Mr.X

Yes, it is our individual opinions we are all sharing here and no, the girls don't read this forum and yes they should do what makes them happy. That's all valid and again, I don't really understand your problem with us sharing our opinions. No-one is saying that they can't do what they do lol But certainly we don't all have to support what they do, and we certainly can comment on it. At the end of the day, this is a forum to discuss them and their solo projects as much as it is about them as a group. You get the fans that support it, you get the ones who don't. It's democratic and it is all valid. Hope that clears that for you and you clear that hurt in your butt about some os us not caring for Mel C's solo career ;)

I think the main criticism here, for me, is towards the other girls's aversion to group and solo music, and performing in general. When it comes to Mel C, yeah I find it all still quite meh. Great for her to be receiving praise etc, but it all leaves me rather numb because I find most of her music meandering. Her last album being her best in 25 years doesnt mean much to me, personally. I guess to answer your question in regards to what it would take for me to be interested again? Good and interesting music. She did that with Who I Am and Blame It on Me but the rest of the album is Mel C by the numbers again, imo. Even though there was a progression, it didnt materialise in great music to me. Lets see what her next album brings but I am not excited. In terms of 'general' feelings about their solo work, it's been 25 years of mostly crap and middle of the road stuff. Some brilliant moments like Northern Star, Free Me and Life in Mono albums, but apart from those, it's all been vastly mediocre to bad stuff. So eventually I lost interest in their solo works and I guess it would take quite the turn to make me go back in the way that I was, for sure. And I am just talking about music and performing here. Frankly, I couldnt give an ass about the other side projects.

Appreciate you Jay, but honestly dont think this conversation is 'wrong' to be had, or whatever. It's just annoying lol

:teresa: Melanie's PR trying to convince regional festivals to book her again next year:

Second billing at Brighton f***ing Pride is still a 'warm up act' lol lets be real here... I wouldnt care about them as a group doing the 'nostalgia circuit' because they are at a level where they can do stadiums/more interesting projects. If they were to do the festival circuit as a group, I most probably wouldnt attend because I don't care about the nostalgia crap they have been spewing for 20 years anymore. If that's what they are willing to offer, then make it interesting and big at least. The solo girls are not even close to that, so them doing the nostalgia circuit is the bare f***ing minimum. I am not enough of a Mel C solo fan to actively waste my time in going to see at Pub in the Park, specially when she could be doing much better/interesting gigs with the group instead, which is what I care about. I lived in Brighton for years and she visited multiple times, but I couldnt care less to go spend money to see her live. Done it once during Reason and thought it was so middle of the road... Plus her music isn't that great to me, so I I just cant justify it. ANYWAY! It is always funny how Mel C fans take this conversation as us commenting on Mel's happiness and agency or the fan's own taste in her music. No-one's saying she cant do it or that she isnt happy doing it. Great for her. As a fan of the group only - and the occasional Bunton music - I find her solo career a mere distraction and incredibly tedious...

Because at least it would be something which is the opposite of nothing at all, which is what we currently have :blink: And again, I am not saying this with the utmost excitement as I know it would be again a middle of the road affair. Doing the Pride and summer festival circuits is the very bare minimum they could easily do, which wouldnt cost them a fortune or demand them to have their own audience.

And who said otherwise?... lol They do work hard on their solo work. I could't care less, as it is all crap imo.

LOL always this argument. I am not forced to enjoy their solo ventures, specially when I find them so middle of the road to crap. They are of course free to do whatever the hell they want to. As a fan of them as a group, I wish they would focus more on the group instead of solo careers. Solo careers that all seem completely meandering and pointless after 25 years of crap - and yes this is my opinion again.

Frankly, the US market was already labelling them as a 'kids act' so releasing Mama would have been even worse for that at the time. What they should have done was release Who Do you Think You Are as well, for sure!!

and this is why I dont care for their crap solo projects <_< good for them I guess, but what a sad state of affairs we find them in...

Oh YAY thank yoU!!

Diana Ross says hi, for example. Camilla Cabello also, just to talk about the most apparent outside of Beyonce or Kelly Rowland. There have been plenty of girlband members doing success outside of their group across Europe and Asia too, for instance. Again, Cheryl's success eclipsed Mels and Geri's IN THE UK only. OUtside of the UK she is a nobody. The UK isnt the world. ANYWAY the point of all of this is that the solo Spices should quit their crap solo careers and focus on the group. Anything else is f***ing pointless and boring as we have been these last 25 f***ing years.

