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I thought Simon closed the XIX Records??!!! Thats wild And Lipson produced Geri's It's Raining Men :blink: Clearly Bunton means business!

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Of course it does, we get what we take nowadays lol But I have to say as much as she looks gorgeous in those pics and I will watch the performance, I'm not particularly excited for this at all...

NEW UPDATE Spice Girls - f*** all apart from boring Christmas merch (which flopped anyway) Emma Bunton - Signed on to WME management (HUGE!) - Will perform on BBC Strictly Come Dancing final on 25th December (usually the biggest TV audience of the day) - Will release her own solo version of 2 Become 1 - Rumoured to be appearing alongside Mel B on a South Korea project Melanie C - Continues to DJ and work on solo music - Has new hot boyfriend Melanie B - Rumoured to be appearing alongside Emma on a South Korea project

I KNOW!!!! :teresa: Naughty Bunton!! Seems like she isn't quite done yet with the whole 'Bunton Christmas Princess' shtick yet... Let's see if it works at all this time

ALSO it looks like Emma is releasing a new solo version of 2 Become 1 tonight??? :blink: :cheer: :w00t: YouTube Music

Emma looks AMAZING :cheer: WOW Article here: https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a6...KWgZxmJGwW3-42w

#22 So Long From single: I'll Be There Release Year: 2004 Average votes: 7,80 qU12DCz-TVI Day after day I can hear you thinking of words you just won't say So out of my way Will it hurt; who knows Well I hope and I pray That you will forgive me That I have to leave this way What a stunner of a song. So Long has long been mentioned as 'the masterpiece that got away as a b-side' as fans often wonder why such a gorgeous song was left off the album. Tucked away in CD2 of I'll Be There single, this simple, quite moody song is at times sad and empowering, where Emma wonders about leaving a relationship and eventually deciding to leave her partner. So baby hold on So baby hold on So baby hold on, on, on Emma sounds absolutely heavenly in it :wub: I'm quite shocked this sits outside of the Top20 of this rate. I believe the last rate of Emma's discography it showed up within the Top10 :blink: Have fans forgotten its existance and therefore, it got lower votes than usual? It did get a few 10s though, more so than the next song on this rate, but generally got more 'lower' votes.

Yeah but to be honest, just like in the case of Feed Your Love, these are rough demos. Had the song been chosen to be a potential part of Spice or even a b-side, a lot of production, re-write and re-recording would have happened before it got released. These are just demos to try out melodies and song ideas. For that, I absolutely love both Feed Your Love and Likely Stories.

Great thank you so much I hope we get to hear these one day :cheer:

I am not sure Gerita was on stage for the live rendition of WOMAN, was she?? :teresa: :P

I don't think it is the same as a fan-made mix at all, sorry. It is pretense of someone's vocals and intentions, and it just doesn't sit well with me at all. It's actually fake vocals, made up by computer programming and data collection. It is the opposite of art :rolleyes: Fan-made remixes that use real vocals are interesting because it plays on artistic quality, intent and also the real performances of humans. AI is the opposite of that. I prefer to listen to fan-made remixes like this excellent one of Holler and Children, which is an interpretation of what Mel C has been using in her DJ gigs: iyj_P5sIh04

Just stumbled across a quote from her old website where Emma mentioned she wrote 'a lot of songs by the piano' with writer Blair MacKichan but as far as I know, we only know of I'm Not Crying Over Yesterdays from the Life in Mono album. Does anyone have access to the ASCAP music database to figure out if any other songs from Emma and Blair come up on there?

Did you know that Life in Mono was mainly produced by Simon Franglen? I feel like this is a little-know/not much debated aspect of this album, which goes right to the point of how it sounds so cohesive and gorgeously produced. It is quite impressive for a small popstar like Emma to hire someone of his calibre to produce the whole album... I mean, Simon was producer for various pop-stars like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Bee Gees, etc. He also produced the soundtracks of films like 007_Spectre, Spider-Man, etc. He even won Grammys and Golden Globes for his work. You can tell he wasnt cheap and he definitely brings in production expertise that elevated Emma's sound from Free Me. I mean, just the live orchestration of most of the songs, makes this one of the best produced solo albums - if not the best in terms of production quality. More info on Simon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Franglen

Highly and respectfully disagree. I think Take Me To Another Town, Undressing You, Perfect Strangers, Mischievous and All That You'll Be all would have been excellent singles. Hell, I think Emma should have launched the album in February after a more radio-friendly single like Take Me To Another Town or Perfect Strangers. But alas...

