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  • Audio CD (9 Oct 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B00004YTXF
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Mini-Disc  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 69,314 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Feels So Good
2. Tell Me
3. Hell No
4. Lullaby
5. Hotter
6. Step Inside
7. ABC 123
8. I Believe
9. I Want You Back
10. Pack Your Shit
11. Feel Me Now

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Spice Girl, Melanie B's debut, Hot acknowledges the warped, sexy, funky grooves of R&B pop through imitation. Unlike her contemporaries, Destiny's Child, Mel's voice is sadly devoid of soul and range. Owing to these limitations, Hot sounds like a producer's album rather than Mel's chance to shine without the others. Sisqo, long-time Janet Jackson collaborators, Jam & Lewis and Teddy Riley supply the grooves, Mel offers her loud and upfront personality. Sensibly Mel has chosen to exclude her cover of Cameo's "Word Up" and this decision goes in her favour. Although her collaboration with Missy Elliott, "I Want You Back", is there in all its dark and sexy neo-disco glory, it's not indicative of the album. The ace two-step flavoured "Step Inside" proves that up-tempo pop is her forte but boy, does she begin to let the side down. As Hot is partly about the break-up of her marriage, Melanie indulges in lots of melancholic spoken-word interludes circa Janet Jackson's Control. It's not very good, mainly because her yearning is so ludicrously overblown. This weakness for amateur dramatics also applies to Mel's sordid attempt to be sexy on "Feel Me Down". But what works is pretty fab. She blows in with "Feel So Good", an irresistible slice of radio-friendly sunshine pop, follows that with the funky "Tell Me" and manages to disarm us with "Lullaby", a lovely, folky ballad. --Maxine Kabuubi

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Melanie B...hmmm?, 18 Dec 2001
By A Customer
Oh Melanie, Melanie? How could you? If you want to know why I'm being so dramatic, check out the credits for songwriters. Mel.B's lyrical talent spans three group albums, but here...it seems as though it didn't. While the album is decent, and give us more flavor than most American r&b albums. (Say...Blu Cantrell or Debelah Morgan?)

Mel.B obviously has some taste in music, with the first track 'Feels So Good' she gives funk and pop a exploding fusion. 'Tell Me' sounds like a runaway Looney Tune cartoon at first, then in come the many bass-lines. 'Hell No' is at the most, one of the weakest tracks, but the lyrics make you think. 'Lullaby' which was dedicated to her daughter was sweet and innocent, with its childish ways.

The best track by far was 'Feel Me Now', the sexy-romp into Mel's fantasies of sex. Sadly, most of these songs (excpet 'Lullaby') were co-written if not written at all by Mel.B.

This makes for a bad mixture, since her fellow bandmates album, Mel.C's 'Northern Star' is very personal, in a sense of lyrics and music choice. She had the producers and voice, but didn't mine her lyrical talent.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly HOT, 27 Nov 2003
By Cynthia Selene (Miskolc, Hungary) - See all my reviews
If I knew that this album is this good, I'd had bought it earlier. Maybe I would have if I've known that she worked with Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Missy Elliott, Fred Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels and Teddy Riley (each of them is a big name enough to make me buy a CD). I just can't pick which song is the best, 'cause they're equally good, maybe except for Feel Me Now, which tries to be sexy, but it's boring (although if you want to fell asleep, I can recommend it), I guess they gave it to her after Janet Jackson rejected it, but the rest of the album is very good. I especially like "Tell Me" with its cool rhythm and cool lyrics, and "I Believe" with its uncredited sampling of the Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together" (say it, say it, say it again). It's a good album and makes me wanna more, so I guess I'll start looking for the singles while I'm waiting for Melanie's second solo album.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This is hot!, 13 Oct 2000
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Mel B's three solo singles have all rocked so I had high expectations of the album. I wasn't disappointed. Things kick off with Feels So Good which is just a really nice love song, and then there's Tell Me, which is the amazing current single. Lullaby is a cute little ballad about Phoenix which is followed by Step Inside, my favourite song which is a really cool, Destiny's Child 2-stepper. Every song is great and the production is excellent all the way through thanks to Sisqo, Fred and Rodney Jerkins, Missy Elliott, and many other talented producers. At the end of the CD, there is I Want You Back with Missy, which is very dark and groovy, Pack Your Sh*t which is really angry and excellent, and to finish a sleazy song called Feel Me Now. This whole album is great and Mel's voice and personality shine. It hasn't been out of my stereo since I bought it. The best RnB album of the year so far.
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