Nicola Roberts hopes to give inspiration
By Liz Lockhart
‘I didn’t write this to be self indulgent – I wrote it to be inspirational’ said the Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts as she sat on the sofa of BBC Breakfast news programme. Nicola was referring to a track from her debut solo album ‘Cinderella’s eyes’ released on 24th of September. The track is called ‘Sticks and Stones’ and the lyrics say it all!
The lyrics speak of the stars own battles and are poignant and inspiring for many who feel the same:
Too young to buy my own bottle of vodka
So I’d beg the driver please I need another
How funny that I was too young for so many things
Yet you thought I’d cope with being told I’m ugly
Over and over I’d read it believe it
Said no to the shrink I can fix me I think
I’ve got friends in my head they’ve got me on the mend
I am pretty in my mirror, easy to pretend
17 and thought that I’d won the jackpot
Seems I didn’t read between the lines of this one
I can’t think why I could have made you so, so angry
Your bullets I don’t feel them come and fire at me
But that you think that you’re on your own
And you've no one's hand to hold
Sicks and stones
Hurt just a little
Nicola was only 16-years old when she won a place in Girls Aloud after appearing on ‘Popstars: The Rivals’. She thought she had ‘won the jackpot’ she said in her recent interview on Breakfast News.
Nicola was open and honest and yet managed to avoid mentioning any specific details of the troubled times that she must have had which brought her to write the lyrics to this song on the album ‘Cinderella’s Eyes’.
Nicola talked at length of the feelings of isolation but stressed that you are not alone, there are people all over the world going through the same thing. She said that she wants people to know that they are not alone in the situation.
‘I think that when you revisit feelings and they are quite personal inevitably you feel like that. It is a serious subject and I didn’t want it to be generic. I wanted a record that said something and I had to deliver it like that so that the knife could cut a little bit,’ Nicola said.
I wish she had been more specific. She left us wondering exactly what it was that had caused her to write such descriptive lyrics. Obviously it can be presumed that Nicola had body image issues.
In March of this year the Daily Mail reported:
She once confessed to feeling like the 'ugly one' out of Girls Aloud - and it appears that her lack of confidence may have spurred Nicola Roberts to take action. The 25-year-old red-headed beauty has splashed out on an image revamp. But it's her toothy grin which has undergone the most dramatic change. Nicola was seen at an event recently smiling broadly, revealing a revamped set of pearly white veneers, taking her previous toothy grin to a brilliant Hollywood smile.
Nicola has always been a perfectly beautiful young woman – the only thing that Nicola Roberts needed to shine as brightly as the other band members was ‘confidence’. It is sad to see that she has obviously suffered for whatever reason. Unfortunately Nicola still appears to be a very fragile flower. Hopefully with the start of a solo career at her feet she will find her individuality and her confidence can really start to grow.
