It's a bit upsetting that having followed this woman since last February she's put out an album so bloody poor. Disheartening even. She showed so much promise and in the end I think major label meddling has led to a tepid, confusing and non-album of album. At the very best it's a selection of tracks recorded with no nameable goal or purpose. It's pop music that exists for pop's sake and I don't think that's enough to warrant it serving any purpose. It's catchy enough but it's utterly robotic, stale (given she leaked most of it 6 months ago) and doesn't gel at all well. Some of the album is out and out Kylie copying other sections have been created through route of shortcut. Some terrible lyrics and then a very plain pretty-ish girl fronting it all. What makes it worse too is her horrible attitude to the obvious change that has gone on. She goes on and on how this moment in time she is where she wants to be. Her album is what she wants it to be, the life she's leading is what she wants. Marina Diamond her labelmate wrote quite an interesting blog that inadvertently made me think Boots, well worth checking out.

 

She is without doubt my biggest personal letdown since getting into music I think :s To conclude; tepid.

 

I read that blog last night. Mind you Marina deserves to be just a little bit miffed that her brilliant I Am Not A Robot failed to get playlisted by Radio 1, 2 or even 6 Music, and as a result has failed to enter iTunes Top 300 since its release.

 

As for Little Boots.... it's easy to see why some critics are now hailing her as the Susan Boyle of Pop. Which seems harsh. But then just compare and contrast these two Later With Jools Holland performances and it becomes a lot easier to see where all that potential has all gone to pot.

 

From this:

 

Little Boots - Meddle (November 2008)

 

Little Boots - Stuck On Pepeat (November 2008)

 

 

To this:

 

Little Boots - Remedy (May 2009)

 

From an artist, self assured (and totally captavating to watch) in her own individual craft and talent, to an anonymous popstar who looks uncomfortable on stage, (the way she shuffles on her feet and does that really naff wing flap movements is painful to watch IMHO) behind an anonymous annoyingly catchy pop tune.

 

As one of the broadsheets said this week, it's like the record company turning a young Kate Bush into a (solo) member of the Saturdays. Tragic. :(

As for Little Boots.... it's easy to see why some critics are now hailing her as the Susan Boyle of Pop.

 

What critics did call her that way ? :o I'd be interested in reading their argumentation ...

 

237 plays for Remedy LOL :( This is turning into a Fatal Attraction thang ;_;

 

Is it sad that I've directed the video for this in my head? :ph34r:

237 plays for Remedy LOL :( This is turning into a Fatal Attraction thang ;_;

 

Is it sad that I've directed the video for this in my head? :ph34r:

 

Hehe I've listened to the whole album about 25 times already :o :wub:

I fuuuucking love it !

237 plays for Remedy LOL :( This is turning into a Fatal Attraction thang ;_;

 

Is it sad that I've directed the video for this in my head? :ph34r:

 

Yes.

My my my, this album is ALL KINDS of epic. Commerciality doesn't always mean disappointment no? ;o

My my my, this album is ALL KINDS of epic. Commerciality doesn't always mean disappointment no? ;o

 

Hell yeah. :wub: This is a truly excellent pop album.

 

I think the last 3 tracks are quite filler though, they're in a league way below all of the others.

My my my, this album is ALL KINDS of epic. Commerciality doesn't always mean disappointment no? ;o

 

No? It sucks because it's a completely misguide and imbalanced effort filled with tracks that leaked over a year ago. Commercial music doesn't mean a bunch of okay tracks randomly thrown together, i.e. Lady GaGa, who came out with a very consistent, direct, and purposed album last year.

No? It sucks because it's a completely misguide and imbalanced effort filled with tracks that leaked over a year ago. Commercial music doesn't mean a bunch of okay tracks randomly thrown together, i.e. Lady GaGa, who came out with a very consistent, direct, and purposed album last year.

