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The video for Victoria's first solo single 'Not Such An Innocent Girl' featured the Spice star in a dual role - "Good Girl" going head-to-head with "Bad Girl" in a "futuristic world of Yin and Yang"... Commenting on the message of the song Victoria says "There's a good and bad side to everybody so don't judge a book by its cover."
The sleeve notes are clearly too polite to mention it, but when this single was originally released in the same week as 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head', at least one of the tabloids thought this would be another great chart battle like the one that had ensued when Beckham's collaboration with True Steppers went up against Spiller's Groovejet. They promised to keep their readers updated on which record was doing better throughout the week - and it lasted about two days before they realised there was no contest. In the event this got no higher than six and wasn't even the second-highest new entry, outdone by Alien Ant Farm's cover version and a Shaggy single nobody remembers. This album sequences them way apart anyway, and for good measure doesn't put it right next to another solo Spice either.
I hadn't actually seen that video until I came to write this post and it's a bit bigger-budgeted than I'd expected, considering the generally rather cheap air of this record (and the album cover). Beckham was the last member of the group to release any records outside it, and conspicuously didn't do so on the same major label. Virgin were evidently not too bothered by the risk of a rival outfit getting this, and they were probably right, as the album lost a fortune and Telstar went bust a couple of years later. It doesn't entirely seem like she was that interested either. Far be it from me to accuse anyone of misunderstanding their own song, but the lyrical tone of "if you touch me I won't break, I'm not such an innocent girl" doesn't really suit a 27-year old married mother-of-one. Oh yeah, and the singing's rubbish too.
Also appearing on: Now 47 (with True Steppers and Dane Bowers), 51
Available on: Victoria Beckham
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