#23 Undressing You From album: Life in Mono Release year: 2006 Average votes: 7,73 a7MJiI-SAWM Horny Bunton strikes again :teresa: Undressing You is one of the Life in Mono album tracks that was taunted, upon the album's release, as a potential next single alongside Take Me To Another Town. This sultry, sexy pop-jazzy number brings much needed sass to the middle section of the album and taps right into the late-70s jazz-pop sound that Emma was going for at the time. Produced by Golden Globes and Grammy winner Simon Franglen (who produced most of the album, as well as music with Michael Jackson, Celine Dion and Whitney Houston), it is a well produced and sleek number, with orchestral arrangements that really elevate the song and tap into Emma's sexy but not slutty pop star profile. I had no idea up until now that the album was produced by such a reputable producer, and that he helmed the album. It makes sense as it is such a cohesive and well produced album. Sadly, it is one of the few original songs on the album that don't include a writing credit by Emma. An almost finished/unmastered demo of the song did leak online years later, which you can check out . Do you think Emma should have released this as a single? :unsure:

Personally, I think this is the single that kind of killed Emma's solo career and did nothing for the album. It should have just been a CIN single and Emma should have waited for the new year to launch the album with a stronger lead single. Let the 'Delux version' also include Downtown... I wish she had toured properly with Free Me and then did some more live gigs around the release of the album. Sadly, it all felt really rushed and the fact she was releasing the album off the back of a charity single (with rushed cover version tracked at the back of the album too) didn't do it any favours, and I think that really hurt it's chances. By the time the next single came along, the album was dead in the water <_<

#24 Downtown From album: Life in Mono UK peak chart position: #3 UK chart run: 24-03-07-11-26-39-58-108-OUT Release year: 2006 Average votes: 7,61 1z9lh6BT4qg Back in late Summer 2006, Emma Bunton was announced as one of the contestants on BBC's highest rating reality TV competition, Strictly Come Dancing, to the surprise of pretty much everyone. Emma had come off a successful last pop-music era, and her profile, while diminished from the Spice Girls eras, was still the most dynamic and well perceived of all the solo Spices in the UK. All other Spices had fallen out of favour musically with the British GP, with both Geri and Mel C - hardly the most successful solo music artists from the group, had fallen flat with their previous releases (Passion stalled at #41 and Beautiful Intentions at #24 and both fell off pretty much straight away) yet Emma had managed to establish herself as both a media personality and also a more serious and credible musician. Her last album had outsold all of her Spice colleagues' sophomore offerings (bar Geri's Scream). Yet, a problem remained: whilst she did some festivals and a lot of promo, and the era was considered a success, up until this point she had yet to tour and she hadn't yet established her own following and audience. So Simon Fuller, who was back as her manager, made a plan to tackle this: join forces with BBC and Children in Need, to re-launch her solo career. For a while, Emma was all over the press with her stint on BBC's Strictly proving highly successful for her public visibility (she finished in third place). Then, half way through her stint in the show, it was announced that Emma was to release that year's Children in Need single - a massive BBC produced charity project that had previously partnered with high-end celebrities and musicians to bring in millions in revenue for their charities. It was a big move for Emma, proving the level to her level had reached. Emma took on double duties: rehearsing 4 days a week, performing on the show every Saturday night and also doing the promo rounds for the single by performing and doing interviews on pretty much every BBC show of the time. Emma's success seemed certain. So they took advantage of this and decided to also announced that Emma was to release her third and highly anticipated album, Life in Mono. So now, Emma had triple duties: Strictly, promoting Downtown as well as the album. A massive gamble, that didn't quite pay off for the era, because a few months later, it was all dead in the water. But the single did well, charting at #3 and giving Emma her 7th Top10 single and raising considerable amounts of money for the charity. Initially, the song charted at #24 in its first week as it was released first as a digital download, which was quite a rare move at the time. In its second week, now also with physical release, it peaked at #3. To her defense, she did state that Downtown was always going to be included in the album anyway, so when Children in Need asked her to release their official single, it seemed the right fit. Her take on the Petula Clarke classic was well received, it seemed to somehow to along with the style of the album and it was praised by critics and fans alike, mentioning that Emma really suited the song and her voice and pop-sound elevated it from its original. It was released on the run to Christmas market and sold roughly 80,000 copies at the time. The video was a low budget (it was paid for by the charity itself) take on Emma being a hotel maid for rich people and a whole load of UK celebrities appear in it. It also includes a part where her Strictly colleagues appear and dance with Emma. A bittersweet note is that it also marked the last time a Spice-related release bothered the Top10 of the singles charts :unsure: It seemed like as much as people enjoyed the cover, the whole stint on Strictly and her launching the album on the back of Strictly and Children in Need was not really successful for her solo career. Instead it did open doors for her to continue as a TV and Radio personality, moving her away from music for at least 12 whole years... Another sour point is that the video is not available on YouTube or to buy on iTunes either as is the case with most Emma's videos to this day :cry: What do you think? Was this a good move for Emma or do you think it hindered her solo career? ysyS2ouZ0t0

