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Like her or loathe her, Geri Halliwell can't seem to do anything quietly, which is why her second solo album is appropriately titled Scream if you Wanna Go Faster. Gone are the strings, breathy vocals and Diva like aspirations of her debut Schizophonic, Geri instead settling on a more straightforward pop approach. After the pointless motor-engine samples of "Dragster" (bizarrely a track on their own) she launches into "Scream if you Wanna Go Faster", a 1960s tinged rock track. What follows is a rather hotchpotch of style and influences that refuse to settle into a cohesive whole. Geri serves up helpings of acoustic ballads in "Circle Round the Moon" and "Love is the Only Light", up-beat funk with "Shake Your Bootie Cutie" and "Feels Like Sex". She is again extolling the virtues of girl power in "Strength of a Woman and even slips back into Spice Girls mode for "Don't Call Me Baby", which sounds rather similar to her former group's "Stop". Geri's vocal range is particularly limited but she wisely never stretches herself. The bad apple and easily the worst song on the album is her pointless, tacky cover of "It's Raining Men", which manages to trample all over the melody and subvert the innocent playful lyrics of the original and create something rather more tawdry. Penultimate track "Heaven and Hell (Being Geri Halliwell)" is an enjoyable send-up of her celebrity image and a poke at tabloid journalists but Heaven and Hell is also a fitting description of this brave but ultimately flawed second album. --Duncan Whitlam
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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With the infamous new figure and the love/hate cover version of It's Raining Men, the original princess of pop returns with a surprisingly cracking album. Scream if you wanna go faster is an up-beat, storming pop album. Geri plays to her strengths in her second solo albu, and if this is anything to go by, far from last. Opening with the 60s retro title track Scream if you wanna go faster, things take a slight dip with the next track, Shake your Bootie Cutie. Although it's not a bad song, her referances to sexy daddies and hot mammas are laughable. Things pick up with the belt-it-out ballad Calling, and reach further heights with the infuriatingly funky soon-to-be single Feels like Sex. Circles round the Moon is next, a delightfully summary song rumoured to be on the Harry Potter soundtrack. Things take a more mellow approach with Love is the only Light, which is very pleasant rather than cracking. However, it is made up with the GIRL POWERness of Strength of a woman, a mix between Emma Bunton and Ronan Keaton. Don't Call me Baby arrives next, a brilliant Motown-esque track, followed by the frankly annoying reggae attempt in Lovey Dovey stuff. It's Raining Men storms out of your sound system next, sounding better with every listen. Next, Heaven & Hell (Being Geri Halliwell) pops out of the blue, a punk rock/pop track full of humour and good messages. I was made that way floats nicely away and calls the end to an irrisistabley addictive album. For fans of Schizophonic, you will only grow with love for Miss Halliwell. For those of you who wanted to slap her whenever she popped up on TOTP, you will be eating an enormous slice of humble pie. Geri has finally found her level musically and lyrically, and has crafted a delightful pop album which you can simply not ignore. Bravo Miss Halliwell!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I still think Schizophonic was better (slightly) but this is still astonking album. Geri enlisted the production skills of Gregg Alexander (New Radicals) for this album, that's why "Shake Your Bootie Cutie" and "Strength Of A Woman" sound similar to "You Get What You Give" (by the New Radicals) in places. This strengthens the album but also gives it an overall sound (each track on Schizophonic sounded different to the next). It's also sometimes very obvious where Geri gets her inspiration from, i.e. Lovey Dovey Stuff bears a striking resemblance to "Englishman In New York" by Sting (they both mention tea in the first line and you can sing one on top of the other). This doesn't stop it from being a great album though. It's a shame "Feels Like Sex" was never released as a single - top tune!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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There's nothing like this album! It doesn't have "latino music" (like Mi Chico Latino on Schizophonic album) and no songs (like You're In A Bubble). The title-song, Scream If You Wanna Go Faster, is better than Look At Me, but have a feeling of 60's beat..... Lovey Dovey Stuff is and R&B mixed with reggae, you can't stop movin'. It's Heaven & Hell (Being Geri Halliwell) is an autobiographyc song, the style of music changes everytimes like "flashes".
Shake Your Bootie Cutie is a very dancey track but the final is very strange! Nothing that Calling could do to better the sound, the next ballad to be a single, 'cos Geri put all her voice power in that one...
To be a perfect final track, the album got I Was Made That Way (that is in It's Raining Men as a b-side), perfectly to end the album. A beatiful ballad, you have to hear that after sleep, and it'll sound like: "Have a goodnight"...
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Ouch!!!
This album is just painful to the ears. There are very few recording artist who are so bad at singing as Geri. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2004 by Scott Wilde
Geri's back!
This album is brillient. Better than the last one, Geri offers a more sexier, poppier album full of tunes to brighten up even Margret Thatchers Day! Read more
Published on 26 Aug 2003 by N. Wilson
Geri's 2nd Baby
Firstly, this album is a GOOD pop album, and I emphasise the good because it is not a great piece of work, and secondly its a feel good album, because all the upbeat songs are... Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2003 by Deano's
Marketing Good. Singing Bad.
Let me just say, Geri is a very funny, enetaining, sexy girl who was pretty much made to make it big. Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2003 by J. Fon
Off key wailing to clichéd backing
A friend of mine has made me go from disliking this album to hating it with a vengeance after playing it in my presence far too often. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2003 by michael_m
Possibly the worst pop album of all time.
This being my sister's favourite album, I have heard it so many times through the bedroom wall I feel as if I know all there is to know about Halliwell and her love-hate... Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2002
Geri delivers without fail. Bravo!
Geri Halliwell has often been categorized as the only Spice Girl that wans't blessed w/ vocal talent. Geri proves most critics worng, with her sophmore effort. Read more
Published on 27 April 2002 by spice_invader@aol.com
Interesting blend of good songs
I haven't heard Geri's first album in its entirety, but still think I can safely say that she's improving. (Do you remember any really good songs from Schizophonic? Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2002
Screamin for geri too go faster
Geri's album scream if you wanna go faster has already brought hits singles such as the number 1 single "It's raining men",and the top 10 singles Scream if you wanna go... Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2001
Shake your bootie Geri!
Wow from the moment the first song starts you know this is going to be a brilliant album, full of funky dance tunes, pop anthems, and lushus ballads, and you arnt... Read more
Published on 26 Oct 2001
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