'Downtown' the single has been released as part of the Now Millenium 2006-2007 :o

 

You can download it here:

 

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/now-millen...2007/1747936582

She keeps winning

She keeps winning

Winning what? 2 quids? :lol:

Winning what? 2 quids? :lol:

 

Looking forward to you being banned again Viodoo.

It seems everything about Life In Mono is lost but on a fansite I found a few infos

 

A track by track by Emma posted on her website, it's not complete sadly:

 

All I Need to Know

I wrote this with a fantastic guy called Jamie Hartman just before I turned 30. I just thought I wanted to get to that point where I go for challenges that I wouldn't be used to, learn things that I'd usually be a bit scared of.

I know that I've got a great family and friends, and Jade who supports me through that.

The song is just to all those people who have got loved ones out there, this is so perfect for them.

You go through that stage where you change and it's so nice to have people that support you and grow with you and that's to all my fans as well. It's mt favourite track.

 

Life In Mono

It's a cover version. I just loved this track because it's got that whole 60s French feel to it. It's perfect to go with the rest of the album.

 

Mischievous

This is written with Cathy Dennis and it's just one of those cheeky songs, a bit naughty. When me and Cathy get together that's exactly she brings that naughty side out of me and that fun side.

It's one of those times where writing wise I can just really let myself go and just go with it. I've known her for years.

Sometimes we just eat dinner and get a bottle of wine and end up not doing much. We do like a bit of gossip and a catch up. But no, it's a great track.

 

He Loves Me Not

I think this song sounds like it could have been written years ago because it has a really lovely and timeless feel to. But it's a new song that I wrote a while ago with a guy called Jack. I think it sounds great and I'm really pleased with it.

 

I Wasn't Looking When I Found Love

'I Wasn't Looking When I Found Love...obviously says it all in the title really. I wrote this around summer time.

I was kind of looking back on the relationship I've got with Jade and how it's weird when you're not looking for something it comes and smacks you in the face. So yeah, special song.

 

Take Me to Another Town

I love this track. I just think it's got that real fun, upbeat kind and vibe to it. It's all about being able to travel around the world and see some amazing things but that there's kind of no place like home.

You just feel safe and settled when you get home. I performed it at G-A-Y last Saturday which was so much fun. I always love doing G-A-Y, it's one of the best nights.

 

Undressing You

It's a bit saucy and has a bit of a jazzy feel to it, which I love. It's a bit cheeky. Love it.

 

I'm Not Crying Over Yesterdays

I wrote this in Hastings with a guy called Blair who I absolutely love. I spent the weekend up there and just wrote loads of songs and this was one that really stood out for me.

It's just about being in a relationship but it splits up and you just kind of move on and try and get over it. I do really like this track and I sang this with Bairl because he's got a piano in his front room and it just works.

 

The bio from her ex website

Once in a while, everyone needs some time out from the world. A chance to take stock, reflect on all that has gone before and consider what should come next. For Emma Bunton, that moment was long overdue. On the brink of turning 30 in January 2006, she realised she had worked solidly for a decade, notching up millions of record sales and air miles along the way. “I met the Spice Girls when I was 18, and got straight onto the solo stuff later,” she explains. “So I never had the chance to kick back and have lots of fun so I’ve been making up for it! I had a party for my 30th, moved home, went on holiday, and spent time with my family. But I was also still writing music and working on getting exactly the sound I wanted for the next album…”

 

As hectic as her schedule may have got, Emma never needed a break from the music itself. It’s one thing that has been in her life as long as she can remember. “We always had music on when we were younger, it was such a natural thing to hear it all the time in the house,” Emma remembers. “My dad loved Rolling Stones and my mum was into The Supremes, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. Every Sunday, I’d listen to the chart rundown before bedtime, trying to tape my favourite songs and cut out all the talking. I loved that excitement about music.” Despite being a keen actress and attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School as a teenager though, Emma never considered doing music herself until much later,

 

Of course, fate had other ideas. In a big way. The Spice Girls became the biggest girl band on the planet, turning the five members into international megastars and making pop music fun again. Together, they sold an incredible 55 million records, scored nine Number One’s in the UK alone, starred in their own film and repeatedly made the history books with their record-breaking world tours. “I almost forget how crazy it was until someone mentions it,” Emma notes. “It’s only recently when I’ve had a break that you get the chance to think, wow... wasn’t all that amazing?”

