Passion

Album Artwork:

Photo by Dean Freeman
Artwork by Andrew Murabito

Tracklist:
1. Passion
2. Desire
3. Love Never Loved Me
4. Feel The Fear
5. Superstar
6. Surrender Your Groove
7. Ride It
8. There’s Always Tomorrow
9. Let Me Love You More
10. Don’t Get Any Better
11. Loving Me Back To Life
12. So I Give Up On Love

Singles:
1. Ride It
2. Desire
3. Love Never Loved Me (Canceled)

Outtakes:
100% Pure Love
Disco Sister
Into The Night
Geri’s Got Her Groove Back
Gimme Your Love
My Sweetest Pain
Putting On The Bling
Set Me Off
Some Girls
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
True Love Never Dies
Turn It On

Rumored/Unconfirmed:
Burning In My Heart
James Bond Is Back

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Alternative Cover (South Korea):

Production & Release:

After her second studio album Scream If You Wanna Go Faster, Geri started to write songs for her third album, while working on television projects (Popstars and All American Girl) and the release of her second book (Just For The Record).The album was originally titled Disco Sister and the original concept was going to be focused on electropop, EDM and Europop sounds. She wrote many songs between 2001 and 2004 with a number of producers. Songs recorded during this period that did not appear on the final album include “Set Me Off”, “Turn It On”, “Into the Night”, “Putting on the Bling”, “Geri’s Got Her Groove Back”, “Disco Sister”, “My Sweetest Pain”, “Gimme Your Love”. Geri also recorded a cover version from Crystal Waters’ “100% Pure Love” and was rumored to be the album’s lead single.  The song was scrapped from the album, with rumors that Geri was afraid to release it as a single and to be know that she was only successful with no original songs (“It’s Raining Men”). In 2004, EMI changed the focus of the album and the title to Passion, replacing some of the dance songs with ballads, jazz-pop, and electro-pop songs, including the newly recorded songs “Passion”, “Desire”, “Surrender Your Groove”, “There’s Always Tomorrow”, “So I Give Up on Love”, and the B-side “True Love Never Dies”.

 

Sales & Chart:

Passion was released as the third studio album by Geri Halliwell on 6 June 2005 by Innocent Records.

Two singles were released from the album: “Ride It”, which charted at number four, and “Desire”, which charted at number 22 on the UK Singles Chart. Although the album was praised for Halliwell’s improved voice the album was a commercial disappointment, peaking at number 41 with only 5,432 copies sold and charting for only one week on the UK Albums Chart. However, the album did manage to become a moderate hit worldwide, selling over half a million copies according to the Daily Mail. In Argentina it peaked number 17 on charts.

Promotion:

A tour had been planned in order to promote the album, but was canceled.

A documentary promoting Passion, titled There’s Something About Geri, was premiered by Channel 5 on 15 May 2005. It covered her life and career and following her from Moscow to Milan and Britain as she prepares for a relaunch of her singing career.

The documentary attracted an audience of 1.1 million viewers, garnering above-average Sunday ratings for the network. Despite rating success, it was criticised by the media for showing a “self-obsessed, painfully vain little girl in need of constant mollycoddling”. She regretted doing the documentary film, commenting, “I shouldn’t have done it! Even thinking about it makes me cringe!”.