The Voice winner Anja Nissen reveals will.i.am felt dumped Delta Goodrem song wasn’t her style
VOICE winner Anja Nissen has revealed why her debut single, co-written by Delta Goodrem, was dumped at the last minute.
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VOICE winner Anja Nissen has revealed the real reason why her winner’s single, which was co-written by Delta Goodrem, was dumped as her career suffers a shaky start.
Nissen was due to release the track titled My Girls, which was co-written by Goodrem, as her winner’s single last Friday.
However it was axed for a new song recorded with will.i.am which Nissen said has yet to be finished.
“My Girls is an awesome song, a great song,” Nissen said.
“It just came down to whether or not it’s my style or not. Will just wasn’t sure.
“We didn’t have enough time. Will wanted to be part of the decision making process when it came to choosing the single. Will wasn’t sure if My Girls was the right style for me. He wanted to have a few more days to think about that and start working on ideas, looking at where to go next.”
Nissen said she has started working with will.i.am on new material, but would not confirm when it would be released.
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“We’ve been playing around with some ideas, but there’s nothing ready to go as such.”
Nissen will release her self-titled covers album on Friday, without a song to promote it on radio.
The 18 year old recorded all the remakes on the album in one day last week in order to go on The Voice Top 8 national tour.
However the tour kicked off and played to a reduced capacity at its first stop at Perth Arena yesterday.
Perth Now reported the “modest stage was pulled forward and half the seating closed off.”
The Adelaide show this Wednesday has been downsized from the 8000 capacity Adelaide Entertainment Centre to an adjacent smaller theatre that can hold just 2500.
Insiders suggest sales for upcoming shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne have also been slow, with the tour launched before punters knew who would be in the final eight.
One half of the duo ZK was also absent for the first Perth show.
The promoters for the tour have been approached for comment.
If The Voice Grand Final did not ignite ticket sales for the tour, it also provided no sales boost for Nissen, despite being seen by millions.
Her cover of Whitney Houston’s I Have Nothing only went to No. 54 on the ARIA chart yesterday after last week’s Grand Final, achieving only 2102 extra sales.
The only Voice finalist to crack the ARIA Top 50 this week after the Grand Final was Johnny Rollins, who sold 2562 copies of his cover of When A Man Loves a Woman.
Indeed, throughout the entire Voice run this year only three songs made the ARIA Top 30 — ZK made No. 35 with Time After Time, Sabrina with Chandelier peaked at No. 39 and Gab and Cecilia hit No. 40 with I Dreamed a Dream.
The only person who scored any major chart success from The Voice Grand Final was will.i.am, whose single It’s My Birthday (performed on the show) bulleted 23 spots to No. 6 with 13,869 sales.
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