Ride It (Geri Halliwell song)
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"Ride It" is a song recorded by English singer Geri Halliwell (credited mononymously as "Geri") for her third studio album, Passion (2005). It was released on 22 November 2004 by Innocent Records as the first single from the album. "Ride It" was commercially successful in Europe; it peaked at number four in the United Kingdom and reached number three on the Spanish and Scottish charts.
Critical reception
"Ride It" received mixed reviews from music critics. Writing for AllMusic, John Lucas described it as a "fine slice of campy dance-pop, the kind of which Halliwell has always sounded most comfortable with". Music Week staff wrote that although the track was "aimed straight at Kylie's pop audience", it lacked the "sophistication of Minogue's pop masterpieces". John Dingwall from the Daily Record panned it as a "ridiculous pop song", noting it "seems the former Spice Girl is so desperate for a pop comeback she has settled for a song which sounds like a Dannii Minogue cast-off".
Matt Potter from Yahoo! Launch gave the single two out of ten stars, and said "Enter Halliwell, and her latest attempt to present herself as a sexy siren, all attitude and independence. It's not as if it's a bad song, either - think "Life Is A Roller Coaster", crossed with "Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves" but minus a proper chorus - but the steely, tears-at-a-hen-party desperation of Halliwell's delivery makes this the musical equivalent of getting the eighteenth call in one evening from a girl you met once at a party".
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