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STV NewsNatalie Imbruglia recalls Highland dancing at the age of three STV News<\/p>\nNatalie Imbruglia has proudly spoken of her Scottish roots and how she remembers Highland dancing at the tender age of three. <\/p>\n
The Australian pop star, who shot to fame in 1997 with hit single Torn, has released her seventh studio album Algorithm, inspired by nights of doomscrolling in bed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I wrote this album, it was a time in my life where I had hit perimenopause, and a lot of my mental health issues came up,\u201d Imbruglia told What\u2019s On Scotland\u2019s Emma Cameron.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was diagnosed with ADHD, and I was going through a really hard time mentally. Algorithm is actually about doomscrolling late at night on my phone. I just wanted to open the conversation about \u2018are you a victim of the algorithm or are you taking steps to affect the algorithm?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve tried to handle all the issues of mental health with a sense of humour in the songs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Imbruglia said she is looking forward to playing her new material to live audiences in Scotland, and said she feels a particular affinity with Scots.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always said this, there\u2019s something about Scottish people and Australians that are similar, which is odd because our weather is so completely different!<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also my ancestry, on my mum\u2019s side of the family, traces back to Anderson, so I\u2019m Scottish,\u201d she declared proudly.<\/p>\n
STV NewsNatalie Imbruglia recalls Highland dancing at the age of three STV News<\/p>\n
The 51-year-old said she can recall learning Highland dancing as a child, and she remembers learning the sword dance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember there were, is there something to do with swords on the floor? And I had my kilt. I was so little, I think I must have been three.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have really early memories of going and having these cute little shoes on and putting my arms (up) and dancing around swords.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe I\u2019ll pull that out at a live show in Scotland!\u201d<\/p>\n
Imbruglia\u2019s Scottish links go even further; she recalls being managed by Glaswegian Anne Barrett, who helped launch her music career in the UK.<\/p>\n
She has also collaborated with David Sneddon, the Scottish singer-songwriter who shot to fame after winning Fame Academy, and the pair worked together recently on Algorithim.<\/p>\n
\u201cI call David Sneddon my good luck charm, he had the most incredible, buoyant, sparkly energy, and he introduced me to a lot of my producer-writer collaborators, and I think I\u2019m going to have to make every album with him now! I just feel like every song we wrote together was fantastic.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a wonderful man and I encourage him to put his own music out, I think we all need to hear a Dave Sneddon record.\u201d<\/p>\n
Imbruglia also looked back fondly at her hit song Torn, which will mark its 30th anniversary next year, and says that while she could have been \u201cbitter and twisted\u201d about its popularity, she chose to embrace it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a little bit frightened about how big it got and having to live up to that success, which I think is natural,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember thinking, you\u2019re going to be singing this song forever, and you have a choice. This is a crossroads for you. Are you going to embrace this and make friends with this song, or are you going to be bitter and twisted about it?<\/p>\n
\u201cI decided to make friends with Torn and I\u2019ve managed to do that. When I sing it now, I\u2019m not thinking about what I was at 16, it\u2019s happy thoughts, it\u2019s like, wow, look at what this song did for me, what it did for my family. There\u2019s so much to be grateful for.\u201d<\/p>\n
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