Happy birthday to Forever 🖤

However maligned by the press and the fandom in general (and the industry at the time), it remains one of their best albums in my opinion.

Songs like Holler, Tell Me Why, Wasting My Time, Let Love Lead The Way, If You Wanna Have Some Fun, Oxygen and Goodbye all in one album? All gorgeous, perfect songs. Even songs like Get Down With Me and Right Back At Ya could have been singles, with the right single-mix treatment done to them.

What are your favourites of this album? And what are your least favourites?

Which songs would you wish had been singles? And what type of video would you have given it?

Anyway, make sure to stream/download it today and buy the new vinyl 😜

Happy 25th anniversary! Also, ugh, 25 years since they last released an album.

I still remember being so excited to get the CD, wanting my parents to take me to the shops after school finished on Monday, but for some reason they wouldn't and said we could tomorrow, I was stroppy about it, and for that they made me wait until Wednesday lol.

12 year old me actually had a decent first impression of the album, and Wasting My Time was an instant favourite. I remember playing it and saying to my mum it was my new favourite song, and she said something like "well if that's your favourite than that mustn't say much for the rest of the album" - omg! No taste x

I'll always maintain that it's a very good album, better than many will give it credit for. Fantastic production, some of their best vocal performances, and there are great catchy hooks throughout. Maaaybe the track list order could do with some work, and for sure it should have had different artwork to represent it. Also sometimes I feel like it really should have been their fourth album, that there should have been an album between Spiceworld and Forever that helped to bridge the gap in the change of sound.

Forever is my favourite Spice Girls album!

13 hours ago, -Jay- said:

Happy 25th anniversary! Also, ugh, 25 years since they last released an album.

I still remember being so excited to get the CD, wanting my parents to take me to the shops after school finished on Monday, but for some reason they wouldn't and said we could tomorrow, I was stroppy about it, and for that they made me wait until Wednesday lol.

12 year old me actually had a decent first impression of the album, and Wasting My Time was an instant favourite. I remember playing it and saying to my mum it was my new favourite song, and she said something like "well if that's your favourite than that mustn't say much for the rest of the album" - omg! No taste x

I'll always maintain that it's a very good album, better than many will give it credit for. Fantastic production, some of their best vocal performances, and there are great catchy hooks throughout. Maaaybe the track list order could do with some work, and for sure it should have had different artwork to represent it. Also sometimes I feel like it really should have been their fourth album, that there should have been an album between Spiceworld and Forever that helped to bridge the gap in the change of sound.

the SHADE from your mum

But in all seriousness, I remember being so excited for new music from them and to listen to what they had come up with... I've always loved the album! It wasnt an instant favourite like the previous two but Ive grown to listen more to it than Spice or Spiceworld actually.

I listen to it often and it sounds gorgeous on vinyl.

I would have loved for them to really campaign for it with more promo and singles and always imagined a club-night disco type of video for If You Wanna Have Some Fun and a continuation of the 4-elements theme with Oxygen for instance...

But what I would have done was have them more 'together' in the videos. I think the individual sections in Holler are iconic - at least Vics and Emmas- but I wish they had more scenes together as a unit. So I would have loved them to correct that for the following singles.

And I can't quite imagine a tour would be mainly in black and red colours like the EMA's performance. I think they would have gone more colourful there. If they were really to stick to the 4-elements coming up together, they could do a tour set list that would encompasse this theme, Act 1 - Earth, Act 2 - Water, Act 3 - Fire, Act 4 - Wind, Act 5 - The four elements coming together to create Friendship/Togetherness

Would have been incredible!