#25 Life in Mono From album: Life in Mono Release year: 2006 Average votes: 7,53 1OtS7iOr-ac The song that gave its parent album its title, is a cover of 1996's debut single of British trip-hop duo Mono. It is a trip-hop sounding, moody pop type of track that provides a hunting backing for Emma's sultry and dreamy vocals. It was high praised when it was released by critics and fans alike, as it tapped into one of Emma's followers favourite genres: Moody Bunton :teresa: The production is GORGEOUS, incredibly well nuanced, and Emma drives the song really beautifully. She really makes it her own, and bring a James Bond-type of thrill to the song that elevates even more. It is one of the rare occasions where the cover might actually be better than the original :P It is a shame she never sang it live, it would have been amazing to see it on tour! Since it is considered as one of the Emma's most liked covers, maybe we will see her revive it again one day?? :cheer: Here is the original, for comparison: qP0qeQrjh2k

C U Next Tuesday aka Likely Stories has appeared again on YouTube :teresa: k6360ByvCaE

A fan on Spice Circle calculated their streams on Spotify and YouTube and it seems that for the world's biggest girlband ever, they are lagging far far behind quite a lot of older and newer girlbands <_< On Spotify they don't even make the Top10 :o Like, I knew they weren't the biggest thing but they are even behind Pussycat Dolls and other contemporaries from the pre-streaming eras :blink: Most Streamed Girl Groups on Spotify 1. BLACKPINK - 14.044 Billion 2. Little Mix - 9.913 Billion 3. TWICE - 9.181 Billion 4. Fifth Harmony - 5.597 Billion 5. NewJeans - 5.545 Billion 6. Destiny's Child - 4.002 Billion 7. (G)I-DLE - 3.777 Billion 8. Red Velvet - 3.632 Billion 9. LE SSERAFIM - 3.427 Billion 10. ITZY - 2.869 Billion 11. The Pussycat Dolls - 2.855 Billion 12. TLC - 2.648 Billion 13. IVE - 2.419 Billion 14. Spice Girls - 2.344 Billion Most Streamed Girl Groups on YouTube 1. BLACKPINK - 28.586 Billion 2. TWICE - 14.046 Billion 3. Fifth Harmony - 7.858 Billion 4. Little Mix - 7.317 Billion 5. Girls' Generation - 5.117 Billion 6. (G)I-DLE - 3.560 Billion 7. Red Velvet - 3.216 Billion 8. The Pussycat Dolls - 2.949 Billion 9. Mamamoo - 2.788 Billion 10. ITZY - 2.590 Billion 11. 2NE1 - 2.346 Billion 12. NewJeans - 2.135 Billion 13. AKB48 - 2.095 Billion 14. Destiny's Child - 1.950 Billion 15. LE SSERAFIM - 1.706 Billion 16. IVE - 1.540 Billion 17. Sistar - 1.530 Billion 18. 4Minute - 1.498 Billion 19. Spice Girls - 1.195 Billion 20. GFriend - 1.190 Billion Currently TLC has 1.050 Billion streams and is getting 500k streams per day on Youtube and Spice girls are only getting 350k per day so eventually they will overtake them bumping them down to #20.

Both Biff and the girls themselves hinted at WOMAN being released for Forever25. I will just wait for that.This is not real nor does it fill any void for me(precisely because it is not real lol)

#26 Who The Hell Are You From single & album: Free Me (single and album) Release year: 2003 (Free Me single) Average votes: 7,46 INPi84LsrQM First released as a b-side to the Free Me single in early 2003, Who The Hell Are You served there as a 'sneak peak' of what to expect for the main album (released almost a full year afterwards!). It certainly did its job of showing Emma's new cooler, more experimental sound than in her previous A Girl Like Me era. The song was produced by Boyzone producer Ray Hedges and it's beautiful instrumentalisation serves the perfect platform for Emma to bash her lover and denounces him for thinking he is 'cool' and 'Mr Wright'. I remember that the fans where somewhat upset when the Free Me album trackinglist was released as this and another song (still in competition) were already well known for months, and the album had 3 singles out already, thus almost half the album was already known. Do you think this song was wasted as a b-side on the Free Me single? Should Emma have included another song in its place and saved this for the album?

I find it fascinating precisely because they were stepping out of their sound during the recording process, trying new things... At the time, for all we knew (and also judged by the name of the tour itself), it seemed like they were possibly trying to test the waters to have more music out, and it would make sense to try new sounds/approaches. The times had moved on and so had they, but also they all lived in different places and were not as 'together' as before, so the recording was done separately (this was confirmed by pretty much everyone at the time). Headlines and Voodoo seemed to have always been a part of the GH, and it makes sense for them to tap into that sound in a Greatest Hits collection of music. I think Simon and their A&R person at the lable probably sourced songs for them to try out for future releases or at least to just step into the studio again and try a new sound/approach. But it didn't work, and eventually the band disbanded again anyway... What I find the most curious was the George Michael song... whilst George had a relation to all of them, that song was not Spice Girls-adjancent at all... yet it was written for them or with them in mind at the time... I would love love love to hear all the unreleased songs from the Greatest Hits era!

Viva Forever will always be that bitch