The Groove That Makes You Proud

Geri Halliwell
“Look At Me”

Good looking, bad tasting
Full-bodied, butt wasted
Loose living, tight-fitting
What you see ain't what you are getting
Big make-up, little break-up
She wants it, he's got it
Cold blooded, hot gossip
Superficial expectations

Chorus
Look at me, you can take it all
Because this face is free
Maybe next time use your eyes and
Look at me
I'm a drama queen if that's your
thing, baby, I can even do reality

Fake honey, real plastic
Stupid cupid, fantastic
Queer thinking straight talking
What you see ain't what you are getting
Fast loving, slow moving
No rhythm, but I'm grooving
Old feeling, new beginning
Superficial expectations

Chorus

That's me.... Hahahaha

Sometimes I don't recognize my own face
I look inside my eyes and find disgrace
My little white lies tell a story
I see it all, it has no glory

Chorus

Come on and look at me
This face is free
I'm your fantasy
So who d'you wanna be
Not what you see
I'm a drama queen if that's your thing
Come on and look at me
I'm your fantasy
This face is free

Quit Spice Girls and started again as the newly blonde girl on the block and that’s Geri Halliwell for you. In May 1998, when she was 25, she walked out of her job, and it made world news. But then, it was quite a job. Geri Halliwell was cheerleader, rabble-rouser, bottom-pincher, pop advocate and larger-than-life cartoon character Ginger Spice in the biggest group of the Nineties, the Spice Girls. Yet when she quit, her future seemed uncertain. Some even said bleak. But that, of course, was before her book If Only became a best-seller. Before her first solo album Schizophonic went platinum in Canada. Before the first single from that album made number two in the UK charts, to be followed by three consecutive number one singles. Before Geri proved that her success was no fluke and that she has an unerring instinct for what the girl on the street (and the boy on the dance floor) wants to hear. Because, of course, it’s what she wants to hear herself. At a time when real pop stars are in short supply, Geri Halliwell is the genuine article. I’ve always loved pop music, she declares. “Pop became a dirty word for a while, but it doesn’t have to be crap. It doesn’t have to be manufactured, soulless, and heartless. There is soulful pop out there that is running on a heartbeat and a lot of fire and energy.

Geri Halliwell or Geraldine Estelle Halliwell growing up in Watford received an early education in musical career as she’s consisted of miming to Madonna records in front of her bedroom mirror, listening to Abba, Michael Jackson, Wham and her dad’s collection of show tunes: Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Shirley Bassey. And loving it all with a passion. Landed in Spice Girls later in her musical career life and then when she quits she pour all her knowledge in her first album. The album was produced by Rick Nowells (Sonique, Texas, Dido), Stephen Lipson (Pet Shop Boys, Ronan Keating) and Absolute (Tina Turner, Spice Girls), and crafted with a variety of writing partners from Europe and the USA. But no matter who the collaborators were, the end result is unmistakably, consistently Geri: the lyrics, the music, the production, the videos and even the image on the sleeve all reflect her creative input and powerful personality. Of course, the first album is the bomb and when it comes to second album it begins to flop and the third even received the same fate as the second. However, Geri always tries the new thing in her life and perhaps, she can reinvent her music that makes us wanna groove on dancefloor.