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 Melanie C - 'Melanie C', 2020 • 8th Album / 3rd Anniversary |
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 24th March 2020, 03:05 AM
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QUOTE(Blond 2.0 @ Mar 22 2020, 06:11 PM)  She said the album is full of dance tracks and also some ballads but I think it's going to be her most commercial dance album ever  I'd be more for the dance element. |
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24th March 2020, 09:57 AM
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QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ Mar 23 2020, 05:43 PM) May Your Heart is one of my favourite Melanie C ballads  QUOTE(Spiceboy @ Mar 23 2020, 11:37 PM) Oh I forgot that one I do like that too  I also adore What if I stay but I know it's quite a basic song  I just love the softness of it and her vocal is sublime 
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24th March 2020, 03:53 PM
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That song is meh. Angel On My Shoulder is a far way better song. Queen of b-sides.
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24th March 2020, 05:58 PM
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Any early predictions on where the album will chart, im hopeful for a Top 20 position and no lower.
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24th March 2020, 06:27 PM
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I think she will go top 10 for one week with multiple formats.
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25th March 2020, 01:37 PM
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Multiple formats and some promo could help her get that 3rd top 10 album. I think some signings would also really help her out when the time comes.
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26th March 2020, 12:03 PM
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QUOTE(Feel_The_Fever @ Mar 25 2020, 01:37 PM) Multiple formats and some promo could help her get that 3rd top 10 album. I think some signings would also really help her out when the time comes. It’s whether Red Girl has the resources and money to do that... |
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26th March 2020, 12:23 PM
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Hopefully they do.
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 24th April 2020, 08:10 PM
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Who I Am aside, the upcoming album will feature two additional collaborations with Biff!
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 19th June 2020, 09:34 AM
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Melanie is performing at Greenpeace's online Action All Areas festival this weekend on Saturday evening!
There's an interesting article posted on their website with details from the upcoming album, mentioning a few new tracks : Overload / Escape / Self Love / Nowhere To Run: QUOTE Ask Melanie C for her highlights of 2019 and you may need to pull up a seat. There was the Spice Girls’ blockbuster reunion tour of course, a stadium sell-out in early summer that saw city centres crammed with fans in fancy dress and served as a joyous reminder of the spell that ‘90s girl power still casts on pop. Within days of waving goodbye with three nights at Wembley, Melanie was continent-hopping on a very different, if no less glamorous tour, performing at Pride parades with her new besties, the LGBTQ+ club collective Sink The Pink. From hosting a float in Sao Paulo – the first international artist ever invited to do so – and performing in New York’s Times Square for World Pride’s closing party to storming everywhere from Stockholm, Santiago, Amsterdam, London, Cologne, Berlin, Brighton, Belfast and Dublin, the tour proved pivotal to Melanie’s future plans. “Being a Spice Girl again was like a fairytale and I loved every moment,” says Melanie, “but being on that float in Sao Paolo, with three million people out in the streets, was like nothing I’d ever experienced before. It was one of those highs you hope never to come down from.” In her 22 years as a solo artist, change has been Melanie’s mantra. Over seven albums, she has genre hopped with both abandon - rock, pop, dance, electronica, musical theatre and unusual collaborations included – and intent. “I’m not someone who could keep churning out the same sort of songs,” she says. “I need new challenges to keep myself motivated. My priority has always been performing live and if I’m not excited when I’m on stage, what’s the point?” The seeds for the Pride tour were sown last year when Melanie fell in love with Sink The Pink at first sight. Invited to play a club night in east London, she was blown away by the crowd’s creativity, inclusivity and old-fashioned sense of fun. “I remember being so nervous leading up to the performance,” she recalls. “I’d been following the club on Instagram, seen how dressed up everyone got and worried that I wouldn’t fit in. How wrong I was. From the second I walked in to the Troxy I felt this buzz and so much love.” Immediately she signed up for the club’s summer festival, The Mighty Hoopla, where she stole the show performing with a troupe of drag queens dressed as Spice Girls. “That was another of those moments when your life suddenly shifts,” says Melanie. “I’ve been on stage for most of my life and I’ve never had a reaction quite like that or felt so connected to a crowd. When it came to making new music that was the feeling I wanted to capture.” As plans for both the Spice Girls reunion and the Pride tour were underway, Melanie spent the early months of 2019 before rehearsals for the former began in search of a fresh, Sink The Pink-inspired sound. Keen to work with young co-writers she put feelers out and struck gold straight away. From a first session with Rae Morris and Fryars came High Heels, her glorious, Hi-NRG indebted single, released in November, with a fabulous, fantasy video featuring Melanie as a hairdresser partying with her drag posse. High Heels was met by widespread acclaim and culminated with a triumphant, quietly subversive performance on The Graham Norton Show by Melanie and her amazing queens. “High Heels was written specifically to perform at the Pride shows,” says Melanie. “I wanted something new to do that would suit the set and also pay tribute to the warmth I felt at my Sink The Pink gigs. The song is about the high, natural or not, that you get on an epic night out with your mates. You’re dancing