Look at Me chords by Geri Halliwell

Look at Me" is a song by British singer Geri Halliwell, who recorded and released it after leaving Spice Girls. Written and composed in collaboration by Halliwell, Paul Wilson, and Andy Watkins, it was released on 10 May 1999 as the first single from Halliwell's debut solo album, Schizophonic. It peaked at number one in New Zealand, number two in the United Kingdom and number three in Australia and Ireland. To promote the single, Halliwell performed the song on Top of the Pops, Party in the Park, Wetten Dass, Tickled Pink, Tapis Rouge, Musica Si, Festival Bar 1999, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Graine de Star and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The lyrics of "Look at Me" consist largely, specifically in the verses, of rhymed couplets of phrases that evoke contrasts. But two lines are repeated in both verses; these are the warning "What you see ain't what you are gettin'" and a reference to "superficial expectations". NME felt that the track was attempting to "create a self-reflexive conundrum, the knowingly blank canvas, the irony-chip Idoru". Halliwell admitted that she intended to convey that "we shouldn’t take each other on just face value. We can be anything. We can be all of these people." Reception for "Look at Me" was mostly positive. Website AllMusic deemed the song "upbeat", "self-conscious", and "silly". BBC News described it as "undeniably catchy", comparing Halliwell's performance to Shirley Bassey as "the queen of the scene flanked by a posse of subservient men", and added that it "has shades of 'The Lady Is a Vamp", from the album Spiceworld. Larry Flick from Billboard described the song as a "eccentric, over-the-top track" and noted further that the song is "tinged with everything from James Bond thematics and vaudeville to Britpop and Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking"". CantStopThePop stated that the song "is a little bit pop, a little bit jazz and a whole lot theatrical. Musically, it’s vaguely reminiscent of The Lady Is A Vamp from Spiceworld, albeit less pastiche and more pointed." They added that "there’s no doubt that Geri had a lot to say as an artist, and much of it came out in the music video for Look at Me." Lou Carlozo from the Chicago Tribune felt that "Spice Girls fans should like the single", because the song had a "bouncy pop feel, but a more polished sound than the typical Spice Girls song". Look at Me" was selected as the one of the few post-Spice Girls song to be featured in the jukebox musical Viva Forever! in its entirety; producer Judy Craymer said of it, "It's a very diva-like song and perfect for the hard world of television and its judges who we portray as the gods on Mount Olympus". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.