Big announcement coming from the original Ginger Spice of pop tomorrow morning at 9am with Dan Wootton on Lorraine. It's widely expected to be the announcement of her first single in 12 years:
What makes her think anyone's going to care, realistically?
Ride It was life alteringly awesome.
Ride It was life alteringly shit.
I genuinely don't understand why it's so popular on here?!
I've revisited Geri's solo canon since her BBC2 documentary about the 90s earlier in the year. The likes of "Look at Me", "Mi Chico Latino" and "Bag It Up" are still great pop singles and were very of their moment.
But I'm with you on "Ride It" Jonjo. Everything about that and her last album smacked of a woman so far removed from reality she suddenly wasn't a weird but relatable livewire like she was anymore. I think being a mum and getting married in the time has mellowed her since. She's still a good laugh and good to see interviewed.
Geri's singles rank;
1. Mi Chico Latino
2. Bag It Up
3. Calling
4. Lift Me Up
5. Look At Me
6. It's Raining Men
7. Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
8. Ride It
9. Desire
Passion has Love Never Loved Me though, one of her ultimate highlights.
Ride It is fun! I'd say amongst her ardent fan base it's one of her most liked singles actually, behind Look at Me, Mi Chico Latino & Bag It Up.
It's called "Angels In Chains". The track will be out on June 23 and all the proceeds are going to Childline.
From https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3776314/geri-horner-to-release-first-solo-single-in-12-years-as-a-tribute-to-late-friend-george-michael/:
Bag It Up was wonderful, especially the video with her in charge!
I cant foresee this doing much in the charts at all unless she goes all out on the promotion trail. Even with that, i cant see it charting higher than low top 75.
Geri's solo material never equated with me, some of her songs were catchy but i found them very annoying after little to no time.
Good enough:
01. Lift Me Up
02. Mi Chico Latino
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Depends on my mood at the time:
03. Look At Me
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Bin/Burn them:
04. Bag It Up
05. It's Raining Men
06. Calling
07. Ride It
08. Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
09. Desire
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Without a DOUBT my least favourite solo Spice material!
Hover over the 'delete' button under your post and press it, Jonjo x
1. Mi Chico Latino
2. Look at Me
3. Bag It Up
4. Ride It
5. It's Raining Men
6. Lift Me Up
7. Desire
8. Calling
9. Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
10. Half of Me
1-3: fabulous
4-5: great (Guilty pleasures, I guess!)
6-7: good
8-9 ok
10 amusingly bad :')
My all-time favourite singer.
Singles ranking :
1. Desire
2. Calling
3. Look At Me
4. Lift Me Up
5. Half Of Me
6. Mi Chico Latino
7. Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
8. Bag It Up
9. Ride It
10. It's Raining Men
Judging by the previews, I don't think I'm going to be too keen on Angels in Chains... but it's nice that she felt inspired to write a tribute for George Michael & that she's donating the proceeds to Childline (a charity close to George's heart).
It's being released via East West Records UK (Warner).
Artwork:
It's unclear at this point whether she'll be going by Geri Halliwell or Geri Horner!
She's performing at G-A-Y the day after the single release, but she's just billed as "Geri" for it: https://s9.postimg.org/tsb5txavh/DCG_U_2_Xc_AAg1_KC.jpg
The single artwork's really nice. I agree that it wouldn't make sense her trying to be the solo artist she was back then now. EastWest are pretty safe hands anyway, they did The Corrs and Busted's most recent albums.
'Desire' is so underrated.
When I think about it, the only one I truly hated was her abominable cover of 'It's Raining Men'.
GH suggests Greatest Hits. No?
He is reet tbh about worst solo material ... after Emma Bunton of course.
However, her songs are classic 90s moments and Ride It is an absolute JAM - loved it at the time and still do. Quirky and strange but a lot of fun. One of her best!
Horner*
Either way it's GH.
Sounds gospel inspired
Day before my Birthday??? What a gift.
Oh god, I love Geri but she was good when she was doing her talk-sing pop stuff to cover her lack of vocal ability.
Hearing those three obviously very talented singers and then her piping up is kind of embarrassing for her, even with all things considered.
