Melanie C
Sweat
Red Girl/Virgin
Released 05/01/26
Melanie C has unveiled her ninth studio album Sweat, which marks her first new LP since 2020’s eponymously titled Melanie C. Preceded by the official singles “Sweat,” “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?,” “Undefeated Champion” and “Attitude,” her new album is inspired by her formative experiences in the mid-1990s UK club scene prior to achieving global superstardom as a founding member of the Spice Girls.
“I think it was just the community…I feel like raving, and the ’90s, really shaped myself and the other Spice Girls, because it was so important to us to celebrate our individuality, and that was something dance music did,” Melanie C tells Billboard. “It brought together cultures and communities that had never socialized together before. I think people had been quite separate. That’s what really blew my mind and made me gravitate towards raving and dance music culture, that everyone was just together, unified. That’s a really strong memory of that time.”
To support the album’s arrival, Melanie C will embark upon a global tour later this year, commencing September 8th in Montreal and concluding November 15th in Sydney.
“The whole process of making this album has been so beautiful, because I’ve been DJing for eight years, and as a DJ, I do play a lot of the old stuff I used to rave to as a kid,” she continues. “But what I play as a DJ and what I am as a solo artist are quite different, and I’ve wanted to bring those two worlds together without alienating any of my fans who’ve followed my career and while also being true to who I am as a pop artist, because I write pop music, and I’m a pop singer.”
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