being aware of the single 'Overload' and not immediately loving it, but knowing that it felt a bit different to other girl groups...

  being part of the wave of excitement over the Spice Girls. I was the age for it, about twelve, I guess. The fun, the cameraderie, the outf...

  spending hours of my time, in my room listening to albums like this one. At age 15, I was on an R n B/ soul train, browsing the comparativ...

   being 16 or 17 and this album just becoming part of my world. I owned it on CD and was starting to branch out a little from my beloved R ...

    having a family barbecue back home one Summer. It must have been 2008, a truly significant year for me. I was due to start my new job, b...

   hearing this album for the first time and finding it very different to the Stevie Wonder music I had previously been listening to. I foun...

  ...finding Marika Hackman on Google Music (as it was then) on my phone and apathetically browsing through the new releases thinking: '...

  ...happier times before this pandemic. Times when we weren't faced with restrictions and would think nothing of travelling across the ...

...a time, maybe a year or two ago when I had more or less given up on finding new artists that I could get on board with. I'm from an e...

...listening to this album for the first time with a boyfriend at university in his tiny room in the halls of residence. I liked what I hear...