Samantha Jade enlists fellow "The X Factor Australia" winner Cyrus Villanueva for love duet.
Samantha Jade wanted to make an old-fashioned love duet and enlisted fellow "The X Factor Australia" winner Cyrus Villanueva to be her guy.
The power-lunged singer and actress said she was looking for a male artist who could share the song rather than be a “featuring” guest, which has become the dominant pop trend.
"Hurt Anymore" chronicles the end of a relationship and Jade said she wanted to represent both sides of the story:
“I think there’s this perception that women hurt more at the end of a relationship; we get together have a wine and a cry about it”, she said, “But men hurt too, just as much and i love how vulnerable Cyrus sounds on this.”
Jade and her good friend Guy Sebastian have rallied behind Villanueva as he works on his post-win record which will be released early next year.
The 20-year-old joked he was the perfect candidate for the heartbreak ballad because “I’m a sucker for crying on camera”:
“I definitely forgotten how many times i cried during the show and i’m not ashamed to be real about emotions”, he said, laughing, "This song is such a great way to be reintroduced to people before i come out with my own music next year.”
Jade agrees the power ballad is back since The Veronicas hit the top of the charts with their comeback single "You Ruin Me".
Sebastian is racing up the charts with "Set In Stone", a love song for his wife Jules:
“I’ve got up tempo songs i love, but i haven’t put out a big moment song in a really long time, not since "Soldier" a few years ago”, she said.
The two "The X Factor Australia" winners will launch the single on the show on monday night and embark on the kind of old school acoustic tour favoured by singer songwriters.
With just piano and their voices, they will perform "Hurt Anymore" and some secret covers at afternoon gigs at unexpected venues such as Sydney’s "Opera" bar in the next week:
“We thought it would be cool to do something different. For me there is nothing i love more than singing along as someone is playing the guitar or piano and that’s the bread and butter of what we do as singers”, Jade said.
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