home, heels in hand because your feet hurt so much, and dancing in to work or wherever the next day because you’ve yet to come down.” Melanie’s as-yet-untitled, eighth solo album, the follow-up to 2016’s widely-acclaimed Version Of Me, a Top 20 hit here and a No.1 in Brazil, is now well underway. Alongside Rae Morris and Fryars, co-writers include Jonny Lattimer (Ellie Goulding, James Bay, Rag’n’Bone Man), Future Cut (Little Mix, Shakira, Lily Allen), Tom Neville (Dua Lipa, Kesha, Calvin Harris) and Shura. “I love writing with young female artists,” says Melanie. “They’ve taught me to hear sounds differently and be more conversational with my writing.” Among the tracks completed so far are the slinky, tropical-tinged Overload, a warning to a people getting on your nerves, and Escape, a broken beats-driven track about escaping the treadmill of everyday life. The summery Self Love owes a debt to Donna Summer, while Melanie’s love of Billie Eilish influenced the moody, intimate Nowhere To Run. Melanie and Billie’s admiration for one another was plain to see at this year’s BRIT Awards, where Melanie presented Billie with the Best International Female Solo Artist award after a long embrace. Melanie launched the album in early 2020, with its defiant first single Who I Am – taking her love of euphoric electronic-pop and confessional lyricism into markedly personal waters. It’s a glittery disco stomper and a mission statement from Melanie C all at once. The loud and proud track was co-written with old ally Biff Stannard (the Spice Girls, Kylie, Little Mix). “It was brilliant being back with Biff,” says Melanie, who last worked with the pop maestro on her 2011 album The Sea. “Not least because he has a beautiful studio in Brighton, right on the sea front. He’s like family and the two of together always get up to mischief.” Who I Am subsequently went top 10 on iTunes across Europe, South America and the UK, was playlisted at Radio 2, and saw Melanie perform sets from her home studio ranging from The Late Late Show with James Corden and BBC 1’s The One Show to a specialist mix for i-D Magazine. It coincided, in part, with the world entering lockdown: Melanie sought and provided fans with welcome distraction in a series of quarantined live-streams, featuring Q&As on physical and mental wellbeing, the next generation of Girl Power (see a conversation with Rina Sawayama for Crack Magazine), plus some familiar faces (Glynn, Biff, her brother). The album’s second single, Blame It On Me, followed this May: another blast of unapologetic modern pop from Melanie C, calling out toxicity in a relationship over a life-long love of disco, electronic music, and the sometimes-life-long journey it takes to stand up for yourself. “One of great things about getting older is you have the courage to care less. In the past perhaps I haven’t wanted to upset apple cart. The song is about certain people who are happy for me to be… how shall I put this?... in my place. “I’m at a stage in life where I refuse to be in any environment in which I’m expected to be ‘in my place’. I’m not going to change who I am to make other people feel better. Who am I am referring to exactly? I don’t think I should say. It’ll get me in to trouble.” Last year, Meanie added a new string to her bow when she began DJ’ing. “I’d always fancied giving it a go, but thought maybe I’m too old to learn a new skill,” she says. “But having worked with lots of electronic producers on Version of Me, I decided to go for it and, oh my God, what a revelation. From the first lesson I took I absolutely loved it. I used to go clubbing a lot in my late teens and twenties but not so much now. DJing allows me to play the tunes I love, have a dance and I don’t tend up with a hangover! “I’ve been on stage in so many guises - as a Spice Girl, in musical theatre, as a solo artist. Being on stage as a DJ is such a different experience - the control you have over a room is intoxicating. I’ve learnt so much about how music affects people. I even listen to music differently. “DJ’ing rekindled my love of dance music and, in retrospect, probably led me to Sink The Pink. I want to slip my new songs in to my DJ sets. And you know what, I better bloody see the floor bouncing!” 
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19th June 2020, 01:04 PM
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Thanks for posting! I'm really excited for it
Those tracks sound really interesting!
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19th June 2020, 01:34 PM
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It sounds so promising
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19th June 2020, 01:36 PM
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 It actually does sound promising though, the descriptions have me super excited!! |
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19th June 2020, 01:44 PM
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Vibe, do you think the album sounds promising?
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19th June 2020, 01:59 PM
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Lmao sorry that happened .
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19th June 2020, 02:24 PM
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The gossip on the grapevine is that this album is promising.
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19th June 2020, 02:25 PM
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It doesn't sound very promising does it Vibe? For those who haven't seen Vibe accidentally posted it 5 times EDIT: It was definitely more than 5 maybe 7 I lost count deleting them
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19th June 2020, 02:29 PM
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QUOTE(JosephStyles @ Jun 19 2020, 02:36 PM) It actually does sound promising though, the descriptions have me super excited!! QUOTE(Andrew. @ Jun 19 2020, 02:44 PM) Vibe, do you think the album sounds promising? QUOTE(tommie @ Jun 19 2020, 03:24 PM) The gossip on the grapevine is that this album is promising. I wish I'd left them all now, seeing these responses |
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19th June 2020, 04:45 PM
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I think I'd have preferred the title to be promised rather than promising.
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19th June 2020, 04:53 PM
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Lmao
So funny 🤣 But a good album title ! |
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