Karaoke Tempts Easy Pray
Newcastle Herald
Tuesday July 26, 2005
PICTURE this. You're having a night out with your best buds and you've finally worked up the courage to have a crack at karaoke.
Then just as you're about to belt out Working Class Man, Anthony Callea and Tina Cousins head towards the stage and get in line behind you.This is exactly what happened to a group of patrons at a hotel in Brisbane recently when Callea and Cousins couldn't resist the temptation to sing a bit of karaoke."We are the terrible two," said Cousins, who is currently touring with Callea.They sang the song Endless Love. Cousins was also excited to see her own song Pray on the song list so she sang that too because "it would be rude not to"."You know you've made it when you have a song on the karaoke list," Cousins told The Word. The songstress is supporting Callea at Panthers Newcastle on Friday.A UK artist, Cousins has been dominating Australian radio lately with her song Wonderful Life and will release her new album Mastermind on August 7.Cousins said she still sings along to Wonderful Life every time she hears it on the radio."You feel really chuffed, it's a nice feeling," she said.While Cousins is famous for her dance records, emerging in the late 1990s with a string of dance hits, her new album is not so pop-oriented."This is a bit more ballsy. I'm a woman now. I was a girl when I started," she said.Her title track Mastermind is about taking your life into your own hands and making your own decisions. And this is exactly what Cousins did after "being stuck in a revolting record deal for two-and-a-half years"."I own everything now, it goes through my copyright," she said.
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