Girls Aloud were supposed to end in 2006 with their first Greatest Hits.

 

It was its unexpected success that gave them another two studio albums.

 

I think Girls Aloud concentrating on the UK market only helped their longevity aswell as they got long breaks from each other between album eras. The Spice Girls never had that luxury as they were global and needed to do the promo that being a global band entailed.

 

 

Definitely agree with this. Girls Aloud had a great run a real shame they took a break when they were at their peak!?!?

Girls Aloud were supposed to end in 2006 with their first Greatest Hits.

 

It was its unexpected success that gave them another two studio albums.

 

I think Girls Aloud concentrating on the UK market only helped their longevity aswell as they got long breaks from each other between album eras. The Spice Girls never had that luxury as they were global and needed to do the promo that being a global band entailed.

 

Girls Aloud where on a roll for a while, since their GH. It was a shame they stopped cos they were on such a high at the time.

Contracts mean nothing. They don't have to be fulfilled. Look at Girls Aloud. They had signed a new deal to release more studio albums just before they took a break, but have never fulfilled it.

Indeed, I seem to remember it was a contract for three more albums. This news was revealed in late 2009 or early 2010, as an assurance to fans that they’d be back, within a year. Sadly it didn’t turn out that way 🥺

I think Girls Aloud concentrating on the UK market only helped their longevity aswell as they got long breaks from each other between album eras. The Spice Girls never had that luxury as they were global and needed to do the promo that being a global band entailed.

 

Girls Aloud got long breaks from each other? The released a new album every single year between 2003 and 2008; their longest break from each other was probably a month or something :lol:

5 albums of Melanie C, Mel B and Emma carrying the band. Poor girls. 😂

I think the Spice Girls are iconic because they stopped when they were successful.

See how redundant became BSB, Westshit and all the others. The Girls were already icons with just one album.

 

I’m sure they have lots of unreleased stuff. That’s what we want now! NOW! 😜

 

:lol: VB really should have sung more. She just wasn't confident enough. Geri brought the spice sound, massive Beatles-like charisma and lyrics to the band. Unfortunately now Geri has none of those things.

 

3 or 4 albums, followed by Forever ew, would have been better rhough. They wouldn't have become irrelevant like that, and then they could have jumped fully into solo spice mode.

Imagine thinking that the f***ing Spice Girls where ever anything but Iconic? LOL

Girls Aloud got long breaks from each other? The released a new album every single year between 2003 and 2008; their longest break from each other was probably a month or something :lol:

 

The recording process with Xenomania usually involved them meeting with Brian Higgins individually and giving him ideas to create the music, they’d then record bits and pieces individually which he would piece together and create the songs. Nadine did all her recording for the last two albums in LA so other than touring and promo activities she probably had little contact with the others. This was likely beneficial to their working relationship given how they weren’t close at all during this time.

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If Kimberley’s book is anything to go by, it was Nadine living in LA that actually contributed to the weakening of the girls’ relationship with her, not something that improved it!

 

I don’t think their writing sessions were always individual. They’d all meet up at the studios to bounce ideas off of each other, it wasn’t totally separate.

 

I think it’s certainly true that Girls Aloud’s time together wasn’t anywhere near as intense as Spice Girls, but GA didn’t have particularly long breaks either. The cycle of recording an album / promoting it with singles / rehearsing for tour / touring, and then repeat, for quite a few years... this is partly what led to them wanting to take an extended break from the group.

 

Spice Girls reached the point of burning out a lot more quickly. As already mentioned this was no doubt because they physically had to travel all over the world to be able to promote and be successful everywhere, which didn’t end up being sustainable for them.

 

I think a key factor for Little Mix that has made things relatively more sustainable for them, compared to girl groups that predated them, is social media and YouTube. So much of their promotion can be achieved online. Their worldwide fanbase can be aware of what they’re doing within minutes, be it a new single or album announcement. Their singles get instant exposure via playlists. They can get away with only performing some of their singles once or twice on TV (or even never, in the case of Heartbreak Anthem, and still have an absolutely massive hit). Whereas for Girls Aloud they could do 10+ performances per single, extensive TV and magazine promo - and it was even more of a workload for Spice Girls.

 

Little Mix work hard, of course - over the years they’ve been able to put their energies into touring extensively - but the music industry is a completely different landscape these days and I think that’s one factor that has helped them to last this long. In Girls Aloud’s day it was a miracle they lasted as long as 7 years (it will always be frustrating that they embarked on their break when there was an increased appetite from the public - I feel like their timing would have been like if Little Mix had had a 3 year break after Glory Days). Thankfully Little Mix kept going and capitalised every time their popularity increased, rather than taking a long break.

MASSIVE HIT?! :rofl:

 

This is a heartbreak anthem. Full stop. Continue robotic vocals and announcing what type of song this is, as our emotionless, cookie-cutter vocals and reliance on song writers and Simon Cowell means we cannot convey what the song is all about wuthout informing you. Full stop. Next sentence. Hello. Now we must inform you how this song that is about heartbreak and break ups will go into the topoc. Full stop. We will sing about heartbreak now. Ooh ooh. It hurts so bad. You split up with me on instagram. End of sentence. Why did you do that? End of question. Begin next utterance.

 

Absolute TRASH and they don't have "massive hits" anynore. They are scraping by in the streaming age thanks to their rabid army of salty mixers, getting minor hits in the top 20. Flushhhh.

Heartbreak Anthem chart run: 9-8-6-4-5-4-3-6-3... x

Boosted by streaming, nothin else. Huge flop.

Boosted by streaming, nothin else. Huge flop.

 

 

That can be said for any other hit of today.

That can be said for any other hit of today.

 

Not on this scale, except for other fanbase heavy pop acts obsessed with streaming the same sing over and over for the charts?

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I had a dream..

OK magazine was so sneaky making that edit

OK magazine was so sneaky making that edit

 

They were!

 

I remember that was the day when Ginger “died” for me. When the girls thanked her and Mel C said she hoped to reunite with her, I almost believed this was going to happen. Geri had her reasons though. And her ego as well 😬

 

By the way, that Bag It Up performance is 😬. I watched it last night and now I can see how she hid her lack of talent behind feel-good dance routines that kids normally do on TikTok. Queen of envisioning things.

That Geri Brits performance is cringe as hell... It's as if Nigel Farage decided to do a pop performance with gays. Urgh...

That Geri Brits performance is cringe as hell... It's as if Nigel Farage decided to do a pop performance with gays. Urgh...

 

Nigel Farage?? :lol: :lol: I have to say that I fail to see THAT comparrison.

Nigel Farage?? :lol: :lol: I have to say that I fail to see THAT comparrison.

 

Well it had that whole 'brittannia rules'/'brexit' vibe, thats what I meant B-)

 

Similar energy to this Boris Johnson 'stunt' at the Olympics

 

Regarding it strictly as a performance that occurred in 2000, I would say the flag generally didn’t have the same sort of negative connotations that it more prominently has these days (although I admit that I say this as a white person who was a child in 2000, maybe my optics then were different to how others may have viewed that performance even back then?). Can only speak from my point of view but the performance feels nostalgic to me, it was fairly early on during the period of New Labour.

 

Aside from the flag imagery, I think the performance was incredibly “Geri” and she gave it a lot of gusto - it’s certainly an attention grabbing performance, and the huge legs props are very memorable!