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Speaker 1: Tarren Stokes, who has just won the Voice Australia for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. The mum of two was just as
Speaker 1: shocked as the rest of Australia to take out the
Speaker 1: competition on Sunday night, beating tough competitors in Charlie Ezra
Speaker 1: and Ethan. Those final epic song choices of simply the
Speaker 1: Best and All by Myself locked her in as the
Speaker 1: winner with the live audiences if you ask my opinion,
Speaker 1: helping Rita Aura winners Coach for the second year running,
Speaker 1: the victorious Victorian singer received one hundred thousand dollars and
Speaker 1: a record label with Universal Music Australia. At the age
Speaker 1: of forty, she has also become the show's oldest winner
Speaker 1: since the show's inception in twenty twelve. We will talk
Speaker 1: about the way in which The Voice is made and
Speaker 1: how much time it takes to film the whole series.
Speaker 1: Taran will also talk about her future in the music
Speaker 1: biz and how she plans to collaborate with one of
Speaker 1: the show's contestants who didn't quite make the finale. We
Speaker 1: will discuss her relationship with Rita Aura and how the
Speaker 1: two will continue their relationships moving forward.
Speaker 2: Lust.
Speaker 1: We will get plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes
Speaker 1: of The Voice Australia for twenty twenty three, which you
Speaker 1: can now catch up on on seven Plus, which I've
Speaker 1: actually been doing all week, especially rewatching some of those
Speaker 1: final performances. If you love Taran as much as I do. Also,
Speaker 1: you can download her new single Nobody, which is now
Speaker 1: available on iTunes. Anyway, guys, let's bring Taran into the podcast,
Speaker 1: and I really hope you enjoy this episode of TV
Speaker 1: reload Love Me to It dancing. Hi, my god. See,
Speaker 1: I'm a terrible singer as well. I'd love to be
Speaker 1: able to sing and I can't, and you've just caught
Speaker 1: me being a terrible singer.
Speaker 3: No, it was great.
Speaker 1: I was just watching the whole finale again and it
Speaker 1: just finished like literally thirty seconds ago, so I've watched
Speaker 1: it twice.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're in mode, You're in the voice mode.
Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on winning the Voice for twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: This is just so exciting.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You have to tell me what was it like last
Speaker 1: night when you won? Who were you with? I wan
Speaker 1: don't know how it all went down.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I well, as you know, the endings are
Speaker 2: pre recorded. We record for alternate endings, which is weird
Speaker 2: in itself, but it you know, you had to kind
Speaker 2: of put yourself back in that moment. So I was
Speaker 2: watching it with my family at home and some close
Speaker 2: friends and just had it like a projector on the wall.
Speaker 2: My husband organized my friend bought this like Big the
Speaker 2: Voice cake and it was just really fun. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we were just still sitting down and the joy in
Speaker 2: the room was crazy.
Speaker 3: When they called my name, when Sonya called my name,
Speaker 3: it was crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, I had to be in a car just at
Speaker 1: the end. I've been watching it, but I had to
Speaker 1: be in a cab, and so we were in the
Speaker 1: cab watching it on my phone. And my partner, you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't really get into the TV as much as
Speaker 1: I do. He was like, you know, who's going to win?
Speaker 1: And who do you want to win? And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I think Charlie's going to win, but I don't want
Speaker 1: that to be the case. I wanted you to win.
Speaker 1: And so I lost my goddamn mind in the car.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: felt so powerful that you won, because in my mind,
Speaker 1: I'd led myself to think, you know, maybe the people
Speaker 1: that vote for these shows would go for someone younger
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, but did you.
Speaker 1: What did you think when you were just at that moment,
Speaker 1: did you think you were going to win?
Speaker 2: I feel like over the last couple of weeks, I
Speaker 2: was like, maybe I maybe it could be because you know,
Speaker 2: you have your own kind of fan base, I guess,
Speaker 2: or and like friends and family that are.
