Paulini's Flys In With Second Studio Album 'Superwoman'!

The follow-up to her 2004 #1 Platinum-selling debut 'One Determined Heart', Paulini's eagerly-awaited second studio album, 'Superwoman', will hit stores on August 5.

Featuring 'Rough Day', 'So Over You' and the forthcoming new single 'I Believe', these 12-tracks are drenched with soul and draped in multi-textured, honey-soaked tones as only Australia's own First Lady of Soul and R&B can.

They say singers are born, not made. And that's true... if you think singing is about hitting a note and staying in tune. But that's just the mechanics: great singing, soul singing, is about instinct, feel and emotional truths. Ultimately, though, it's about connections - between a voice, a song and a listener. And that's what makes 'Superwoman', Paulini's long awaited follow up to 2004's Platinum selling #1 album, 'One Determined Heart', so astonishing.

Paulini doesn't so much sing the album's 12 songs as connect with them completely, drenching them in soul and draping them in multi-textured, honey-soaked tones. For the listener it's an aural indulgence, a sensory head-trip that recalls the sweet release and cathartic joy of the legendary soul queens. Where 'One Determined Heart' was a collection of well chosen covers that paid homage to the artists who inspired her, 'Superwoman' is a collection of truly international, original, R&B, pop-soul songs indelibly stamped with the voice and presence of a singer poised to become Australia's own First Lady of Soul and R&B.

"I'm sure people thought that I could only sing safe kind of songs. But I wanted to make a record that showed different sides of me. A lot of people have this image of me as very... kind of simple, I guess... a girl next door. But this album is not about a girl. It's about (as the title track so perfectly demonstrates) a woman who's just trying to do the best she can," says Paulini.

'Superwoman' explores a world of relationships and everyday life experiences from the female perspective. And though its ultimately optimistic and resilient in tone, there's a melancholy that's pervasive: "Life's about the simple things" but 'the world ain't what it seems to be" ('I Believe'); 'I've had a real rough day/Wanna get away/Run a million miles/ From reality" ('Rough Day'); "I'm not your superwoman" ('Superwoman'); "Who will I run to/... Now you?re not here in my life" ('Who Will I Run To?'); "Just leave me alone" ('Married Man').

"The great thing about singing and music," says Paulini, "is that you express what you're feeling from inside and maybe that's why some of the songs or my vocals seem a bit dark."

Recorded in Los Angeles, Spain, London and Australia and featuring co-writes by Paulini herself, 'Superwoman' is an album with a truly international feel, due in large part to an incredible vocal performance that positions Paulini right alongside the artists she cites as her inspiration. Running the old skool/nu-skool R&B, pop-soul spectrum, with flashes of disco and a handful of soulful power ballads, 'Superwoman' is brimming with melodies and bursting with potential radio singles, like 'Rough Day', 'Married Man', 'I Believe', 'The Poet', 'So Over You', 'Superwoman' and 'Call Me'.

For Paulini, 'Superwoman' is an album which has seen her rise and meet her expectations.

"I absolutely treasure this album," she says. "I've had more control, some of my own songs are on it, and I've sung it exactly the way I wanted to sing it. I hope that people will be happy with it. I've tried my best. But for me, the most important thing is that people know that I can sing and I'm not faking everything. It's real and it's genuine."

Its out today, i better get to bed so i can go grab a copy! So excited :o

Oh its today OK must get one this morning... :)

I hope it does well for her, I love her voice.

Oh my god!!! This album is amazing :o

She is without a doubt an amazing vocalist!!

Go Paulini :wub:

Its great isnt it. I was able to convince them to put it on at Kmart yesterday for a while... Vvvvvvvvvery nice

Yeah, its top class!

I love 'Superwoman', its an amzing title track :wub:

All the songs are great, god i hope this doesn't flop for her :(

I love the album.
have been listening to it quite often this week...
i love 'superwoman' and 'the poet'..
the whole album really is something so PAULINI! she has put so muhc into it. her creaticity, voals....beautiful
i hope it does as well as it deserves..
good luck P!

Superwoman hasn't made the Top 50 :( :(