Geri Halliwell
Passion
(Virgin)
Chris Briggs sums up the Geri Halliwell effect succinctly when he says: 'You feel an irrational resistance to her.' Coming from her own music manager, you have to wonder why anyone should bother cutting a record it is obvious few will buy.
The answer might lie in Halliwell's overblown view of herself. Or it may have to do with marketers whose fingers are now on the panic button because they weren't on the pulse of the pop scene. Probably it's a mixture of both.
Halliwell, who could have retired without further ado as Ginger Spice, says in the liner notes to Passion that it's an autobiographical soundtrack to the past four years of her life. She denies herself any dignity, however, by serving up such adolescent laments as Love Never Loved Me, Feel the Fear and So I Give Up on Love. The last is a swipe at her ex-boyfriends.