Speaker 3: Like we're voting and we're getting our work to vote
Speaker 3: and all that stuff, so you think, oh, this is cool.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, with Charlie, like he's one of my
Speaker 2: closest friends and he's amazing, and I was like, Charlie,
Speaker 2: you are going for it, Like his social media campaign
Speaker 2: was insane, and he is insane. He's got like beautiful
Speaker 2: songs out in his amazing singer and he has so
Speaker 2: many tens of thousands of followers as well. So I
Speaker 2: kind of then resigned myself to the fact that okay,
Speaker 2: well you know I can't compete with that, so I'll
Speaker 2: just enjoy myself. So even like my friend was recording
Speaker 2: me last night and he's like, she's like the winner
Speaker 2: is I'm like Charlie, And I was like Charlie, and
Speaker 2: then they're like Taren.
Speaker 3: I was like, ah, so I.
Speaker 2: Kind of yeah, I don't know if it's like a
Speaker 2: protective mechanism, you don't want a hundred percent believe that
Speaker 2: this could be true.
Speaker 3: And happened but it happened.
Speaker 1: Did you hear from Charlie, Ethan and Asra? I like,
Speaker 1: did they call you to that?
Speaker 3: Ethan? Yet?
Speaker 2: I have message them, but also I haven't read all
Speaker 2: my I've got like two hundred messages, so I've got
Speaker 2: to get to it. But I messaged Charlie and just
Speaker 2: said as well, and he replied and I was just like.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, you know, I'm so proud of you,
Speaker 3: and he's like, don't be sorry.
Speaker 2: You deserve this year amazing, and so I don't know,
Speaker 2: like we're really good friends and yeah, he's incredible, and
Speaker 2: like he works so hard and pushed so hard and
Speaker 2: totally deserves the win as well. But he also was
Speaker 2: just so kind at the end and just like, no,
Speaker 2: you deserve it, and you know that's.
Speaker 3: Who he is.
Speaker 1: I hate that we don't know second third and fourth.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's important that we knew what the
Speaker 1: second third and fourth is? Or do you think we
Speaker 1: just have to let that go?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I think that everyone should win something,
Speaker 3: you know, well.
Speaker 1: Because they're now all sharing that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like they're all sharing this runners up title, which I
Speaker 1: guess is kind of cool. And away, because you know,
Speaker 1: when they're at the pubs or catch out with friends,
Speaker 1: they can be like I came second on the voice,
Speaker 1: but like, essentially, I feel like, especially with Charlie, I
Speaker 1: felt like he would have come second and he probably
Speaker 1: deserves to have that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to know because we're never going to
Speaker 2: know the numbers. I don't think the producers will ever
Speaker 2: share that with us.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's we'll give them some money. I've give
Speaker 1: them some of the one hundred thousand and see what
Speaker 1: we can get.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: But I think that Charlie has he's such an artist
Speaker 2: and he's such a songwriter, and so he's whatever happened,
Speaker 2: that fan base for him is going to follow him
Speaker 2: and just get bigger and bigger.
Speaker 3: So it's a win for him as well.
Speaker 1: Could you see yourself collaborating with any of the other
Speaker 1: artists that you've met along the way through this competition.
Speaker 2: One collaboration I'm very excited about is Callum Warrender. He's
Speaker 2: one of my good friends now and he's in musical
Speaker 2: theater and his voice is crazy, and I just keep
Speaker 2: sending him duets like I'm talking like nearly every couple
Speaker 2: of days I'm like, hey, what about this one, and
Speaker 2: like We've just got a show planned in our head
Speaker 2: because we just want to do it because it would
Speaker 2: be so fun to do like Jewets.
Speaker 3: And it's always and it happened.
Speaker 2: The plan happened from I think it was like second
Speaker 2: Round or something. I just was like, Callum, you and
Speaker 2: I need to do like Callum and Friends. And that's
Speaker 2: what we called it, Callum and Friends. And so last
Speaker 2: night he was over and he was just like, I
Speaker 2: don't think we can do Calum and Friends, and like,
Speaker 2: yes we will.
Speaker 1: I feel like what is going to work so well
Speaker 1: for you is from the moment you came into this competition.
