Billie - Honey to the Bee
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Artist: BillieEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Honey To The Bee
- I Dream
- She Wants You
- Love Groove
- Party On The Phone
- Officially Yours
- You've Got It
- Saying I'm Sorry Now
- Girlfriend (Radio Mix)
- Whatcha Gonna Do
- Don't Forget To Remember
- Because We Want To
Music reviews of Honey to the Bee
Music Review: Rose Tyler Sings!
Rating: 5 Stars
Given Billie Piper's recent success as an actress in the UK, it's hard to believe she was once a teenage pop princess, comparable to American Britney Spears. Their lives and careers have had an oddly similar trajectory: an explosion onto their respective music scenes as teenagers, almost immediate success, a highly prefabricated image, romance with boy-band singers, interest in acting, and young marriage that many considered highly unsuitable. The difference is that Piper somehow escaped the pitfalls of teenage pop stardom (including a brush with anorexia) and has forged an eminently respectable second career for herself as a serious actress. Check out the first two seasons' DVDs of the new Doctor Who series for proof of that.
In a sense it's almost a shame that Piper will likely never return to music, because her first CD, Honey to the B (1998), is a remarkably infectious pop concoction. The songs were written by a team of professional writers and mostly consist of boy-girl love songs and anthems to teenage independence; the lyrics range from trite to simplistic to cliche-laden and back again, the music is synth-heavy and multitracked up to the moon... but oddly, that's part of the CD's appeal. You don't pop this into your CD player (or burn it into your iPod library) for its intellectual appeal. You listen to it because it's kicky and fun. What makes the songs work is mostly Piper's fearless delivery--she may not have the greatest range, but she croons and chants and belts out each number with a sassy verve and confidence that's hard not to admire (and remarkable, given that she was only fifteen at the time). She makes the listener believe she's a great singer mostly because she acts like one. You can use a lot of words to describe Billie Piper, but "apologetic" isn't one of them.
The strongest song in the collection--and her strongest song, period--is the title track, the deliciously sexy "Honey to the Bee," a sultry, mid-tempo number whose blatantly erotic imagery might seem hokey without Piper's fifteen-going-on-thirty-five delivery. Other standouts include the equally come-hither "Love Groove," the wonderfully low-key, funky "Don't Forget to Remember," and the ode to teen independence, "Because We Want To" (Piper's first single, which entered the UK charts at #1--she's still the youngest British artist to hold this distinction).
Other solid outings include the highly danceable, "She Wants You," "Party on the Phone," and "Girlfriend." The balance of the tracks, "I Dream," "Officially Yours," "You've Got It," "Saying I'm Sorry Now," and "Whatcha Gonna Do?" are all filler, but above-average filler--there's not one stinker among them, remarkable for such a prefabricated product.
In short, fans of Piper's acting really shouldn't miss out on this fun, thoroughly enjoyable memento of her first career. American fans of Doctor Who will probably be amused to learn that Piper was the "UK Britney" long before she became Rose Tyler.
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