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Tina Arena Appreciation Thread
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Columbo
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I am a fan! Truly I am. But still it wouldn't feel right spending money on a concert when I am saving up for car stuff. I have to think of my future.
But maybe there might be a competition.
jessy_girl
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Fair enough. I hope you get to see her. Have you at least kept up to speed with all her media stuff this week?
Columbo
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Not all of it. But some of it.
'What an honour': Tina Arena is ageless as ever as she wears pinstiped dress jacket to be inducted into ARIA Hall Of Fame
By Megan Pustetto For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 19:17 +11:00, 6 November 2015 | Updated: 21:30 +11:00, 6 November 2015
By Megan Pustetto For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 19:17 +11:00, 6 November 2015 | Updated: 21:30 +11:00, 6 November 2015
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Tina Arena is the latest inductee into the ARIA Hall Of Fame.
And to top the huge milestone off, the Australia singer is also on the verge of scoring her first number one album debut in almost 20 years, after the release of her new record Eleven, last week.
The 48-year-old singer-songwriter was ecstatic to be listed amongst Australia's musical greats on Thursday, and took to social media to share her excitement with fans.
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Milestone: Tina Arena is the latest inductee into the ARIA Hall Of Fame
'ARIA Hall Of Fame Walk… what an honour and a blessing - I feel so lucky,' she wrote on Instagram.
'What an honour to be a part of the #aria hall of fame. I feel so happy,' she added via Twitter.
The veteran musician posed for photographs in front of a giant ARIA Award statue as she was awarded the prestigious title.
Wearing an unusual navy pinstripe dress jacket, the eye catching garment featured an intricate pattern on the front.
The brunette beauty paired the unique item with a pair of trousers and towering blue pointed heels.
Tina looked youthful, sporting a minimal makeup look as she wore her hair slicked back off her striking features.
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Natural beauty: Tina looked youthful, sporting a minimal makeup look as she wore her hair slicked back off her striking features
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Deserving: The veteran musician posed for photographs in front of a giant ARIA Award statue as she was awarded the prestigious titled
Tina appeared on TV show Young Talent Time in the 1970s and released her first album in 1977, In Deep, which went number one.
'For me, the story was something that was created from Australia, the success and the experience of my childhood and everything after that,' she said.
'I learnt my craft in this country so it makes total sense to be able to come back and to be recognised for it.'
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'I kind of feel it's the right time now': Tina recently revealed to AAP that she feels the achievement has come at the right time in her career
For close to 20 years, Arena has lived in Europe, mostly in Paris where she has been revered for her music and adopted into the culture. She was even officially awarded for her contribution to French culture in 2009 with a Knighthood of the Order of National Merit, presented by then French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
However, she relates her achievements back to her Aussie start.
'If it wasn't for Australia, I would never have been able to have been catapulted internationally and to have done the things that I've been able to do. It was because of Australia that I've done that,' she said.
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Proud moment: Tina's latest album release Eleven is on the verge of scoring the artist her first number one album debut in almost 20 years, capping off a huge year for the singer
Arena has chosen to make Australia her permanent base again and will relocate to Melbourne with her fiance Vincent Mancini and 10-year-old son Gabriel.
'Family is really the main reason (for the move). My parents are not getting any younger and it's also really important that my son understands where his mum comes from, and the kind of environment that she grew up in,' she said.
'There is a point, it may be a combination of different things, but you just wake up and go `OK, I think it's time to go'... you inherently know when it's time to go back and I knew now is the time,' she said.
Tina's latest album release Eleven, is on the verge of scoring the artist her first number one album debut in almost 20 years, capping off a huge year for the singer.
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That's quite a tulip pinstripe brunch coat she's wearing.
The outfit is a little sleep wear, a little formal wear, a little business wear and a little casual wear
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I like the Manolo blue. Just stunning. 
Tina Arena on the fight that never ends – for respect
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November 15, 2015 - 12:15AM
Bernard Zuel
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Tina Arena: "I think this country can be really hard on you, particularly hard on their own." Photo: Supplied
When Tina Arena is inducted into the Australian recording industry association's Hall of Fame at the ARIA Awards this month, it will seem like the inevitable outcome of a charmed life. It will feel like the culmination of a career begun 40 years ago when she was nine years old and singing You're the One That I Want (in lurid gold top and questionable appropriateness) on TV's Young Talent Time. It will seem almost easy, what with the seven ARIA awards, an "outstanding achievement" award from the organisation already, the French knighthood for her contribution to the arts and album sales of more than 10 million.