Speaker 1: I just felt like Celendon vibes. So it was a
Speaker 1: good thing that you finished with that song because that
Speaker 1: really resonated for me as to who I think you
Speaker 1: are as an artist. But I just I can see
Speaker 1: really beautiful evenings of people going along and watching you perform,
Speaker 1: like you know, you know, having getting people to get
Speaker 1: dressed up in suits and looking really beautiful and having
Speaker 1: a really elegant dinner and then being able to see
Speaker 1: you perform. And I think he'd be great, you know,
Speaker 1: to warm that up for you or to do it together.
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm visioning, you know, Ah.
Speaker 3: So cool. I would love to do that.
Speaker 2: I think for me and my personality, you'll probably see
Speaker 2: me doing that and all sorts of things, like if
Speaker 2: you hear my other single. Also, I wrote a single
Speaker 2: three years ago and it's just a vibe like it's
Speaker 2: it's just like a party vibe song, and so you
Speaker 2: just never know what you're going to get with me.
Speaker 2: And I think I'm excited to surprise people. But I
Speaker 2: also love singing big, sad, amazed diva ballads, so I'm
Speaker 2: I'm happy to do that.
Speaker 1: I've got all of your because I preview the show
Speaker 1: and so like I've made my friends on holidays away
Speaker 1: watch your performances like I'm legitimately obsessed. I think I've
Speaker 1: seen all of your performances like five times.
Speaker 3: So that's so kind. So you really felt like you
Speaker 3: won when I won last.
Speaker 1: Night, I felt like I won. And the cab driver,
Speaker 1: it was a new belt, wasn't a cab, but you know,
Speaker 1: he must have thought I was mental. Do you know
Speaker 1: this woman? No? You do now, I do now, But
Speaker 1: you know what I was also thinking watching the finale,
Speaker 1: was you have such a likability that connects, like you
Speaker 1: eat the lens in who you are as a person.
Speaker 1: That accessibility. I could see you hosting like Sunrise or
Speaker 1: the Morning Show. I could I could see you being
Speaker 1: swooped in to do that kind of work.
Speaker 3: Like, oh gosh, thank you. I think i'd be too nervous.
Speaker 2: I just did the Morning Show just before this, and yeah,
Speaker 2: my nervous system was like ooh. But I think I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's age, but I never used to
Speaker 2: be like this, but I just feel like I like
Speaker 2: to be disarming, Like I don't want to put on anything.
Speaker 2: I hate putting on and I always see three people
Speaker 2: who do that, So I just I think that's one
Speaker 2: of my number one things is just to be real
Speaker 2: and just be like, just tell it how it is.
Speaker 2: I don't need to like hide anything, I don't need
Speaker 2: to try to impress people.
Speaker 3: I just just want to be real.
Speaker 2: And relate to people because that's life, that's real life.
Speaker 1: You just have an authenticity about you, and I think
Speaker 1: that's really powerful. In being maybe a bit older, What
Speaker 1: did you think about entering in this competition when you
Speaker 1: are up against youngest singers. Do you think that it
Speaker 1: was making it harder being older? Do you think it
Speaker 1: made it easier? Like, how did you feel that was
Speaker 1: going to be going into the competition.
Speaker 3: I think it just helped me feel a bit more grounded.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if it's having kids as well
Speaker 2: or just everything, but I felt grounded, like you know,
Speaker 2: doesn't define me like I had to.
Speaker 3: You know, I did have a psychologist that I would
Speaker 3: speak to every couple.
Speaker 2: Of weeks online as well, because I needed to kind
Speaker 2: of work through stuff and like work through nerves and
Speaker 2: work through why I'm feeling this and that. So I
Speaker 2: don't know, I just feel like grounded really helped me.
Speaker 2: You know, if I lose doesn't change my worth. If
Speaker 2: I don't get very far, it doesn't matter what people think,
Speaker 2: and that stuff that I've had to learn along the way.
Speaker 1: I guess that's being an artist, you know. I think
Speaker 1: anyone that's working as an artist, you're so often putting
Speaker 1: so much of yourself into it, and the sad reality
Speaker 1: of that is that you know you don't always win,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I want to ask
Speaker 1: you about just interacting with the general public over the
Speaker 1: last few weeks. What have they been coming up to
Speaker 1: you and talking to you about and on top of that,
Speaker 1: I'd also want to know do you think that the
Speaker 1: Voice should go back to being live, because I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a very expensive show live, but do you think
Speaker 1: that the audiences deserve to have more of a say
Speaker 1: in the voting process as the show goes on?
