Ex-Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller has given a
leg-up to his former Baby and helped her release a comeback single, complete
with a new voluptuous temptress image.
Pleasantly mediocre, Free Me is a classy nu-'70s love
song. The sound is reminiscent of old Bond-themes and Emma's voice is
processed perfickly, with the chorus tweaked to be refreshingly hyper-clean
and synthetic.
If there's any justice in the world this will seduce
its way into the top ten before reaching its sell-by period. But that ol'
spice which gave Emma such success last millennium has become the touch of
death in the charts right now.
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