Speaker 1: You're on the air, which I and Lauren Clint here
Speaker 1: as well. We're doing a thanks to what if it's
Speaker 1: ausy for travel? Dobby Day is approaching and guess who's
Speaker 1: gonna be there?
Speaker 2: I remember that is like this.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I was in near twelve when this
Speaker 3: album came out.
Speaker 4: It's like my graduation about.
Speaker 1: Well, Anastasia is back.
Speaker 2: She's gonna be a Dobby Day. All the thing is
Speaker 2: she's in the studio with us this morning.
Speaker 4: To be left.
Speaker 5: Waiting for you to the meaning it's not okay. I
Speaker 5: don't feel sad. Say what we need to pray Anna Staga.
Speaker 4: I love the glasses here. I feel like you're one
Speaker 4: with me.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Star, Welcome the.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize we were going to look like like
Speaker 4: the Beatles, like the Beatles on Yeah you do yours?
Speaker 4: RIGI did. We've got the temo version. No, that's fine,
Speaker 4: that's fine. The version is even more fun. Thank you?
Speaker 4: Have you been enjoying it? I you know, I miss
Speaker 4: I miss being in Australia. I love it so much.
Speaker 4: In the last time I was here, I was here
Speaker 4: for the Masked Singer in twenty twenty one. Well you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: I was in costume. Most of the times people say,
Speaker 4: that's see, you had to be under cover. I had
Speaker 4: to be under the cover, and and then you know, randomly.
Speaker 4: It was not on purpose that I won, because I
Speaker 4: truly did not think I was going to get I mean,
Speaker 4: every time somebody was going on.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I think you were going to beat Some of
Speaker 3: those people were not got a voice like that.
Speaker 4: But I had no I do who's on the show?
Speaker 4: I don't know what I was saying. So when I
Speaker 4: was doing stuff, I felt like I was horrible because
Speaker 4: the costume was heavy and oh god, I didn't hit
Speaker 4: that note right, and you know, it's just difficult in
Speaker 4: your head. Yeah, but I loved every minute of it
Speaker 4: and I want it.
Speaker 3: And she's back, She's back, and you don't have to
Speaker 3: be on the com I don't.
Speaker 4: And I'm just walking the streets like a lady on
Speaker 4: the on the road. You join Melbourne, I.
Speaker 2: Am giving you.
Speaker 4: No, and I'm They're like a little bit like coke bottles.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm going to be No, you don't have
Speaker 4: to be over your head. It's good.
Speaker 2: Forgot.
Speaker 4: Also, the glasses, well it does it. It makes rosy
Speaker 4: you know you prescription or is Yes, they've always been prescription.
Speaker 4: I've had glasses on since I was six, so if
Speaker 4: I've been wearing glasses and different shapes and decided to
Speaker 4: put a tint in them in my early twenties just
Speaker 4: because guys would say, you're a pretty sexy librarian, and
Speaker 4: I was like, I can't see get away. You know,
Speaker 4: but that's so iconic, Like they became a very strange
Speaker 4: thing that I didn't mean to happen, but it became
Speaker 4: like was tonic. Yeah, I didn't mean it to be
Speaker 4: that way. So I was more well done, innocently smart.
Speaker 1: So next year, mark's the twenty fifth anniversary of your
Speaker 1: debut album, Not that Kind. I was trying to go
Speaker 1: through photos last night of the storage cupboard because I
Speaker 1: hosted one of your in stores at Westfield, like twenty
Speaker 1: four years ago when you came here.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I loved in stores. I was obsessed.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find the photo I found me with the
Speaker 1: sugar babes and ALIENA.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, we know who you like. The ones in
Speaker 4: the skirts. You like the girls with the dresses on
Speaker 4: I or the leather. So I think he liked that too.
Speaker 1: It was just such cool time would too all the
Speaker 1: time and yeah, they'd be do you.
Speaker 4: Think about you think about Yeah, you think about the
Speaker 4: record stores? You? I mean, yeah, I loved it. I
Speaker 4: love signing CDs and whether it was a it was
Speaker 4: an and I loved in stores. I was like, please
Speaker 4: don't let it end, because it's just you get that
Speaker 4: connection with the found The only.
Speaker 1: Awkward bit was the shopping center they used to host
Speaker 1: to that would have like one of those giant escalators
Speaker 1: and they would bring the special guests and the stage
Speaker 1: you're in from the roof and.
Speaker 4: Run a clap as I came down so slow.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. I go, give it up for Anastasia.
Speaker 2: And then you'd be on the travel lighter coming down
Speaker 2: and I have to go.
Speaker 4: But and to be honest, now I'm much more. I
Speaker 4: would have done some serious fun stuff Like I was
Speaker 4: so scared to be too much, you know myself. I
Speaker 4: was like, they're going to judge me, so h now,
Speaker 4: I just I would have like done the I'm a
Speaker 4: different me now, ho I do that? You don't have?
Speaker 4: The judgment is a funny thing for women, right, and
Speaker 4: it's obviously changing.