It's nice that she's doing this for charity but I don't think it'll make much money for it in the long run. She'd have been better off doing a book or something.
This can be pre-ordered on iTunes, and she's going with "Halliwell" for this release.
The atrocity that was 'Half of Me' still haunts me so yesss Geri, let's move on from that This is a lovely thing of her to do.
My Geri singles rank:
01) Mi Chico Latino
02) Calling
03) Desire
04) Look at Me
05) Ride It
06) Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
07) It's Raining Men
08) Bag It Up
09) Lift Me Up
10) Half of Me
'Mi Chico Latino' is comfortably her best for me and one of the very best solo Spice songs ('Never Be The Same Again' >>>> ofc)! Then 'Calling' was also a surprisingly striking slower moment from her too! 'Desire' is SO underrated, a shame that flopped so much. I like them all down to 'It's Raining Men', but then 'Bag It Up' never did much for me, her voice on 'Lift Me Up' (particularly the final chorus) is rather painful and 'Half of Me' was just totally a wtf moment :')
Release date now bought forward to this Monday, 19th June, where it will receive it's first play on (and I kid you not) Chris Evans' Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2. It quite literally is 1999 all over again!
Now available to hear on Spotify!
I really like this. It's a more mature Geri, but still has her stamp on it. Love a good gospel twang too.
#21 on iTunes!
Girlfriend is SMASHING it!
Really didn't know what to expect from this. Surprisingly moving and lovely. Very fitting tribute to George. And dare I say it the best she has sounded on a slower number.
Geri stealing the Grenfell video thunder
I think the song is a grower, love the video. Captures the song well.
Very late release. This song could be UK top 40 hit in January, after George's death.
Now this tribute in the shadows of two charity singles.
Debuted at #63 on Sales Chart. Nowhere to be seen on main one of course. I believe she's performing at G-A-Y tonight?
^ She's #63 in the downloads chart, but #65 in the sales chart. I doubt this'll be quite enough for her to have made the Top 200, sadly!
Chatting and performing on The One Show tonight, and then on Loose Women on Wednesday. I've just seen a live video of her set at G-A-Y on YouTube. She did the single, Look at Me, Raining Men and Freedom. Was quite understated by her standards so will be interesting to see what she pulls off tonight!
Iv always been a spice boy/Geri fan and it's painful to read all the comments about Geri - she's been slaughtered online for this release and really seems to be disliked by the general public.
Her performance on 'The One Show' didn't even push AIC back into the iTunes Top 100 - maybe she needs to do a Steps and release a camp, fun pop album
Or maybe she just shouldn't release anything at all!
Semi-kidding. She's definitely my least fave of the solo Spices </3
I think it's clear she's aiming to be a much different artist from the one she was in 1999. She's even said as much in the interviews promoting this. I never heard any of the "Man on the Mountain" album that leaked last year but I'd be interested to.
The first time that I heard "Angels in chains" I thought, well this is really poor for a years comeback, but I must say that currently I fell in love with the song. Sometimes brings me back to "Calling" era. The more I listen to it, the more I like it.
I really was not impressed with the song at all in the beginning, however it has really grown on me and I find it quite sweet now. Problem is Geri needs songs that are instantly catchy as no-one is really willing to give her a chance hence a grower is a non-event.
I still love this song, it is so beautiful and definitely great songwriting from her.
I've just been watching this behind the scenes video also which is really interesting.
This is still the most ridiculous solo Spice release and somehow a label backed it!
When you haven't released a song in the UK in a decade and are know for fun gay songs you decide your comeback single is a ballad ode to a dead singer who she clearly wasn't close to the last few years.
Who on earth was going to buy it? George fans I'm sure saw this as her trying for attention off him and Geri fans really didn't want this. Maybe her heart was in the right place but no one's head was actually thinking will this sell.
To be fair, I don't think she stood much of a chance with anything she released at that point.
Let's be honest none of the girls are going to chart ever again on the singles chart unless they manage to get a feature on a single with a big artist. Emma couldn't do it with a pretty fantastic comeback single in BPDS, Melanie hasn't been able to do it with 3 brilliant recent singles, Geri could have released the best song of all time she was never going to chart.
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