I'm sure Virgin were in constant contact with the girls in early 2001 hoping they would think a couple of months away from it they are missing it and Forever could start up again.

Considering that the girls sold nearly 300,000 off the back of one single alone, I’m sure Virgin wanted to continue promoting the album and hoped the girls would get on board. The album of course was a flop by the girls standards but to practically go platinum (I know it got the status but not sales wise) off one single release is fairly good by anyone’s standards. If they had continued promoting it properly for a year it could have ended up with very healthy sales possibly double platinum.

This just came up on my suggested videos on YouTube and I dont think I have seen these before.

 

I LOVE IT probably the funniest segments of that era - GOSH we could have had it all but *you* turned your back -_-

 

They are all hilarious but Emma saying 'Cindy Crowford is a lovely model with moles on her face' is HILARIOUSLY bad lol and Victoria 'I am erm... wind :unsure: ' LOL

 

Edited February 23, 20214 yr by Mr.X

Considering that the girls sold nearly 300,000 off the back of one single alone, I’m sure Virgin wanted to continue promoting the album and hoped the girls would get on board. The album of course was a flop by the girls standards but to practically go platinum (I know it got the status but not sales wise) off one single release is fairly good by anyone’s standards. If they had continued promoting it properly for a year it could have ended up with very healthy sales possibly double platinum.

 

Impossible. The album was terrible and there was nothing else to release from it. They would have had to skip to the next album.

Impossible. The album was terrible and there was nothing else to release from it. They would have had to skip to the next album.

I thought you liked '(If You Wanna) Have Some Fun (Track Me Down & Get My Number... You Could Be the One) [Wink Wink/Nudge Nudge]' :o

I thought you liked '(If You Wanna) Have Some Fun (Track Me Down & Get My Number... You Could Be the One) [Wink Wink/Nudge Nudge]' :o

 

Sorry Jay, but the song is actually called '(If You Wanna) Have Some Fun (Track Me Down & Get My Number... You Could Be the One) [Wink Wink/Nudge Nudge] Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun'

 

Get it right, hun :coffee:

Edited February 23, 20214 yr by Mr.X

Sorry Jay, but the song is actually called '(If You Wanna) Have Some Fun (Track Me Down & Get My Number... You Could Be the One) [Wink Wink/Nudge Nudge] Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun'

 

Get it right, hun :coffee:

 

No, it is as flat as a pancake!! Awful, awful sang!

Sorry Jay, but the song is actually called '(If You Wanna) Have Some Fun (Track Me Down & Get My Number... You Could Be the One) [Wink Wink/Nudge Nudge] Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun'

 

Get it right, hun :coffee:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Sorry Jay, but the song is actually called '(If You Wanna) Have Some Fun (Track Me Down & Get My Number... You Could Be the One) [Wink Wink/Nudge Nudge] Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun'

 

Get it right, hun :coffee:

 

 

Puh-lease you forgot like half the "Are you having fun?" in that title B-)

Puh-lease you forgot like half the "Are you having fun?" in that title B-)

 

You're right. It should be

 

'(If You Wanna) Have Some Fun (Track Me Down & Get My Number... You Could Be the One) [Wink Wink/Nudge Nudge] Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? Are You Having Fun? ARE YOU HAVING FUN?!'

 

Apologies. :smoke:

 

 

Erm.... NOW ALSO WHO WAS SAYING THIS SONG IS BAD?! THAT FOREVER IS BAD?!?!?!? HELLO!!!=???[/color][/color]

 

Edited February 23, 20214 yr by Mr.X

It was I!

It was I!

 

Let's have it then

 

 

Explain yourself. Why do you come here to slander this incredible feat of creativity?

 

This incredible musical offer that radiates JOY and FUN and SEX :yahoo: An album so good, with EMMA f***ING BUNTON riding them vocals HIGH and even Victoria sounding decent :wub:

 

Why do you bring SHAME to this forum? This community?

 

Have you no mercy on us?!

Edited February 24, 20214 yr by Mr.X

What JOY? The album is utterly lifeless. It was written and produced, minus Hollier, the only good upbeat song alongside the only good ballads/ mid-tempos, Goodbye and LLLTW, in just TWO DAYS! There is no fun of this plodding, boring, bottom-drawer rnb trash. It has no singles except from the three above, one of which (if not all 3!!) was written by Geri before she left. It could easily be one of the worst girl band albums of all time.

Oh where we go with the lack of taste and the conspiracy theories

 

 

Honey, this is a superb album. From the sassyness of Holler (get it right!) to the hard beats of Tell Me Why, the enchanting Let Love Lead The Way followed by the BOP CENTRAL CORE OF THE ALBUM, THE TRIPPLE THREAT of Right Back At Ya NO RIP - Get Down With Me (Groove With Me, the realest!) - Wasting My BOP Time :w00t: poptastic Weekend Love with SMASH IN YOUR FACE MEL B'S RAP :cheer: (skip Time Goes By) :teresa: YOU GET YOUR ASS ON THE DANCEFLOOR AGAIN FOR If You Wanna Have Some Fun THEN GO GET A DRINK AND CHILL WITH YOUR HOT HOOK UP AND SING TO THEM ABOUT THEM BEING YOUR Oxygen AND THEN YOU CRY FLOODS OF TEARS WITH Goodbye

 

An album. A narrative. A lifestyle.