Put this to her on the night, though, and the Melbourne-raised, Paris-loving singer, whose earthy good humour and frankness sees fellow musicians and publicists affectionately refer to her as Tina "F---ing" Arena, will likely declare "bullshit" and pin you to the wall to explain just how stupid that is.
Tina Arena in full voice at the Civic Theatre in Newcastle last year. Photo: Simone De Peak
She might also point you to her newest album, Eleven, whose lyrics are filled with recurring images of struggle and recovery, a theme she comes back to in conversation as well.
"I think what I struggle with is a human being today is the smoke and mirrors that the media so conveniently portray. I don't like that. I don't like that whole sensibility of the gratuity of 'they're rich, they're famous, they have everything'," Arena says. "It's such bullshit. I really struggle with that."
Tina Arena says she has gone through bad experiences because of her "vulnerability that people prey on". Photo: Cybele Malinowski
Sure, the front of the building we're in today has a giant poster of her across its front, all but shouting out to William Street. And it's true Eleven debuted at No. 2 on the charts this week, beaten only by a semi-farcical album of Elvis Presley vocal tracks married to new orchestral arrangements. But easy? Shaddup.
"I've never cruised through life. I think that's a choice that I have made because I'm not really a cruiser," Arena says. "It's interesting when people feel that you have everything and your life is absolutely amazing; they don't understand what goes on behind. So yes, I do talk about that. I don't want people to be naive about it. Maybe that's incredibly idealistic of me, I can accept that, but the world that we live in today has become unbelievably complicated so when people try to say to you, 'Oh, it's easy', [I say] 'Get lost. Who are you trying to bullshit?'"
Looking back on her career, Arena describes her 20s and early 30s as a time when she "went into the woods" and experienced her darkest times, not knowing what she was doing as everything escalated around her. It's hardly an uncommon story in the music business "and it will continue to happen because of that vulnerability that people prey on", she argues.
"I'm still, at 48, battling because I refuse to [have] somebody in their 20s – who doesn't really understand what it's like to be 48 and what it's like to have gone through the journey that you've gone through – try and shut me up," she says. "Don't do that."
This may make Arena out to be some angry ant, up for a fight at any time, but the truth is there are equal or greater portions of serenity from someone who describes "an ability to zoom out" and examine herself objectively as critical. It's a worthy skill but one that took a while to learn, even for someone who was a national star before she had left primary school.
"I don't think I had developed it by the time I was 20," she says. "I think I was far too in pain at that age. The last 10 years I've had the capacity of knowing where my strengths and weaknesses are. And that that's OK, that imperfections are fine."
What she is still learning is "judging people's genuine intentions", though she thinks an industry built on those "smoke and mirrors" is no longer fooling her or many record buyers.
"I think this country can be really hard on you, particularly hard on their own. There is not always a great generosity of empathy," she says. "I think you can't continue to perform for as long as what I have without the empathy gene. I think it's impossible."
Maybe that's true, but if you're a different kind of performer, one whose career is built on charm and surface, you can do just fine without empathy for a good while. Look around, it's not like we are short of examples. But the trade-off is that if you trade on emotion but don't really have it or don't know how to convey it from depth, eventually you will be found out.
Arena would be too polite to use this example, but say you begin as an emotion-heavy teenager singing at your piano and your audience connects with you as one of their own. Then you shift constantly in a search to be "relevant" until eventually no one really knows who you are. The shallowness will be exposed by an audience that may not be able to say why they stopped listening but instinctively know they should.
"I've never been capable of faking it. I've got one of those faces where it's just completely readable," Arena says. "If I'm shitty, you can see I'm shitty; if I am unhappy, you can see I'm unhappy."
Date
November 15, 2015 - 12:15AM
Bernard Zuel
Senior music writer
Tina Arena: "I think this country can be really hard on you, particularly hard on their own." Photo: Supplied
When Tina Arena is inducted into the Australian recording industry association's Hall of Fame at the ARIA Awards this month, it will seem like the inevitable outcome of a charmed life. It will feel like the culmination of a career begun 40 years ago when she was nine years old and singing You're the One That I Want (in lurid gold top and questionable appropriateness) on TV's Young Talent Time. It will seem almost easy, what with the seven ARIA awards, an "outstanding achievement" award from the organisation already, the French knighthood for her contribution to the arts and album sales of more than 10 million.
Put this to her on the night, though, and the Melbourne-raised, Paris-loving singer, whose earthy good humour and frankness sees fellow musicians and publicists affectionately refer to her as Tina "F---ing" Arena, will likely declare "bullshit" and pin you to the wall to explain just how stupid that is.
Tina Arena in full voice at the Civic Theatre in Newcastle last year. Photo: Simone De Peak
She might also point you to her newest album, Eleven, whose lyrics are filled with recurring images of struggle and recovery, a theme she comes back to in conversation as well.
