Product Description

The debut solo album release from Victoria Beckham, is a blend of carefully crafted pop and R&B. The self titled album was co-written by the Spice Girl, and also features a guest appearance from her son Brooklyn. The single 'Not Such An Innocent Girl' is also featured on the album.

Track Listing

1. Not Such An Innocent Girl
2. A Mind Of Its Own
3. That Kind Of Girl
4. Like That
5. Girlfriend
6. Midnight Fantasy
7. I.O.U.
8. No Trix, No Games
9. I Wish
10. Watcha Talkin' Bout
11. Unconditional Love
12. Every Part Of Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5754 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-01
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Mrs Beckham completes the set of solo Spice Girls albums with her self-titled debut, Victoria Beckham. Leading off with the first single and meatiest song on the album "Not Such an Innocent Girl", the 12 tracks breeze through a number of different styles with varying degrees of success. You can hear Victoria's voice adapt to suit the song, not quite finding a style of her own but still sounding far better than many critics could have imagined. "A Mind of It's Own" is very pleasant, inoffensive pop where VB sounds little like former band mate Geri in a whisperey, half-sung, half-spoken kind of way. Another song where her voice and style morph into that of a different pop peer is on "I.O.U.", a sweet ballad which sounds a little like a find on the studio floor during Madonna's Ray of Light sessions. It's unlikely that Victoria will win any new fans with this effort as there are no songs to stand out and wrestle for attention but aside from over-using the dreaded vo-coder, it is easily a pleasant enough, inoffensive pop record. --Georgina Collins

Customer Reviews

Very Excellent Album
It is a real shame that Victoria Beckham didn't stick in with her musical career, as the album VB is an excellent album and shows that Mrs Beckham had lots of potential in the music industry.

Well Done Vicky B!!

Tut
For me I felt that Victoria only did the solo thing because of her fellow Spices. I'm not knocking her she can sing (she's not actually horrible to listen too) but on the other hand I think alot of her songs are.

This album is rushed, with a Hip Hop genre all the way through. There's a couple of dance one's on there too. I had it when I was a MAJOR Spice fan and I'm not no more and I threw this out. I only have Melanie B's too albums (L.A State of Mind - the best album by a Spice Girl!)

Anyway..

Not Such An Innocent Girl - If you like Victoria you'll love this song!

A Mind Of It's Own - One of the better songs on the album, a very good ballad infact and Vicotria sings it beautifully.

That Kind of Girl - This sounds like she has sang through a computer. It has a horrible tune and a dull boring chours and the lyrics are basically saying what she wants and what kind of girl she is!

Like That - A decent track, another better track of thae album and shows off Victoria's vocals on an up-tempo. Impressive!

Girlfriend - At first it's a great track. Overplay it. You'll hate it. Another bass hip hop song on about how a guy was saying sweet nothing to her and now his Girlfriend is calling her. Boring...

Midnight Fantasy - Another decent ballad the second A Mind of It's Own. A decent middle tempo ballad!

I.O.U. - One word - crap! David's song! The lyrics are dull, it made me wanna scratch my eye out!

I Wish - A brilliant song by Victoria, a uptempo dance song, easily the best on the album, repative music, but it suits the song. This was a song on Bend It Like Beckham.

No, Trix, No , Games - Boring!

I can remember the name of the next song... It was dull.

Uncondital Love - A song for Brooklyn. Sickly. But I guess it personal to her.

Rubbish album in general.

Best Tracks:

Mind of it's Own.
Like That.
Midnight Fantasy.
I Wish.

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If there were more songs like that, I'm sure the album would have been much better! But hey! If you're a fan of her. Buy it. If your not. Don't waste you money on this JUNK!

An underrated pop gem
If you've been part of a pop act as phenomenally successful as the Spice Girls, establishing yourself as a solo artist in your own right is naturally going to be difficult. Even more so if you've gone on to marry another celebrity and become well-known as a famous face, style icon and footballer's wife. This is the conundrum that has dogged Victoria Beckham's post-Spice career, and has seen her much-maligned musical endeavours frequently branded a 'failure'. Her detractors often refer to the fact that, despite being the most rich, famous and instantly recognisable amongst her former bandmates, Victoria is the only ex-Spice Girl not to have attained a solo No.1 single.

In my opinion, Victoria's fame and media notoriety is the very thing that has prevented her singles and albums from becoming hits. Upon its release, this record was savaged by the press, with no apparent justification other than the media's dislike of Victoria herself. Of course, it would be ridiculous to argue that the album is a masterpiece, but taken as what it is - a frivolous, danceable pop record - it's perfectly enjoyable, bosating several sparkling gems of songs, and better by far than the vast majority of the other Spice members' solo efforts.

'Victoria Beckham' retains some of the r'n'b influences that characterised the Spice swansong 'Forever', but (for the most part) wisely eschews that album's slow jams and ballads in favour of more upbeat tracks, returning to the irresistable pop hooks that made the Spice Girls famous. Lead single 'Not Such an Innocent Girl' is a great pop song, but not the best track on the album; that accolade goes to the slick and sexy 'No Trix, No Games', with the supremely catchy 'Midnight Fantasy' a close contender. 'That Kind of Girl' is a rare thing, a pop ballad which manages to avoid becoming too sickly-sweet by tempering its sentiment with a dose of humour. Obviously, there are weak tracks, the overly saccharine and poorly produced 'Unconditional Love' being the worst. 'A Mind of Its Own', the second and final single to be taken from the album, is also poor - why on earth this was released rather than a strong, upbeat song such as 'Girlfriend' or 'Like That' will always be a mystery to me.

This album isn't a work of genius, but it's fun, upbeat, and easy to sing and dance along to. If you loved the Spice Girls, you should definitely add it to your collection. And if you're a fan of pop/r'n'b/dance music in general, give it a try - you'll be pleasantly suprised!