Delta Goodrem relives her chart-topping heartbreak by re-recording two break-up songs

TEN years ago Delta Goodremturned one wayward voicemail from her boyfriend into chart-topping pain. Twice.

TEN years ago Delta Goodrem turned one wayward voicemail from her boyfriend into chart-topping pain. Twice.

A loved-up Goodrem was in LA working and waiting to hear from then partner, actor Blair McDonough, in Melbourne.

"When I woke up there was a missed call from him," Goodrem says.

"So I listened to the voicemail and it was clearly not for me, it was for someone else. He was saying 'hey, come and meet me' and he was in Brisbane and I was in LA.

"And because of the time difference I couldn't get a hold of him."

Goodrem, who was 18 at the time, went into the recording studio shell-shocked. The result was two of Goodrem's eight Australian No. 1 singles - Predictable and Not Me, Not I.

Both detail a broken relationship and hint at infidelity. It was Goodrem's first major heartbreak.

"I'd have that whole moment over again just for those songs," she says.

"I wouldn't change anything."

They are on Innocent Eyes, Goodrem's 2003 debut that went on to achieve the rare feat of selling more than a million copies in Australia.

To celebrate the album's 10th birthday, Goodrem has re-recorded each song acoustically.

The stroll down memory lane has recharged Goodrem as she writes for her fifth album, due next year.

Her previous album, last year's Child of the Universe, got attention for its lyrical venting over the end of her relationship with Brian McFadden.

She's now "very single" and living in LA.

"It's fun dating. Who knew," she says. "I haven't been single since I was a teenager. This is the longest period I've ever been single.

"It's so healthy. I'm in a relationship with music again. I didn't know I wasn't until I was single again. All my energy goes into creating. It reminds me of being 17.

"I'm still thankful for my career, but I've learnt that it's about outlasting things that happen to you."