I'm not really getting the randomly thrown together comments, it seems to flow alright for me and it seems odd how it's now a disappointment when half of it contains the tracks that got people raving over her in the first place. Maybe that's the fault of us for following her so closely before she had her album done? I'm sure if these tracks had never leaked it' wouldn't be so 'disappointing'.

 

I'll admit it trails off towards the end in quality, but they're all decent tracks. I reckon she should have called this album "Heart", the amount she goes on about them. "My heart's skipping and I don't know why", "nothing can divide a heart plus a heart", "don't meddle with the heart" then there's the songs with the word in the title and then there's "Click" and "Symmetry" which again fit well with the whole feel. I know it's quite standard for Pop songs to centre around love but it really doesn't feel thrown together.

 

The only songs I feel are tacked or out of place on are "New In Town" and "Ghost" the latter because it sounds so different to the rest, would have sounded better towards the end. I dunno, to me, it feels very much like she's connected to the songs and I find them all enjoyable.

I think it is a good album (7.5 out of 10), but it is let down by the following:

 

1. Virtually all the best tracks had already leaked months ago.

2. I think Remedy's Geri Halliwell tries to be Lady GaGa over commerciality stinks badly, especially compared to the lovely piano ballad bonus track which has an organic charm that made youtube followers fall in love with her, that most of this album's production has got rid of.

3. She's allowed the record company to dictate whom she works with so the album lacks a cohesive feel musically and conceptually as if the 12 main tracks had been put into a randomiser for their order.

4. The Diana Vickers look is not a good look compared to her 2008 image.

5. Comparing this debut with Lady GaGa's debut is like comparing Aston Villa to Barcelona.

I'm in love with this album and I really didn't expect to like it so much.

 

For me the stand-outs are:

 

Remedy

Earthquake

Mathematics

Meddle

Click

Tune Into My Heart.

 

Actually isn't a song I wouldn't listen too if it was on which is credit to the actual tracklisting as its done perfectly. I'd normally skip to a song like Remedy straight away. :heart:

Obviously I think the whole way she's sold her soul to Atlantic etc. isn't a good thing, but seriously, there isn't an actual bad track on here. I have to say, I do think Aaron has a point that the reason it's such a 'disappointment' is because the three or four tracks we hadn't heard yet aren't exactly the best ones :lol: I have to agree that the whole thing does flow quite well, even if it does sound like Vicky thinks love is just a jigsaw puzzle :heehee:

I think the last 3 tracks are quite filler though, they're in a league way below all of the others.

Coincidentally, as if to prove my point, these are the three that we hadn't yet heard until the album's release :heehee:

Hell yeah. :wub: This is a truly excellent pop album.

 

I think the last 3 tracks are quite filler though, they're in a league way below all of the others.

Do you have an original bone in your body? You said the EXACT SAME THING to me at about 5pm today :\

 

I like it so far, it's the first album I've bought in more than a year and I'm a bit disappointed because I love 'New In Town' and 'Remedy', but I'm sure I'll love it in time.

Remedy has had over 100 plays for me in less than a week. :heart:

Remedy has had over 100 plays for me in less than a week. :heart:

It has 423 for me in two weeks, beat that :smoke::heehee:

It has 423 for me in two weeks, beat that :smoke::heehee:

I will, this week. :heehee:

Obviously I think the whole way she's sold her soul to Atlantic etc. isn't a good thing, but seriously, there isn't an actual bad track on here. I have to say, I do think Aaron has a point that the reason it's such a 'disappointment' is because the three or four tracks we hadn't heard yet aren't exactly the best ones :lol: I have to agree that the whole thing does flow quite well, even if it does sound like Vicky thinks love is just a jigsaw puzzle :heehee:

Yeah, I'm a bit gutted that she's let them control her so much. It came across that she wasn't so happy with the video for "New In Town" and I'm not convinced that it was about her time in LA. The first version of it was less dark (no middle 8, "so rely on people you meet" instead of "don't rely") and it just sounded more like it was coming from her. Now the opening verse sounds like it's coming from a stranger Victoria met whereas it sounded like it was her before. I can understand that it was a bit generic before and they were trying to add some depth to it but it just seems more forced now.

