One Touch babes aren't as good as people make them out to be. Nostalgia must be a part of their high scores because I just don't get it. The teenage vocals grate on me more than anything and I honestly would listen to Change a thousand times over One Touch.
Sorry, not sorry.
I myself started becoming a fan of the babes when Amelie joined. I was 13 at the time and I had seen in the news that Mutya had left the band and seeing Red Dress on the music channels I watched out of curiosity to see the new member. Instantly hooked (damn Xenomania.) I then went back over their old music and fell in love with everything apart from One Touch, it has never clicked with me whereas Angels and Three did.I bought One Touch when it came out and I loved it then, and would have happily given Same Old Story the same score (or possibly higher) back then. I'm not going back and giving shitty 2000 tracks inflated scores just because I'm nostalgic for 2000 - and I doubt the other One Touch fans are either.
I also really like Change but it's a completely different style of music recorded by an almost completely different girl group. For example, I could imagine Same Old Story possibly being done by Mis-Teeq. I can't imagine Mis-Teeq bothering with anything on Change.
I myself started becoming a fan of the babes when Amelie joined. I was 13 at the time and I had seen in the news that Mutya had left the band so when I saw Red Dress on the music channels I watched out of curiosity to see the new member. Instantly hooked (damn Xenomania)
I'm totally not trying to target you, since clearly you weren't the only one to rate the album so low, but are the grating vocals really it? Because on an individual level they're only a touch weaker than say Angels', and the harmonies are arguably the best overall/at least on par with 2.0's and Catfights'. And are the vocals weak enough to overpower everything else happening on the album? Like the songwriting, the arrangements and the lyrics? Bad enough to warrant 0s for things as innocuous and self-contained like "Same Old Story"? I mean, it's hardly "She's A Mess"!One Touch babes aren't as good as people make them out to be. Nostalgia must be a part of their high scores because I just don't get it. The teenage vocals grate on me more than anything and I honestly would listen to Change a thousand times over One Touch.
Sorry, not sorry.
I'm totally not trying to target you, since clearly you weren't the only one to rate the album so low, but are the grating vocals really it? Because on an individual level they're only a touch weaker than say Angels', and the harmonies are arguably the best overall/at least on par with 2.0's and Catfights'. And are the vocals weak enough to overpower everything else happening on the album? Like the songwriting, the arrangements and the lyrics? Bad enough to warrant 0s for things as innocuous and self-contained like "Same Old Story"? I mean, it's hardly "She's A Mess"!
Even if you grant Change strong vocals, about half the album is not particularly challenging sonically or lyrically. I'm not saying nostalgia plays a factor in how One Touch was rated but it's hard to carry a torch for that long in a wilfully blind way. The album is just genuinely liked and appreciated by a range of listeners, from those with older histories with it to no history at all (a bunch of the higher scores came from self-professed newcomers to the Sugababes).
Finally, the nostalgia thing cuts both ways, since a lot of fans who came on board when Amelle was drafted (including I think you?) rated Change and Catfights much higher than the others. I dunno.
I just saw the minor comment about my 0 and snapped a little.