Some girls didn't do any wonders to Rachel either LOL

Some girls didn't do any wonders to Rachel either LOL

 

It was a #2 smash hit for her, the 40th best selling single of the year and saw Funky Dory returning back to the charts at #13. What more could it have done for her?

Some Girls is gay anthem CLASSIC!

Some girls is bang average

Huns, THIS ....

 

 

..... is 100000 x better than whatever this is

 

 

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I mean, why would Gerita release a DANCE track when she cant even dance? :teresa:

^ So. Watching these two back-to-back, I kinda realized...I actually do like Ride It better of the two songs. My thought earlier was just that Some Girls would have made the more dynamic reinvention...and maybe would have made a bigger comeback for Geri. That said, I do like both. I'll stick up for Ride It as being rather likable and super catchy. As Geri sang in Deep Down..."maybe I'm not that cool, but I'm cool with that." I relate.

 

But while I like the song, I think it's the promotional stuff that lets Ride It down a bit. I remember hating the video back in 2004...but I guess I've warmed to it a bit over time. I think her previous videos tended to be fairly good, actually (especially Look at Me and It's Raining Men)...and I chalk up the cheapness of this one to her hiring her friend to direct. But. Now, I think some of it's cute. Today, I'm mostly just irked by a few editing choices that are trying too hard (the messy superimposed video section around 2:30...the reversed dancing video toward the end). I also can't quite get past that shot of her butt where her dress flies up...which has always looked to me like she just farted.

 

I wouldn't say the Some Girls video is a big winner here either. It's better made than Ride It's video...but...it's essentially about hordes of beautiful women who live in the sewer (?) and only emerge to be wasteful of bottles of water.

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Ride it is the better song, Rachel was just the better popstar at that point. The Ride it video is a disaster and Geri looked awful in it.

I love some girls and was pretty obsessed with it at the time but I think I prefer ride it now.

 

So good on the other hand trumps it all 😍

I do like Ride It, it's very camp and silly and suited Geri perfectly as the kind of "comeback" single, but Some Girls is definitely the better songs out of the two for me.

I love both songs! I lean towards preferring Some Girls though.

^ So. Watching these two back-to-back, I kinda realized...I actually do like Ride It better of the two songs. My thought earlier was just that Some Girls would have made the more dynamic reinvention...and maybe would have made a bigger comeback for Geri. That said, I do like both. I'll stick up for Ride It as being rather likable and super catchy. As Geri sang in Deep Down..."maybe I'm not that cool, but I'm cool with that." I relate.

 

But while I like the song, I think it's the promotional stuff that lets Ride It down a bit. I remember hating the video back in 2004...but I guess I've warmed to it a bit over time. I think her previous videos tended to be fairly good, actually (especially Look at Me and It's Raining Men)...and I chalk up the cheapness of this one to her hiring her friend to direct. But. Now, I think some of it's cute. Today, I'm mostly just irked by a few editing choices that are trying too hard (the messy superimposed video section around 2:30...the reversed dancing video toward the end). I also can't quite get past that shot of her butt where her dress flies up...which has always looked to me like she just farted.

 

I wouldn't say the Some Girls video is a big winner here either. It's better made than Ride It's video...but...it's essentially about hordes of beautiful women who live in the sewer (?) and only emerge to be wasteful of bottles of water.

 

I think there is a big difference between 'not being cool' and whatever the video for Ride It is. Or the Bag It Up performance at the Brits is, etc. Like, Melanie C or Emma arent 'cool' artists either, they are just better.

 

Like, it's a similar analogy imo to when Cher compared what Miley Cirus was doing during the We Cant Stop promo to Madonna back in the late 80s/early 90s. Madonna was being provocative but was doing it with incredible artistry and doing it well. Miley was just doing something to be provocative. There is a bit difference.

 

I see Geri's promo tactics (including some of her videos) in the same way. She is trying to be quirky or sexual or funny but it comes across as try hard/cringe. Thats' because whatever she is trying to do with the Ride It (or Desire, or Half of Me, or Bag It Up) videos are not really interesting, but her trying to be funy or quirky whilst ultimately not being believable...