 

A particular favourite memory for Emma is ‘Spice Trader’, which saw her go to India to star in a Bollywood film. “That was great,” she laughs. “I love cultures that are completely different from ours. On sets here, everything’s very organised but there it’s so laid back. They virtually hammer the set together as you’re on it! It was a great learning curve.”

 

It is Emma’s solo musical career that has been her greatest - and bravest - achievement yet though. She released her debut solo album, ‘A Girl Like Me’, in 2001 and was amazed by the reaction to her luscious 60’s-inspired melodies which came later with her next album ‘Free Me’ under the guise of 19 Entertainment’s Simon Fuller. “Going off on your own is always a risk after being in something so big, but I knew it was something I wanted to do,” Emma reflects. “I just couldn’t believe it when ‘What Took You So Long?’ stayed at Number One for two weeks. It was an unbelievable feeling. Then to have a similar success with the next record was fantastic. I’ve always made albums I feel are very much me, so it’s great to have people enjoy them. This time, I wanted to take my time and make sure it was right again for me and my fans.”

 

More contented than ever in her personal life, Emma started writing an album inspired by all the things she cherished - her nephew, her relationship, the music she grew up with, even the new-found determination brought on by her 30th birthday. ‘Life In Mono’ is therefore her most honest album yet, an intimate reflection of Emma’s life and loves that reveals more than even she was expecting. “It’s not until I listened to it over that I thought, oh my God! I said that on there!” she laughs. “It’s like when you write a diary and put everything in it but when you read it back, you’re shocked by how honest you were. At the time I was writing and I sort of forgot that people would listen to it so I wasn’t self conscious. I am happy at the moment and I think that comes across on the record.”

 

Musically, it sounds like a classic pop album even from the first listen, with rich orchestral backing, gorgeous harmonies and the sort of choruses Burt Bacharach could be proud of. It moves from the stunningly tender ‘All I Need To Know’ to the cheeky jazz of ‘Undressing You’ and the luscious Carpenters-style ‘I’m Not Crying Over Yesterdays’. Above all, it captures Emma’s thoroughly modern take on the elegant simplicity of 60’s pop, best shown in her cover of Petula Clarke’s ‘Downtown’, the first single to be released from the album, the official BBC Children In Need single. Emma has also pulled on her dancing shoes and sequins for the charity and is currently starring in BBC1’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. But, she confesses, she’s loving every minute of it…

 

“Being able to dance like that is something I’ve always dreamt of,” she explains. “I wanted to do something different and have a bit of a challenge, so it was perfect. All that training is making me sleep like a baby too!” With an added spring in her step from the dancing and her well-deserved break, Emma‘s finally poised to move on to wherever life takes her next. Older, wiser and happier than she’s ever been, she’s ready to get back to what she does best and let the world hear exactly what’s she’s been up to. “I will be nervous just before the album comes out but I just have to think ok, this is what I’ve recorded, here you go, have a listen and see what you think. I hope people enjoy it but whatever happens, I know it’s true to myself and I’m very proud of that.”

 

Music Week

Bunton's third solo album takes her previous flirtations with Sixties stylings and Latino pop to another level, turning in a pleasing set of songs that could surprise her doubters. The retro-widescreen feel and lush orchestration of Life In Mono contributes to probably the most enjoyable solo Spice album to date. The jury is out on wether the public's goodwill for Bunton post-Strictly Come Dancing and Children In Need, will give her a commercial kickstart or not.

 

musicOMH.COM

3/5

It's weird to think of Emma Bunton as the only Spice Girl still with a record contract. Never the most gifted of singers, her appeal mainly lay in being eye candy for teenage boys and slightly peculiar older men as she ran round in videos sporting pigtails and short skirts.

Yet, over 10 years after Wannabe, the erstwhile Baby Spice is still going strong. Whereas Mel B, Geri Halliwell and Victoria Beckham are only fodder for the tabloid gossip columns these days, and Mel C was unceremoniously dumped from her label a few years ago, Bunton seems to be carving up a new niche for herself as an all-round family entertainer.