Thats all very fair but I was responding to the comment saying that "No one will ever be like Mel C and Geri again from the other girl groups maybe Cheryl was the last successful one the impact that Geri and Mel C had is deniable " which is franky an exageration and not true at all lol I wasnt trying to dimish their achivements but fankly lets not say that they had any impact as solo members of girlbands... it's literally always been done and they did nothing new here. I swear people do too much with their favourite's solo careers. It is ok to admit it has all been mostly pish quality-wise and success wise. Mel C doing an afternoon slot at some random festivals across the UK isn't a show of success. As it has been said here, most all of them would have been able to do that if they wanted, for years now. It shows she and her team are keeping busy and thats great! And lets not talk about the quality of the music coming from any of them over the past 25 years, cos damn...

This is not fair. Geri and Mel C clearly had success back in 1999/2000 but it didnt really go beyond that and they are not the first to go solo after group's success. There were many more examples of this prior to them and since which lasted for much longer with much bigger success, from Diana Ross, to Paul MacCatney and Beyonce. Also, Cheryl was only ever successful in the UK.

Nice! Is that the highest it has ever been?

I think they all struggle with understanding it because they are not really part of the industry. Even Emma is more a celebrity who occasionally does music, than a pop act. If she changed her team to be more on the vein of Mel C's, she would understand more of how the music industry works nowadays. But none of them care enough. That is literally the problem. When promoting My Happy Place, Emma was asked about a tour on one of those fan Q&As she did on instagram, and she said shyly how she was up for it but only if it didnt take too much work... That's her vibe and you could see the lack of effort in her Christmas live shows since... Mel B talked briefly after the 2019 tour about solo music and also about recording with the girls again. But again, they don't care enough to go through it.

This is very true, and it is why I dont care about them as solo artists anymore.

OH wow thats quite and incredible jump hey?

is that for me? lol you know Ben Shapiro is a neo fascist and capitalist right? :rolleyes: My reasons are about anti-capitalism and consumerism. Nothing to do with stupid little fascists thank you

Also can we talk about their Spotify 'Best of' Playlist?... It's quite a wild ride... In the Top 10, they have songs like Let Love Lead The Way and Oxygen (at #8!!) and Naked. Im glad Forever is getting a cute look in on that list!... But the placing of the songs are a bit random imo...The top 10 is full of ballads. Like, 7 out of 10 are ballads!! And some of them are obscure album tracks like Oxygen and Naked. Weekend Love is at #11 and Time Goes By at #13... FOREVER25 confirmed!! :P Wannabe at #18 is RIGHT but I dont think it should be that low lol Spice Up Your Life at #19 too.... I don't know... it's maybe a bit to random and thats why it only has 35,000 likes whereas the This Is Spice Girls has over 200,000? They keep promoting on their newsletters but no-one really cares about it lol...

Dont think so pal... That ship has sailed

I know, I am being a drama queen about it but ultimately the rampant advertisement did not sit well with me... Like, I dont need these things... some of them are not even that good. I can keep the most important, and sell or give away the unneeded ones. I can honour my Spice Girls fan in other ways :drink:

Nope. They only did ONE WEEK of promo, ahead of the release of the album in the UK, 1 performance in Germany Top of the Pops and then the European Music Awards. Only Victoria and Emma went to USA to promote the record with a couple of TV interviews and an appereance at the VH1 Awards. That was it.

It is a movie made literally to revive the sales of a toy. Saw it and it is basically window advertisement for a toy company... it's no art, nor is it 'cinema' lol... it's basically a cinematic version of a theme park for Barbie toys. Im bored of this type of 'product'. I want art and good, interesting takes and ideas. Barbie is the death of art, in many ways, like the Spice Girls were too (and still are, with their refusal to actually do art and just keep pushing out merch and nostalgia). Anyway, rant over. Order for the rubik's cube is cancelled. Some of my collection is now live on Ebay and Discogs. The rest will be donated to local charity shops or thrown in the recycling bin.

So... I saw Barbie the movie last night and it was so cringe, fake and pro-consumerism that I woke up a new person and have decided to sell my Spice collection and cancel the rubik's cube order. I simply don't want to continue to support a group that only caters for nostalgia anymore. If they get back on tour, I will go see it, and if they do new music I will of course listen. But I wont be buying anymore nostalgia crap.