of such a message". A spokesman for Halliwell found it amazing that the cover was taken so seriously, as it was meant to only be a "bright, fun image". The back cover picture featured Halliwell bellowing out the song titles through a megaphone. By each song lyric in the album sleeve, it is specified whether the song is "for the heart", "sexy", "to make you move" or "for the mind". Critical reception Scream If You Wanna Go Faster received generally negative reviews from music journalists. Christian Ward from NME gave the album one out of ten stars, and commented that Scream If You Wanna Go Faster was the sound of "Crisis Spice arriving back in a pop climate she should have dominated after 'Schizophonic'" and that Halliwell would "never get it right, which for a while, like Sarah Ferguson, was part of her pathetic charm. Now, she doesn't have a clue any more. In an attempt to be a 21st-century pop Liza Minnelli, she's bypassed the interesting stuff and gone straight to her very own Muppets in Manhattan". Website entertainment.ie also gave the album one out of five stars, whilst commenting that the album was "an unmitigated disaster: Geri dutifully has a go at rock, reggae, disco and rap, all equally superficial, unconvincing and instantly forgettable. Her vocals are weak, the songs are formulaic and the album as a whole is a boring, irritating mess". Another negative review came from Caroline Sullivan of newspaper The Guardian, who said that even in its "thoughtful" moments, it is "sunk by [its] production-line sound and Halliwell's limited range". The Birmingham Mails Alison Jones described the album's tracks as "rang[ing] from the bland to the not so bad", and noted that "the overwhelming impression of this album is that all the lyrics have been written with the aid of the little book of cliches, giving them the resonance and emotional depth of the contents of a fortune cookie". Ian Sturgess from the Daily Mirror commented that Halliwell "has gone all out to make a record that's sassy, irreverent and brimming with down 'n' dirty attitude, but which ends up way off the mark". Lisa Oliver of Dotmusic gave the album a mixed review, whilst saying Scream If You Wanna Go Faster "is never going to be a seminal album to change your life and return to again and again. But it is an album