 

Handily released just as she's appearing on Strictly Come Dancing (surely just a coincidence...), Life In Mono is Bunton's third solo album and follows on the '60s pastiche sound of her previous record Free Me. It's as light and fluffy as candyfloss, completely inoffensive and, in parts, surprisingly good.

 

There's a whole host of songwriters and producers been roped in to give Ms Bunton a helping hand - chief amongst these is Gary Clark. Clark was the leader of Scottish jangly pop stars Danny Wilson (who remembers Mary's Prayer?) in the '80s and has since become a pretty respectable 'songwriter for hire', working with Natalie Imbruglia, Skin and David McAlmont amongst others.

 

Clark's songs are amongst the stand-out moments, although perhaps the highlight is the title track, a blissful cover version of trip-hop duo Mono's song. Keeping the John Barry stylings of the original, the horns and strings combine beautifully while Bunton's breathy vocals add some sensuality. Similarly arresting is opening track All I Need To Know, a beautifully tender piano ballad that the likes of Lucie Silvas would be well advised to take note of.

 

Yet a full album of such sweet sugary moments soon becomes tiring. The arrangement for most songs is exactly the same - the horns, the strings, the expertly constructed '60s conceit - that after a while it all begins to mesh into one. Take Me To Another Town does step up the pace, painting Bunton hopping from city to city with a story to tell in each ("I go to London, I go to Hollywood, there are too many people who would kiss me if they could"), but Undressing You comes over as anodyne when it should be crackling with sexuality - Bunton's just far too cute and nice to 'do an Aguliera'.

 

Better is I Wasn't Looking (When I Found Love) a mid-paced number with lyrics that Emma's target audience of teenage girls and Bridget Jones types will readily identify with. Yet too many songs, especially in the album's second half, lack character and personality, just coming across as bland, albeit radio-friendly.

 

Where the album really falls down is the oddly entitled 'bonus tracks', chief amongst them being the recent Children In Need song Downtown. You need a good strong voice to belt out the old Petula Clark classic, and Bunton's wistful whisper just doesn't work. It's karaoke-pop of the worst kind. More successful is Something Tells Me (Something's Going To Happen), which is sleek, light and a lot more suited to Bunton's vocals.

 

What Life In Mono is missing is a couple of real hook-filled pop moments, as it does sometimes disappear into easy listening sludge. Yet it has to be said that this is a lot better than the majority of tasteful, adult-orientated, melodic pop that's cluttering up the airwaves at the moment. The one remaining post-Spice success story looks set to roll on.

 

The Guardian

She managed to survive the fall-out of the world's biggest girl band - but thinking about the Spice Girls still makes Emma Bunton cry. Today, a Strictly Come Dancing favourite, she tells Simon Hattenstone about getting saucy, making the Queen nervous, and why you don't get eating disorders when you come from Barnet.

 

In tiny writing, I've scrawled Emma Bunton's name on my hand. It's not that I don't know who she is. It's just that I keep thinking of her as Baby Spice. And it seems inappropriate to address her as Baby almost six years after the Spice Girls split, and when she's 30 years old, and when we've never met before. And yet I can't quite remember she's Emma. That's the thing about the former members of the world's best-selling girl group. Even now we know them by their brand: Ginger, Posh, Sporty, Scary and Baby.

 

Within seconds of meeting, she's spotted it. "I love that, you've got 'Emma' written on your hand," she says. "Is it to remind you what my name is?" I explain that I was worried that I might call her Geri. She bursts out laughing.

 

Baby was always the sweet one, the innocent in pigtails and short skirts. Though, in truth, the image was more complex and compromised than that. While Scary would rage, and Posh would pout, and Geri would vamp, and Sporty would flex, Baby's job was to simper and suggest.

 

Now, a grown-up Emma Bunton is back after a two-year absence, and she's omnipresent - watched by 9 million on Strictly Come Dancing and the favourite to win, the voice of Children In Need with her new single - a remarkably louche version of the old Petula Clark hit Downtown - and a new album with a 1960s bossanova feel to it, Life In Mono.

