I thought the rc wanted the jimmy gulzar scrutiny. 🤔

Well Mel was stupid wasn’t she! I get the attachment to the song and I genuinely don’t think it’s anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be, however it is a final single at best not a make or break single! Out of all of them I’m not surprised Mel was the first to lose her recording contract, she openly admitted she refused to listen to advice and pushed ahead with tell me as the first single over feels so good and wouldn’t wait until after Xmas to release the album after Forever I bet they couldn’t wait to let her go.

 

I think they were actively sabotaging all of them by 2001. Look at Victoria Beckgam. She had I Wish and Like That ready to go and they go for two unpopular pop songs...

 

I didn't know that about Mel B. Where did she say that? Feels So Good is by far her best song and should have been first. Lullaby would have been fine as a last single, like Mel C's Tell Me Why (Phone Remix).

 

like Mel C's Tell Me Why (Phone Remix).

I think they were actively sabotaging all of them by 2001. Look at Victoria Beckgam. She had I Wish and Like That ready to go and they go for two unpopular pop songs...

 

I didn't know that about Mel B. Where did she say that? Feels So Good is by far her best song and should have been first. Lullaby would have been fine as a last single, like Mel C's Tell Me Why (Phone Remix).

 

It is pretty obvious that Virgin wanted solo Spices to go, specially after the Forever fiasco and their solo numbers dwindling around the same time too...

I think they were actively sabotaging all of them by 2001. Look at Victoria Beckgam. She had I Wish and Like That ready to go and they go for two unpopular pop songs...

 

I didn't know that about Mel B. Where did she say that? Feels So Good is by far her best song and should have been first. Lullaby would have been fine as a last single, like Mel C's Tell Me Why (Phone Remix).

 

 

Tell me why was Spice Girls, Mel's was If that were me, and I don't get why she released that when she was sitting on Closer which is one of her best songs ever!?!?

 

Mel B talks about it in her autobiography how they wanted FSG but she wanted Tell Me because it was more personal and made her mum cry. Also someone who worked Virgin has confirmed it in the How the Spice Girls changed Pop biography that was done.

Why they didn't do Hotter I'll never know!?!?!?

 

Before the release of Hot, Sisqo was angry that some elements of his productions were changed on the two songs he did...Hell No and Hotter. I can't remember his exact quote...but it was something to the effect of "if she doesn't change it back, I'm taking my name off the songs." So. He didn't exactly do that. But I did notice those songs seem to be credited to "Mark Andrews" (his real name) as opposed to the known "Sisqo". From what I can tell, he sometimes went as Mark "Sisqo" Andrews on his own writing credits.

 

Anyway. This is total speculation on my part. But I did wonder if Mel decided not to release it out of concern of reigniting some bad blood. Tag to that, she'd been vocal about not getting along with Teddy Riley, so she basically had a bad experience with her collaborators for half the album.

 

So. In her mind, maybe it was safer to go with a track written by longtime collaborator Richard Stannard and produced by the Darkchild team (who were always positive about their Spice collaborations)?

 

I do think she was bound to take a slide no matter what she released at that point. I think Tell Me and Feels So Good were more obvious hits than Hotter. But I'd agree that Hotter was probably the next most obvious in line...and was certainly a more commercial choice than Lullaby. Maybe it could have made the top 10?

 

Anyway. Back on topic. Which of these do I wish made the top ten? Headlines.

 

The reasons it all went wrong for Headlines have already been discussed in here, so I won't get into it all. But while I found the one TV performance and the video to be surprisingly unimaginative for what should have been a big pop culture moment...I've never been disappointed in the song itself. I thought it was gorgeous from the first listen, and I've never changed my mind about liking it. I guess you could argue that declaring your love through newspapers isn't the most relatable perspective...but I'll defend it as a kinda unique take...and certainly an experience they'd been living for a while. All the girls and their collaborators had evolved so much since 1997, I actually think it's cool their team somehow recaptured that very specific Spice sound from ten years previous. I don't hold it in the same regard as Viva Forever or anything, but I do think it deserves a place alongside their other singles.

 

Other than that...On The Horizon. It sooo doesn't deserve the ire it gets.

 

(Mod Edit: 'Reason' discussion moved to 'Reason' thread: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=6803892 )

 

The remix about her jot living without phones or something. It was very ahead of its time, seeing as we now call mobiles, phones, and now that we have smartphones that people get addicted to. #psychicspice