Speaker 3: But I think people think as you get older, you
Speaker 3: actually get more self conscious.
Speaker 4: But I feel like as.
Speaker 3: We get older, women are getting more and more confident.
Speaker 4: And we know, and I think, do you think it's
Speaker 4: just you realize all the worrying you did was for nothing.
Speaker 4: It was for wasted of time, you know. And I
Speaker 4: try to be the best best role model advocate I
Speaker 4: can be to the younger audience and just say, listen,
Speaker 4: you got to go through the bumps. It's not going
Speaker 4: to feel great. It has the health, the health. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Don't look at my toe. I had surgery on my toe,
Speaker 4: so I'm six weeks from that.
Speaker 2: But it's good. You know.
Speaker 3: We still got ten toes.
Speaker 4: We do, but we the big toe was not moving.
Speaker 2: Well, you just lost the demo that are into fake.
Speaker 4: No, but I have another foot. That's great. I have
Speaker 4: another But you know they did sometimes they like that.
Speaker 4: You know, I just have to bring it back and
Speaker 4: they'll be like, oh, one leg, Okay. Does that mean
Speaker 4: there's lots around there's yeah, they're out for now for now.
Speaker 4: But you know, platforms are I mean, they're in. They're
Speaker 4: always in platforms.
Speaker 2: What are you doing at the rices?
Speaker 4: I'm the I'm jockey from it. So they have me
Speaker 4: on one of the horses. I don't know which one,
Speaker 4: but you know, they said I'm a perfect size, and
Speaker 4: so I'm doing that and I'm gonna put my big
Speaker 4: foot and no, I'm actually gonna come off the helicopter
Speaker 4: that day and have fun with the with the audience
Speaker 4: and then go on stage and and be me, so
Speaker 4: you perform me. You know, I'm gonna do all the
Speaker 4: b sets that we're never on an album. No, I'm
Speaker 4: doing all the hits for sure. I mean I want
Speaker 4: to do all the hits because I really do love
Speaker 4: my song. Say why that's right, send me, let me
Speaker 4: and what else pays? Not that kind? In fact, not
Speaker 4: that kind. Nt K twenty five is the name of
Speaker 4: next year's tour. Oh so it's not that kind twenty five.
Speaker 2: So when you tour these days.
Speaker 4: When I tour, I like how you say that.
Speaker 1: Too different from the old days, Like you like a relaxed,
Speaker 1: classy hotel. Now, like are you out partying after a gig?
Speaker 4: I never really did party after a gig because when
Speaker 4: and if I ever did, I would be sounding like Manistasia.
Speaker 4: So that was I'd be like, I don't want to.
Speaker 4: It would be not the best high notes for me.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: Jex aside though, like it's surprised. I mean you look
Speaker 1: at the sad thing that happened to lay In Payne
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago and say, it's quite sad
Speaker 1: that that's not happening more just because of how these
Speaker 1: TV isn't it. Yeah, the industry is just crazy at
Speaker 1: the moment.
Speaker 4: And another pressure, the pressure when you're when you're that
Speaker 4: young and you know, uh, there isn't You try to
Speaker 4: support the the people that are in this industry, but
Speaker 4: sometimes you just he always seemed happy, he always seemed
Speaker 4: having a great time, and it was you know, it
Speaker 4: was more of a facade and inside sometimes you don't
Speaker 4: know really where their struggles are. And so I think someone.
Speaker 2: Young, honist, it'd be so easy to get caught up
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it is hard, and there's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 4: And I think most of the time most of us
Speaker 4: artists are very, very insecure and and me included, I
Speaker 4: want to do good and then when I go to
Speaker 4: do something, I judge it as I didn't do a
Speaker 4: good job, and somebody else is like you were fine,
Speaker 4: and I was like, no, no, this didn't happen, and
Speaker 4: then you're out of your zone and you're starting to
Speaker 4: not be in the moment, and then your head is
Speaker 4: somewhere else. But nobody really gets what our heads think about.
Speaker 4: So unfortunately we can be our own worst critics.
Speaker 6: You're from the Windy City, from Chicago. Now, is it
Speaker 6: a good time to be out of the States at
Speaker 6: the moment? Because there is a lot going on consuming
Speaker 6: as an American? It must be it just must be exhausting.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. I'm just so sorry. I'm sorry for America.
Speaker 4: I'm meaning I'm sorry for us as Americans, for the
Speaker 4: rest of the world. I apologize for all Americans, but
Speaker 4: mainly the half that like Trump. So I am not
Speaker 4: I've never been a bully supporter. I've never been. I don't.
Speaker 4: I believe in positivity, not negativity. So my whole philosophy
Speaker 4: is not his. Whether he was Republican independent, I've never
Speaker 4: been a hymn supporter of being cruel. So I just
Speaker 4: find that he has really uh, his character is not
Speaker 4: what I like. So political aside, but I'm voting for
Speaker 4: the character at this moment, and if I'm voting for
Speaker 4: the character, heesday Tuesday, meaning the I voted already, so
Speaker 4: uh for America. I was going to say, America, Shamerica.
