Mel B - 'Hot'

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October 11, 20204 yr

She had a #1 and #4 hit on the album upon its release. Something put people off the album, this was 2000 no one will have heard the rest of the album to be put off by the music. As I've said the music was good enough to have 2 very high peaking singles, the RnB route was the one everyone expected her to go down too.

Yes it was close to Forever but it's not like solo music wasn't coming thick and fast in summer/late 2000.

That cover killed that album and I'll die on that hill. It wouldn't be till Melt in late 2003 that any other solo Spice release would miss the top 20 apart from Hot. That is 7 solo albums and 25 singles if I'm not mistaken to be released to make the top 20 apart from Hot.

Edited October 11, 20204 yr by sammy01

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October 11, 20204 yr

Not to mention she had a very high selling #5 hit after the albums release and another top 20 hit after that and they did barely anything to help the album.

She pretty much had the same singles run as Emma's first album that got a number 4 peak and 120k sales.

October 12, 20204 yr

So fans made the effort to go to Woolworths , hmv , our price etc. They wanted to buy HOT but they saw the album cover of a woman in a bikini and decided no way I can’t but that !!

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October 12, 20204 yr

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It was 20 years ago, in England! Things were relatively less progressive. For me as a pre-teen, anything that was even mildly sexy was something that embarrassed me, even if that seems silly now because it’s “just a woman in a bikini”. I can’t go back and change that reaction. The fact I felt that way when I was 12 & prepubescent, may have partly been because of social conditioning.

There’s no evidence either way about whether the artwork was an off putting factor that resulted in sluggish album sales. I mean, the two of us who are saying this actually did buy the album, even though as pre-teens it made us feel a bit uncomfortable. I doubt it was just us.

Tbh, I’d say that most kids of the 90s/00s were mainly exposed to music via magazines and TV (Kids shows, music channels), while radio was a less important factor. Something about the Hot era didn’t connect as well with the Spice Girls’ target audience as well as the other girls. 50k after three singles was disastrous back then. There’s probably many factors that contributed to that. The artwork might have been one reason for some people.

October 12, 20204 yr

Let's also not say it is just a woman in a bikini she is showering and it is all meant to look sexual.

Mel B was selling records to kids, go and look at Little Mix album covers if you want to see even in 2020 what album covers aimed at kids looks like. Little Mix aren't showering in bikinis on them that's for sure. Heck little mix won't still even swear on an album 9 years in your their career for worry of alienating their young fan base. Where as Mel B is being sexual on the front cover turn it over and one of the songs is called 'pack your shit'

October 12, 20204 yr

The album is called Hot the album cover makes total sense.

She is a sexual as we all very know. She wasn’t appealing to young infants.

Edited October 12, 20204 yr by vibe

October 12, 20204 yr

I don't think we can definitively say whether or not the cover was a major factor in its underperformance, but I can only speak for myself when I say that as a shy and prudish 12 year old, the cover was a bit off putting!

You'd think homosexual men just don't appreciate a good pair of tits x