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"True To Yourself"
Single by Vanessa Amorosi
from the album Change
Released	24 February 2003 (2003-02-24)
Recorded	2002
Genre	Pop, downtempo
Length	3:41
Label	Universal Music
Songwriter(s)	Gary Barlow, Andy Murray, Sylvia Bennett Smith, Jane Vaughan
Producer(s)	Andy Murray/Christian Ballard
Vanessa Amorosi singles chronology
"Spin (Everybody's Doin' It)" (2002) "True To Yourself" (2003) "Kiss Your Mama!" (2007)

"True To Yourself" is a German only release taken from Australian recording artist Vanessa Amorosi's second studio album Change. The single was released on 24 February 2003 as the album's final single and peaked at No.99.

It was included on the "Top Of The Pops 2003" compilation album.

In 2002, Amorosi re-recorded the song as a duet with Olivia Newton-John and it was to be included on Newton-John's album 2 (as track two). However, the track was dropped at the last minute due to contractual disagreements between Amorosi's Transistor Music and Newton-John's Universal Music labels. Both declared to feel very sad about this situation and have been quick to say that there is no problem between them, but that it is simply a contractual matter. In March 2023, Vanessa and Olivia's duet version of the song turned the light,as the song was finally released on Olivia's posthumous duets album Just the Two of Us: The Duets Collection (Vol. 1).

Lyrics

Lyrically, the song is about self-empowerment. The chorus includes the lyrics; "Sometimes you gotta look a little harder, Sometimes you gotta be, be smarter, Hold on just a little bit longer, Just be true to yourself"

Promotion

Amorosi performed "True to Yourself" on Top of the Pops and the hugely successful long-running show Wetten, dass..? which screens throughout Europe.

Track listing

CD Maxi

Charts

Release history

References

1. "Various Artists / Top of the Pops 2003 [Universal]". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
2. "Olivia Newton John Duet - Album Pre-Order". www.darrenhayescentral.com. 26 September 2002. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
3. "El affaire Olivia Newton-John-Vanessa Amorosi". Zona Musical. 8 November 2002. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
4. True To Yourself by Olivia Newton-John & Vanessa Amorosi, retrieved 2023-03-24
5. "Vanessa Amorosi Appears on the Thomas Gottschalk Show". Getty Images. 22 February 2003. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
6. "Vanessa Amorosi – True to Yourself" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 8 November 2019.

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