At that point she was still getting airplay, so yes, a different single could have done better.

 

Not from that particular album.

It's Passion b-day today.

It's Passion b-day today.

 

Iconic times!

 

Still not over it’s #41 peak :drama:

My rate - this deserved to be a multi platinum seller with a 10 week run at #1

 

5.5 Passion

9.5 Desire

10 Love Never Loved Me

8.5 Feel The Fear

10 Superstar

7.0 Surrender Your Groove

10 Ride It

8.5 There’s Always Tomorrow

7.5 Let Me Love You More

7.5 Don’t Get Any Better

10 Loving Me Back To Life

7.0 So I Give Up On Love

I actually really liked Passion, over the years it hasn't aged as well as the other two albums did but I still think it's a strong album that deserved far more than #41!

So I am feeling a bit like a terrorista (im high) and decided to give this album a listen.

 

It's... not great but I enjoyed some parts of it. She sounds great, probably her best ever. The lyrics are cringe for the most part but whatever. She should have stuck to the disco sister concept, as those are the strongest songs and the rest make the album feel a bit lost.

 

But ultimately, Love Never Loved Me is a bop. She missed out on that one, big time! She should have led with it. I never quite enjoyed Ride It back then but I guess it makes sense in an album context, just wish that would have been the second single (and with a better video, please...). Surrender Your Groove is also a bit of fun.

 

Superstar is... well... a very Geri Halliwell song. It's fun but not in a 'its great' way. I don't know... 'I wanna shake your celebrity'? It's just a bit too naff.

 

The run from There's Always Tomorrow to Don't Get Any Better is not good though. I truggled through it and was deeply bored. I wish she was more serious with her craft here. Maybe some interesting ideas but overall, just too bland and naff...

 

Loving Me Back To Life is ok

 

So I Give Up On Love is classic Geri too. Too naff and unserious to be interesting. I know she loves this genre but she just doesn't do it very well when she wants to be funny with it. She did better before, I guess but big band isn't quite what we want from Geri, I think...

 

Overall? It sounded like she had kind of given up... the quality just isn't there, I guess and it is too naff. She sang great though, I'll give her that!

Hard to believe its 18 years since I bought a Geri album.

 

I wonder if I'll ever get to experience this pleasure ever again. :cry:

 

I love her as an artist.

Hard to believe its 18 years since I bought a Geri album.

 

I wonder if I'll ever get to experience this pleasure ever again. :cry:

 

I love her as an artist.

 

You will be able to buy her next album Forever25 :w00t:

Worst album alongside LA State of Mind, Melanie’s Reason to VOM eras, Emma’s AGLM, and VB discography. It doesn’t even sound like it’s a Geri’s album. It’s lazy, and not in a AGLM kinda way, more like she recorded those songs in her pijamas after a long nap. You can say whatever you want about Geraldine, but she had ideas, and this record lacks that. The cover is meh, the singles choice is nope, the “live” performances, and documentary scream DISASTER. Thanks God there wasn’t a follow up to this record.

I like the ballads and her voice improved.

1. Passion - 6/10 - Geri sounds great on this song, it's a big band opener and works well, not one of her best though.

2. Desire - 8/10 - Catchy electro-pop number which sounds like it could easily have been a Kylie song.

3. Love never loved me 10/10 - Excellent song, really deserved it's moment to shine

4. Feel the fear 8/10 - I used to adore this, I still think it's a great chorus but the verses are a little boring.

5. Superstar 8/10 - Another catchy chorus one, a little cheesy but works

6. Surrender your groove - 8/10 - I can see a whole disco album working for Geri this flows on well from Superstar

7. Ride it - 8/10 - It's a bop, so catchy I don't care what anyone says

8. There's always tomorrow - 9/10 - A lovely chilled song, her voice sounds really good in it too.

9. Let me love you more - 9/10 - A second strong ballad

10. Don't get any better - 10/10 - I actually ADORE this track now, it's such an in your face take it or leave it track! Should have been a single!

11. Loving me back to life - 10/10 - My favourite track on the album, Geri sounds great, it's lyrically really sweet and I love the piano

12. So I give up on love 6/10 - Similiar feedback to first track, could do without the show tunes on the album tbf.

 

I'd say overall it's a solid 8/10 record.

I find the album to be a mixed bag. It's like she couldn't land on one direction and then run with that to the best of her ability.

I find the album to be a mixed bag. It's like she couldn't land on one direction and then run with that to the best of her ability.

 

To me, this record is Geri’s version of A Girl Like Me. Bland, drafts of songs, meh lyrics, nothing interesting vocally. At least, Emma’s had the amazing WTYSL. People wanted It’s Raining Men pt. 2, not this.

I find the album to be a mixed bag. It's like she couldn't land on one direction and then run with that to the best of her ability.

 

Pretty much - I feel like once they scrapped the Disco Sister direction she had nowhere to go; which is a shame really, because I feel like people were clearly receptive towards upbeat fun Geri. I don't think any of the Spice's would've been hugely successful at that point, but with a solid direction and singles I could've seen her having a moderately successful run for a solo Spice album. It's just weird to me how Ride It going in at #4 basically sent them back to the drawing table.

It's just weird to me how Ride It going in at #4 basically sent them back to the drawing table.

Because it was an underperformance. For a #4 single it didn't sell very well. Her previous lead singles were much bigger hits.

I think by this point Geri was growing out of the camp pop/dance sound. This is also evident by the Man on the Mountain tracks in subsequent years.

 

The more mellow tracks from her first two albums have always been the ones she's praised the most on a personal level also.

 

These songs aren't what the majority of her fanbase want from her though. Kylie learnt this when she changed her style in the 90s only to return to what her fans wanted in 2000 and big success to go with it.

Because it was an underperformance. For a #4 single it didn't sell very well. Her previous lead singles were much bigger hits.

 

It wasn't a massive hit, but it was hardly a "cancel-all-other-plans" sort of performance. It fell hard in it's second week, but managed to stay in the top 40 for seven weeks, which wasn't awful in those days (for comparison - Free Me and Maybe stayed in the top 40 for six weeks and I'll Be There for four). I think they had far too big expectations if a top five was a disappointment.

Edited June 8, 20232 yr by tommie

Yeah Ride It hitting #4 was actually the highest peaking solo single since Free Me wasn't it? They should have just stuck to their guns and released the 'Disco Sister Music' album that was planned, it was clearly her market at the time. Delaying it and releasing the following summer off a totally different style just told the public they were not confident enough in her material, so why bother?

Because it was an underperformance. For a #4 single it didn't sell very well. Her previous lead singles were much bigger hits.

 

Yeah, many years previously! I think after such a long time away, it did the most a Geri single was going to do at that point.

 

That gap at the time really felt like one of yesteryear's popstars making a comeback after a lifetime away, and the entire landscape had changed in those pivotal years. Plus let's not forget her second album wasn't exactly a blockbuster success.

I think Passion could have been somewhat successful with better single choices and release strategy.

 

Ride It - August 2004

Love Never Loved Me - November 2004

Passion album - November 2004

Let Me Love You More - February 2005

Set Me Off - May 2005

 

Desire and Surrender Your Groove could have been the two new tracks included on a greatest hits album. Both of those tracks were recorded in early 2005.

 

Desire - November 2005

Greatest Hits - November 2005