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Track Listings
| 1. All This time |
| 2. The Meaning Of Love |
| 3. Say It Isn’t So |
| 4. Emotional |
| 5. When The World Is Not Enough |
| 6. Too Fast Too Slow |
| 7. Cast The First Stone |
| 8. One Life |
| 9. Feelin’ Good |
| 10. How Can Sorry Ever Mend A Broken Heart |
| 11. Invincible |
| 12. I’ll Never Know |
| 13. More Than Anything |
| 14. Once In A Lifetime |
The unlikely but nevertheless welcome winner of Pop Idol 2003, the Scottish Cass-Elliot-like Michelle McManus is ill-served by some of the material and an awful lot of the presentation on her debut album The Meaning of Love. But that's surely par for the course: depending on one's viewpoint, Pop Idol's "viewer's choice" methodology is either a healthy, consumer-enfranchising democratisation of mainstream popular music or merely another way of cynically spoon-feeding the masses the opium they've already grown accustomed to. In winning Pop Idol, McManus defied existing stereotypes and thus deserves something a little more inventive than some of this prescriptive whitewash. She's been let down.
Every potential nuance of individuality and spirituality on The Meaning of Love (standard themes are make-ups and break-ups, but this is no Pet Sounds) is smothered as the songs are shoehorned into an easy-listening straitjacket. So, poor Michelle can only sound polite when singing "Sometimes I'm mad and break something" on "Emotional" when she ought to sound like she's hurling the crockery around in a fit of anger. While the tunes are serviceable (it isn't hard to imagine the Bee Gees performing "Say It Isn't So") and the production is as smooth as an infant's rear only the hit single "All This Time" and the title track (slightly gospel, slightly Caledonian, slightly Lena Martell) fit her personality. --Kevin Maidment
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'The Meaning Of Love' is the debut album by Michelle McManus, the winner of ITV's Pop Idol 2003. The number one single 'All This Time' is included here.
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