Stephanie McIntosh Prepared For Backlash

Sky's No Limit
By Cameron Adams, Claire Sutherland & Neala Johnson

As revealed by the Herald Sun this week, McIntosh, 20, will launch her debut album, Tightrope, with an Ashlee Simpson-style reality-TV series.

McIntosh is acutely aware of the stigma associated with the well-worn path from Ramsay St to recording studio.

"I know everyone is going to think 'Here we go again ... ' And I agree," McIntosh says. "It is a cliche, but I'm ready to prove myself.

"I hope the documentary will show how passionate I am about music, and all the work that's gone into this record."

Discovered singing at her Year 11 play by manager Glenn Wheatley, McIntosh has had TV cameras filming her for a year while recording her album around the world.

"I don't want to be predictable, I want people to be surprised when they hear the album," McIntosh says of her "international-sounding" debut, out later this year.

"It has classic ballads and Green Day-style rock. It's a very guitar-based record. There's a mixture of Kelly Clarkson and Ashlee Simpson. Having an edge to this album was important because I want to detach myself from the (Neighbours) cliche and prove myself as a singer."

McIntosh has co-written only one track on the album, So Do I Say Sorry First? noting "this is my first album, so I thought I should leave it in professional hands".

Interestingly, McIntosh's album is planned to drop about the same time as the long-awaited debut from close friend Chloe Lattanzi.

"We've been in nappies together," McIntosh says of Lattanzi, daughter of Olivia Newton-John. "Olivia and my mum (Sue McIntosh) have been as close since I can remember. But our music couldn't be more different if we tried."

McIntosh's reality show, set to air on Channel 10, was devised by Wheatley as a way to distance the star from her role as Sky Mangel on Neighbours.

"Hopefully the cameras have captured the emotions," she says. "If I'm frustrated and can't hit a note, you'll see it.

"I'm apprehensive about the documentary being so raw, expressing so much about who I am and what I do and showing so much of my life, but that's the risk I have to take. It's something that has never been done in Australia before."

McIntosh says the cameras caught the fallout from her infamous Logies dress last year.

She made several worst-dressed lists with the red dress later spoofed on Kath & Kim.

"It was hilarious and ridiculous.

I could certainly laugh about it by the time it was on Kath & Kim, but initially it was pretty mean. I'd never read anything so rude in my life. But Glenn (Wheatley) said 'Steph, you'll cop a lot worse'. And he's right.

"It was a good lesson for me. It happened at a time when I was probably a little vulnerable and had to learn how it all works. You take the good with the bad, that's how this lifestyle works. I'm public property, I have to accept it."

Source: The Herald Sun
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