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Release Date
20 April 2005
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Length
12 tracks
Passion is the third studio album by English singer Geri Halliwell. It was released on 6 June 2005 by Innocent Records. Two singles were released from the album: "Ride It", which charted at #4, and "Desire", which charted at #22 on the UK Singles Chart.
Although the album was praised for Halliwell's improved voice, it was a commercial disappointment, peaking at #41 with only 5,432 copies sold and charting for only one week on the UK Albums Chart. However, the album did manage to become a moderate hit worldwide, selling over half a million copies.
The album was originally titled 'Disco Sister' with Halliwell focusing the album on electropop, EDM and Europop sounds. She wrote many songs between 2001 and 2004 with a number of producers. Songs recorded during this period that did not appear on the final album include "Set Me Off", "Turn It On", "Into the Night", "Putting on the Bling", "Geri's Got Her Groove Back", "Disco Sister", "My Sweetest Pain", "Gimme Your Love", and a cover version of Crystal Waters' 1994 hit single "100% Pure Love". Halliwell also wanted to record the track "Some Girls" (written by Richard X and Hannah Robinson) for the album, but the track was instead given to former S Club 7 singer Rachel Stevens. In 2004, EMI changed the focus of the album and the title to 'Passion', replacing some of the dance songs with ballads, jazz-pop, and electro-pop songs, including the newly recorded songs "Passion", "Desire", "Surrender Your Groove", "There's Always Tomorrow", "So I Give Up on Love", and the B-side "True Love Never Dies".
Halliwell described the album as "a journey through a range of extreme emotions from passion and love through to fear and hope". According to her, Passion can be seen to chart her development as both a vocalist and songwriter. For the singer it has been a matter of "finding out who I am not as much as I what I am. I think this album catches me at a real transitional point as a songwriter".
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