3.5/5
This must have been how Leona first met the ‘Bleeding Love’ asshole ‘mdash; still bouncing self-consciously around in Scary Spice ringlets and Salt-N-Pepa hips, pre-heartbreak, pre-‘X Factor,’ overeager with eat/lick-me-like-candy metaphors and batting her mascara so hard she smudged the hook. Best Kept Secret, a set of long-lost tracks recorded three whole years ago with British producer Barry Bee, reads like a 3LW audition; ‘Bad Boy’ buzzes with choreographed bass burps and even coaxes hip-hop nobody K2 Family into the trainwreck with an overwrought analogy of Leona as some sort of edible sweet. And who could resist? ‘I’m a good girl, but secretly’hellip;’