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TOPIC: Media bollocks
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Re:Media bollocks 7 Years, 3 Months ago
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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.
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