 

The end.

 

Edited February 24, 20214 yr by Mr.X

And a giant turd that is the musical equivalent of a dried out saltine left out in the sun for a couple of days. Only two of those songs even have a melody. The rest are lifeless and plodding. Boooring! Thank you, Spices ... NEXT! Its main competition that year was Saints and Sinners, which is much better, and even that was just a 6/10.

Sure, it doesn't reach the heights of the first two, but it definitely has some great moments on it.

 

Wasting My Time has actually become one of my favourite Spice songs. Victoria sounds fantastic!

 

I actually think Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis would have been far better to the lead the album, and Dark Child produce a couple of tracks. The complete reverse of what actually happened. Oxygen & If You Wanna Have Some Fun definitely capture the Spice Girls sound (the latter could easily be on Spice) without re-treading old ground. Whereas with Dark Child, it sounded like he ran out of ideas and gave them rejects. The whole album merges into one (I feel as though Brandy's Moonlight suffers the same outcome). The Spice Girls were not known for that. They deserved better.

 

And I will say, Virgin Records have a lot of explaining to do. I'm not sure if it was the girls themselves who were unmanageable, but for them to let Mel B release a whole album one month before Forever and Melanie C release a single throughout the campaign was a disastrous. They should've dedicated September to at least the end of the year for Spice duties.

Sure, it doesn't reach the heights of the first two, but it definitely has some great moments on it.

 

Wasting My Time has actually become one of my favourite Spice songs. Victoria sounds fantastic!

 

I actually think Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis would have been far better to the lead the album, and Dark Child produce a couple of tracks. The complete reverse of what actually happened. Oxygen & If You Wanna Have Some Fun definitely capture the Spice Girls sound (the latter could easily be on Spice) without re-treading old ground. Whereas with Dark Child, it sounded like he ran out of ideas and gave them rejects. The whole album merges into one (I feel as though Brandy's Moonlight suffers the same outcome). The Spice Girls were not known for that. They deserved better.

 

And I will say, Virgin Records have a lot of explaining to do. I'm not sure if it was the girls themselves who were unmanageable, but for them to let Mel B release a whole album one month before Forever and Melanie C release a single throughout the campaign was a disastrous. They should've dedicated September to at least the end of the year for Spice duties.

 

OMG MARRY ME :wub: Wasting My Time is Top10 Spice Girls :cheer:

 

I kind of agree actually on the Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis being the ideal team to lead on this album. The A&R department really messed up on that one. I have often wondered what the record would have sounded like had they produced it all. It did sound like they were the main ones who 'got' them.

 

Dont get me wrong, I LOVE the record. But yeah JJ & TL kind of really developed their sound in a more nuanced way and a sort of growing from the sounds the group already explored. Darkchild was the opposite, an almost total shift in sound.

 

For me though, they commit two faults in thier involvement. Both Oxygen and If You Wanna Have Some Fun are incredible songs that really showcase how awesome the group is.

 

However... Oxygen has that terrible water drop sound, which once you hear it, you can never not hear it again and it really can spoil it if you are not in the mood <_<

 

And If You Wanna Have Some Fun, whilst a total sassy BOP, lasts about 1,40sec too long... Emma is of course, Flawless Spice, but we gotta admit that by the end of the track you're shouting YES IM HAVING FUN BUNTON WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?! but whatever. You drink a G&T and you get over it and you STILL BOP!

IYWHSF would have surely had a radio edit had it been released that chopped at minute off at least.

 

I pretty much love Forever bar 2 tracks. Right back at ya has aged like milk and I just can't listen to it now and Weekend Love is ruined by Mel B's rap. Time goes by gets a lot of hate but I think it's such a classy song and Get down with me is that little funky number.

 

Oxygen is a 6 but would be an 8 if that drip noise was removed.

Edited February 24, 20214 yr by sammy01

Whatever. I'm putting my Forever vinyl on and I am bopping

 

Edited February 24, 20214 yr by Mr.X

IYWHSF would have surely had a radio edit had it been released that chopped at minute off at least.

 

I pretty much love Forever bar 2 tracks. Right back at ya has aged like milk and I just can't listen to it now and Weekend Love is ruined by Mel B's rap. Time goes by gets a lot of hate but I think it's such a classy song and Get down with me is that little funky number.

 

Oxygen is a 6 but would be an 8 if that drip noise was removed.

There is an official radio edit from the promo CD.