``You can't change me,'' she shrugged. ``I guess there will be a bit of me in all my albums.'' But how much of her can the people take, considering it is the same her, bad voice and all, that keeps getting packaged and repackaged year after year. It's time she took a leaf out of her erstwhile pop idol Madonna -- whom she faithfully copied initially but could not keep up with after a while -- who comes up with a new image every other year. Alisha could not even come up with a new hairstyle. You still see her all over the place with her age-old fringe, albeit with gold streaks in an attempt to be with the times. The bored audience did not even stir in response to her characteristic sexy `Hi'.

Still, Alisha appeared happy, smiling as she did all evening, regardless of a bad album that hasn't been salvaged even by music director Biddu's attempt to infuse some ``Middle Eastern influence''. Besides, it is just the title track `Baash' which boasts of these influences, as most of the songs remain mainstream in character and mood. `I love your money' is a tapori number, while `Dil ki rani' adds romance. In fact, the whole album is romantic in nature, trying as it does to recreate the magic of Alisha and Biddu.

One of the videos even has a hunk rescuing a damsel in distress in the middle of nowhere and it ends with the very original words: ``And they eat pizzas happily ever after.''

How they managed to get a pizza in the back of beyond is anyone's guess, but that's Alisha for you. Cute and chubby, and not all there.