Hello, and welcome to review forum. Today's review question:
Does Walk Of Life make Billie Piper the UK's Britney Spears? That question answered after this review.The first two singles are the first two songs on the album. "Day & Night" has a suspiciously BSB sound, what with the power pop chords pounded out like "Backstreet's Back" and "Larger Than Life". That makes me cringe, but the chorus and the reminder that it is a British popster doing it alleviates my gut. As for "Something Deep Inside", her voice is Britneyesque, as is the chorus and styling, comparable to Britney's songs.
Listening to the title track reminds me once more how British pop is superior to American pop, as I mentioned in my Kylie reviews.
This is the sort of music that could've saved the Spice Girls in the post-Geri era. I don't know if this dreamy, keyboard-oriented song is planned as a single, but if it is, good move!
"Ring My Bell" not the Gloria Gaynor disco hit, is a mid-paced number that has Billie dipping into the Spice Girls' filler cupboard from Spice and adding a Christmas tree worth of keyboards, while "Run That By Me" has her tearing a page from the book of All Saints.
Her cover of Blondie's "The Tide Is High" is done tastefully, with some male rap dialogue interspersed within and a Phil Spectorish wall of sound discernable. My favorite on this album, with "Walk Of Life" close at #2.
The over-reliance of the layered wall to wall backing chorus does not give Billie's vocal talents a chance to shine through as they did on her previous effort.
Answer: In some places, Miss Piper does sound Britneyesque, but overall, she has her stylings and personality.