 

The first track on the album is a ballad called All I Need To Know. Like many Spice Girls songs, it is about self-assertion, but where so many of the old numbers called on fans to devour the present, this seems more reflective. "I turned 30 at the beginning of this year, and I know it's still very young, but sometimes I do put barriers up for myself. I've been in the business a long time, so you get used to what to say and what not to say, and being a bit careful about things. So I'm going to try and not do that now. I'm going to break down those barriers that I put up for myself. You know, people I don't like - I don't have to be nice and sweet."

 

Brilliant, I say, here's your perfect opportunity - you can be as nasty as you want about anyone and everyone. We'll show the true you! "Yeah, she's the bitch from hell," she says with a glint. OK, who would you most like to slag off? I move the tape recorder closer. "Oh G-G-God," she stammers. "Now you're really putting me on the spot. I'm very happy with my family, and I've got my friends. And with Jade [Jones, her singer-boyfriend, now fronting the band Cherry BlackStone], so supportive of me moving forward ..."

 

She gives up. That's the trouble, she says. She wasn't born to bitch. "My family brought me up to be very respectful of people. And coming from not much, and working my way up ..." She knows it's a cliche, but she still can't believe her luck. She points out of the window. "I went to Barnet College down the road, and I was there, and struggling, and thinking, 'What the hell am I going to do?', and everybody else was going to university, and I didn't get any callbacks." Callbacks? "I don't know. What d'you call it? When universities come back to you. Then it all happened when I had this audition with the girls. I do believe in fate. It was meant to happen."

 

Bunton has just moved back to Barnet - classic suburbia - where she and Jones have bought a house. That's where we meet today, in a fish restaurant. Her mother lives down the road and still teaches karate. Her father lives a few minutes away and still works as a milkman. Little has changed, though Bunton is reckoned to be worth £10m.

 

Her parents always had plans for her. They sent her to the Sylvia Young Theatre School, where she studied drama and struggled for roles in soap operas. There wasn't much demand for Bunton - pretty, tiny, curvy, nice, very average. So when she left Sylvia Young, she went on to do a BTec in performing arts. But she didn't stand out there, either. Then a teacher told her about a girl group looking for a fifth member. Actually, there was already a fifth Spice ("She had curly hair - she would have been Curly Spice"), but she decided she'd be better off returning to university. Fate, Bunton says.

 

Her mother taught her karate. It was important to feel she could look after herself, especially being so small. What belt did she get? "A green or blue belt. It was a long time ago." Is that good? "It's not bad. You start on a white with a red tag and then you get..." She stumbles over her colours and looks annoyed with herself. "My mum's going to kill me for this because I should know it... then you get yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown... but my mum's a black belt."

 

She was always a bit self-conscious about her size and shape. She was a shy drama student, and had to be called forward by her teacher to sing. She's still fairly self-conscious about her height. On foot, she elevates herself with high heels. ("Usually no shorter than four to five inches.") On the road, she elevates herself with a Land Rover. "I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me. I just love it because you see everybody waits for you." Does she think driving the Range Rover is anything to do with her being 5ft 1in? "Probably, yeah. Absolutely. Hahahaha! I am so little."

 

The waiter arrives. I'd been considering the fish, chips and mushy peas. Bunton glances at the menu and instantly decides on oysters - 12 on ice, six breaded - to be shared. One of the great things about success, she says, is being able to afford oysters.

 

The Spice Girls were a phenomenon. Not simply in terms of how many records they sold, but in what they were and what they represented. Like so many boy/girl bands, they were hidden away in a building - a church hall - and designed. Yet what emerged defied everything that had gone before and has come since. They didn't wear matching outfits, they certainly didn't look alike, and quite often they didn't appear to be doing the same dance routine. They were a dazzling mishmash of styles and influences. Their unity lay in their difference - five disparate girls on a stage doing their own thing, drawing in their own fanbase. Initially, their management had wanted them to all to be Sporty Spices - five singing tracksuits. But the girls, apart from Mel C, didn't think it was true to them. Even the soubriquets were a lucky fluke, after Top Of The Pops magazine interviewed them and decided to introduce them to the world as Posh, Baby, etc.