 

Exactly, we've been raving about 7 of the album tracks for months. Sure, there are a few that people didn't like but these are the songs that got everyone's hopes up in the first place, so there must have been something pretty amazing about them. This is the problem with giving us "Meddle" back then and releasing the album all this time later. She's had to maintain the fanbase and I expect previewing new songs was a way of doing that, only now we feel we've heard too much of it and are consequently disappointed. Plus, we'd only be moaning if she left off something like "Mathematics" or "Meddle" in favour of a new track.

 

Oh yeah, I think the Times picked up on that jigswa thing in their review? I definitely feel most of the songs flowing. The songs might be a bit cliché lyrically as it's all about love, heartbreak and connecting. But it's kinda what you'd expect from a normal young woman. (which is, what I would say, is her enemy) It might not be meaningful or making a statement but it's good, fun, Pop music.

Yeah, I'm a bit gutted that she's let them control her so much. It came across that she wasn't so happy with the video for "New In Town" and I'm not convinced that it was about her time in LA. The first version of it was less dark (no middle 8, "so rely on people you meet" instead of "don't rely") and it just sounded more like it was coming from her. Now the opening verse sounds like it's coming from a stranger Victoria met whereas it sounded like it was her before. I can understand that it was a bit generic before and they were trying to add some depth to it but it just seems more forced now.

 

Exactly, we've been raving about 7 of the album tracks for months. Sure, there are a few that people didn't like but these are the songs that got everyone's hopes up in the first place, so there must have been something pretty amazing about them. This is the problem with giving us "Meddle" back then and releasing the album all this time later. She's had to maintain the fanbase and I expect previewing new songs was a way of doing that, only now we feel we've heard too much of it and are consequently disappointed. Plus, we'd only be moaning if she left off something like "Mathematics" or "Meddle" in favour of a new track.

 

Oh yeah, I think the Times picked up on that jigswa thing in their review? I definitely feel most of the songs flowing. The songs might be a bit cliché lyrically as it's all about love, heartbreak and connecting. But it's kinda what you'd expect from a normal young woman. (which is, what I would say, is her enemy) It might not be meaningful or making a statement but it's good, fun, Pop music.

The new version of NIT just seemed a bit BLEH tbh but I'm not complaining about the new middle eight :heart: Video sosososo should've been late night Blackpool as well, or at least Shoreditch. Yeah, I do think that we'd be heralding this as album of the year had we not heard something like Mathematics or Stuck On Repeat before album release...as it was, there wasn't really much new to listen to. Anyway, there isn't that much BIGBIGBIG commercial on the album aside from New In Town, Earthquake and Remedy...and I don't see many people complaining about the latter two (although granted Remedy does have its HATAHZ).

The new version of NIT just seemed a bit BLEH tbh but I'm not complaining about the new middle eight :heart: Video sosososo should've been late night Blackpool as well, or at least Shoreditch. Yeah, I do think that we'd be heralding this as album of the year had we not heard something like Mathematics or Stuck On Repeat before album release...as it was, there wasn't really much new to listen to. Anyway, there isn't that much BIGBIGBIG commercial on the album aside from New In Town, Earthquake and Remedy...and I don't see many people complaining about the latter two (although granted Remedy does have its HATAHZ).

Oh yeah, I do like the new "New In Town" a lot. It's just odd how adding a middle 8 and a new word to the bridge can alter it so much. It should have totally. The first version seemed a bit like "Take Your Mama" or something where she was showing us around her town, then it changed to her feeling all lost in LA. :blink:

 

Agreed, it was somewhat of a let down only because I was left with "Click", "Hearts Collide", "Symmetry", "Hands", "Tune Into My Heart" and "No Brakes" to listen to. I'm sure I'd be amazed with it if I listened having never heard of her before.

 

Yeah, those three are definitely the ones I could pick out as "written to be a hit" but they're still very good and aren't as contrived as they could be.