Speaker 2: Okay, now I can't remember the first question, but let's
Speaker 2: go with this one. The live process, I think would
Speaker 2: be honestly, like, I'm grateful that it's not live because
Speaker 2: you get to kind of perform and like I get
Speaker 2: to be in my own headspace and perform and just
Speaker 2: give everything like that and not also be like on
Speaker 2: my phone all the time because.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, this is all happening at the
Speaker 3: same time.
Speaker 2: So it was amazing to have space to give everything
Speaker 2: and then go back to normal life and then prepare
Speaker 2: yourself for what's about to happen. So on that personal side,
Speaker 2: I found that a great thing. I mean, maybe it
Speaker 2: would be good to have more like voting, but everyone
Speaker 2: did get to vote, so that's pretty cool, So I
Speaker 2: don't know, like voting maybe for the semi finals as well,
Speaker 2: would be cool. I think they do that in America,
Speaker 2: so like having a say in that, but then I
Speaker 2: don't know how that would work.
Speaker 1: The other part of that question was what do people
Speaker 1: come up and talk to you about the most meeting
Speaker 1: you on the street. I guess is that something that
Speaker 1: people come up and say that they'd like to have
Speaker 1: more control or what is the most common thing that
Speaker 1: people say.
Speaker 2: Look, there haven't been many people coming and seeing me
Speaker 2: on the street. I just remember once I went to
Speaker 2: I went to see Bala Taylor, who won the Voice
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, and that's when I realized
Speaker 2: people know me because there's so many people and they
Speaker 2: were obviously in the Voice bubble as well, like coming
Speaker 2: up to me and like I was like, oh, but
Speaker 2: the funny thing is, so I said to Paul, my husband, Okay, babe,
Speaker 2: people like because I've just been in my bubble with
Speaker 2: the kids, you know, pick up drop offs, you know,
Speaker 2: cold and then yet mum. And then the next day
Speaker 2: I was like, I got to take the kids to Bunnings.
Speaker 2: They're going to play and have a baby gino. And
Speaker 2: then I said like, oh, I better put some makeup
Speaker 2: on because I think from what happened yesterday, people might
Speaker 2: like come up to me and I can't look like
Speaker 2: a haggard old mum. You know what, I got a
Speaker 2: little bit old up. I'm laughing at myself here and
Speaker 2: they go to Bunnings. No one came up to me,
Speaker 2: and I said to Paul, what an idiot?
Speaker 1: Like, who did?
Speaker 3: I think? It was so funny because it's just the
Speaker 3: local Bunnings.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so I'm just kind of getting used to,
Speaker 2: you know, people coming up to me. But they have
Speaker 2: been online, I guess mostly so much like lovely comments.
Speaker 2: And there's been some like mums that are like connecting
Speaker 2: in that way, just like you know, they feel like
Speaker 2: they know me because they're going through that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: You know, it's hard having you know, young kids is
Speaker 2: just a real difficult but also amazing time.
Speaker 3: So I ended up having like a chat with one
Speaker 3: of the mums, and.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I felt like she was my friend.
Speaker 2: And then I realized I don't even know this lady,
Speaker 2: and I'm you know, I I'm so sorry I broke
Speaker 2: up with your husband and all this kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: and I'm just like, oh, well your kids. You know.
Speaker 2: It was so funny, but I just I just love that.
Speaker 2: I love connecting with people. So I think people like
Speaker 2: what you were saying before. Just yeah, I feel like
Speaker 2: they know me and I absolutely love that. But mind you,
Speaker 2: there've been some, you know, some negative comments as well,
Speaker 2: so I do sometimes reply to those and give back
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 1: I think it is just as important to not connect
Speaker 1: to the positive comments these days as it is to
Speaker 1: the negative, because they're both coming in from a similar energy.
Speaker 1: You know, taking either of those on board is pretty hard.