 

They were an all-singing, all-dancing, colour-clashing contradiction. They were childlike and targeted at children, and yet at the same time there seemed to be something knowing, almost propagandist, about them. They were strong and gobby and self-affirming, and they created the notion of girlpower. Some of the great thinkers, controversialists and mental masturbators held them up as post-feminist paradigms. And all the while there was Baby, hoiking up her tiny skirt and appealing to all the Humbert Humberts out there.

 

Was she aware of her ambiguous image? She puts her head in her hands. When she emerges, her face is beetroot. "Oh my God! I didn't. Not at all. But now... it's true, of course. I just think, oh my God, because I was obviously dressed up in tiny skirts." The oysters arrive. "I never thought of the whole paedophilia thing."

 

Does she think a band would have a Baby Spice these days? "See, that's the thing, isn't it? It's just a shame. I don't know. Even with how we were, it was so innocent ..."

 

It's true, there was an innocence. And Bunton, the youngest, was the most innocent - perhaps, she says, this is what protected her from the eventual fallout and rancour. "I was a little bit younger than the rest of the girls. And, in a way, it all just went past me. I probably didn't take as much on board as the other girls. I was just on a journey. I was like, 'This is great!' Looking back, I had a bloody ball. I was 19 years old, travelling the world, had a load of gorgeous boy dancers that we'd hang around with after. I just look back now and think, 'Wow!' I had a bloody blast."

 

While she appeared to be the retiring one, in some ways she was more assertive than the others. It was Bunton who walked into the Smash Hits office and demanded that the editor, Kate Thornton, put the then-unknown Spice Girls on the cover. "We all were very ambitious ... We were actually told that girls don't sell magazines, we can't put you on the front." It was Bunton who insisted that Wannabe should be the band's first single. The song became their anthem - as infectious as it was annoying; yet ultimately one of the great odes to female solidarity. ("If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends.") They weren't obviously political, yet they became something akin to a political movement.

 

"Boys would come along, and we were so connected - the five of us girls - boys would have to check them out, 'cos if somebody came along that my friends didn't like, I didn't like them either. We were doing everything together and we relied on each other. Girlpower was all of us."

 

She talks about how each one emboldened the other. When they went out together, they felt invincible. "Oh my God, we could have done anything. Even before we were famous we would go to clubs and go: 'Excuse me, we're a band, we're not queuing, can we come in?'" And they always got in? "Yeah! We were all in our hotpants. We just thought of ourselves as strong women."

 

Where did the strength come from? "We all had really strong mothers. Me and Mel C were brought up by our mums, and Geri lost her father a few years before we met. Mel C's mum is a singer and in a band and doing pubs and clubs. Mel B's mum, I just love her, she's soooooo ... [she searches hard for the right word] comedy. Just great. Again, very strong." She swigs back another shell. "I love bloody oysters. It took me a while, though. Oh my God, they're great."

 

She talks about all the good times - blazing a trail, touring America, making the Spice Girls film, meeting Nelson Mandela and the royals. Did she have a nice chat with the Queen? "No, not really. I've met her a few times and the first time she said, 'Oh, so you've met the boys!'" That's right, I say, one of them fancied you, didn't they? "I don't know!" Oh, come on, which one was it? "Well, years ago, it was supposed to be William." Did she say to the Queen, "I could be your daughter-in-law if you play your cards right" ? "That's the thing I think she was a bit worried about!"

 

Then it all went sour. In the classic way. There were splits, and eating disorders, and Geri ran away from their tour of America. Bunton seemed to be the only one not poleaxed by the fallout. How did she manage to avoid the unhappiness that waylaid the others? Various Spices succumbed to anorexia and/or depression. "Honestly? I don't know. I really f***ing don't know." She sounds genuinely bewildered. Did the others not say to her, how come you've got away with it while we're going potty? "Yeah ... but also I was chubby. I was naturally chubby." It sounds like a non sequitur, but I think what she means is that everybody was amazed by the fact that she remained unscathed, especially because of her tendency towards chubbiness. There was so much pressure to be skinny, she says. She remembers the first time she was featured in a magazine - she and her mum were on holiday in swimming costumes, and the piece focused on the size of her thighs. "I cried for days." She certainly wasn't immune to weight worries. "Towards the end of the tour of America, I started thinking about it a bit more. Because I've always been curvy. And it was just going through that point of learning to love it and use it well."

