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Emma Bunton - 'My Happy Place'

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She is promoting now on radio 2 with Zoe Ball.

 

For some reason she is singing WTYSL . She sounds great and this was number 1 18 years ago .

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She is promoting now on radio 2 with Zoe Ball.

 

For some reason she is singing WTYSL . She sounds great and this was number 1 18 years ago .

 

It's her most recognisable solo hit to be fair, so I don't think it's "for some reason". :P

It's her most recognisable solo hit to be fair, so I don't think it's "for some reason". :P

 

 

This! It's her biggest selling solo hit, her highest charting solo hit and I'd say it's more remembered by the general public than Maybe is.

Hmmm I'm not overtly impressed with Don't call me baby, she sounds flat and the song needs more oopmh it doesn't really go anywhere. I kept waiting for it to kick in but it kept plodding with the same beat...
Overall for a covers album it's not too bad. Can't stand the talking at the beginning of Here comes the sun it's a bit sickly (same with YAINTGB) but otherwise it's a pleasant listen. Could do with some more upbeat tracks but still pleasant. I think Don't call me baby was the most disappointing for me,but i think I expected too much from that one wheres I wasn't expecting much from any of the other covers and was pleasantly surprised
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Had this on a couple of times already this morning. Call me square but I don't get all the bashing this has had online from certain quarters who are acting all shook because this is 80% covers despite the fact this was made abundantly clear when the album was announced?

 

It's a really gorgeous record, the songs she's chosen really suit Emma's voice. I especially love the reworking of 'Don't Call Me Baby' almost sounds a bit Saint Etienne-esque!

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It's her most recognisable solo hit to be fair, so I don't think it's "for some reason". :P

 

Is it really her biggest hit ? 🙄

 

The point is to promote the new album not old material.

Loved it on first listen :wub: . the 2 originals and Don't Call Me Baby stand out for me. With a dance remix DCMB could be really a summer hit.

 

Is it really her biggest hit ? 🙄

 

The point is to promote the new album not old material.

 

Yes, it is. UK #1 plus the only one that still gets some airplay.

 

Acts are traditionally expected to sing one of their old hits on these shows, so barring picking a Spice Girl one WTYSL? is the obvious pick here.

I only want to be with you - 130 on iTunes

2 become 1 - 170

BPDS - 185

 

IOWTBWY - 115

2B1 - 157

BPDS - 169

I really like "I Only Want to Be With You".

"Too Many Teardrops" is a grower.

 

Overall, I think it's an OK album, and thank God it's just a 30-minute long record.

Anything longer than that would have made a terrible release.

Listened to this in my car twice while driving about today and I do like it find it grows more each listen. I think my favourite of the covers is 'I wish I could have loved you more' absolutely love that one :wub: The first 3 tracks are all 10/10 for me. Ironically 2 become 1 is the worse one (but only because it sounds karaoke compared to the original).

The album is only 33mins long !! I don’t know if I own a shorter album in length.

 

Here comes the sun may also have to be deleted.

 

Not understand the hate for 2b1 tho .

The only advantage of a shorter album is hopefully it will get some streams :D

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METRO UK (distributed freely on the underground, over 1million people read it)

 

2 Stars

 

Emma Bunton, the sweetest member of Britain's most beloved girl group, chose the title of her new LP because 'My happy place is with my family, my friends, listening to music and being in the studio'. Being unkind feels like punching kittens in a basket. It's Baby Spice. In her happy place. How can you?

 

Alas, there is no choice. The first three tracks give every sign this collection of 1960's style pop might be a winner. Baby Please Don't Stop is catchy and discreetly lascivious, and Too Many Teardrops sultry and dramatic. The third, a cover of Candie Payne's I Wish I Could Have Loved You More lacks the sting of the original but has the virtue of taking an obscure song to a wider audience.

 

What follows, though, is a series of covers that seem to exist for no benefit other than Bunton's. Give how well it started and how swfitly it palls thereafter, you'll just wish you could love Bunton's Happy Place more.

 

More reviews:

 

THE GUARDIAN:

 

Emma Bunton: My Happy Place review – smily Spice sticks to the inoffensive

 

2 stars out of 5

 

In the early noughties, when each of the Spice Girls began releasing their respective solo projects, Emma Bunton was the surprise star. She released three solidly received albums, with a clutch of Top 20 singles. And she did it by serving up very few surprises: starting with her collaboration with production duo Tin Tin Out on What I Am in 1999, she largely stuck to adult contemporary, neo-soul ballads that your mum could get into, before moving into kitschy 1960s-style pop.

 

On My Happy Place, her first album in 13 years, Baby Spice sticks to her inoffensive formula. The album may as well be called My Comfort Zone. It’s eight covers of Bunton’s favourite songs, plus two originals that sound as if they could also be Motown-era covers. (Fans of her most bombastic single, 2003’s Maybe, might appreciate the sweet doo-wop style of Baby Please Don’t Stop and Too Many Teardrops.) The interpretations of songs from Norah Jones, the Beatles, and – yes – the Spice Girls are perfectly straight, apart from Bunton’s take on Madison Avenue’s Don’t Call Me Baby, which is stripped of its house beat. Will Young, Bunton’s partner Jade Jones, and Robbie Williams make nice enough cameos, but things take a turn for the saccharine with scripted skits featuring Bunton’s children.

 

It’s heartwarming to hear someone who has been through the mill of pop megastardom emerge so blatantly, straightforwardly happy. Unfortunately, with no drama or risks, it’s also incredibly dull.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/apr/...the-inoffensive

 

THE IRISH NEWS:

 

EMMA Bunton's first solo album in 12 years comes just before the Spice Girls embark on their reunion tour, and it couldn't be further from the pop-tastic tracks they'll be belting out this summer. Bunton softly croons her way through her favourite songs, such as I Only Want To Be With You and You're All I Need To Get By, a beautiful rendition with her fiance Jade Jones and the strongest offering here. Baby Please Don't Stop is a 60s-infused pop jam, and one of two original tracks on the record. Bunton also covers Spice Girls classic 2 Become 1 with Robbie Williams. It's an OK effort, but it doesn't set the world alight and is nowhere near as striking as the original. Bunton shines on Here Comes The Sun, the song that played as her eldest child was born, and she sings it with him in the intro. It's adorable. Some of her covers get lost in translation but mostly this is sweetly inoffensive.

 

6/10

 

https://www.irishnews.com/arts/2019/04/12/n...-drums-1594656/

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