Last I heard BMG were happy to release another album but she would need to bring them it. I'm not sure I see Emma booking her own studio time and sorting an album herself though sigh.

 

I think the best anyone can hope she is she books a recording studio for 2 weeks and we get an xmas covers album that BMG would be all over I'm sure.

Last I heard BMG were happy to release another album but she would need to bring them it. I'm not sure I see Emma booking her own studio time and sorting an album herself though sigh.

 

I think the best anyone can hope she is she books a recording studio for 2 weeks and we get an xmas covers album that BMG would be all over I'm sure.

 

Isn't that what happened this time though? She got herself in the studio and did the album and then BMG came on board?

Isn't that what happened this time though? She got herself in the studio and did the album and then BMG came on board?

 

BMG were more involved and it was a rush job. Emma might tell you it was 2 years in the making or whatever but it was all recorded in a couple of weeks in Sept 2018 after the girls had finalised the tour plans in Aug. She had been dabbling before that but basically BMG/her team just saw the Spice tour as the perfect opportunity to get an album out.

 

That is why it has lots of covers I'm sure as it needed to be done quickly (and cheaply). This was a bit like a cash in album after a stint on a reality tv shows sadly.

i hope the buzz for the two original songs (and her cover of 'don't call me baby') would have inspired more music.

 

it's a shame that she's not passionate about making music - like Mel C.

Its good that BMG take a chance on these older artists. Martine McCutcheon and Natalie Imbruglia both put out pretty solid records with them in recent years.

It really is such a waste the two original tracks and I wish I could have loved you more are just fantastic and really tease what could have been an excellent album up there with free me if she had kept on those lines. I’m not sure it would have made much if any difference to her sales though, she has her fan base which is basically a small fraction of the spice girls one like the other girls, I think all of them would have very similar success album wise now with a top 20 chart placement, first week peaking then dropping like a stone and selling between 10-15k in the U.K.

It really is such a waste the two original tracks and I wish I could have loved you more are just fantastic and really tease what could have been an excellent album up there with free me if she had kept on those lines. I’m not sure it would have made much if any difference to her sales though, she has her fan base which is basically a small fraction of the spice girls one like the other girls, I think all of them would have very similar success album wise now with a top 20 chart placement, first week peaking then dropping like a stone and selling between 10-15k in the U.K.

 

For sure. Which is why Baby Bunton should start touring, to help cover costs and bring the music to the people :teresa:

For sure. Which is why Baby Bunton should start touring, to help cover costs and bring the music to the people :teresa:

 

 

It is really true building up a touring fan base even small makes a huge difference. It would be really interesting to see if she had been more successful whether she would have continued and whether she would have toured or not. She had plenty of opportunity with the Free Me era to do a small one but clearly wasn't something she felt passionate enough to do.

Emma does have a quite small US audience also...

Emma does have a quite small US audience also...

Emma does have a quite small US audience also...

 

 

Only as much as all the girls (except Victoria, and possibly Mel due to her TV career over there), as an ex spice girl nothing more. Not enough for a record label to justify releasing music or supporting a tour in the USA

Already 4 years old :drama:

I was disappointed when I found out it was mostly made by covers. I like the two new songs on it but generally I think it's a cheap album and a bland return for her.

Yes it as a bittersweet dissapointment. Bitter because it was yet again a coverfest with most of them being the general, bland covers that she often falls for (and is most criticised in her career for, damn!!). Did she learn nothing from the bad critical response to her covers in Life in Mono era? At the very least, her covers in the Free Me era had some spark to them and made it her own.

 

Bittersweet because the lead single, while interesting, didn't bring anything new from her either. It felt like she was just starting to warm up by re-living old music glories, rather than moving forward with her sound she established in Free Me and Life in Mono. 12 years too late, clearly... She also released the album too far out from the lead single with the next single being another cover and released AFTER the album was out...

 

In my opinion, she should have done:

 

Single 1: Too Many Teardrops

Single 2: I Wish I Could Have Loved You More

Instant grat track (with pre-order of the album): Don't Call Me Baby

Album Out

Single 3: You're All I Need To Get By

 

But honestly the main problem with the album, bar the covers, is that it sounds cheap, no depth to the production. My Happy Place and ensuing Christmas-focused tour were so cheaply made, it is quite sad to be honest. It didn't particularly set any faith in her recording future or touring capacit. I'd much rather it was just a show with her in front of a mic and a glittery curtain and two dancers + two back up singers rather than the snooze fest with playback + 6 dancers with lame choreo + two fake Christmas trees stolen from an IKEA display window we got...

 

NONETHELESS, the era did provide some gems such as this:

 

Too Many Teardrops (shoudl have been THE lead single)

 

 

I Wish I Could Have Loved You More

 

 

You're All I Need To Get By

 

 

Baby Please Don't Stop (live only cos the studio version and the video f***ing suck!)

 

 

Also, the live version of her non-Christmas songs in her Albert Hall show SLAPPED:

 

Baby Please Don't Stop + Too Many Teardrops

 

Maybe

 

Take My Breath Awaty & Free Me

 

Viva Forever

 

Say You'll Be There

 

Really wished she would have kept some of these versions for her Christmas tour last year instead of the lame ass karaoke-level versions we got...

Now this production is cheap, i am fond of the album even though it sounds like it was recorded in her garden shed!

People who are saying that it was bland... what on earth do you expect from an Emma Bunton solo album?

People who are saying that it was bland... what on earth do you expect from an Emma Bunton solo album?

 

I was expecting something of the quality of the Free Me and the standard Life in Mono albums at least. What we got was a cheap production of performing-at-Butlins-one-hit-wonders level covers albums instead :rolleyes:

 

But I also don't expect the fandom to understand what quality is when you brand Gerita and Mel C's albums as the holy grail of Spice music instead of what they are: middle of the road recycled pop music chasing the charts (and failing to lol) :teresa:

I was expecting something of the quality of the Free Me and the standard Life in Mono albums at least. What we got was a cheap production of performing-at-Butlins-one-hit-wonders level covers albums instead :rolleyes:

 

But I also don't expect the fandom to understand what quality is when you brand Gerita and Mel C's albums as the holy grail of Spice music instead of what they are: middle of the road recycled pop music chasing the charts (and failing to lol) :teresa:

 

Yeah, but at the end both Gerita and Mel C outsold her. Emma doesn’t have a memorable song on her own. Both Gerita and Mel C do.

Yeah, but at the end both Gerita and Mel C outsold her. Emma doesn’t have a memorable song on her own. Both Gerita and Mel C do.

 

Who was talking about sales success? I was talking about actual creative quality hun :teresa: That's all you Geri/Mel C fans have, as if sales = quality :lol: