★★★★★
Like 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys before her, New York soul gal Anastacia was a star in Europe ? where her debut, Not That Kind, sold 5 million ? before starting a marketing push at home. The 28-year-old singer is an ad man's dream: sexy and feisty, with a fevered wail that recalls Tina Turner. Unfortunately, someone forgot the songs...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Anastacia's first studio album since 2004 sees a new woman on board. She's not poking fun at herself with the title Heavy Rotation, it's actually borrowed from a track on the album in which the phrase is a euphemism for sex. With a new husband in tow (she married her bodyguard Wayne Newton last year) has happiness brought the formula for homeland success to equal her achievements over here...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-08-22
★★★★★
This has been a busy four years for Anastacia, since the release of her chart-topping (in the UK and Europe) third album: she has switched record labels, married her English bodyguard and, according to recent interviews, discovered her female side. All these events have had their impact on Heavy Rotation...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-04-02
★★★★★
For Anastacia, the three years since second album "Freak Of Nature" confirmed she was the owner of the biggest set of lungs in pop, have been, at best, horrific. In 2003 she was diagnosed with a rare and extremely virulent form of breast cancer. Worse still she had to suffer the crippling indignity of week in week out having vocally challenged hopefuls ape her throaty gurgle and murder her songs on 'Pop Idol'. Thankfully, after swift surgery, the cancer abated...
- uk.launch.yahoo.com
2010-02-19