Yeah I agree Don't call me baby should be a proper single with a video, promoted really tongue in cheek with the nod to Baby Spice, perhaps like a jokey paparazzi video with her pretending to be a big obnoxious star etc.

 

She really should have pushed Baby please don't stop properly with a big promo circuit, visiting radio stations etc like Melanie C did for Anymore to really push it coupled in with daytime shows such as This Morning, Loose Woman, Lorraine, The One Show (Graham Norton / Jonathan Ross performance would be amazing but unlikely)

 

YAINTGB could be the gratuity promo track with daytime TV show appearances with Jade, both discussing how long they've been together, the secrets to a happy relationship, why they've never got married (or even better they are getting married lol). Loose Woman and This Morning would lap that up.

 

Don't call me baby the second single with a proper video something in the vein as above with TV circuit talking about being Baby Spice and the tongue in cheek recording of the song etc.

 

Too many teardrops as third and final single again with a proper video and another big promo circuit of radio stations to push the original song again.

 

Some appearances with Robbie / Will performing the duet and having a laugh etc.

^ Would love all of the above to happen :wub:

 

I hope some promotion is occurring in the album's release week, but that's when tour rehearsals begin... not very good planning. :unsure:

 

 

 

Another new clip!

 

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This sounds more pleasant to me than the Will Young duet! :cool:

 

So now the only song we haven't heard from the album either in full, as a clip or as a live performance is Emotion!

Don't call me baby sounds so good, it has a chilled Ibiza feel to it. It and Baby please don't stop are the best by some distance so far.

 

I hate they have filmed a video for You are all I need to get by when don't call me baby is sitting there.

Don't call me baby sounds so good, it has a chilled Ibiza feel to it. It and Baby please don't stop are the best by some distance so far.

 

I hate they have filmed a video for You are all I need to get by when don't call me baby is sitting there.

 

Maybe You're All I Need To Get By could be an interim single when she's rehearsing for the tour and they could send Don't Call Me Baby (with G-A-Y-trashastic remixes) in mid-June when they're done with the UK dates? It's a song for the summer - old enough (20 years!) for people to have forgotten about it plus no one remembers Madison Avenue either way.

A few people on Popjustice are cancelling their preorders after hearing the preview clips, that’s a bit disheartening. :(

 

Even though Emma clearly played it safe with the majority of her cover version choices, primarily I still love her vocals and I feel I’ll get enjoyment out of this album. It’s been over 12 years since her last album and I’d certainly rather have this new release than nothing at all. I’m happy to support her and I hope if My Happy Place is a decent success, let’s say Top 5 (which would be a great result for what is a relatively low effort covers project). Hopefully a result like that would encourage BMG/Emma to go with an original material album next time.

 

One Popjustice member commented that he doesn’t want to support the album because he thinks a high peak will indicate to Emma that she could get away with more covers next time, and that he’d want a lower position to show her it’s not what people want. I think that would have the opposite effect, i.e. if My Happy Place falls below expectations then she’d feel discouraged and not bother again.

 

I hope the majority of people who’ve preordered will keep them... we’re only 5 days from release! :cry:

 

Obviously I would agree that the quality of Baby Please Don’t Stop & Too Many Teardrops fully demonstrates that Emma “still has it” as an original artist, and hopefully she’s seen a lot of great feedback for these songs. Of course as a fan it’s a bit disappointing that she didn’t just go for it and give us 10 originals. However from a business perspective, I do understand the label being cautious. I feel like for Emma herself, after so long away from the music industry, she may have felt that dipping her toe back into the music industry was the best approach, that covering some of her favourite songs was more in her comfort zone? Maybe it was still on her mind that Life in Mono, which was mainly new material, got to #65.

She's obviously not the type to strike out and release material on her own label, so more than likely My Happy Place was a compromise between her and BMG, who wanted something out in time for the reunion. If this flops then BMG won't release any new material from her, period. I don't see Emma going indie or any other label picking her up to release original material. At best we'll get another cheap low-level effort ten years down the line from her if this bombs.

 

With that said, they're being drama queens as usual.

Well those 'fans' cancelling orders to 'prove a point' are just ridiculous.

 

I am also of the opinion that some of the clips have not been amazing - that take on 2 Become 1 and You're All I Need sound CHEAP - and I do hope that the overall album sounds better. A shame that she did some many f***ing covers when she was clearly on a good stride with the Baby Please Don't Stop and Too Many Teardrops. Imagine TMT with a video and performances - would have been heaven.

