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On my new album there is a fantastic track called The Sea.
This is obviously the title track of the album
and it was actually one of the first songs to be written.
I was working down in Brighton with a dear old friend,
Richard Stannard, otherwise known as Biff.
We worked together in the early Spice Girls days,
in fact throughout the Spice Girls days,
and on my first album with tracks like Suddenly Monday and Goin’ Down.
With the Spice Girls we did Wannabe, 2 Become 1, Spice Up Your life & Viva Forever.
He’s a wonderful writer and it was lovely to get back in the studio with him.
He lives in Brighton which is on the south coast of England
and when I was down there for that writing session
I was staying in an apartment about half an hours walk to the studio.
I’d walk down the sea front each day
and I just found that a really inspiring time looking out to sea
I think the sea is something
that’s inspired me throughout my career,
all of the elements
but there’s something very powerful.
I’m just drawn to the sea
I think it’s a way of being very expressive
and you can use it in so many ways, so the song was inspired.
We wrote it down there and then I thought
it’s everything I want the album to be.
I want it to be powerful,
I want it to be unpredictable,
I want it to be a real force of nature so this track became the title for the album as well.
It’s quite an atmospheric track, lyrically it’s about a bad relationship
using the sea as that person who kind of just
(to use another Melanie C lyric) ‘chews you up and spits you out’.
You just keep going back for more but you just get caught up
and you know it’s very dangerous and again powerful.
Really, it was just about all those emotions
If you’re in one of those relationships you're finding very difficult
to escape from and just being washed up on the shore and yeah, going back for more.