Tina Barrett: Fire - Club Remix

For a reason to sad to explain, I had S Club 7 in my mind recently, and was saying that Tina was my favorite when I was younger (although this is relative term, since I was already in my mid- twenties or so when they were around). This thought process led me to watch the awful Children in Need reunion on You Tube (never go back), but also to this music video. I can only imagine that it was added to IMDb in an attempt to use the interest to help Tina Barrett launch her solo career – generally it is the most needy that force themselves onto the internet, rather than letting it embrace them.

IMDb currently list the budget for the video as an estimated £500; this may not be based in fact but it is certainly based on sound judgment, since the video looks like it did not have a lot of money to play with. The video quality is pretty good, but it is obviously filmed against a black wall, with a few tables thrown down to make a bar, and a few people wearing rented 1920's Halloween costumes to make them look like gangsters. Tina herself was always the cutest of the S Club 7 girls; not as sexy as Rachel, but not as racist as Jo. Here she is pushing the sexuality and playing the moll/singer role, and she looks good doing it but does rather smack of desperation. This feeling is hard to shake, since the video does look like a cheap version of what they would have liked to do. She does look great, even before one considers she is about 35 here, but still, it is maybe too late to be trying to compete on the sexuality front.

The track itself is perfectly functional – well produced and a decent dance track that does nothing other than what would be expected, which is probably why it didn't do a great deal in the charts. The video betrays the low budget, and speaks of the roll of the dice to try and get a hit to then follow up with more money. It didn't happen, and this video unfortunately sort of stands as an explanation as to why.