Emma Bunton Album: «We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight [UK CD]»
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- Customers rating: (4.2 of 5)
- Title:We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight [UK CD]
- Release date:2002-03-12
- Type:Audio CD
- Label:EMI Import
- UPC:724354618925
- 1We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight (Radio Mix) - Emma Bunton
- 2We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight (3am Mix) - Emma Bunton
- 3Let Your Baby Show You How To Move - Emma Bunton
1. We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight (Radio Mix) - 9/10
Much better than the album version! The beat and mastering have been greatly improved on this mix. A few of the Latin elements from the album version still linger if you listen closely enough to recognize them, but overall the track has been urbanized to make it more radio friendly, and it's a welcome change! The bassline is great, and the backing vocals compliment the lead vocal very well. Contrary to what the title might suggest, the lyrics are not about a man. This song is about Emma going out with her girlfriends to have a girls' night out - no boys allowed! While it is one of the weaker singles from its album ("A Girl Like Me"), it stands well on its own as a strong pop piece.
2. We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight (3AM Mix) - 4/10
This remix is very disappointing. It contains almost no vocal, and the little bit of vocal that is included is just from the chorus. The rest of it isn't nearly strong enough to make up for the six and a half minutes spent listening to this mix. What was 3AM thinking?
3. Let Your Baby Show You How To Move - 8/10
What a long title for a song! Nevertheless, this is one of Emma's better b-sides from this era. It sounds like a classic late-nineties pop hit where electronic music elements were just starting to become mainstream. It's very catchy and infectious! With the smooth backing vocals and slower bridge, it sounds exactly like a track from Willa Ford's album Willa Was Here (which I would recommend if you like this track a lot).
This is absolutely her best single. We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight is the best song on her album, too. My suggestion is to buy it, if you don't have it yet!
"We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight" is one of her best singles from her career thus far, but doesn't stack up against anything on "Free Me." This is a better pop tune off her debut album but it lacks the full vocal strength found on her follow up album. The song is good with the high strung acoustic and spanish guitars and the girls night out theme. But the lyrics are somewhat cliched and too much of vocal distortions were used on this song. Also, it seems like her vocals were digitally fixed to sound better than what may have been produced by Bunton, such as to possibly keep her sounding in tune.
Overall this is a good song, but of course this song stays well within the realm of radio-friendly pop found during the time period. Bunton's follow up album shows she had a stronger vocal presence with good vocal variations without the need of too much vocal 'help.'

