Sweet About Me
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Search complete. 82 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Sweet About Me".
Oct 19, 2026
Amanda KellerHOST
Amazing.
Brendan JonesHOST
Let's revisit Sweet About Me on Gold.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Dude, watching me, hanging by a string this time.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Don't easily, the climax of a perfect life.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tell you something that I found, that the world's a better place when it's upside down, boy.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If there's lessons to be learned, I'd rather get my jamming words in first.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When you're playing with desire, don't come running to my place when it burns like sweet about me.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nothing sweet about me.
Jase HawkinsHOST
Um, guys, coming up next-
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Sweet about me
Jase HawkinsHOST
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Jase HawkinsHOST
Lights On Live.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nothing's sweet about me
Jase HawkinsHOST
Good Melbourne girl, she's come home.
Jase HawkinsHOST
Gabriella Cilmi's got a brand-new album out, but it all started with this massive hit 20 years ago.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nothing's sweet about me
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
Well, we're going to hear you
Tim BlackwellHOST
live and in the moment right now, a song that everybody knows sweet about me.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
No, the song, yes.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
Sing along.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
Boy, if there's lessons to be learned.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
I'd rather get my jamming words in first.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
When you're playing with desire, don't come running to my place when it burns like sweet about me.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
Oh, nothing sweet about me.
Amanda KellerHOST
We all remember this.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[singing] Sweet about me.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nothing sweet about me.
Brendan JonesHOST
I remember where I was when I heard that.
Amanda KellerHOST
We all know the song Sweet About Me by Gabriella Cilmi.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[singing] Nothing sweet about me.
Amanda KellerHOST
Came out when she was just 16 years old, a huge hit right around the world, so much so that she cleaned up at the ARIA's in 2008, taking home six awards that night.
Brendan JonesHOST
Jeepers, that's a lot of pointy trophies.
Jase HawkinsHOST
I can't believe how long it's been since you dropped the absolute banger that we all know and well.
Jase HawkinsHOST
We all know and love Sweet About Me.
Jase HawkinsHOST
How many years has it been?
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
I don't know.
Lauren PhillipsHOST
Hundreds of millions of streams of this very song.
Lauren PhillipsHOST
Excuse my ignorance.
Lauren PhillipsHOST
What's it about? Sweet about me.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
Well, you know, it's really funny because like when we first started writing it, like the way that the song sounds and the chords kind of, you know, rock, it reminded me of being on a boat.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
Well, we're going to hear you
Tim BlackwellHOST
live and in the moment right now, a song that everybody knows sweet about me.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
No, the song, yes.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
Sing along.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'd rather get my jamming words in first.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When you're playing with desire.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Don't come running to my place when it burns like sweet about me.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nothing sweet about me.
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Gabriela Silmy was born in 1991.
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Australian singer-songwriter who had a big hit in 2008 called Sweet About Me.
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The legend Miss Tanya Tucker was born in 1958.
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Country music icon who had a huge hit back in 1972.
Mark DoranHOST
Getting a little bit younger.
Mark DoranHOST
Sweet about me.
Mark DoranHOST
What a great song.
Mark DoranHOST
And what about Baker Boy? It's his birthday today, October 10.
2 HRS 18 MINS LATER
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Boy, if there's lessons to be learned, I'd rather give my general words in person.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When you're playing with desire, don't come running to my place when it burns like smoke.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Sweet about me.
Gabriella CilmiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nothing sweet.
Mark MillarHOST
She tells me how watching a video of herself singing at 10 helped her find her way back to music.
Mark MillarHOST
We also look back at being signed at just 13. and the huge success of Sweet About Me.
Mark MillarHOST
Gabriella talks about the pressure that followed and how she began to lose her sense of who she was.
Mark MillarHOST
This is a conversation about taking back control, trusting yourself and making music on your own terms.
6 MINS LATER
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
I did jam with some mates in a band after school and like, you know, we jam Led Zeppelin songs or Jet was really big at the time, Kings of Leon covers, stuff like that.
Gabriella CilmiGUEST
But, you know, I think having that time to really hone your skills, you know, that's definitely advice I'd give like younger people now, you know, if I was ever asked.
Mark MillarHOST
Sweet about me happens when you're 16.
Mark MillarHOST
Did everything change really quickly after this?