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Come on Biff. Post a 30 second clip of an unreleased song 🤣

At the end of the day it really depends on how well the tour is doing. If the tour underperforms then it doesn’t bold well for future albums. She’s done so much promo to promote this era and raise her public profile.

In hindsight she should have leaned into her ice queen, bad girl posh persona. Imagine if Girlfriend was the first single. A sexy, glossy club video with Victoria looking so hot a man is willing to cheat on his girlfriend. Victoria was never going to win the press over in 2001 with trying to be relatable and misunderstood.

Melanie is already back down to 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify. The album is doing abysmal streaming numbers. I wonder how the tour is selling.

I just don’t see them releasing anything music wise for Spice 30. Spice 25 was successful because of the individual vinyl variants of the group. They can’t do that again for Spice 30. Releasing Woman on a 25th anniversary edition of Forever would have been easy money for the group, which the girls are all about these days. Coin Master anyone? That suggests the group can’t agree on which unreleased songs to release. I can maybe see them releasing a digital Spice 30 which includes previously released remixes that are currently not on streaming.

Cashmere is my next pick

Spice 30 which will include all the b-sides this time around.

I’m not surprised Spotify is just a major gatekeeper. I find it hard to believe there’s no payola involved with these major playlists. You look at some of them and have to wonder.

With how well the album sold in its first week, I’m surprised UMG isn’t willing to get her on a main Spotify playlist. I’m sure Drum Machine would do well.

Attitude

For me the highlights are One Track Mind Drum Machine Pressure Til It Breaks Flick of the Wrist The rest of the album is hit and miss. I would keep Sweat, Cashmere and Emotional Memory since they are decent. The rest should have been replaced with better songs. She needed 4 more amazing songs to really elevate the album into something special. As the album stands it’s just an average dance pop album.

This is a good possibility. Maybe they worked on it again in 1998 in Nashville when they wrote and recorded Goodbye.

More than likely it is from the Spiceworld sessions. I trust the date on the CD more than Melanie’s memory. They probably never 100% finished the song since they already had Too Much and Viva Forever. They wouldn’t need 3 ballads on the album. The AI version with the other group’s vocals definitely elevate the song.

The fact that Say You’ll Be There (Spice World Movie Version), Who Do You Think You Are (Morales Club Mix Edit), Tell Me Why (Thunderpuss Edit) and If You Wanna Have Some Fun (Radio Edit) have not been commercially released yet is mind boggling. They are just sitting in the archives collecting dust. Releasing simple things like this would go a long way with fans. Apparently Mel C told a fan recently Can’t Stay Tonight might appear in finished form at some point. If the song was completed with the other girls vocals then why wasn’t it released on Spiceworld 25? Hearing things like this drives me absolutely crazy.

I agree. If they don’t want to release a stand alone rarities album, a 2nd disc of “hidden gems” from an updated/deluxe version of the greatest hits would be the way to go. They could include 3 or 4 unreleased tracks for the die hard fans and some alternative versions of the hits for casual fans. Wannabe (Absolute Demo) Say You’ll Be There (Spice World Movie Version) Who Do You Think You Are (Morales Club Mix Edit) Step To Me Spice Up Your Life (Morales Radio Remix) Holler (Lostboy Remix) Tell Me Why (Thunderpuss Edit) If You Wanna Have Some Fun (Radio Edit) W.O.M.A.N. Go Go Go Overnight Spice Is Back Something like this would be such a nice treat for the fans.