Speaker 1: You were easily the best performer last night, and it
Speaker 1: all seemed pretty clear to me and to audiences that
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to win. Do you think
Speaker 1: it comes down to the performances in a finale or
Speaker 1: do you think that audiences have already or had already
Speaker 1: picked their winner.
Speaker 2: Well, actually, I had a conversation with someone who knows
Speaker 2: a little bit more about it, and she encouraged me
Speaker 2: that you know, yeah, it actually a lot of it
Speaker 2: does come down to your performances. And so that gave
Speaker 2: me a little bit more hope because I knew that
Speaker 2: they went well, like, I felt really good about them,
Speaker 2: so I was like, ooh, well maybe.
Speaker 3: I do have a chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, I felt like your performances were just so strong.
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone was great, and you could tell that
Speaker 1: by the fact that all of the other coaches started
Speaker 1: supporting you that way, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like guys Sebastian standing on his chair, like he didn't
Speaker 1: do that for his own artists.
Speaker 3: That was crazy.
Speaker 2: My George just drops every time, especially guy, because I
Speaker 2: just look up to him so much. And so when
Speaker 2: he says that, like, you know, his voice is the
Speaker 2: best I've ever heard. His voice is ridiculous, and I've
Speaker 2: obviously followed his whole journey as everyone has. And so
Speaker 2: when he stands up and says that, I just, yeah,
Speaker 2: I probably dissociate because I'm like, this can't be real.
Speaker 3: Is this happening? So it was crazy?
Speaker 1: What about this relationship with Rita or I love the
Speaker 1: fact that she said, to you remember to answer my phone.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't have her phone number, but Rita is.
Speaker 3: Rita was wonderful.
Speaker 2: She was just the best, honestly, Like we got along
Speaker 2: so so well, and I just feel like she was
Speaker 2: the perfect coach for me, Like I don't want to
Speaker 2: be boxed in.
Speaker 3: I always liked to challenge myself and do.
Speaker 2: New things, and I feel like I was excited to
Speaker 2: see what Rita and I would do together, and I
Speaker 2: just kind of also love that. People got a bit shocked, like, oh,
Speaker 2: I thought you would have chosen Guy and Jess, And
Speaker 2: there was a few people that were really like disappointed
Speaker 2: in me. I was like, well, I chose Rita, That's
Speaker 2: what I did. And I was just really grateful because
Speaker 2: Guy and Jess are always going to be in my
Speaker 2: corner because you know, we've done a bit of life
Speaker 2: together years ago, and so yeah, I love them. But
Speaker 2: it was just, yeah, it was it was a perfect match.
Speaker 1: It felt pretty clear to me that that was the
Speaker 1: right choice. I watched you make that choice, and I
Speaker 1: did read this stuff online where people were like, we
Speaker 1: surprised you chose Rita, considering you already had a bit
Speaker 1: of a backstory. But I think it was the right
Speaker 1: thing to do. I mean, she won last year, which
Speaker 1: is great, but also so Rita. Aura is like probably
Speaker 1: the most internationally recognizable coach on this show. Has she
Speaker 1: reached out to you already to say congratulations? Like, what
Speaker 1: kind of communication have you had with her since she
Speaker 1: filmed this show a little while ago.
Speaker 2: Look, I do remember that she didn't really contact Lockie
Speaker 2: last time, not that she like Lockie just kind of
Speaker 2: said in an interview, I think that you know, she's busy.
Speaker 3: I don't expect her to Like he wasn't.
Speaker 2: Saying that in a negative way at all, but I
Speaker 2: just kind of was like, I know she's busy, Like
Speaker 2: I know she has a huge Like I saw it.
Speaker 2: She flew off the next day and wherever she went,
Speaker 2: and then she's gone off to meet I saw her
Speaker 2: next to George Clooney, and I saw her then singing
Speaker 2: at this huge festival, like she's she's got a lot
Speaker 2: going on, Like the voice isn't everything for her, Like
Speaker 2: she gave her everything, but then she's moved on to
Speaker 2: something amazing as well. So I didn't really expect anything,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to give her all the space as well,
Speaker 2: not to be like.
Speaker 3: Can we be friends?