 

It was her dad who helped put it all into perspective. "He's just so chilled. I'd phone him, crying about something in the paper, and he'd go, 'Oh, for f***'s sake, it'll be chip paper tomorrow ...'"

 

Did she ever tell the other Spices that they were getting too thin? "Not Victoria, because for me personally, Victoria is naturally thin - that's the way she is. I did tell Geri at one point that I thought she was getting too thin, and she knew that herself anyway. Mel B's got the best body in the world and I love her - she's got great boobs and a great bottom and she's always been that way. And Mel C went through a worrying stage. She loved the gym - there was a point when I wasn't sure if it was that she was working out so hard, but then she kind of ..." She trails off and says that's when it all got a bit scary because it was so alien to her. "I'm not joking. In Barnet, we've never had that." What? "Any sort of disorder. All you've got in Barnet is McDonald's or Kentucky, so you're stuck, really."

 

Bunton was devastated when Geri walked out of the band in 1998. She had no idea it was coming. Was she upset with her? "Yeah, because she was my friend and she just went. D'you-know-what-I-mean? We were all coming back on a private jet one night. Mel B was having a rant - she'd left something behind. We landed and Geri just went, 'All right, guys, I'm going now, bye-bye.' It was weird 'cos we never said bye to each other because we always knew we were going to see other in four hours again! And, yeah, that was the last time I saw her then. She phoned the management the next day and said, 'I'm not coming back.'" Didn't she ring her to find out what was going on? "No. We didn't speak, and I didn't hear from her for a while. It affected me more personally more than professionally. For me, it was like, my friend's just left us."

 

I ask her to shut her eyes, think of the Spice Girls and tell me what pictures turn up. "I think of big bloody shoes, falling over and hurting myself a lot." Keep your eyes shut. "I think of America. Ooh, I don't like this game. I'm getting a bit emotional." That's all right, you can get emotional. "No, I can't. Not in here. It's my local. I don't know. Ah, look at me, you're upsetting me." A tear falls down her cheek. "I do get quite emotional. I love the girls, I do."

 

 

Blimey, I say, I didn't even ask a nasty question. "I know, you've been very nice. I dunno. We went through so much together. I had a great time with them and I miss them. Even though we speak, and I [now] see Geri quite a bit, and Mel C came to my video shoot the other day. We used to be neighbours, actually. So I see her quite a lot." Is she well now? "Yeah, she's great, she's great, she's got a lovely boyfriend." She removes a bit of oyster shell from her mouth. "Ooh, I hate the cracky bits. Mel B, as well. She called me the other day, and I've not called her back. She's going to kill me." Doubtless they'll catch up at Mel B's alleged wedding to American comedian Eddie Murphy. And Victoria Beckham videoed "Good luck" to her at Strictly Come Dancing last week.

 

The phone rings. It's her Strictly Come Dancing partner. "Hi Darren, hi babes. Are you? No worry, I'll be leaving in five. Yeah. Yeah, I'm near home. OK. All right. All right, love. Bye, darling. Bye." She puts it down, exasperated. "I love my dancer, right, but God, he talks so much. I just want to strangle him." She looks pleased with herself for coming straight out with it. "There you go. I love him to bits, but I do want to strangle him."

 

I notice that her name is inscribed on the back of the phone. "Yeah, we got them from the Victoria David party." Who's Victoria David? She giggles. "Victoria and David. They gave them all out." She doesn't splash out on that kind of scale. Her greatest extravagance is flowers, and she claims to be a small-time Elton John. What's the most she's ever blown in one shop? "£300 to 400. Not quite Elton. For my 30th I had flowers all over my house."

 

After the band split, she felt discombobulated; didn't quite know what to make of life. She made up for all the time she had missed with her family, she got properly close to her niece and nephew, she lived a regular life. She didn't bother with premieres and red carpets, instead choosing to focus on spending quality time with her old friends. In 2000, she had a bad smear test and needed to have pre-cancerous cells removed. Even then she turned it into a positive - not only were the cells benign, but it encouraged her friends to get regular smear tests.

