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Emma Bunton - 'My Happy Place'

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Lol, talk about the taste though buying Northern Star orange vinyl for more money instead! :wub:

 

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I am playing the vinyl for the first time. The quality of the sound is different for each song.

 

Emotions sound quality is terrible, the backing vocals are horrid.

 

Has this been discussed ?

 

I know the production has been discussed on the CD and digital release ….

Yeah it was clearly a very cheap production, the original vinyl was already quite badly done anyway. If I remember correctly, it was also quite a late addition to the campaign, so probably that made it even more rushed :mellow:
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Randomly, Emma and Jade's cover of 'You're All I Need to Get By' came up on the radio this morning (I KNOW!) and actually been listening to it a bit B-) It is not a bad cover at all, just a bit pointless... But it did give us some nice live gems from them...

 

Also, does anyone remember where they did a live performance in some random TV show? I cant find it at all anywwhere lol

 

Official video

 

(wild that this video is YET to break 200k views :cry: It is one of Bunton's best imo and a total upgrade from that awful Baby Please Don't Stop video...)

 

And here are some live renditions of it that I think are cute:

 

Live at Emma's Christmas show at the Royal Albert Hall

 

Accoustic Live at BBC Radio 2

Found the live TV performance of it as well, finally but it is on DailyMotion so cannot embed:

 

Emma Bunton & Jade - "You're All I Need to Get By" - Bradley Walsh's Late Night Guestlist[/b]

 

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7831y9

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Oh f*** off wish I didn’t buy it for 25 now! 🤦‍♂️

 

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I wrote this in the Emma results thread initially, but then I thought it was a bit off track and better off being in the album thread...!

 

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Looking back at this album, the marketing for it strikes me as being curious. I mean, when the album is ostensibly a cover versions album... launching that with an original song as its lead single, is perhaps a bit misleading? Ultimately giving mixed messages about what the album's overall concept actually is? The second song released as a pre-release was the only other original song too! I just think if your album is predominently cover versions and that's mostly what you're aiming to sell to people - wouldn't it make more sense to lean more heavily into that aspect in its promotion?

 

As a fan, I'm of course glad that there were even 2 originals. Emma easily could have been lazier and had it be 100% covers. But in a way, the existence of those two originals makes the project feel really frustrating, like, there was untapped potential for something more. 'Baby Please Don't Stop' and 'Too Many Teardrops' have always made me wish that they'd inspired Emma to create more originals, and abandon the cover versions idea altogether. Or at the very least, only go with inspired choices as covers. That happened with 'I Wish I Could Have Loved You More', which is so obscure that I'm sure for most Bunton fans it comes off as being an original song anyway. Most of the other covers though... so obvious, so safe.

 

Another thing which made Emma's 2019 return relatively disappointing for me, is that fellow 90s popstar Louise also made a comeback that year. As fans of both artists, Louise's return was more convincing to me - more exciting, better quality and essentially Louise came across as way more committed. She started doing pop orientated festivals such as Mighty Hoopla, which I think leant to making it clear that Louise was actually passionate about being a popstar again. Whereas Emma, for whatever reasons, has resisted these kinds of bookings. :thinking:

In a way, she has been doing strange/unhelpful strategies for her past couple of albums...

 

Her promo for Life in Mono had little to do with the album at all, it showcased it as a covers album since she mainly promoted Downtown and then Something Tells Me :huh:

 

For My Happy Place, it was indeed a very strange era. She should have released right after the Spice tour instead of before, so as to give her more time to record more original songs, and properly promote.

 

It is no surprise to me that the songs that were best received of this era were the most experimental. Same with Life in Mono. Maybe Emma should listen more to her critics and fans, since she seems to pick the wrong singles based on her perception of what people expect from 'BabyBunton' i.e. the bubble-gum adjancent pop she does with BPDS...

 

Baby Please Don't Stop left me quite cold. Yes it was too safe to be interesting at all. I don't think any song on the album would have set the charts alight, but Too Many Teardrops at least showed growth in her sound and voice, which is something she was known for during the Free Me era. By the time TMT dropped as a preview song (not a single), people were non-plused about it because BPDS was so 'meh'...

 

She should have done a few more originals, release a mixed album with some covers... My preference would have been:

 

- A strong 12-track album with 2 covers of obscured songs and 10 originals... of all the covers, I would have only kept Don't Call Me Baby and I Wish I Could Have Loved You More.

 

- Release the album in September 2019, with a few summer shows in festivals to help the promotion as well as the usual TV-Radio sounds. I think she would have gone Top10 in September with a bit more promo.

 

- Then re-release the album for Christmas with a delux - My Happy Christmas - with a few Christmas covers plus Coming Home for Christmas (with a new bridge!) as the lead and with a proper video!

 

- Skip her crap attendance and performance at that random Disney show in America. Distracting, and did nothing for her career.

 

- Still do her Albert Hall show which would have been a bit more focused/successful had she actually had any Christmas presence out at the time

 

And yes, her live and promo strategy always seemed off. It was WILD she did a Christmas one-off show at Albert Hall in 2019, after not doing a single live show of her own ever... It was quite ambitious and didn't really pay off (she sold about 75% of the venue and then gave away cheap/free tickets for the rest but even the top seats were not sold out at all).

 

Same with her Christmas tour. She has never built a live audience, and she threw herself onto it randomly, perhaps too randomly, two whole years after Coming Home for Christmas flopped.

 

Here is hoping she does something more/better if she does a new era. I would love her to do more festivals, but I am unsure if Emma is up for doing that considering the amount of work it takes... we know she is a bit lazy on that front

I'll always be so confused by her attempts at becoming associated with Christmas, without doing the one thing that could help make that happen, a Christmas album! :lol: As you say "My Happy Christmas" (be it a re-release or its own thing) was such a no brainer! And if she'd done that in 2019, it would have now had 6 Christmases to build up streams - and who knows, perhaps a song from it would have found its way onto popular playlists over those years and done something. Missed opportunities! Only doing a release of 2 songs just seemed rather halfhearted.

 

The Royal Albert Hall Christmas show, and the Christmas tour, was kind of like running before you can walk :thinking: Someone such as Leona can do a Christmas tour more convincingly due to having an actual Christmas hit, and a Christmas album, so the association is there. It isn't really there at all for Ms Bunton! :arrr:

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