True to Yourself

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"True To Yourself"
True To Yourself by Vanessa Amorosi.jpg
Single by Vanessa Amorosi
from the album Change
Released24 February 2003 (2003-02-24)
Recorded2002
Genre Pop, downtempo
Length3:41
Label Universal Music
Songwriter(s) Gary Barlow, Andy Murray, Sylvia Bennett Smith, Jane Vaughan
Producer(s) Andy Murray/Christian Ballard
Vanessa Amorosi singles chronology
"Spin (Everybody's Doin' It)"
(2002)
"True To Yourself"
(2003)
"Kiss Your Mama!"
(2007)

"True To Yourself" is a German only release taken from Australian recording artist Vanessa Amorosi's second studio album Change . The single was released on 24 February 2003 as the album's final single and peaked at No.99.

Contents

It was included on the "Top Of The Pops 2003" compilation album. [1]

In 2002, Amorosi re-recorded the song as a duet with Olivia Newton-John and it was to be included on Newton-John's album 2 (as track two). [2] However, the track was dropped at the last minute due to contractual disagreements between Amorosi's Transistor Music and Newton-John's Universal Music labels. Both declared to feel very sad about this situation and have been quick to say that there is no problem between them, but that it is simply a contractual matter. [3] In March 2023, Vanessa and Olivia's duet version of the song turned the light, as the song was finally released on Olivia's posthumous duets album Just the Two of Us: The Duets Collection (Vol. 1) . [4]

Lyrics

Lyrically, the song is about self-empowerment. The chorus includes the lyrics; "Sometimes you gotta look a little harder, Sometimes you gotta be, be smarter, Hold on just a little bit longer, Just be true to yourself"

Promotion

Amorosi performed "True to Yourself" on Top of the Pops and the hugely successful long-running show Wetten, dass..? which screens throughout Europe. [5]

Track listing

CD Maxi
#"True To Yourself"Time
1."True To Yourself"03:41
2."Spin (Everybody's Doin' It)"03:04
3."Sometimes Happiness "04:55

Charts

Chart (2003)Peak
position
Germany (GfK) [6] 99

Release history

RegionDateLabelCatalogue
Germany February 2003Universal Music019 855-2

References

  1. "Various Artists / Top of the Pops 2003 [Universal]". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  2. "Olivia Newton John Duet - Album Pre-Order". www.darrenhayescentral.com. 26 September 2002. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  3. "El affaire Olivia Newton-John-Vanessa Amorosi". Zona Musical. 8 November 2002. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  4. True To Yourself by Olivia Newton-John & Vanessa Amorosi , retrieved 2023-03-24
  5. "Vanessa Amorosi Appears on the Thomas Gottschalk Show". Getty Images . 22 February 2003. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  6. "Vanessa Amorosi – True to Yourself" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 8 November 2019.