Speaker 2: But at the end, I gave her a like her
Speaker 2: little present, and she she bought me a present, and
Speaker 2: she actually like went to the shop and bought me
Speaker 2: the present and gave it to me as like a
Speaker 2: book that is like a little inspirational quotes for artists,
Speaker 2: and it was like, yeah, like an independent kind of
Speaker 2: creator who made it.
Speaker 3: And it was the sweetest thing for her.
Speaker 2: And then I said, is there any way we can
Speaker 2: contact like there's no pressure and obviously, and so she
Speaker 2: gave me her email and so I emailed her the
Speaker 2: next day or whatever just to say thank you, and
Speaker 2: she emailed me back. So that was just like that
Speaker 2: was just really really sweet to be like, Okay, she
Speaker 2: really like did connect with me. It's not just tally
Speaker 2: like she really did. And then I saw that she
Speaker 2: posted he was the funniest post she has. You know,
Speaker 2: one of those like led masks. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you saw it, but you know that we put it
Speaker 2: on for making my skin nice. So she was in
Speaker 2: the car and she was talking with the mask on
Speaker 2: and saying Tara and we did it. So she sent
Speaker 2: like a little message through Instagram and so it was amazing.
Speaker 1: So go back to Bunnings and just be at the
Speaker 1: registers and be like, excuse me, I'm the winner of
Speaker 1: the voice and read or is my best friend?
Speaker 3: Than Yeah, that would be funny.
Speaker 1: Do you think that the artist should work with coaches
Speaker 1: on the song choices? I read this quite a bit
Speaker 1: throughout the series, and I never really thought about it,
Speaker 1: but I was like, do you just have to trust
Speaker 1: that reader is going to pick the right songs for
Speaker 1: you or do you think moving forward it would be
Speaker 1: in your best all the artist's best interest to work
Speaker 1: and collaborate to find that song.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think also the crew behind the scenes help
Speaker 3: with that as well.
Speaker 2: So there's an amazing like music team as well that
Speaker 2: support Reader as well.
Speaker 3: So before Reader really knew me, they knew me.
Speaker 2: Because we've done like other auditions with them first, and
Speaker 2: so we send in like a list of twenty songs
Speaker 2: I think, just to get like an idea of who
Speaker 2: we are as artists. But let me tell you, I
Speaker 2: think maybe one of that so other people like, yeah,
Speaker 2: all the songs they sang was on the list, but
Speaker 2: mine wasn't. So I think they just I think they
Speaker 2: decided to challenge me and just throw different songs. And
Speaker 2: I remember guy saying she can sing anything, and that's
Speaker 2: such a compliment for him to say that.
Speaker 3: So I think maybe they just threw me some songs and.
Speaker 2: Went, you'll you'll swim, you'll be all right, you'll stay
Speaker 2: afloat what's.
Speaker 1: The song that's the most like you as an artist
Speaker 1: as to who you want be?
Speaker 3: Though I actually love to sing a little bit more
Speaker 3: soul Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I really.
Speaker 2: Didn't get the chance to sing this time. But I
Speaker 2: think the problem with me or not the problem, but
Speaker 2: the thing about me is that I like to sing
Speaker 2: lots of different.
Speaker 3: Styles, and I don't think it's a bad thing anymore.
Speaker 2: I used to people used to always be like, you
Speaker 2: need one, and I'm like, you know what, It's just
Speaker 2: not who I am.
Speaker 3: I like to do different things.
Speaker 2: So I think they had to kind of like help
Speaker 2: me with like one kind of linear style over the show,
Speaker 2: because otherwise I'd just be like a mixed bag of
Speaker 2: like I'm going to sing soul now, I'm going to
Speaker 2: do country, now, I'm going to do so. I love that,
Speaker 2: you know, musical theater, and you know, those big diva
Speaker 2: songs are something that I love as well. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I think they I trusted them and they
Speaker 2: definitely pulled through for me.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I can't tell you really how
Speaker 1: many times I watched you do the Battles alone with
Speaker 1: my heart. I watched that one the most. But I
Speaker 1: feel like, now I'm going to watch that Celene teon
Speaker 1: No because the Scientist. You did a really good job
Speaker 1: with that Coldplay song as well. Like it didn't just
Speaker 1: sound like that's song, you know, And so often on
Speaker 1: music shows like this, you can see you could feel
Speaker 1: a bit of like karaoke to it. Yes that person
Speaker 1: can sing, but like you really put something into that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I could talk to you about all of these songs.