"I think what I struggle with is a human being today is the smoke and mirrors that the media so conveniently portray. I don't like that. I don't like that whole sensibility of the gratuity of 'they're rich, they're famous, they have everything'," Arena says. "It's such bullshit. I really struggle with that."
Tina Arena says she has gone through bad experiences because of her "vulnerability that people prey on". Photo: Cybele Malinowski
Sure, the front of the building we're in today has a giant poster of her across its front, all but shouting out to William Street. And it's true Eleven debuted at No. 2 on the charts this week, beaten only by a semi-farcical album of Elvis Presley vocal tracks married to new orchestral arrangements. But easy? Shaddup.
"I've never cruised through life. I think that's a choice that I have made because I'm not really a cruiser," Arena says. "It's interesting when people feel that you have everything and your life is absolutely amazing; they don't understand what goes on behind. So yes, I do talk about that. I don't want people to be naive about it. Maybe that's incredibly idealistic of me, I can accept that, but the world that we live in today has become unbelievably complicated so when people try to say to you, 'Oh, it's easy', [I say] 'Get lost. Who are you trying to bullshit?'"
Looking back on her career, Arena describes her 20s and early 30s as a time when she "went into the woods" and experienced her darkest times, not knowing what she was doing as everything escalated around her. It's hardly an uncommon story in the music business "and it will continue to happen because of that vulnerability that people prey on", she argues.
"I'm still, at 48, battling because I refuse to [have] somebody in their 20s – who doesn't really understand what it's like to be 48 and what it's like to have gone through the journey that you've gone through – try and shut me up," she says. "Don't do that."
This may make Arena out to be some angry ant, up for a fight at any time, but the truth is there are equal or greater portions of serenity from someone who describes "an ability to zoom out" and examine herself objectively as critical. It's a worthy skill but one that took a while to learn, even for someone who was a national star before she had left primary school.
"I don't think I had developed it by the time I was 20," she says. "I think I was far too in pain at that age. The last 10 years I've had the capacity of knowing where my strengths and weaknesses are. And that that's OK, that imperfections are fine."
What she is still learning is "judging people's genuine intentions", though she thinks an industry built on those "smoke and mirrors" is no longer fooling her or many record buyers.
"I think this country can be really hard on you, particularly hard on their own. There is not always a great generosity of empathy," she says. "I think you can't continue to perform for as long as what I have without the empathy gene. I think it's impossible."
Maybe that's true, but if you're a different kind of performer, one whose career is built on charm and surface, you can do just fine without empathy for a good while. Look around, it's not like we are short of examples. But the trade-off is that if you trade on emotion but don't really have it or don't know how to convey it from depth, eventually you will be found out.
Arena would be too polite to use this example, but say you begin as an emotion-heavy teenager singing at your piano and your audience connects with you as one of their own. Then you shift constantly in a search to be "relevant" until eventually no one really knows who you are. The shallowness will be exposed by an audience that may not be able to say why they stopped listening but instinctively know they should.
"I've never been capable of faking it. I've got one of those faces where it's just completely readable," Arena says. "If I'm shitty, you can see I'm shitty; if I am unhappy, you can see I'm unhappy."
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Maybe then it is not entirely fanciful of me to think of how that face looked when Arena returned to Australia at the turn of the century and was remodelled by her then management and label – presumably with her approval, if not wholehearted contribution – as a "sexy pop star", much as she'd been in her 1988 breakthrough.
Once again she was set up to compete with the teens flaunting raunch as a marketing tool, but she never looked convincing and she never looked like she believed it, either. A woman who – then in her early 30s – was earthily sensual and intensely emotional just didn't work as a tricked-up teen vamp.
"Absolutely," she says. "There was a lot of that. Fifteen years ago was really a metamorphosis in my career in France, where they did find me very attractive. You have to understand that the French didn't have the baggage, that history of Tiny Tina. So they met a woman who they found fun and warm and engaging."
Now, she says, in Australia she "struggled with my sexuality and my femininity for a long time" – something she puts down to a relationship with sexuality in this country quite different to that of Europeans.
"Here it is very Americanised; for me it's not my definition of beauty," she says. "I'm principally a Mediterranean girl, a Sicilian, I grew up in a very Italian household. My idols as a little girl were Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Claudia Cardinale and, growing up, Monica Bellucci, Catherine Deneuve. I grew up loving beautiful women who were really comfortable ageing and it was totally socially acceptable.
"We don't have the same relationship here because it is not Europe that is revered as an aesthetic, it is America, and I do not have a relationship with America, even though I lived there for 10 years, on and off."