 

Occasionally, she made records and they did rather well - she has had six top 10 singles.

 

Now, having taken time out, there are so many things she wants to do. She'd like to start a dance-theatre school. And she fancies writing a sitcom based on her and her mates. And she'd love to have children - not now, but soon. And there's the record - and accompanying naughty video - for Downtown. Has she deliberately reinterpreted Downtown as a paean to cunnilingus? "You can take it however you want!" She laughs. "Oh yeah, that's how I've grown up. I've become saucy."

 

Has she grown up since the band were together? "I bloody hope so." How? "I know it sounds weird, 'cos I'm 30... But being with the girls, I've been in a bubble for many years, and you get looked after. So just becoming independent. Everybody grows up gradually, don't they?"

 

She remembers a line she said in SpiceWorld: The Movie, and quotes it at me. "The best bit in the film is when I say, 'Am I going to be Baby forever? Even when I'm 30?' Like it's really old. Now I am 30."

 

A number of pop bands have reformed recently: Take That, All Saints, 5ive. Could she see the Spice Girls getting back together? "I don't know. I really don't know. Last time Geri was pregnant; then, if it comes up in a couple of years, I might be. So you just never know if you can get us all together at the same time."

 

But before any talk of a Spice Girls comeback there is Strictly Come Dancing. She has already proved herself a fine and versatile dancer. I tell her she seems desperate to win. She shakes her head, and says no, she's not desperate enough. "I hope I become more competitive as the weeks go down, but at the moment I'm loving everybody. I'm a Mark Ramprakash fan. I'm like, 'Mark is so going to win it!' And he's so gorgeous. He's gorgeous, isn't he?"

 

Perhaps she still needs some toughening up. I ask the publicist how we could do it. "Tattoos," she suggests.

 

"I've already got them," Bunton says. Where? "One at the bottom of my spine - a little Chinese symbol meaning Jade - and one on my hip bone: we were in LA, all the girls, and I got 'Baby' written on my hip."

 

There's the answer to the question, I say - are you going to be Baby... But she beats me to it. "Yeah, for f***in' ever." And she grins contentedly.

 

Edited September 29, 2024Sep 29 by Babyboy

Thank you for sharing. It is really a shame how both Free Me and Life in Mono, her two best albums and in the case of Free Me, her most successful one, are left to rot over time...

Have to say though, Life in Mono has been catching up with me. It was always my 2nd favourite Emma album, but actually over the past few years it is the one I revisit the most :wub:

 

It is so lush and well produced, sang and written. A true Bunton special :heart:

Life in Mono will be on Spotify worldwide after midnight.

Will it be available to be purchased on Apple Music?

Life in Mono will be on Spotify worldwide after midnight.

 

FOR REAL???? :yahoo: :cheer:

Apparently both albums are on all streaming platforms again, not just Spotify!

 

I might even buy Life in Mono on iTunes agian :wub:

 

DO WE THINK IT WILL FINALLY GET A CERTIFICATION???!!! It is so so so close to it

I WONDER IF THIS MEANS IT WILL ALSO GO ON YOUTUBE???

 

We could do with her Free Me and Life in Mono videos FINALLY being available on that platform.

Apparently both albums are on all streaming platforms again, not just Spotify!

 

I might even buy Life in Mono on iTunes agian :wub:

 

DO WE THINK IT WILL FINALLY GET A CERTIFICATION???!!! It is so so so close to it

 

Well in UK it was available. The certification is not about worldwide.

 

 

 

Well in UK it was available. The certification is not about worldwide.

 

No, I do understand that I was just getting carried away lol

 

I do hope this means a slight increase in streams because damn those album tracks streams are appalling low <_<

I think VB is more likely to get a certification before Life In Mono, it surely gets more curiosity streams, tbh I can’t believe it hasn’t hit it after all these years.

we need this album back on apple music !!!

we need this album back on apple music !!!

 

It is. Or it will be at midnight local time.

 

It on the Australian one now.

OMGGG

 

I can’t believe it!!

 

Finally her albums on Spotify!! I can’t believe it!!!

 

 

About time!

i bought it AGAIN on iTunes now that it is available eheh :cheer:

 

So so so happy to have it available again