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Fiona and Alanis notwithstanding, few women in music can claim as swift a rise to pop stardom as Natalie Imbruglia. Seemingly out of nowhere, she burst on the scene in the early weeks of 1998 with a smash hit single, an ubiquitous video, and a hotly anticipated appearance on Saturday Night Live — all without benefit of an album in record stores. To no one's surprise, when Imbruglia's full-length debut, Left of the Middle, was released later that spring, it charted instantly at Number 10. Suddenly the image of Imbruglia, who just months earlier had been on the verge of chucking her career in entertainment, was plastered on magazine covers across the land.
Indeed, the response to Left of the Middle, and specifically "Torn," was overwhelming, and 1998 saw her take home several statuettes for her efforts; the MTV Music Video Awards, the Australian Record Industry Awards, the MTV Europe Video Music Awards, and the Billboard Music Awards are all represented on her mantel. And 1999 is looking to be another award-winner for Imbruglia. In addition to garnering three 1999 Grammy nominations (Best New Artist, Best Pop Album, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance), she took away two Brit Awards at the Feb. 16 event: Best International Female and Best International Newcomer.
Predictably, in the two years since she burst onto the music scene, Imbruglia has occasionally been subjected to tabloid speculation about her personal life. Besides a much-publicized relationship with Friends' star David Schwimmer (which was noteworthy mainly for its brevity), she's also been romantically linked with singer Lenny Kravitz, although she insists the relationship is platonic. Moreover, in a true bit of weirdness, she was soundly castigated in the press for not having written "Torn," although she never claimed otherwise.
Chances are good, however, that such controversies are the last thing on Imbruglia's mind these days. Instead she's keeping busy writing songs with ex-Eurythmic Dave Stewart for a new album scheduled for release later this year. And despite her meteoric rise to stardom, she remains philosophically grounded. "I think it's just [a matter of] trying to concentrate on your little goal in life," she recently told MTV, "and not focus on the big picture too much. That's what I try and do."
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Don't You Think?
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Intuition
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Left Of The Middle
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Torn
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Torn
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Sometimes
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Contradictions
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Diving In The Deep End
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