Honestly, there's just no label that would release an album full of Emma originals - if anything, this album needs to do somewhat well so that she has more room to push her own material. I'd get "protesting" if Emma had been releasing material for the past decade and this was an ill-advised detour from that, or if this does do well and they push out another covers album.

 

I mean, I get not buying something because it sounds poor (I'm not going to get this album until I have enough I want to order from Amazon anyway), but to do it to send her a "message" that they want a full album of original material, especially when Baby Please Don't Stop has done nothing on the charts, is a bit dumb.

Edited April 7, 20196 yr by tommie

I can understand tbh I’m not enthused at all for the album after hearing the previews, however I love the two new original tracks and don’t call me baby sounds interesting so I’ll gove it a go. Worse case scenario I listen to it once or twice and it goes in the cupboard, only spent a tenner no harm done (like Cher’s dancing queen...)

Emotion snippet:

 

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I can understand tbh I’m not enthused at all for the album after hearing the previews, however I love the two new original tracks and don’t call me baby sounds interesting so I’ll gove it a go. Worse case scenario I listen to it once or twice and it goes in the cupboard, only spent a tenner no harm done (like Cher’s dancing queen...)

 

OMG Cher's Dancing Queen was so bad. The quality was piss poor, probably even worse than Emma's new take on 2 Become 1 :blink:

 

I agree with you. As a long time fan, this album seems a bit bittersweet because it doesnt sound like something of high quality like Free Me or Life in Mono (both gorgeously produced). But I will give it a chance of course.

 

It might be another A Girl Like Me tbh - some great tracks, but overall a bit forgetfull. It will sit well in my collection though :cheer:

For me it is not that songs are covers it is just some are poor choices and lack quality in the final product. The 2 originals are great, don't call me baby sounds amazing to me, I could hear it on an Ibiza chill out album. I think emotions sounds nice too.

 

2 become 1 is awful, it doesn't fit sonically withthe rest and robbie sounds bored on it.

 

I have bo doubt this whole release is what the record label want and done cheaply and to take advantage of the tour hype. I think it will be successful though and the record label were probably right in their approach.

One Popjustice member commented that he doesn’t want to support the album because he thinks a high peak will indicate to Emma that she could get away with more covers next time, and that he’d want a lower position to show her it’s not what people want.

 

Oh hi that was me.

 

 

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Worse case scenario I listen to it once or twice and it goes in the cupboard, only spent a tenner no harm done (like Cher’s dancing queen...)

OMG Cher's Dancing Queen was so bad. The quality was piss poor, probably even worse than Emma's new take on 2 Become 1 :blink:

Interestingly Cher attained great critical reviews for Dancing Queen - accumulating in a score of 79/100 at Metacritic - that's no mean feat!

 

I have a feeling Emma is on course to receive some 2/5 score reviews (assuming her album is critically reviewed).

OMG Cher's Dancing Queen was so bad. The quality was piss poor, probably even worse than Emma's new take on 2 Become 1 :blink:

No, it wasn't. It got GREAT reviews & sold fantastically well. :cheer:

Edited April 7, 20196 yr by Voodoo

I really really want the full length Don't call me baby, I've played the clip to death. Tbh with that, Baby please don't stop, teardrops and Emotions I have 4 songs I'm happy to take from this project. There are a lot of albums I'd not even take 4 songs from (some solo spice releases included) so I think I will be ultimately happy.

Edited April 7, 20196 yr by sammy01

I'm interested to hear the full length 'I Wish I Could Have Loved You More' because I don't know the original!

"I Wish I Could Have Love You More" is definitively one of the more "inspired" covers and they could easily market that as an "original" or at least make it somewhat a part of her solo repertoire since the original is pretty much unknown by most. I guess it makes sense that they put it between Baby Please Don't Stop and Too Many Teardrops.

 

 

Sure there are some un-produced sounding vocals (2B1, HCTS) but happy to take them for what they are. If those tracks were on a live album, they'd be great.

 

It's a hastily put together project, but I always suspected that.

 

I'm still blown away by the quality of BPDS and TMT. And very excited for 'I Wish I Could Have Loved You More', 'Don't Call Me Baby' and 'Emotion'.

Edited April 8, 20196 yr by Michael Andrew

the duet with Will has been premiered:

 

Listen from 40mins in

 

LISTEN HERE

Edited April 8, 20196 yr by Mr.X