Okay, so she vowed never to make another record on 'Totally Scott-Lee' after her single 'Electric' failed to go Top 10.. but then, would Lisa want to let her fans down when all she wants to do is make pop records?
I mean, 'Lately' was a fantastic single and I remember it being launched and standing a few feet away from her beaming and singing the track, telling us that it would be out soon. It was amazing - the perfect pop tune and for a moment, all seemed well. She then followed it up with 'Too Far Gone', which again was a brilliant pop track (with a great video too) but by this time, the public had forgotten who or why she was and had moved onto other things. Attempts to ignite the charts with the Strike cover of 'U Sure Do' and 'You Got Me' with the Intenso Project didn't fare so well and she slipped into the realms of bargain basement before comitting televisual suicide with her ill-kept promise.
However, NEVER OR NOW is a superb album - full of pop laden tracks with a strong dance undercurrent and at times, quite sexy and clever but there's a problem... and that is that you can only buy the physical CD format from South Africa and that all bar about one track has been leaked/given away on the internet prior to the album's release. In fact, the album was originally called 'Unleashed' but with the name change, they've kept the same artwork too - much to the disappointment of the 'fans', most of whom seem only there to moan and whinge about her on her forums. An unforunate incident involving a cross-dressing (as Lisa) fan who leaked the album on the internet cost her dearly and so poor Lisa is stuck in a rutt.
Tracks like 'Boy On The Dance Floor' and 'Make It Last Forever' deserve to be singles but both are old hat for any Lisa audience now and so it is unlikely that we'll see any singles released from this album or any UK promotion. The UK will only be able to buy a DL version of the album or the very limited stock of them from Lisa's own stock.
I feel sorry for Lisa, she tries so hard but through a terrible chain of poor management/decisions, she's left to look like this. There might be nothing new here, but I purposefully avoided all the leaked tracks and therefore it is glittering and new for me. I like it. If Kylie had recorded this album, it would be a huge hit, but Lisa did instead... and i hope that she finds it a wholly cathartic release to finally get this released. She can now move on to new, unleaked and exciting new sounds.
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