Speaker 2: The Scientist was one night I was most proud of
Speaker 2: because I feel like I put like that was a
Speaker 2: song on my list and I showed them that and
Speaker 2: they were like, Okay, how would you sing that? And
Speaker 2: it's just a song that I've really loved, And I
Speaker 2: actually had these ideas as over the years of like
Speaker 2: changing the structure of the song and so doing that
Speaker 2: now going back into the.
Speaker 3: Chorus, and so I really loved that I could do that.
Speaker 2: But that made me the most nervous because I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm not sounding like anyone else here, Like this is
Speaker 2: just me doing my own thing. So I felt very
Speaker 2: vulnerable in that moment. And I also couldn't breathe in
Speaker 2: the dress, so I had to.
Speaker 3: Change some things on the fly. So I was nervous
Speaker 3: about that. But I'm most most proud of.
Speaker 1: That one man. It was powerful, like even just when
Speaker 1: you sung that, then I got the chills, Like I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's it's so so so good. Has this experience changed
Speaker 1: your life? I mean, we're all going to talk about
Speaker 1: what happens to these people that win these shows, you know,
Speaker 1: and how they're going to go. You've picked up one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars and you now have a contract with Universal.
Speaker 1: How do you want to shape that?
Speaker 2: I think it has changed my life over this time
Speaker 2: because my daughter was just two when I started this
Speaker 2: process and now she's nearly three, and so I was like,
Speaker 2: I was breastfeeding her, like to be honest, and that's
Speaker 2: like basically you give your whole body and everything in time.
Speaker 2: It's like it's you have to be attached to her
Speaker 2: and in that way, and so that just literally, I
Speaker 2: don't know how else to put it, but just sucks
Speaker 2: the life out of you. Like you're exhausted, you don't
Speaker 2: have nutrients, and you're not thinking about like even like
Speaker 2: putting makeup on or presenting yourself to the world or
Speaker 2: people or whatever. So I was in that space and
Speaker 2: so it's a huge change from being in that space
Speaker 2: to helping her be more independent and me be more
Speaker 2: independent and find a new normal.
Speaker 3: So that's a huge change.
Speaker 2: And then the next part of it is just yeah,
Speaker 2: my mental state that I am seeing myself as an
Speaker 2: artist now and finally walking in that. So I have
Speaker 2: no idea what the future is going to look like.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to give it.
Speaker 3: My best go.
Speaker 2: But I really feel like it's definitely set me up
Speaker 2: for yeah, new life.
Speaker 1: What I think you should do? If I honestly think
Speaker 1: you could win Eurovision, that would be so funny, Like
Speaker 1: I felt like when Dami Im did Eurovision, she got
Speaker 1: so close to it, and I feel like there's some
Speaker 1: similarities between how universally or internationally appealing your voice could be.
Speaker 1: And I think that would be a really good platform.
Speaker 1: And I genuinely think you could be the first Australian
Speaker 1: to win that. Wow.
Speaker 3: But that's all I've good to say about that. Just wow.
Speaker 3: I would love that. It's just like crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love Dammy and I love everything about her,
Speaker 2: and yeah, and Sheldon who did Eurovision as well.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I just that would be incredible.
Speaker 2: I see, I've got to kind of like start to
Speaker 2: believe this stuff like that could actually be cool thing
Speaker 2: to do, like crazy.
Speaker 1: Start to believe it, girl, because you woke up this
Speaker 1: morning with a number one on iTunes. I mean, nobody
Speaker 1: people are loving this song? How do they pick the
Speaker 1: winner's song? Like did you what's the process with that?
Speaker 1: Do they give you like a catalog of songs that
Speaker 1: you can pick? Like how did It Go?
Speaker 3: That was actually the only song I listened to. So yeah.
Speaker 2: So basically I was on stage after the semifinals will
Speaker 2: Take It had sung and then we had taken photos
Speaker 2: and I started walking off the stage and the Universal
Speaker 2: representative was like, Hi, I'm from Universal. Would you like
Speaker 2: to come here? And we're just going to play some songs.
