Release Date: Oct 2, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Dance-Pop, Contemporary Pop/Rock
Record label: Red Girl Media
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That's who I am I've always got time for Melanie C, after all, it doesn't take a detective to work out she was the most technically proficient member of Spice Girls. Her impressive and powerful vocal range almost certainly held up the band and separated itself from a group filled with, at best, average singers. More to the point, her solo works speak more about her talent than the words in this review could ever ascribe: the likes of Northern Star and The Sea display her acute awareness for great, flowing structures and sharp songwriting that's teeming with melodious vocal work.
Much like The Beatles, Spice Girls represent a singularity in popular culture. There was life before Spice Girls, and life after, and their impact on modern British popular culture can never be overstated. Those of us who were lucky enough to witness their meteoric rise and catastrophic fall will ….
P op stars love to say they're finally "the real me", although the declaration often straddles some pretty generic music. Melanie C's eighth album feels different: "I've got nothing left to hide," she sings on Who I Am, earning her self-affirmation by fulfilling the promise. The song evokes Bronski Beat and Stuart Price-era Pet Shop Boys, implicitly acknowledging her queer icon status; Blame It on Me's deep house throb harks back to her teenage rave years, and she keeps pace with Dua Lipa - as a neo-disco revivalist and vocal beast - on the commandingly flirtatious In and Out of Love.
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