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This was really enjoyable. I didn't post anything but I was always checking for updates. Fantastic job. :)

It's easier for a solo artist to sing choruses live than a group. You can't ask three women to perform choreography and sing a chorus in harmony together. You are right, though. Your post reminded me of when they sang The Cure on the LM5 tour and frequently stopped singing due to emotional moments (Jesy crying) and the track sounded the exact same with nobodys microphone held to their mouth. I understand lip syncing choruses with choreography but slower stuff or songs without choreo should definitely be attempted.

Looking forward to this.

I’m not downplaying their success at all, just poking fun at the fact yet another unlikely group from the 00’s/10’s is back together. Pretty sure Tulisa and Dappy had a falling out and genuinely didn’t think there’d be demand for an arena tour for them. They were popular but thought their demographic was chavvy teenagers. :lol:

What was it?

Now N-Dubz are even getting back together. :lol:

You can’t compare petty drama like that to deep, complex issues regarding racism and blackfishing though. This isn’t a ‘Mel C says Geri’s song is shit on CD:UK’ or ‘Robbie called Gary a twat during an interview’ thing. It’s so much deeper than that.

I definitely don’t think their emotions were staged at all but in regards to the speeches they’ve (like I assume any artist doint a tour) said the same thing every night for a month so it’s probably going to sound really scripted at this point if you’ve saw the videos on YouTube before.

The last performance of Between Us was just so beautiful. I can't even imagine how they felt singing that song for the last time in front of such a massive audience.

Seriously we need a new girl group on the scene. I can't handle the top 40 just being rappers, Ed Sheeran and dance tracks.

I guess but I swear Saweetie was in the UK this week and Anne-Marie has been playing shows in London all week so I thought for the final night of the final tour they could have jumped on stage. :lol: And they managed to get Stormzy for the LM5 tour.

Wait, so there was no special guests? Weren't Anne-Marie, Stormzy and Saweetie strongly hinted to be joining them tonight?

Ahh. It says 5 mins til show on the bottom right and been stuck like that for ages. Cheers!

Anyone else on a buffering preview screen?

How do I get the stream on Sky TV? :lol: I don’t wanna watch it on my phone and I’m a technology noob lmao

If she apologises then yeah, I could see them eventually letting her back. However it's been about 8 months since most of Britain tried to educate her about blackfishing and get her to change her ways and she's still treating black people as a fetish on Instagram, looking darker than ever and doing Jamaican accents. I personally never want to see her back. Keep her out. The other girls are fantastic without her. EDIT - I feel like comparing her to Geri's departure downplays the severity of Jesy's actions. This wasn't some pathetic chart battle or dissing someone else's single or making a catty comment in an interview - this was Leigh-Anne (a new mother to twins) being bullied and targeted by Nicki Minaj and her demonic barbs on social media while Jesy laughed and encouraged it. Her social media was flooded with insults and threats and Nicki was relentlessly targeting her. I feel like that's something you just don't ever forget. There's nothing 'showbiz' or 'pop star' about that. That was a human being being harassed by thousands of people. It was extremely upsetting.

Surely a Netflix release?

I remember Kelly Tweeted about their Touch (at home) performance. I'd have loved to see them appear on her show. It would have been so funny. Looking forward to this!

How can a song sell that much in 3 months and not chart? 120K in sales in 3 months would at least mean a couple weeks in the top 200? Edit - Oops the last update was 2021 not 2022. My bad. :lol:

Why would they acknowledge the existence of that vile woman? :lol:

Well honestly I remember their Greatest Hits medley on Tumble and that was a PERFECT opportunity to really let loose and sell some tickets for their tour and even though they had a HUGE empty space they just stood still for half of it and done some basic arm movements as usual. They had 5 big songs to showcase and they didn't even bother. Their Paul O'Grady performance of Forever Is Over was traumatic, they performed Missing You on some big TV shows and it was dodgy miming and crap dancing and their Ant and Dec performance is only known for Mollie's bum note so they definitely had chances on bigger stages and never made a good impression. Even in America when they launched on Jay Leno with a live band and vocals both Una and Vanessa were shocking at points and Rochelle completely changed the melody of the chorus.

As much as I blame their label/management for their shocking decisions at times, I have to admit that looking back these girls just weren't good enough. It wasn't until I saw other girl groups after them that I realised how lazy and sloppy The Sats were. Little Mix and Fifth Harmony blew them out of the water vocally and work ethic wise and even GRL were giving amazing performances on their first single release. They definitely had bops and they looked SO GOOD together and yeah they had nice harmonies and some of them were decent singers but they had so many performances and chances to impress people and gain new fans on TV and they always sucked. :lol: Their performances of What About Us and All Fired Up were always atrocious.

Hair, Sweet Melody and Heartbreak Anthem will probably be million sellers soon and I guess Cannonball and MAYBE Kiss My Uh Oh/Confetti can crawl to Platinum at some point. Little Mix do amazing with trickle streams. I'd like No to overtake One I've Been Missing. Doesn't deserve to be the lowest selling single. :( Confetti and Between Us should also crawl to Platinum and then they'll have a perfect record of all their albums getting there.

I hate when interviewers ask the girls questions individually. It’s kind of rude as they asked Leigh two questions before Jade got one and Leigh looked like she was thinking of an answer for something when he instead directed it to Perrie. They’re not Fifth Harmony who talk over and interuppted eachother constantly. They’ve been in the media game for 10 years - just ask them a question and see who wants to answer it. Jeez.

The ‘fake’ thing with Shawn and Camila is such a bizarre take. Two people are going to pretend to be in a relationship for over TWO YEARS…..for what? :lol: They were constantly being ripped apart and hated on social media and both of them flopped as soon as they got together. What purpose would a fake relationship for so long have been?