It seems trivial but the coverage of Victoria ruining a Spice Girls reunion reeks of bollocks to me.

www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2622726/vi...ice-girl-band-mates/

JK2006 wrote:
It seems trivial but the coverage of Victoria ruining a Spice Girls reunion reeks of bollocks to me.

www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2622726/vi...ice-girl-band-mates/

I never got the Spice Girls mania in the 90's, also then kids at my school didn't really like Radiohead but I was a proud owner of OK Computer in year 5.

What's the point? The last reunion did badly and they ended up cancelling most of it. Then they put on the musical....... less said about that the better.

Put simply, they were terrible but hit at just the right time and were marketed, hyped etc to the max so young girls bought into everything they did. I seem to recall 1 good song, the Christmas #1 which is so memorable I've forgotten the name.

Now the young girls are grown up and wised up they see them for what they really are, talentless. None can sing, dance or write and they're so irritating, right up their own backsides. Nobody wants them.

Having said that the sporty one seems to have stayed grounded, but talent? Where?

I was working in 'Entertainment Retail' in late 96/early 97, when Spice Mania was at it's zenith, when we had to play their long-playing video on rotation - didn't grow weary of it. Always thought that for their first 12 months they were a perfect pop phenomenon - strong debut album, 5 strong A-sides that deservedly made #1 & a sheer force of personality that made the overkill bearable.
Then, like most of late 1997, things went awry. Dreadful second album, weaker singles, over-ambitious "movie" and large cracks surfacing all round. The 'ramshackle' element was what gave them their charm, became their undoing - and what was subsequently engineered out of pop. Which isn't to say the Spice Girls were a great musical act in the grand scheme of things, but most stylised pop bands since then are formulaic and charmless even if the music is technically 'better'. Like Oasis (in their first incarnation), their time as something approaching 'zeitgeist' was short, but so phenomenal it sustained a long afterlife.

Rather accurate and bright I thought Chris.

Zig-a-zig-arse wrote:
What's the point? The last reunion did badly and they ended up cancelling most of it. Then they put on the musical....... less said about that the better.

Put simply, they were terrible but hit at just the right time and were marketed, hyped etc to the max so young girls bought into everything they did. I seem to recall 1 good song, the Christmas #1 which is so memorable I've forgotten the name.

Now the young girls are grown up and wised up they see them for what they really are, talentless. None can sing, dance or write and they're so irritating, right up their own backsides. Nobody wants them.

Having said that the sporty one seems to have stayed grounded, but talent? Where?

Did Spiceworld make it's money or just bomb ?

Remember the video game they had on PS1, it clogged up the bargain bin in Electronic Boutique ?