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Oh well, then she should show up to support and cheer her ex-teammates at one of the shows the next time if she’s keeping doing this push and pull with the other girls. Stop being a sore loser who had a big FOMO last time and didn’t bother even showing up once.

Spice 1) Wannabe 2) SYBT 3) 2 become 1 4) Mama / WDYTYA 5) Love Thing (tour remix)/ Step to Me - they could have definitely secured another number one during those months of 1997 Spice re-release with Step to Me USA Release 1) Wannabe 2) SYBT 3) 2 become 1 4) WDYTYA 5) Love thing ( tour remix) - July 1997 I would have definitely continued to promote Spice through out 1997 and push Spiceworld to be released in 1998 instead perhaps around the movie release there Spiceworld 1) SUYL 2) Too Much 3) Stop 4) Viva Forever 5) NGUOTGT - October 1998 Pre-Forever 1) Goodbye 2) My Strongest Suit - March 1999 - to support Elton’s musical Forever 1) Right Back at Ya (Pop version) - October 1999 2) Oxygen - December 1999 3) Holler - March 2000 Album release - April 2000 4) IYWHSF - July 2000 5) Tell Me Why (remix) - October 2000 Album re-release adding New Tell Me Why remix, WOMAN and other tracks (such as Go, Go, Go and Pain Proof) 6) LLLTW/ WOMAN - December 2000

Hmm, I would love if they just rapackage it with the Greatest Hits instead ( Disc 2 of sort) so that it will help the album to sell even more

Spice world on Netflix would probably could help selling the SW25 too. Why are they doing this to our girls??? Can they get out of the contract with them?

Viva Fairies on Individual Vinyl covers please

I knew it would get him in trouble because he fully admitted to owning it so I knew the team could reach out to him. Just drop them online and nobody needs to know!

It’s the spice girls at their peak!

Not everyone has to share your opinion. Were you involved with the SW25 tracklist or anything to do with SW25, somehow? Since you seem to defend it every time people criticize anything about it.

I really wonder what happened between Spice25 to SW25. They seem to give up on putting effort on SW25. Did Spice25 underwhelm in terms of sales so that Universal just cut their budget?

Could have ended SW25 tracklist with this track but whatever

Don’t forget W.O.M.A.N. :cheer: :yahoo: :dance:

Why is it on vinyl though? Was it planned to be released on it? Ho many tracks are on if?

It’s full on Victoria. I don’t hear Mel B at all.

Obviously, they weren’t planning to split up when they got back on August 1999 to start working on the third album. They didn’t realize that Mel C’s priorities have shifted until spring 2000 when she started to record on her own time instead joining the girls. They just didn’t have a concrete plan of what to do next and how bad Forever was going to be received by the end of the year. That’s when Mel C and Victoria decided to pull the plug on the group activities. Honestly, one of reasons that they flopped was that they spent too much time on it and in pop world that’s a mistake. Fans have moved on to Britney, Xtina, BSB and *NSYNC by then. Had they released it by November 1999, the outcome may have been very different. And we might not be blaming on Forever’s change of direction now.

And Spiceworld probably could have sold more (like maybe a million more) had they released Viva Forever as the final single like the rest of the world. But they didn’t. I think the US Virgin team f***ed their reputation up a lot in America. They could have been known as this incredible band with a classic like Viva Forever (that even the people who hate them have to admit that it’s an amazing song).

I remember it was actually referred as a disappointment since Spice was doing so well at the point. But Spice up your life was doing poorly on the radios (they were started to be snubbed because of over-saturation thing by then) since it debuted so low at 32 before climbing to top 20 solely on single sale. The album started doing better when they started to go to the US to promote it. I don’t know why they felt to release the album at the same time around the world since they could have added Mama or WDYTA as the final single for Spice and kept Spiceworld to be released around the movie was dropping in the US (late January 1998 I think?). I feel that was a mistake on them and the US Virgin team.

Oh yeah tax since they spent a year outside the UK to avoid it too

I think by Dec 1999, they decided to scrape all their pop tracks and handed over the producer tasks to Rodney Jerkins. At that point, they weren’t sure which direction they wanted to pursue and was convinced by someone at the label to go with the American sound. So they only had five tracks (3 with Rodney and 2 Jam/ Lewis) by then. They already had done 5 tracks with Matt/ Rowe and 4 tracks with Eiliot Kennedy by that point. They could have released an album by them but Mel C was focused on promoting her solo album by then. Suck cuz they could have at least gone for a forth Xmas number one in 1999 and probably still could have achieved it then.

Yeah I’m sensing Emm is not saying much because she wants to sell her shows (because otherwise people will just save money and see the spice girls instead) so that’s why she’s been so coy about it

Emma said when she was interviewed on her opinion on Look At Me video and she said that she couldn’t watch it because Geri was trying to break the band when she left. I think that’s probably how the girls felt at the time.

Geri wrote in her book that she told the girls way early (March or April) that she was gonna leave after Wembley but I think it just took the turn for the worst for her. The other four girls were planning to continue as a band and also do solo so they grew closer and Geri was kinda left out on her own by then. In which, I think it just led to her leaving earlier than she planned because it became too awkward for her to continue. Of course, she left without telling the girls and I think they decided to continue because otherwise to prove that they can continue without her and also that they could fulfill all the obligations they signed up for (to avoid potential lawsuits - they still got sued by Aprilla in the end when Geri admitted that she told the girls her intention beforehand).

I’m glad I went to SW19 stadium shows because I knew one could never expect them to do it ever again.

Just give us “WOMAN” and call it a day. I’m bored of these girls.

Yeah I think at the end of the day, the team who handles the girls at Universal did not care for our girls. When SW19 was happening, they just dropped a picture disc vinyl and that’s it. They didn’t even capitalize on it. With Spice25, The logo and the scanned pictures were not up to standard, but at least it seemed the tracklist itself was agreed by the girls themselves (even we don’t like it we can respect it). This time around, they dropped the ball on everything, the tracklist, the art from fans’ scanned work (not getting or paying directly the original photographers’ work) and the ripped live tracks from YouTube quality. They would have definitely sold more if they released the vinyl in five individual covers again because at the end of the day that’s what collectors collect.

Anyway so happy to seem at least four of them together again. Makes me happy like a little boy all over again.