Album Artwork:
Released: 2 October 2020
Label: Red Girl Records
Tracklist:
CD1:
1. Who I Am
2. Blame It On Me
3. Good Enough
4. Escape
5. Overload
6. Fearless
7. Here I Am
8. Nowhere To Run
9. In & Out Of Love
10. End Of Everything
CD2:
1. Self Love
2. Into You
3. Touch Me (Rui da Silva Cover)
4. Who I Am (Joe Goddard Remix)
5. Blame It On Me (PBH & Jack Remix)
6. High Heels (Feat. Sink The Pink) (Moto Blanco Remix)
Singles:
1. Who I Am
2. Blame It On Me
3. In & Out Of Love
4. Overload
Outtakes & Demos:
High Heels (feat. Sink The Pink)
On October 2016, Melanie C released her seventh studio album, Version Of Me, becoming her highest charting album since 2005’s Beautiful Intentions debuting at #25. It was released in Brazil in 2017, when, after an extensive promotional tour the album achieved the #1 position.
In a interview for Paper Magazine, on April 2018, she revealed that this same year her new eight studio album will be released.
On Abril 9, 2019, Melanie C announced her partnership Global Pride Tour along with Sink the Pink, with initial nine dates, was added eight more. It was the first time Melanie introduced the festival, along with five drag queens that dressed up like the Spice Girls. During the concerts, Melanie sung her fan favorites solo and Spice Girls hits, and three new songs, “Pride (Deeper Love)” (Clivillés & Cole cover), “Blind” (Hercules and Love Affair cover), and the previously unreleased “High Heels”. The single for “High Heels” was later released on November 6, 2019, two months later the the tour closing. In May, Melanie embarked in the second reunion tour with the Spice Girls. She started to work in the album short time earlier. The tour was the main inspiration for the album theme. She said quote: “I wanted to do a dance record, that people wanted to listened to, I wanted to be empowering, I wanted to be fun. I think being Sporty Spice again just made me feel very reflective. I wanted to celebrate everything I’ve done in my carrear so far.”
On November 27, 2019, for a interview for The Guardian, Melanie showed demos from new songs, to be released in 2020, that talks about issues with self-acceptance and self-empowerment. She worked with left-field pop artists such as Shura, Rae Morris and Little Boots, with a disco-tinged synth-pop songs that recalls classic Robyn and the carefree joy of Carly Rae Jepsen.
The first single from the album, “Who I Am”, was released on 19 March 2020 and peaked #6 in the first day in the UK. The second single, “Blame It On Me” was released 27 May 2020, and peak #13 in the first day in the UK. The third single, was released on 29 July 2020.
The album is going to be released in six formats: Standard CD, Signed Deluxe Edition with Bonus CD, Cassette, Standard LP Vinyl, Signed Violet LP Vinyl and Signed 3LP Vinyl Deluxe Book. The album cover, title, tracklist, release date and formats were shared by the shopping page MerchBar, after a fan who worked close to the Spice Girls leaked the link information on 28 July, a day before the released of “In & Out Of Love”. After two hours, all the album versions were take down by the website.
After the song release, the album was available for pre-order on Melanie C Store.
Promotion:
Due the coronavirus (CODIV-19) pandemic, most of the singles and album promotion was due online streaming interviews. The first time Melanie promote the album and her 2021 tour, was during BBC Radio 2 The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show.
On 29 July she also did a Instagram live interview for Los 40 Principales Spain, and also did a DJ number for the viewers. In the same day the did a interview for Radio Arroba from Argentina.
Sales & Chart:
To be released on 2 October 2020.
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