State of Mind (Holly Valance album)

State of Mind
Studio album by Holly Valance
Released	6 November 2003 (2003-11-06) (see release history)
Recorded	2003 at 40oz. Sound, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Genre	Electro pop, Dance, dance-pop
Length	42:07
Label	EngineRoom, Warner Bros.
Holly Valance chronology
Footprints (2002) State of Mind (2003)
Singles from State of Mind
"State of Mind" Released: 20 October 2003 "Desire" Released: Cancelled

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic	[1]

State of Mind is the second studio album to be released by Australian singer Holly Valance, released in Japan on 6 November 2003 (see 2003 in music) by Warner Bros. Records. It is a mixture of dance and 80's electro-pop, some written by Valance herself. The album debuted on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and the UK Albums Chart at the lower ends of the chart making it her lowest selling album to date. The album's only single, "State of Mind", was a top twenty hit in Australia, Finland and the United Kingdom.

The album's genre, electro pop, differs slightly from her previous album Footprints (2002), Valance states "It's kind of different cos at the time I was listening to rock, I was listening to dance and lots of electro and I loved them all equally. I thought what would happen if we put them all in a pot and see what happens. And the people I was working with at the time really like that idea. So everyone was working on the same level with the same goals in mind. What we wanted to get out of it was a bit darker, a bit harder. It's a very kind of upbeat record and that's what I like to do."^[2]

The album debuted on the Japanese Oricon Album Chart at number twelve with first-week sales of 21,547 copies.^[3] In Australia, it entered the ARIA Albums Chart at number fifty-seven and fell to number eighty on its second week, spending only two weeks in the top one hundred.^[4] It did not do well in the United Kingdom only peaking at number sixty and only spending one week in the top seventy-five. The first single released from the album "State of Mind" had success peaking at number eight in the United Kingdom and at number fourteen in Australia.

Track listing

1. "Hypnotic" (Steve Anderson, Liza Greene, Steve Lee) – 3:45
2. "State of Mind" (Jeff Taylor, Mark Taylor, Stevie Torch) – 3:20
3. "Everything I Hate" (Chris Peters, Drew Peters, Valance) – 3:27
4. "Desire" (Adam Phillips, Taylor, Taylor) – 3:37
5. "Curious" (Adam Bremner, Greene, Anderson, Lee) – 3:10
6. "Ricochets" (Peters, Peters) – 3:42
7. "Roll Over" (Valance, Anderson, Lee) – 3:21
8. "Tongue-Tied" (Peters, Peters, Valance) – 4:03
9. "Over 'n' Out" (Joanne Jeffries, Juliette Jaimes, Steve Welton-Jaimes) – 3:12
10. "Somebody out There" (Peters, Peters) – 3:58
11. "Action" (Nichols, Nowels, Steinberg, Valance) – 3:33
12. "Double Take" (Peters, Peters) – 2:59

• Japanese edition

13. "Just Like Me" (Black, Crichton, Valance) – 3:33

14. "Please Please Me" (Craig Hardy, Valance, Jaimes, Mick Lister) – 3:31

• Bonus DVD

1. "Kiss Kiss"
2. "Down Boy"
3. "Naughty Girl"
4. "State of Mind"

Charts

Chart (2003) Peak position Australian ARIA Albums Chart[4] 57 Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[3] 12 UK Albums Chart 60

Chart Certification Sales Japan RIAJ Gold 100,425[3]

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Japan	6 November 2003	Warner Bros. Records	CD	WPCR-11722
Australia	10 November 2003	EngineRoom Records	CD	ERM0019
United Kingdom	14 November 2003	Warner Bros.	CD	5046701625

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ "Full interview: Holly Valance ". BBC. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Japan chart peak". jbbs.livedoor.jp. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
4. ^ ^{a b} "Holly Valance - Australian chart peaks". Australian-charts. Retrieved 30 June 2007.