She fell in love with a starship trooper

Guess who's back? It's only little Gabriella "Sweet About Me" Cilmi! That's her on the right, trying to work out how to get out of a chair.

Her new single, Woman On A Mission, is (yawn) inspired by 80s synth pop. Listen closely and you'll hear the ghost of Van Halen's Jump and Olivia Newton John's Xanadu. But don't put your ears too close to the speaker, or you'll be knocked over by THE VOICE - a big-lunged, belt-em-out foghorn that puts Gabriella within arm's reach of Jocelyn Brown and Dina Carrol.

The video leaked a couple of days ago, forcing Island to bung it onto Youtube last night. It's pretty big-budget stuff, full of costume changes, CGI effects and - most importantly of all - a cleavage reveal on the line "I am a woman" (pervs note: it's at 0'47"). It also allows us to answer the time-honoured question: Who is hotter, cartoon Cilmi or real-life Cilmi?



Answers on a postcard, etc, etc...

Gabriella Cilmi - Woman On A Mission


The song is out in March, and we'd have given it a robust 7/10 if it weren't for the line "I never miss a trick, just like a magician".

Final score: 2/10

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Gabriella Cilmi live. In a lounge

Aussie teen star Gabriella Cilmi has been opening her pipes in Radio One's Live Lounge. She did her Anastacia-esque single Save The Lies (Good To Me) and a twinkly cover of Ne-Yo's Closer. All very nice if you like that sort of thing.

Here are some MP3s for evaluation purposes.
:: Save The Lies (Good To Me)
:: Closer

For those of you asking "Who the flip is Gabriella Cilmi", this is Gabriella Cilmi:

Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet About Me


This is surely the most perfunctory post on the blog ever.

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