Thinking back to her mixed relationship with America, and for that matter Australia, fame and fakery, Arena recalls an incident from her first trip to the US.
"The first thing they was said to me when I arrived in Los Angeles in 1990, walking down Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, some guy, some gay boy came up to me and said, 'Oh, my god, who did your boobs and who did your lips?'," Arena says. "I'd literally just got off the plane, I had never been to America, I was with my manager at the time, who was gay, and he was gobsmacked for me.
"I laughed, belly-laughed, and that kind of summed it up for me. It was my mouth, they were my breasts."
Tina Arena's Eleven is out now. The ARIA Awards will be held on November 26 at The Star, Sydney.
Arena will perform on March 4, 2016, at the State Theatre (tickets on sale November 16); and on February 20 at the Bimbadgen Estate winery, Hunter Valley (on sale now).
From Tiny Tina to the Hall of Fame
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Maybe then it is not entirely fanciful of me to think of how that face looked when Arena returned to Australia at the turn of the century and was remodelled by her then management and label – presumably with her approval, if not wholehearted contribution – as a "sexy pop star", much as she'd been in her 1988 breakthrough.
Once again she was set up to compete with the teens flaunting raunch as a marketing tool, but she never looked convincing and she never looked like she believed it, either. A woman who – then in her early 30s – was earthily sensual and intensely emotional just didn't work as a tricked-up teen vamp.
"Absolutely," she says. "There was a lot of that. Fifteen years ago was really a metamorphosis in my career in France, where they did find me very attractive. You have to understand that the French didn't have the baggage, that history of Tiny Tina. So they met a woman who they found fun and warm and engaging."
Now, she says, in Australia she "struggled with my sexuality and my femininity for a long time" – something she puts down to a relationship with sexuality in this country quite different to that of Europeans.
"Here it is very Americanised; for me it's not my definition of beauty," she says. "I'm principally a Mediterranean girl, a Sicilian, I grew up in a very Italian household. My idols as a little girl were Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Claudia Cardinale and, growing up, Monica Bellucci, Catherine Deneuve. I grew up loving beautiful women who were really comfortable ageing and it was totally socially acceptable.
"We don't have the same relationship here because it is not Europe that is revered as an aesthetic, it is America, and I do not have a relationship with America, even though I lived there for 10 years, on and off."
Thinking back to her mixed relationship with America, and for that matter Australia, fame and fakery, Arena recalls an incident from her first trip to the US.
"The first thing they was said to me when I arrived in Los Angeles in 1990, walking down Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, some guy, some gay boy came up to me and said, 'Oh, my god, who did your boobs and who did your lips?'," Arena says. "I'd literally just got off the plane, I had never been to America, I was with my manager at the time, who was gay, and he was gobsmacked for me.
"I laughed, belly-laughed, and that kind of summed it up for me. It was my mouth, they were my breasts."
Tina Arena's Eleven is out now. The ARIA Awards will be held on November 26 at The Star, Sydney.
Arena will perform on March 4, 2016, at the State Theatre (tickets on sale November 16); and on February 20 at the Bimbadgen Estate winery, Hunter Valley (on sale now).
From Tiny Tina to the Hall of Fame
- Born Filippina Arena on November 1, 1967.
- Became a member of Young Talent Time in 1976.
- First album, as Tiny Tina, alongside YTT cast member Little John (Bowles) released in 1977.
- Left YTT in 1983 due to the show's compulsory retirement age of 16.
- First solo album, Strong as Steel, released in 1988.
- Second album, Don't Ask, reaches No. 1 in Australia – 11 in Britain and 12 in New Zealand – in 1995 and becomes one of the highest-selling albums by Australian female singer, with sales beyond 2 million.
- Wins four ARIA awards, including best female artist and song of the year (for Chains) in 1995
- Third album, In Deep, recorded in Los Angeles in 1997. Some of its songs are her first tracks also recorded in French, Spanish and Italian, and it reached No. 3 in France.
- Sings The Flame at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, the same year she received an outstanding achievement award at the ARIAs.
- Her first entirely French-language album, Un autre univers, released in 2005, reaching the top 10.
- Her second role in a London musical – after Notre Dame de Paris in 2000 – came in Chicago in 2007, as Roxie Hart.
- Reset, her first album in English for 11 years, released in 2013.
- Eleven, her 11th album, released 2015.
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Tina has the most self conscious arm poses ever. She really needs to fix that. It's like she's permanently wondering what to do with them and hoping they'll be inconspicuous.
Columbo
Never again
I share her pain!
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I see brinkpeople.
She evokes the more annoying one from Lano and Woodley.
Columbo
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She evokes the memory of a thousand angels singing.
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