Monday 23 July 2012

Lisa Stansfield 'So Natural'

Chart Peak: 15

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Rochdale's Lisa Stansfield first charted as featured vocalist on Coldcut's 'People Hold On' back in 1989... Solo hits such as 'All Around The World', 'Change' and 'In All The Right Places' have established has as one of our top female singers and 'So Natural' continued her success when it entered the chart at No. 15 on 17th October '93.
Funnily enough, I saw a copy of this single in a charity shop earlier today. I didn't buy it though, because it's not really as good as any of the other songs mentioned in that sleeve note. The opening title track of her third album is one of those records that it's hard to fault but even harder to enthuse about. Stansfield is in fine voice but there isn't really much for her to do with it and the song itself is painfully cliched. I'm sure the romantic sentiment is genuine enough - she did after all co-write the song with her husband - but there's not enough going on here and her career did seem to stumble at this point, despite her valiant efforts in the video - she must have been under that fountain for hours. She's another name to add to the list of acts poorly represented in the Now! series, unfortunately.

Also appearing on: Now 20
Available on: So Natural

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