After the breakout success of 2003’s The Soul Sessions, it wasn’t until 2004’s Mind Body & Soul that Joss Stone turned her attention to original material, and this summery track – which sounds like it could convincingly appear on a Bridget Jones movie soundtrack, an Emma Bunton solo album or, yes, a through-the-sun-soaked-hills car advert – remains one of its top highlights.
It didn’t hit quite the same commercial peak as the era’s lead single You Had Me (Stone’s only Top 10 hit), but it did graze the UK Top 20 – which for Joss, who is/was very much an ‘albums artist’, was still a bit of a result. The album in general shifted enough copies to go triple platinum in this country, and platinum in the US.
Writing credits here go to the woman herself alongside Desmond Child, Betty Wright, Steve Greenberg, Michael Mangini, Eugene Record and William ‘Sonny’ Sanders; the latter two appearing thanks to the sample of 1968’s Soulful Strut by Young-Holt Unlimited. It is a quintessential mid-2000s grown-up-pop bop (even though Joss was still a teenager at the time); and given the rise and domination of indie in British music at around this time, it was veeeery much appreciated.
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