CBS Associated - ZK 45273 (1989)
Tracklisting :

1. Heartbeat Of Love -  5:22
     (N.M. Walden / L. Jackson)
2. I Wanna Be Your Woman -  4:29
     (N.M. Walden / S. Dakota)
3. Keep Me Inside Your Love -  4:30
     (N.M. Walden / L. Jackson)
4. You Made Me Want You -  5:10
    (N.M. Walden / L. Jackson)
5. Slam It -  4:37
    (N.M. Walden / G. Gonaway / K. Walden)
6. Eternally -  4:21
    (N.M. Walden / J. Cohen)
     duet with Skyler Jett
7. If You Were Mine -  4:30
     (N.M. Walden / L. Jackson)
8. I Am What I Am -  4:47
     (N.M. Walden / L. Jackson)
9. Floating Hearts -  6:00
     (N.M. Walden / J. Cohen)
10. Kady -  5:16
    (N.M. Walden / L. Jackson / P. Zadora)
Notes :
- Produced by Narada Michael Walden for Perfection Light Productions
- notable guests : Randy Jackson (bass, synth bass), Gene Kelly (intro of 'Keep Me Inside Your Love')

Comments  :
Of course, it was Pia so I listened to it once in a while, but  this album has never been one of my favorites. Especially after I read the booklet, that states very clearly that David Frazier 'engineered' Pia Z. vocals. After I saw a fantastic performance of 'Heartbeat Of Love ' on the Arsenio Hall Show, I had to reconsider : Pia gave a rockin' live version of the song, proving to me for once and for all that she's not only good at singing the evergreens. Since then, 'Heartbeat...' is one of my all time Pia-favorites.
Pia is also credited as one of the co-writers of 'Kady', but I wonder which particular part she wrote. Must be 'Kady, Kady'.
This album, in opposite of "When The Lights Go Out" was a US-release only. 'Heartbeat Of Love' was the first single of this album, and there are circulating a few promo copies of 'If You Were Mine', making this last one the last 'new material'-release for Pia Zadora,'The Platinum Collection' being a re-issue.

Reviews  :

from The Washington Post, November 19, 1989:

"...Pia Zadora, of course, can affors as many changes of setting and sound as she wants. After cloaking herself with symphonic grandeur and two sets of standards 'n show tunes on "Pia & Phil" and "I Am What I Am," Zadora asked her wealthjy husband, Meshulam Riklis, to cough up for another album of dance-pop. Riklis upped the ante by hiring top pop-soul producer Narada Michael Walden (Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston) to add diamond-hard dance beats and give the project a jewelry store gloss.
Zadora, who has several Broadway and movie credits to her name, has a credible and adaptable if lightweight voice, but in her naked appeal for popularity, she doesn't sound like anyone so much as she sounds like everyone. "Pia Z." (CBS) is a commercially canny combination of crass carnality, exemplified by "Slam It" (a shameless clone of Janet Jackson's "Control") and kitschy-cooing "Kady," a lullaby for her daughter patterned after Madonna's gaga-gooing on "Dear Jessie."
Elsewhere Zadora, who divides the album into fast and slow sides, does a simpering Olivia Newton-John impression on "If You Were Mine," mimics Jackson's slow, breathy numbers on "You Made Me Want You" and does a body-double on Diana Ross on "Floating Hearts," an Italian restaurant melodrama that opens with cheesy accordions. She even copies Samantha Fox, of all people, on "I Wanna Be Your Woman," stooping unnecessarily to an imitation of an imitation..."
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