Speaker 2: And so I was still in my pink dress, sitting
Speaker 2: in a room and had to decide on my winning
Speaker 2: single very quickly. That is not obviously like a usual process,
Speaker 2: but obviously with time and everything and having to record
Speaker 2: the song that week, that's what happened.
Speaker 3: And so I was kind of ready.
Speaker 2: To be like I don't know who the saying on
Speaker 2: the back foot, on the front foot, whatever foot, and
Speaker 2: say look, I'm not sure about this song or that's
Speaker 2: not me or can I changed this bit or can
Speaker 2: I change that bit?
Speaker 3: But basically what happened is I had someone with me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, I'm ready to be like, you know,
Speaker 2: hold my ground, even though they were wonderful, and I
Speaker 2: started listening to the song and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I love this, Yep, this is its great. Yeah, there
Speaker 2: was nothing I needed to say. And then I find
Speaker 2: out later that one of the writers on the song
Speaker 2: is has written Genie in a Bottle.
Speaker 3: Christina Aguilera like these.
Speaker 1: Writers that song me too.
Speaker 2: So I was like, that's why it was such a
Speaker 2: good song, and I couldn't let it pass, and so
Speaker 2: I actually didn't hear any other songs and recorded it
Speaker 2: that week.
Speaker 1: I think, well, just so you know, you're number one
Speaker 1: and Jason Derulo is number two, so I saw that.
Speaker 1: I wonder how he feels about that.
Speaker 3: Today, you know, so weird to see my name there.
Speaker 1: The last question I want to ask you is what
Speaker 1: is something from behind the scenes, something that we as
Speaker 1: an audience wouldn't see or wouldn't know from your time
Speaker 1: on the Voice.
Speaker 2: Well, basically, I mean I started an early audition in
Speaker 2: December last year, so before the blinds, you have quite
Speaker 2: a few auditions with the producers. So that's when it started.
Speaker 2: And then in April or March or April built up
Speaker 2: to the blinds and did the blinds and then got
Speaker 2: to go home for a little while. Then when I
Speaker 2: came back, we kind of knew that you're kind of
Speaker 2: there until whenever you go out. So every song, so
Speaker 2: say you're singing a sixty second or a ninety second song,
Speaker 2: every song basically is a build up of about two weeks,
Speaker 2: and so you have interview master interview days, you have
Speaker 2: stage rehearsal days, you have dress rehearsal days. You have
Speaker 2: all sorts of different days, and then a day off
Speaker 2: in between, and like it's so it's like a long
Speaker 2: build up.
Speaker 3: So I'm just.
Speaker 2: Spending a lot of time in the bathroom just like
Speaker 2: working on the song, like obsessing and working over every
Speaker 2: bit over and over again for two weeks for one
Speaker 2: minute song.
Speaker 1: You know, it's quite a process because you're a Victorian.
Speaker 1: So they find you home in between some of those
Speaker 1: moments and no, oh no, no they're not, so you
Speaker 1: just have to stay that.
Speaker 2: Yep, I did get to go, So there was one
Speaker 2: so I did the callbacks and then the ultimate callbacks
Speaker 2: I didn't need to do because I went straight to
Speaker 2: the battles.
Speaker 3: So I actually got.
Speaker 2: Six days at home to see my kiddies and they
Speaker 2: were really sick. So as soon as I got home
Speaker 2: that night, I took my daughter to hospital and then
Speaker 2: she got me sick, and so then I came back
Speaker 2: up sick. And then when I did the winning it
Speaker 2: takes it All, I was still a bit sick, but
Speaker 2: I was really glad to get like a little bit
Speaker 2: of a break, just to be mum again and then
Speaker 2: go back into it ready to go.
Speaker 1: Well that's going to be a life now, but a
Speaker 1: balance between mum and being a complete rock star. So yeah, charting, well,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch the journey that you go
Speaker 1: on from here. It's just been so lovely to chat
Speaker 1: with you today, and thank you for being so generous
Speaker 1: with your time.
Speaker 3: Thanks Ben, it's been great chatting