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It's only just over a year since 18 year old Samantha Mumba embarked upon her pop career - but in that short space of time Sam has rocketed to pop super-stardom... Not only has the Irish pop/soul diva scored four UK hits, she also bagged the lead female role in the big-budget remix of HG Wells' classic "The Time Machine"!
Connessieurs of Now! album artwork (and yes, such people do seem to exist) apparently feel it a slight disappointment when acts are represented not by an official publicity photo but by the single cover. That's already happened three times on this album (with Bob The Builder, OPM and of all people Kate Winslet) bu this here is the only instance I've ever encountered of them using the cover of a *different* single ['Lately']. It's symptomatic of the often sloppy packaging of Now! 50.
It's easy to forget until you read those notes how big a star Mumba was at the turn of the century, notching up six Top 10 singles here between July 2000 and October 2002, and even making some inroads to the US market - but by the time she turned twenty in January 2003 her music career was effectively over, and it'd be generous to claim that she was concentrating on her acting. The main problem is that this and her other hits, whilst not entirely forgettable (well, I remember them so they can't be) are completely lacking in any sort of personality, musically or vocally. It's probably a tribute to the management skills of Louis Walsh that she was able to sustain as long a career as she did, rather than drifting into one-hit-wonderhood like contemporaries such as Vanessa Amorosi, Chanté Moore or Debelah Morgan.
Also appearing on: Now 46, 47, 48, 51, 53
Available on: Gotta Tell You
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