Nobody cares if you don’t care about her career. What is boring is how you keep bringing it up. Yes we get it, you don’t like it I’m very sorry for you, however you sound like a broken record constantly bringing it up again and again.

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Nobody cares if you don’t care about her career. What is boring is how you keep bringing it up. Yes we get it, you don’t like it I’m very sorry for you, however you sound like a broken record constantly bringing it up again and again.

 

But this works for all 5 of them. Do I like Emma’s music? Not much. Do I get goosebumps when Geri sings? Never. Do I buy Victoria’s stuff? Not even in a million years. Do I watch Mel AB’s tv shows? I don’t even own a tv! Did I buy Melanie C music Reason-Version of me eras? No, they’re too MOR for me.

 

Do I love these girls? Yes! And I think they should pursue whatever makes them happy. If Geri starts writing books and has to promote them in a small coffee shop, that doesn’t make her effort any less valid. If Melanie C appears at one of her mom’s gigs or plays a respectable slot at Glasto (with no new material), both are respectable. If Emma and Victoria are cool being moms and business women, that’s also girl power. If Mel B is Mel B, let her effing be. We love her for what she is!

 

I might not buy Emma’s music, but trust me, out there, there is a person or a small group for whom those songs mean something, and that’s what we should be proud of - more than any selfish request to perform as a group because “the gays say so”. (I’m queer myself, just to clarify)

Nobody cares if you don’t care about her career. What is boring is how you keep bringing it up. Yes we get it, you don’t like it I’m very sorry for you, however you sound like a broken record constantly bringing it up again and again.

Amusing and absurd as this has all been to read, I couldn’t agree more with this sentiment.

Nobody cares if you don’t care about her career. What is boring is how you keep bringing it up. Yes we get it, you don’t like it I’m very sorry for you, however you sound like a broken record constantly bringing it up again and again.

 

I'm on a forum and entitled to give my opinion as much as anyone else and you obviously care or you wouldn't respond.

 

Don't like it block me, ignore me or do one. I honestly don't care which.

Edited August 11, 20231 yr by sammy01

Why is this forum slowly but surely turning into DenDen :cry: We’re a nice little community usually! Let’s get back to that!

Because as always Spiceboy just cant accept others opinions then gets arsey. Voodoo is endlessly positive about Melanie C but more power to them, you keep posting updates about her and enjoying what she does. I'd never say to them stop posting I'm bored of reading the same thing. I just don't respond or put my own opinion or don't read.

 

I don't know how why it is so hard to just accept others opinions. We all like the girls or we wouldn't be here. Some will be positive some will be negative on subjects such is life. Spiceworld 25 has some who are endlessly negative about it but they are more than entitled to say so.

 

I have no issue with anyone having any opinion but don't tell me what to post or not and everything will be just fine.

Fine, im sorry that my comments bother you and I concede that they are innapropriately stated.

 

The girls are of course free to do what they like and I never said otherwise though.

Why is this forum slowly but surely turning into DenDen :cry: We’re a nice little community usually! Let’s get back to that!

 

Agreed, the vibe is not the T. But I find that this "division" amongst us fans often occurs because the SGs are divided themselves -- and any discussions regarding their solo projects naturally move along separate lines that can lead to conflict, especially when coupled with the fact that as a group, they produced quality music together for such a short period of time, that we are often forced to feast on scraps, so to speak. :friends:

 

Mod Edit: Moved some posts from Geri Halliwell - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster album topic, which had become more generally about the solo Spice Girls and their cover versions

 

Word Up is the best cover of Word Up OF ALL TARM, ans the avant garde video is CHEF'S KISS!!

Tbh It's Raining Men and Word Up are the only two proper decent covers. Mel B's is just amazing and should have been a big hit and Geri's just has more bass and oopmh than the original. I also am not a fan of the screechy vocals of the Weather girls version I prefer Geri's deeper vocal take on it.

 

All the other covers are either just passable as copy imitations or quite frankly rubbish.

Agredd tbh!

 

Except for Spice Girls' Chrisrmas medley, Sisters ... ARE!!!! (DOING OIT!! THEY'RS DOING IT!!!) (For ... Themselves?!), and We are Family. Those are great too.

 

Worst EVER cover is Mel C's I Want That Candy

Word Up, Crickets and I Wish I Could Have Loved You More are the only covers worth keeping by any of the spices. The rest can rot.

 

The worst of it all has to be either Soul Boy by Mel C or Live and Let Die by Geri

Edited May 3, 20241 yr by Mr.X

Oh I forgot I wish I could have loved you more, that is excellent too!

 

Excellent

- I wish I could have loved you more

- Word up

- It's raining men

 

 

Soul boy is utterly the worst cover easily. I love the Reason era some incredible songs but Soul boy getting onto the album is the biggest WTF of Melanie's career... even more so than I want candy which at least had the funding and payola of the movie behind it.

Word Up, Crickets and I Wish I Could Have Loved You More are the only covers worth keeping by any of the spices. The rest can rot.

 

The worst of it all has to be either Soul Boy by Mel C or Live and Let Die by Geri

 

Has she actually done a version of this?! :blink:

 

I'm already picturing in my head how it sounds, and I'm having pre-emptive nightmares :drama:

It was only this year I bothered to listen to the original Soul Boy, which is massively shit too. I cant believe anyone listened to it and thought this is ace it needs covering.

 

 

I didn’t even know Soul Boy was a cover

I don't think Geri's Live and Let Die is bad, per se...and I say that as someone who would be inclined to be against it. I *love* the original version. Saw Paul McCartney perform it live a few years back. Great concert memory.

 

But. Anyway. Back to Geri. I actually think her voice fits on it pretty well. After doing Summertime, I think Geri proved she could be suited to sing a Bond-ish song...so I guess the most logical step would be to sing an actual Bond song. Granted, the instrumentation is what genuinely carries Live and Let Die. But. What Geri did, I thought she did well.

 

Now. All that said, I do think her version does the same thing as most solo Spice covers...it's a replica of the original. Considering Guns N' Roses had already done an amped up version of Live and Let Die, you'd kinda hope Geri would come up with some new twist rather than just reverting to the early 70s original. But. Look. Geri didn't put Live and Let Die on an album. It was a b-side. Eh. I'm not mad at it.

Yeah Geri's live and let die didn't really do it for me I have to say, Paul McCartney's is such a good version of that song but it really is about vocals as the song is basically the same.

 

It's like Emma's Downtown was never going to match up to the original, even though Emma has a sweet voice.

I hope Universal is pleased with how A Girl Like Me on vinyl sold. That and Northern Star now existing just makes me want more more more!

 

Obviously I would love Free Me and Life in Mono to be on vinyl, but I guess it’s 19 that have to get the ball rolling with that, even if it’s done through Universal? I fear if they can’t be bothered to sort out the worldwide rights for that album, then vinyl isn’t on their minds either.

 

From my understanding, Virgin and EMI releases are all handled by Universal Music Group… so that would be Reason, Hot, Victoria Beckham and the three Geri albums. I feel like there’s potential stumbling blocks for all of those. I’ve resigned myself to Geri on vinyl never happening, because surely if it was it would have happened by now - Schizophonic is in its 25th anniversary year, yet the company went with A Girl Like Me.

 

I’m honestly surprised that Melanie C has resisted issuing her Red Girl albums on vinyl. I don’t see how it wouldn’t be worthwhile for her.