 

Also, she sounds awful on Ride It. Probably one of her worst vocals on a single (apart from Lift Me Up which takes the cake!)...

I like both tracks. Ride It has the edge for me though production wise (Masterson at his best) and lyrically it’s fun with a lot of personality.

 

Some Girls is good but not even close to being the best work by Richard X. Just compare Freak Like Me or Being Nobody from the years prior to see him at his strongest. I can see why Geri wanted to shake the song up lyrically aswell as it’s a bit basic verse wise.

Okay so I was listening to man on the mountain and it's good but I hope someday they can remastered it and release it

Okay so I was listening to man on the mountain and it's good but I hope someday they can remastered it and release it

 

Man on the mountain is great her best album for me would love a proper remastered release.

I'd just like it to leak in better quality, surely a higher quality version exists.

 

To see an official release with the Rainbow Woman tracks aswell would be a dream of course :wub:

Worst Spice Girls EVER!!

I'm pretty positive we'll never see the Man on the Mountain tracks again in any new form. I viewed the YouTube Channel as our last chance to get the songs in better quality and in full...and...well...we saw how that went.

 

A few of the originally leaked songs are a bit wishy washy for me (namely Beautiful Life, If You Love Someone, and I'm Older Now). But if she'd replace those with the likes of the stronger Rainbow Woman and Traveling Light, I actually do think she'd have a rather good set of songs. I listen to Love and Light, Phenomenal Woman, Deep Down, Without Love (both versions), and Man on the Mountain quite a bit, really. Am I under any confusion an album would do well on the charts? Not especially. I get that Emma and Mel C have charted decently in their first weeks recently...but I'm not sure if that would extend to Geri. And that's why I thought the YouTube page actually was the best way to go for releasing music.

 

I'm pretty positive we'll never see the Man on the Mountain tracks again in any new form. I viewed the YouTube Channel as our last chance to get the songs in better quality and in full...and...well...we saw how that went.

 

A few of the originally leaked songs are a bit wishy washy for me (namely Beautiful Life, If You Love Someone, and I'm Older Now). But if she'd replace those with the likes of the stronger Rainbow Woman and Traveling Light, I actually do think she'd have a rather good set of songs. I listen to Love and Light, Phenomenal Woman, Deep Down, Without Love (both versions), and Man on the Mountain quite a bit, really. Am I under any confusion an album would do well on the charts? Not especially. I get that Emma and Mel C have charted decently in their first weeks recently...but I'm not sure if that would extend to Geri. And that's why I thought the YouTube page actually was the best way to go for releasing music.

 

I think Geri would do just as well as the other two with the right campaign to be honest. She outdid them both in some ways in the original run I mean even SIYWGF outsold free me which was seen as a success for Emma while being a bit of a flop for Geri.

 

Ps I love if you love someone and I’m older now!! 😍🤣I also think it’s the best Geri has ever sounded even in demo form.

I think Geri would do just as well as the other two with the right campaign to be honest. She outdid them both in some ways in the original run I mean even SIYWGF outsold free me which was seen as a success for Emma while being a bit of a flop for Geri.

 

Ps I love if you love someone and I’m older now!! 😍🤣I also think it’s the best Geri has ever sounded even in demo form.

 

Geri's solo career since SIYWGF has been one disaster or half baked project to another though. I just cant imagine Geri the person she is now having even a target maket? Obviously the gays would buy but it needs more than that. Emma had the Asda mums and Melanie C has some music credibility outside of the gays.

 

If Rainbow Woman and her handling of that, its awful content, her talking over 'lyric videos' and giving up on it are anything to go by I dread to think what an album campaign would even be like from her nowadays.

 

Geri's solo career since SIYWGF has been one disaster or half baked project to another though. I just cant imagine Geri the person she is now having even a target maket? Obviously the gays would buy but it needs more than that. Emma had the Asda mums and Melanie C has some music credibility outside of the gays.

 

If Rainbow Woman and her handling of that, its awful content, her talking over 'lyric videos' and giving up on it are anything to go by I dread to think what an album campaign would even be like from her nowadays.

 

 

Like I said, I think she would do similar with a similar campaign, her recent projects have been terribly handled so you can't really compare with the other two.