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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: We love this woman. She's one of Australia's highest selling

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Speaker 2: artists of all time. She has sold more than ten

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Speaker 2: million albums worldwide. Tina Arena is celebrating thirty years of

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Speaker 2: her landmark album Don't Ask. She's taking it on tour

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Speaker 2: and we're thrilled that she's chatting to us now.

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Speaker 1: Tina, Hello, good morning, thirty years thirty yees? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know where does it go?

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Speaker 2: Who were you thirty years ago? Who do you see

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Speaker 2: when you look back at that Tina?

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Speaker 1: Oh, you look at somebody who was young, fresh, not cynical.

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Speaker 2: How do you miss her?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I do?

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Speaker 1: I miss parts of her for sure, absolutely Robust didn't

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Speaker 1: take no for an answer, just had.

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Speaker 2: To go, really, why did you have the guts to

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Speaker 2: do that as a young woman in the industry.

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Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I just did what I did.

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Speaker 1: I hated being I think looking back now, and after

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Speaker 1: a bit of therapy too, I kind of look and go,

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Speaker 1: good lord. I've had spent my life with people telling

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Speaker 1: me what they think I should do or how I

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Speaker 1: should do it, and so forth, and I think that

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Speaker 1: that is ultimately such a waste of time, you need

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Speaker 1: to just do what you do.

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Speaker 2: Remind us about the album, because I think it was

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Speaker 2: it five banging hits came from that album?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? It was. I think will The songs were Chains,

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Speaker 1: Heaven Helped My Heart, Sorrento Moon, wasn't it good? So

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Speaker 1: it was really four that were the major, major songs

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Speaker 1: that came off one record, and you pushed.

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Speaker 3: You pushed for Sorrento Moon, didn't you because a certain

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Speaker 3: a certain music executive said no, that's no good, it's

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Speaker 3: not going to work. Now.

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Speaker 1: Well, a certain music executive said to me at the time,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing with those Italian lyrics? I said,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean Italian lyrics? La Luna, the Sorrento?

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Speaker 1: I said, well, it's not so much Italian. I said,

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Speaker 1: that's sort of universal. So I said, I remember responding

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Speaker 1: to him, which was very out of character for me

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Speaker 1: back then, certainly not now. I said, well, why don't

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Speaker 1: you stick to selling the records and leave the creatives

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Speaker 1: to me?

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Speaker 2: I speak, you out last and all those executives.

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Speaker 1: I have outlasted most of those executives. It's funny, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: But that's what I truly believe because I believed in

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Speaker 1: that song, and I guess that time has proven to

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Speaker 1: us that that song had its place and extra extraordinary longevity.

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Speaker 1: And it's also it speaks about a place in Australia.

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Speaker 1: So it is a very patriot or patriotic nostalgic piece

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Speaker 1: of writing that's very representative of a place in Australia

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Speaker 1: in the Mornington Peninsula.

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Speaker 3: I'd imagine you can't walk the streets of Sorrento that

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Speaker 3: have to be a TENA arena street in Surrender, surely.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know what's really funny is the Italians actually

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Speaker 1: think that it's written about Sorrento and the Amalfi Co.

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, you believe what you want.

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Speaker 3: To mask as long as you record, you know.

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Speaker 1: As long as you buy the record. I'm fine with that.

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Speaker 2: On my feed lately, I've been seeing a lot of

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Speaker 2: it and it just makes me happy every time I

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Speaker 2: see it. Is you singing? Is it changed with Celine Dion?

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Speaker 2: It's just gorgeous. But suddenly it's re entering the sphere,

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Speaker 2: maybe because of Selene, the medical battle she's been through

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Speaker 2: in the paras Olympics, etc. I love seeing that.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's funny Amanda, because I don't think that that

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Speaker 1: wasn't purposely done. A friend of mine stumbled, I've got

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Speaker 1: a couple of people friends of mine that have fairly

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Speaker 1: established archives of performances of mine. Look, I had no

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Speaker 1: idea i'd done that. I mean, that was in the nineties,

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Speaker 1: like who remembers, right, So a friend of mine pulled

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Speaker 1: it out and said, do you remember this? And I went, no,

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Speaker 1: it's like I don't remember it. Of course I remember

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Speaker 1: meeting her because when Selena and I first met, she

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Speaker 1: was in Australia in Sydney doing promo of her work,

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Speaker 1: of an album or something that she was releasing. I

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Speaker 1: was doing promotion for Don't Ask, and so our paths

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Speaker 1: crossed because we were both Sony signings. And the first

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Speaker 1: time she met me, she's probably half a head bigger

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Speaker 1: than me, and she looked sort of looked down at

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Speaker 1: me and went, are you the girl that sings chains?

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Speaker 1: And I went yeah, she because I thought you were black.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was hilarious, and she loved the song.

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Speaker 1: And I remember her saying to me very clearly, she said,

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Speaker 1: every record you release, I always buy CDs of because

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Speaker 1: I really love your work.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So my friend stumbled across that and it was rather

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Speaker 1: poignant trure for it to come out. And she's a

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Speaker 1: very dear woman who's had a tremendous amount of personal

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Speaker 1: battles that people would never be aware of. She's scored.

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Speaker 3: That's great, and so are you and were you're Yeah,

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Speaker 3: this isn't about Selene Dion. This is about you. She

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Speaker 3: hasn't got a street in Sorrento named after Celene Dion.

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Speaker 1: She's probably got a street in Montreal. I certainly hope.

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Speaker 3: So you always downplay yourself, Tina. I'm here to big

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Speaker 3: you up. I know that. I know you're a big

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Speaker 3: fan of the Rambo trilogy. I'm like your Colonel Troutman.

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Speaker 3: You know I'm there saying she can do anything. She

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Speaker 3: can make eat things, will make a billy goat Pike.

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Speaker 2: Well that's very useful, Brandon.

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Speaker 3: You need a hype man. I'm your hype man, Tina.

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Speaker 3: It's always great to talk to you. Get your tickets

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Speaker 3: now to see Tina at her thirtieth anniversary tour. Don't

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Speaker 3: ask at face to faceturing dot com dot au. Tina,

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Speaker 3: thank you, thank.

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Speaker 1: You, guys, and I'll be going on the road with

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Speaker 1: some friends too, so I'm looking forward to that really.

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Speaker 1: Richard Marx and Brave, Daryl broth Wait, Southern Sons, Kate

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Speaker 1: Sebryan who wow, and I think we're going to have

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Speaker 1: a bit a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Wow. That backstage rider, Oh, it's a good rider. It

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Speaker 3: would be a great rode. Darrell Elite, all the sandwiches.

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Speaker 3: Probably Jabella.

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Speaker 1: Has the best days of road.

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Speaker 3: Bye.