Melanie C Album: “Next Big Superstar [6 Track Single]”

This is Melanie C. first release on her new label and I really love the song "Next best superstar". The album version is great it is more rock flavored, but it still should be loved by her Spice Girl fans. Next would be the song "everything must change" which is a very great song in it's own right and I wish she would have included some remixes of that song as well. The remixes fall a little short for me except the "culprit alt. mix"

which really jams it adds just the right amount of pump to the song and it would be great if they used that mix for radio.

After going solo in 1999 with her "Northern Star" CD and the smashing successes that CD brought to her; Melanie released "Reason" which frankly felt like an hour long love letter to her boyfriend. Now she releases "Next Best Superstar" which is a pretty brutal vision of the music business. Coming from one of the Spice Girls, that were simply the biggest and longest lasting pop music sensation of the 1990's, and then watching all of her fellow Spices get unceremoniously dropped by Virgin...and then finally Ms. Chisholm and Virgin decided to amically part company. To her benefit, from the sounds of this song; and the CD it came from....

You want rock? Do you remember Joan Jet & the Blackhearts?

This song is one of many that remind me of Joan Jet in this CD. Which is a VERY good thing indeed. Melanie C has again broken the mold that she has been put into and came out swinging!