"True To Yourself" | ||||
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Single by Vanessa Amorosi | ||||
from the album Change | ||||
Released | 24 February 2003 | |||
Recorded | 2002 | |||
Genre | Pop, downtempo | |||
Length | 3:41 | |||
Label | Universal Music | |||
Songwriter(s) | Gary Barlow, Andy Murray, Sylvia Bennett Smith, Jane Vaughan | |||
Producer(s) | Andy Murray/Christian Ballard | |||
Vanessa Amorosi singles chronology | ||||
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"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.
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]
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"
Amorosi performed "True to Yourself" on Top of the Pops and the hugely successful long-running show Wetten, dass..? which screens throughout Europe. [5]
# | "True To Yourself" | Time |
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1. | "True To Yourself" | 03:41 |
2. | "Spin (Everybody's Doin' It)" | 03:04 |
3. | "Sometimes Happiness " | 04:55 |
Chart (2003) | Peak position |
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Germany (GfK) [6] | 99 |
Region | Date | Label | Catalogue |
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Germany | February 2003 | Universal Music | 019 855-2 |