State Of Mind - Holly Valance

After a mixed debut album Holly Valance really needed to pull something out of the bag for her follow up to Footprints, but State Of Mind is a great song with a different direction to her debut. The single is another great pop song with an infectious vibe about it. The single is a strong track and it seems after the mixed bag that was Footprints Holly has produced another brilliant lead single, just like Kiss Kiss. Valance has seemed to have found a change of direction with this song. She has seemed to have gone from 00's pop to a more retro 80's sound. This song is a great song with a great beat. It seems to have been a bit ahead of its time as it doesn't ...  Read the complete review

Following the worldwide success of Holly’s first album, the media-friendly twenty one year old spent some months grinning out from the pages of glossy magazines and answering probing personal questions in teen mags while people gradually began to forget what exactly it was that she was famous for. From being dubbed “the next Kylie Minogue?” the interest surrounding Holly Valance’s musical career gradually began to fade and she joined the mass of pretty has-beens now better known for their dress sense than talent. However, one day, out of the blue, rumours began that a new single was on its way, one that, according to some press, had even been stolen from ...  Read the complete review

Holly Valance, is of course a victim of the press and therefore maybe this album did not deserve what it got. I think it is a trully superb album from Holly Valance it carries a mixture of great pop which i find utterly catchy. I think Valance has a great pop voice, but their seems to be a great sense of ballads there too. This album i really expected to be full of fairly good ballads and great pop songs, but i was almost shocked to find a series of electric - pop, rocky style songs which to most are nothing less than fanatastic. ''State Of Mind'' is a great follow up, to the Valance's debut ''Footprints'' which was full of pop, this ...  Read the complete review