Her sporty spice days may be all but firmly accounted for in the past tense these days. When it came to moving her music career forward from her former girl band beginnings Melanie C has never really looked back so much.
To be honest I always found Melanie to have the strongest voice out of the bunch anyways and whilst her other bandmates have diversified off into other artistic directions, the singer from Merseyside has continued to consistently knock out five solo album’s worth of tuneage.
Admittedly Mel’s choosing of going rock, didn’t suit my taste so much, but I’ve always found her to be on-point with the vocals nonetheless. Bejesus I couldn’t hate on a Spice Girl for all they rallied up in their movement of girl power empowerment. They raised awareness and that was only ever a good thing!
The music however, pretty much came by on a take or leave basis and to be honest the latter of the two became most applicable.
As we all sit back and wonder if Spice Girls GEM, might ever really take-off or least of all live up to the hype surrounding it, (because a deep lurking feeling tells me it won’t!) Mel’s doing what she’s always done. Marching to the beat of her own drum by putting out her 6th studio album “Version Of Me”.
In truth Mel has dabbled in electronic pop before in her solo career, but it seems she’s got a right groove on with it again as she’s turned in a reet dance, pop bop with album lead-in single “Anymore”.
No time has been spared on drawing up a storyboard, there’s no story to tell here other than dancing your cares away and forgetting the one you’ve broken up with. That is, if only you weren’t so paralyzed by the cutting pain of it all that you can move your booty and rustle up an attempt of busting out some hip action at least. We’ve all been there! We’ve taken ourselves off somewhere to forget and it isn’t working. Mel’s just telling us to stay put on the dancefloor until the beat eats into us.
All in all it’s more easy peasy actually than we first thought as “Anymore” is the most on-point of electronic-pop satisfaction that Mel’s probably ever given us.