I don't think NSAIG was picked as it was felt it was the best song but the one that would get her the most headlines. The one to make a point even if there were better songs on the album.

A Mind of Its Own and IOU are the two of the strongest & memorable songs on this album for me lol.

A Mind of Its Own and IOU are the two of the strongest & memorable songs on this album for me lol.

 

 

Shows how rubbish the album is... B-) :lol:

A Mind of Its Own and IOU are the two of the strongest & memorable songs on this album for me lol.

 

I don't think NSAIG was picked as it was felt it was the best song but the one that would get her the most headlines. The one to make a point even if there were better songs on the album.

 

For sure. It just backfired...

 

If it had been released today, I would see it as a promo song/instant grat only rather than a full single though

This will be an unpopular opinion, but knowing the songs she had available...I still would have picked Not Such An Innocent Girl as the lead single. Do I consider it the best song on the album? No. I think that's I Wish. And Like That is the song I revisit the most off the album. But my general feeling is Like That plays a bit more like a fan favorite...than a guaranteed hit. And I Wish sounds like a second/third single.

 

Not Such An Innocent Girl (to me) just sounds like an album launcher. It's immediately catchy in a way a lead single needs to be...and I think we would have seen it perform very differently if it was released in the first half of 2000...or at least in a year when a barrage of solo Spice releases weren't cancelling out each other's chances of success.

 

I think releasing A Mind Of Its Own as the follow-up was probably a mistake, though. I do actually think the song's single worthy...and I could see a NSAIG - AMOIO - I Wish - IOU singles run making the most sense on paper. But when the album underperformed, they needed to realize that AMOIO wasn't a song that could reverse the project's fortunes. They should have gone for broke at that point and gone with their best bet...I Wish.

 

 

Midnight Fantasy felt like the no brainer launch song to me then and I still think the same now.

Midnight Fantasy felt like the no brainer launch song to me then and I still think the same now.

 

Midnight Fantasy is definitively one of the catchiest tracks on the album, but I think they might've felt it was too "poppy" for her.

A Mind if Its Own and IOU are the most memorable songs but both lacked the ingrediant that was needed to make them big hits in an era when the turnaround in the charts was at high pace.

Shame VB didn't realise she was never going to be a successful r'n'b singer. Pop suited her voice so much more. MF was such an album stand out

 

But then why she gave us the mum pop of IOU and AMOIO is another quandary. Her fan base were teenagers.

 

But at least we got LYHG eventually.

This will be an unpopular opinion, but knowing the songs she had available...I still would have picked Not Such An Innocent Girl as the lead single. Do I consider it the best song on the album? No. I think that's I Wish. And Like That is the song I revisit the most off the album. But my general feeling is Like That plays a bit more like a fan favorite...than a guaranteed hit. And I Wish sounds like a second/third single.

 

Not Such An Innocent Girl (to me) just sounds like an album launcher. It's immediately catchy in a way a lead single needs to be...and I think we would have seen it perform very differently if it was released in the first half of 2000...or at least in a year when a barrage of solo Spice releases weren't cancelling out each other's chances of success.

 

I think releasing A Mind Of Its Own as the follow-up was probably a mistake, though. I do actually think the song's single worthy...and I could see a NSAIG - AMOIO - I Wish - IOU singles run making the most sense on paper. But when the album underperformed, they needed to realize that AMOIO wasn't a song that could reverse the project's fortunes. They should have gone for broke at that point and gone with their best bet...I Wish.

 

Personally I think NSAIG was *fine* as an album opening track, but not as a single to launch the whole era. At best it should have been a promo song only, sent to radios but not a single.

 

She should have led with I Wish or Like That in my opinion.

 

A Mind of Its Own and IOU were never going to set the charts alight or give her much attention. The spoken verses in AMOIO really kill the track and her vocal on IOU is terrible (sorry)...

'I Wish' really should have been released over both of those singles.

'I Wish' really should have been released over both of those singles.

 

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Edited May 31, 20223 yr by Mr.X

21 years ago today, Victoria released her debut album!

 

Matttttt brought it to my attention that Willa Ford's original recording of Not Such an Innocent Girl has recently leaked!

 

 

 

To my ears this sounds very close to what Victoria ended up releasing as her own version. Victoria's version had some more production details added to it for sure, but the bare bones of it is essentially the same song. Seems to me like Victoria's version retained backing vocals from this original version. Victoria essentially copied the original track's vocals, right down to various ad-libs.

Ford actually wrote her own music so she wouldn't have wanted it anyway x

OMG. How awful. Hearing Willa Ford's studio version of the track makes things worse. I feel so bad for Victoria. Having a Willa Ford reject as your lead single is embarrassing. Not to mention both versions of the track sound identical.

 

Virgin Records did Victoria so dirty. #JusticeForVB

I still don't get what's so special about the track that would make them hunt it down as a lead single to the point of stealing it from poor innocent sweetie baby Willa Ford (but I Wanna Be Bad is the better jam anyway).

OMG that is tragic that it is basically the same song, inc the ad libs, damn...

 

She was done dirty with those singles, honestly.... I kind of see where Virgin might have wanted to go with the whole 'lets make a statement that Victoria is not the innocent girl the public thinks she is' but damn, you need a good song for that... this is, at best, an album track or a b-side...

Matttttt brought it to my attention that Willa Ford's original recording of Not Such an Innocent Girl has recently leaked!

 

To my ears this sounds very close to what Victoria ended up releasing as her own version. Victoria's version had some more production details added to it for sure, but the bare bones of it is essentially the same song. Seems to me like Victoria's version retained backing vocals from this original version. Victoria essentially copied the original track's vocals, right down to various ad-libs.

 

Oooof.

 

That's sad.