem do if she wasn't a musician?
"I would've been a snow-skier. Going fast and being free on a ski mountain is one of the most beautiful things."
Sounds good to us. She also writes a journal. Of course.
"I can sit in a room by myself no problem, just relax and get centred and think of things. I would say I'm probably very deep like that."
Goodrem's childhood musical influences included Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Olivia Newton-John. But wait, she also likes Kate Bush, Tori Amos and the late Jeff Buckley. She has been learning the drums.
"I love quirky Jeff Buckley songs and introspective lyrics and everything that's very deep and dark and meaningful. My favourite authors are very deep and dark."
When asked if her style and music will evolve into something edgier, like Kylie Minogue before her, she says, "I'm not sure what I'll turn into, but I'll just go with it."
Metro didn't have a chance to further probe Goodrem's deeper, possibly darker side.
After she responded, quite happily, to a question about whether she and McFadden were engaged - "Not yet, we're not; but we're extremely close and very in love" - her minder ended the interview.
You get the feeling Goodrem could be much more interesting if the minders weren't there to protect her.
Source : Smh.com.au
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