Naughty but Nice

Naughty but Nice
Studio album by Sarah Connor
Publication (s)	March 21, 2005
admission	2004-2005
Label (s)	X-Cell / Epic
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Pop , R&B
Title (number)	16
running time	63:16 min.
production	Booya, Kay Denar, Rob Tyger
chronology Sarah Connor / Bounce (2004) Naughty but Nice Soulicious (2007)
Single releases November 8, 2004 Living to Love You March 7, 2005 From Zero to Hero

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Living to Love You   DE 1 11/19/2004 (19 weeks)   AT 2 11/21/2004 (20 weeks)   CH 1 11/21/2004 (25 weeks) From Zero to Hero   DE 1 03/18/2005 (17 weeks)   AT 2 03/20/2005 (25 weeks)   CH 5 03/20/2005 (19 weeks)

Naughty but Nice (Engl .; " Naughty , but nice") is the fourth studio album by German singer Sarah Connor , which was released on March 21, 2005 by X-Cell and Epic Records. It's Connor's first number one album.

background

For her fourth studio album, Sarah Connor worked again with producers Booya, Kay Denar and Rob Tyger after the baby break she took for her son. The song You're the Kinda Man comes from producer Johnny Douglas, who has worked with George Michael , Kylie Minogue and Tom Jones , among others . The album is mainly characterized by up-tempo numbers. Compared to the previous albums, soul facets and guitars come to the fore.

The first single was released on November 19, 2004, the ballad Living to Love You , with which the singer was able to place at number one in the single charts for the third time in a row . The second single, From Zero to Hero , which was released on March 7, 2005, went straight to number one on the charts. From Zero to Hero was also the theme song of the computer animation film Robots , in which Connor lent her voice to the robot lady Cappy .

The album was released on March 21st and entered the album charts at number one. In the first 48 hours, the album was able to sell over 100,000 times and thus achieved gold status . Naughty but Nice was awarded platinum in Germany and Switzerland and gold in Austria. It has sold more than 300,000 times.

Connor was able to get more involved in composition and content than in the previous albums. The songs describe people who are close to her and situations from her life. The song Happy Anniversary was written by Connor's husband at the time, Marc Terenzi , and was a gift from him for his first wedding anniversary. For the celebrity documentary Sarah & Marc in Love , which started on June 25, 2005, the song I Just Started Being Bad was used as the theme song. The song Change was used as the theme song for the 4-part German doctor series Beauty Queen , which was shown on RTL .

From October to November 2005 Connor presented the songs on the album live on their Naughty but Nice tour, which included 23 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

reception

The reviews of Naughty but Nice have been mixed. Matthias Reichel from CDStarts.de awards five out of ten possible points and praises the single releases. The album, on the other hand, functions as a “collection of mostly second-rate pop, soul and R&B songs”. Reichel positively highlights the song Living to Love You , which he describes as a “soulful ballad in the early Mariah Carey style”. He also praises the songs From Zero to Hero and You're the Kinda Man . Compared to the previous album Key to My Soul , the work leaves a better impression and the quality curve is pointing upwards again.

Michael Schuh from Laut.de only gives one of five possible points. He describes the album as lacking in ideas. You already know a lot from Connor's previous albums. The work offers "15 warbler numbers produced for the ringtone industry" and the album is "lower class music for the village disco around the corner".

Track list

1. Living to Love You (Rob Tyger, Kay Denar) - 4:18
2. Paradise (feat. Mr. Freeman) (Bülent Aris, T. Bjerre, Freeman, Moring) - 3:45
3. From Zero to Hero (R. Tyger, K. Denar) - 3:46
4. I Just Started Being Bad (R. Tyger, Ek, K. Denar) - 3:40
5. Thank You (B. Aris, Freeman) - 4:45
6. You're the Kinda Man (Douglas, Friendship) - 4:43
7. One More Night (Part II of the Osla Suite Trilogy) (B. Aris, June Rollocks) - 4:22
8. Keep Imagining (Aris, Freeman) - 3:59
9. Happy Anniversary (Freeman, M. Terenzi, S. Connor) - 3:09
10. You Are My Desire (R. Tyger, K. Denar) - 3:51
11. Change (Casselle, R. Tyger, K. Denar) - 3:36
12. Dolce Vita (S. Connor, R. Tyger, K. Denar) - 3:57
13. Call Me (B. Aris, Bjerre, T. Berlin) - 4:03
14. Ohhh (Private Party) (B. Aris, Freeman) - 3:46
15. From Zero to Hero [I Wanna Funk with You Extended Album Remix] - 5:32

Commercial win

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	1 (39 weeks)	39
Austria (Ö3)	3 (25 weeks)	25th
Switzerland (IFPI)	3 (29 weeks)	29

Web links

• Official website of Sarah Connor
• Naughty but Nice at Simfy.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chart sources: DE
2. ↑ Album Naughty but Nice ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Beauty Queen
4. ↑ http://www.songtext.net/starinfos.html?l=&id=3723&key=S ( Memento from June 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Criticism on cdstarts.de
6. ^ Criticism on laut.de
7. ^ Sarah Connor - Naughty but Nice. GfK Entertainment , accessed June 15, 2019 . 
8. ^ Sarah Connor - Naughty but Nice. Ö3 Austria Top 40 , accessed on June 15, 2019 . 
9. ^ Sarah Connor - Naughty but Nice. Swiss hit parade , accessed on June 15, 2019 .