Let's love is one of my overall fave songs from Mel C, just wondering what other people's opinions of the song are,

At the time I really wanted it to be a single and was really disappointed it wasn't picked.

I did not like It back then, now it's ok. No single material imo.

 

I like it and think it would have been a cute single, but it would have probably bombed too back in 2003...

 

Having said that, I wish she had leaned more into her rock music during the Reason era. I think Let's Love or even Positively Somewhere would have made better singles than Here It Comes Again or On the Horizon, in my opinion and further establish her as a pop-rock girl.

 

Edited July 14, 2024Jul 14 by Mr.X

It was a sound I wanted more of from here as I think vocally it suited her very well.

It's a song I always enjoy I just find it a real feel good song.

It’s fab. I bought the album based on the strong b-sides for the lead single. So Let’s Love came closest to matching those expectations.

 

That said, the record company would’ve had to choose between this and Yeh, Yeh, Yeh, with them being so similar.

It’s fab. I bought the album based on the strong b-sides for the lead single. So Let’s Love came closest to matching those expectations.

 

That said, the record company would’ve had to choose between this and Yeh, Yeh, Yeh, with them being so similar.

 

IMO Yeh Yeh Yeh should have been lead single with a different name/title, followed by Reason and Let's Love.

I did like here it comes again as the lead but obviously it didn't set the album up strong enough and interest gained quickly, let's love might have been a little more grabbing as a lead.

I still love the album though.

I reckon Let’s Love would’ve been a good lead.

 

But On The Horizon was a solid second single imo.

 

It’s a very listenable album. My standouts are Home and Reason.

I love the song and think it could have been a decent single but a later one. I think they chose the right ones from the album (ignoring B-sides) but not so sure on the order.

 

Based off album choices I would have gone:

 

1. Here it comes again / Yeh, yeh, yeh (double a-side showing 2 sides to the album)

2. On the horizon (I think this was a fab single and I will die on a cross for it, criminally underrated and deserved a lot more chart success)

3. Home (a beautiful track, worthy of single status, again showing a different side to the album

4. Let's love (could also shove Reason on there if she wanted to as a double a-side)

 

Funny thinking she could have got to 4 single releases though bless her.

I also like on the horizon and a bit like here it comes again I was disappointed it didnt do better than it did in the charts.

IMO the momentum just wasn’t built enough with HICA. It’s lovely but not all that catchy. I still couldn’t sing the chorus off the top of my head.

 

So the battle may have already been lost by the time On The Horizon was released. But I’m probably being biased. Haha

 

If we’re going full fantasy land, here’s my singles run:

 

1. Let’s Love

2. Love To You / Like That (album launch single, with LTY and LT on the album)

3. On The Horizon

4. Home

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IMO the momentum just wasn’t built enough with HICA. It’s lovely but not all that catchy. I still couldn’t sing the chorus off the top of my head.

 

So the battle may have already been lost by the time On The Horizon was released. But I’m probably being biased. Haha

 

If we’re going full fantasy land, here’s my singles run:

 

1. Let’s Love

2. Love To You / Like That (album launch single, with LTY and LT on the album)

3. On The Horizon

4. Home

 

 

If we are going full fantasy I love you without trying and living without you would have been singles for me they are the best two tracks of the era!

Let's Love it's much better than Yeh Yeh Yeh. But both are not very good for single releases.

 

I would Have go with

 

1. Here it Comes Again

2. On The Horizon

3. Reason

4. Melt

 

1. Yeh Yeh Yeh

2. Love To You

3. Here It Comes Again

4. Lets Love / Positively Somewhere

1. Yeh Yeh Yeh (with a better title damn! I think the demo was called On A Mission which would have been much better)

2. Love To You

3. Let's Love

4. Reason / Positively Somewhere

I think the album needed something on the lines of I Turn To You single edit as thats what i felt at the time people wanted from Mel, with Reason as much as i love the album it probably didnt fit into any real category, it was neither rock nor pop and fell between the cracks and got overlooked.

 

Let's Love is great but the material served on Reason just didn't resonate with people.

I don't think Let's Love would have performed any better in the charts than any of the songs that were selected as singles.

Look in the what if scenarios there is no way of knowing, i do know at the time i didnt expect Reason to perform so poorly after the huge momentum she had built up with her debut solo album, i was fully expecting another hugely successful era but sadly it all faded so quickly despite been such a great album.

Look in the what if scenarios there is no way of knowing, i do know at the time i didnt expect Reason to perform so poorly after the huge momentum she had built up with her debut solo album, i was fully expecting another hugely successful era but sadly it all faded so quickly despite been such a great album.

 

really? By the end of 2001, it was clear all solo projects were kind of dead in the water including Melanie's...

 

There was a huge anti-Spice sentiment in both the industry and the press, and whilst Melanie did tour a lot, it seemed like she didnt really manage to retain her audience beyond her first album because that audience was mainly going to see her because she was a Spice Girl...

 

Sure she managed to also get some audience of her own, but the core of it is Spice-fans. It has always been. Melanie's mistake was to trash the group and thus, ending her relationship with her main audience.

 

It is not a surprise really that the solo works were successful (including Geri's) to the point where the Spice Girls were still seen as an active band. Once that chapter was firmly closed, so where the audiences to their solo works.

 

Of course, some works post the disbanding of the group did manage to pull through in terms of genuine success (What Took You So Long, It's Raining Men, Free Me album) but overall it was all mostly dead in the water solo-wise. No longer able to thrive based on the Spice Girls-relation anymore, the solo girls were left to either have excellent music out so that the industry/press would somehow follow or not pester them with negativity (Free Me album), or do some tie-ins with big brands (Geri's with the movie, Mel C with the German and Portuguese soap operas...).

 

Melanie's other issue was that she released a subpar album with really meandering singles that didnt connect. Here It Comes Again was a bit meh as a pop comeback. It still is one of her worst lead singles. On The Horizon, whilst obviously radio-friendly, was such a clear attempt to jump on the New Radical's sound that it fell flat.

 

Let's Love could have at least been tied in with a TV commercial (like it was in East Asia!) as it sounds appropriate for that. As a lead single, it would have at least have more of a punch than Here It Comes Again. Plus, it is technically the better song!

 

And yes, by 2003 any song on Reason wouldnt have gone much more unless it was tied to any sort of promo deal that would have enhanced its media presence. Sadly, she chose to go with HICA, and killed her mainstream career in the process...

Of course, some works post the disbanding of the group did manage to pull through in terms of genuine success (What Took You So Long, It's Raining Men, Free Me album) but overall it was all mostly dead in the water solo-wise. No longer able to thrive based on the Spice Girls-relation anymore, the solo girls were left to either have excellent music out so that the industry/press would somehow follow or not pester them with negativity (Free Me album), or do some tie-ins with big brands (Geri's with the movie, Mel C with the German and Portuguese soap operas...).

 

 

Free Me sold 20,000 copies more than A Girl Like Me and 30,000 more than Reason and actually sold less that Scream.

 

I think any Gold album can be classed as a middling success, the issue was that the girls didn't make cheap albums, they spent a lot of money on them with big producers and writers so Gold didn't make the money back for them the way it did for other acts who wrote and produced their own stuff. Free Me was probably more profitable than the others for that reason as it was made with a lower budget than AGLM, Reason and Scream which all sold very similar with 30k sales difference.

 

I agree with the rest of your points though, the girls were sadly facing an uphill struggle by 2001, I'd even say 2000 based on Mel B's efforts but at least she had some decent selling singles in that era.