Britney Spears created sort of a weird trend where failed female rock singers turned to remaking there image and incorporating teen oriented dance pop.
Vitamin C and Stella Soleil are the ones that come to mind since they both had failed careers singing "alternative rock" before the teen pop explosion during the millennium.
Stella used to be an a slight industrial rock band called Sister Soleil which noone seems to remember.
And the cover art here is quite nice recalling 40-s and 50-s pin up queens.
And strangely enough the music isn't half bad at all.
The semi hit song from here was a remake of a middle eastern hit pop song called " kiss kiss" which is probably the sexiest and best song on here.
Tthe rest mix dance pop with bits of pop/rock guitar with various producers (including Phil Thornally of the Cure !) and most of the songs deal with sex and love and tho her voice isn't perfect she seems to know how to work within the boundaries of her limitations and delivers some slightly quirky vocal performances.
It's a shame that her career bottomed out after this and went into dog grooming since she shows some capabilities.
I would give this about a B :)
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