Tina Arena: I Want to Love You, starring Vince Colosimo – video premiere
The powerhouse pop singer’s new video casts Colosimo as her love interest and was inspired by the work of American photographer Cindy Sherman
Tina Arena’s I Want to Love You, premiered on Guardian Australia.
Monica Tan
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Thursday 1 October 2015 06.16 AESTLast modified on
Twelve years is a long time between drinks, but that’s what has passed between Tina Arena’s 2001
Just Me, and her next English-language album of original material, called
Reset (she had a few French-language and cover albums in between).
Reset, Arena admits, was a risky venture. “There is always a huge chance that your audience has moved on from listening to you,” she says. But with the album peaking at No 4 on Australia’s album charts when it was released in 2013, the pressure is surely off, just a little, for her upcoming album
Eleven.
The pint-sized pop star, known as “Tiny Tina” when she starred on Young Talent Time in 1977, says not only will this be her 11th album, the number has a rather curious presence in her life. “Numerologically, it’s a number I always come in contact with. If I look at a clock, it’s always 11:11 or 1:11,” she says.
Her date of birth is also 1 November or 1/11. She says of the number, “it’s simple, it’s strong and it has a significance”.
Stretching over five minutes, I Want to Love You is a slow-burn power ballad, with each chorus accruing volume until it explodes in a burst of drums and backing singers, and delivers on what every great Arena song should do: showcasing the purity, vigour and youthfulness of her vocals.
Arena says the song is about “being consumed and completely infatuated with someone but knowing they’re possibly not right for you or that the relationship won’t work, despite how desperately you want it to”.
The black-and-white video, starring Australian actor Vince Colosimo as Arena’s love interest, was inspired by the work of American photographer Cindy Sherman.
Arena says she couldn’t imagine anyone except Colosimo in the role. “His vulnerability as an actor is not often portrayed,” she says. “His honesty, elasticity and reliability as an actor is something I am in awe of.”