Speaker 4: We are going to affect the whole world if he
Speaker 4: gets in.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I'm really really praying for the opposite, because I've
Speaker 4: got a lot of American friends who are getting out
Speaker 4: of Americas this way. I don't It's going to be
Speaker 4: very scary because a lot of things are going to
Speaker 4: go away that people don't realize they took for granted,
Speaker 4: and the first being Roe versus Wade, where women are
Speaker 4: back in the day when they would have illegal abortions
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. I'm not here to be religious
Speaker 4: and tell people what to do, but I do believe
Speaker 4: if you want to do something with your body, do it.
Speaker 4: My only disagreement with something like that would be where's
Speaker 4: the I mean, it takes two to make a baby.
Speaker 4: What's going on with the man? Why is it all
Speaker 4: on the woman?
Speaker 6: Like what politicians?
Speaker 4: Does he get involved with? What happens there? This is
Speaker 4: where I just feel like being fair is my whole Yashpiel,
Speaker 4: I have not changed since I've been in the business.
Speaker 4: I'm always the same. I don't like war, I don't
Speaker 4: like negativity. So for me, what's happening in the world
Speaker 4: is that half are loving the negativity and half are like,
Speaker 4: can't we'll have got along. So I just I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't really know. I think the Internet has has
Speaker 4: sucked a lot of people into believing that, you know,
Speaker 4: Trump is it's okay that he's mean, He's just joking,
Speaker 4: And I'm like, well, I wouldn't want my kid to
Speaker 4: joke like that. So you just got to put yourself,
Speaker 4: almost without politics, into is that how what you want
Speaker 4: your kid to aspire to be, because that's what they will. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a very good point. But rather than that, get
Speaker 4: back to them.
Speaker 3: Now Saturday night, off to Dorby Day.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to get a karaoke room. We do it
Speaker 4: every dobby day.
Speaker 3: I'm to go to Like, if you were in a
Speaker 3: karaoke room, obviously everyone want to hear your own song,
Speaker 3: but would you sing something else.
Speaker 4: Of not sing something that would show off my voice?
Speaker 4: Because immediately when I get up there, no one wants
Speaker 4: to come up to mich after me. You don't want
Speaker 4: you don't want. No one wants to go off to
Speaker 4: someone like I will be really like, come and me on.
Speaker 2: To go.
Speaker 4: Like I'll do stuff that makes the have fun. Okay,
Speaker 4: you know, because if I'm singing a Whitney Houston song,
Speaker 4: they're just like, oh god, no, yeah, but they still
Speaker 4: prefer to us.
Speaker 3: I want to hear me because.
Speaker 4: Not because they're like they all do the thing that
Speaker 4: I do that I don't realize I do.
Speaker 2: Hang on, you're saying you want to hear someone? Do
Speaker 2: you yes? Learn?
Speaker 4: Learn?
Speaker 2: Do you want left that? I'm out of love?
Speaker 4: You tell me you whatever you feel. That's that's you,
Speaker 4: that's you choose. Okay, I'm going to tell you exactly
Speaker 4: what I want. The lights are.
Speaker 2: Low, Okay, you're ready, ready, Okay, three? Two free? Let
Speaker 2: me out this Mills.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, like you do it. I changed the
Speaker 4: words like to have a few solo balls, left outside alone,
Speaker 4: I don't know where that comes from. And no how.
Speaker 2: To left us alone?
Speaker 4: I know alan extra syllable there are I don't know
Speaker 4: how to speak normal when it comes to when there's
Speaker 4: a melody and you're anything happy birth, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: There's two of them we're.
Speaker 4: Creating among anyway, we'll sell tickets to that. Off to
Speaker 4: dobbydo karaoke karaokes is so fun. Have you got a
Speaker 4: tip for the Dobby Day? Have you seen any of
Speaker 4: the horses names? There's always some case. You know what
Speaker 4: I actually just talked about. We're gonna we're gonna look
Speaker 4: at all the horses and we're going to make a
Speaker 4: choice on the names. Yeah, yes, and that, and I
Speaker 4: don't I'm not I don't do money, but I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna pick somebody just because of the name,
Speaker 4: know nothing about because the writer or anything like that,
Speaker 4: or Jockie and just gonna.
Speaker 3: Be helicopter in on Derby Day. All the Australian media
Speaker 3: are gonna come up to you and.
Speaker 4: Go, who's your pick for the diby. I'll be like me.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty four mailb Cup Carnibal kicks off this
Speaker 1: Saturday with Pinfolds at Victoria Derby Day.
Speaker 2: We're all going to be there.
Speaker 1: Anastasia will be as well, performing live VRSE dot com
Speaker 1: dot Au.
Speaker 2: For your tickets. It has been a pleasure.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Kids with the glasses on and everything.
Speaker 4: I love you. We're gonna start a tribute fat yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you can