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Always nice on Mother's day when Mama gets a big boost. Amazing that Universal are too lazy to take advantage. Imagine how well a 7 inch Mama vinyl would sell if put on pre-order in Jan to be released the Friday before Mothering Sunday. It could include a printed sheet with the lyrics on one side and a 'To......... Love always.......' on the other side where you could fill it in as a gift to your mother. A nice present idea, a Spice Girls fans collectors item too. No brainer.

Well all their music is Universal and they have pulled all music from Tiktok so it wont be any time soon. 90% of the videos on the Spice Girls tiktok are muted because of this.

That Mel B video still has the tiktok followers flying up it is at nearly 860k now. Will be nice when it passes 1m followers.

BMG to release a new shade of pink vinyl each year till it is certified silver.

It is #221 on Amazon bestsellers list. What has happened the last couple of years is labels/Amazon/HMV etc have pushed up the price of vinyl taking advantage of hardcore fans who pre-order and buy first week. Then a few months later they are reduced to between £12-£19 for most artists. Which is not far off where vinyl was price wise a few years ago on release week. It is a massive con.

Like Rosie Frost most people on Spice Circle seem to be buying it for collection purposes only. I haven't seen one topic about the actual content of the new chapters. It is no wonder they put zero effort into anything these days when the hardcore fans would buy anything.

I wouldn't read into this meaning they will keep going and record new music. They will have tour outfits, dance routines all sorted from the tour and only need to do a shorter set list for this. It is a nice cheque to add to the tour money for little to no prep or effort.

2024 just keeps getting better in Spiceworld.

A few points, iirc the Spice Girls got the outstanding contribution to music award as someone pulled out who was going to get it (cant remember who it was). The Brits also used to have a rule where you had to perform part of a hit in the eligibilty period, hence the Spice Girls did Wannabe into WDYTYA in '97. Dua got the night off to a really flat start by singing a song most people don't care for or haven't heard much. Dance the night away would have got it off to a much better start. The silly really long catwalk stage design doesn't help anyone, it is too long. A normal stage with maybe a small catwalk or not at all with a proper pit of regular fans would bring more atmosphere. Also awards given out on the main stage too. The presenters going into the audience to annoy artists who clearly don't want to be involved in silly skits needs to stop too. It is painful. Don't nominate people in more than one category, Raye in R&B and pop makes no sense. Her speech for her R&B award she was saying how others fought for an R&B category to show it is worthy alone to then shove her in pop to to prop up another nomination was rubbish. There are plenty of pop artists to fill it. Kylie should have gotten her award after her performance. It was odd to have her get the award then have the presenters waffle for 3 minutes while she gets ready to perform. Have the global icon perform then someone walk on and hand them the award and let them thank everyone.

Kylie sounded very ropey but she has the hits and seems genuinely nice.

Bringing out her old teacher has just made the whole night feel a bit fixed.

Rema was actually decent, I'm a bit in shock

Raye thinking WTF am I going to say on my next acceptance speech. Poor woman, even she seems embarrassed now.

Becky Hill is like your drunk auntie at a wedding getting up to sing, sounds like she smokes 40 a day. Does her voice always struggle that much?

Raye just always gives me budget Amy Winehouse vibes.

I feel like there should be a rule you can only be nominated in one genre, half the pop noms had been nominated in other genres already. Surely they can find enough artists to fill out each without repeating. Raye and Calvin for pop was just daft.

God this is awful all round, Dua doing a new song not a hit so started off dead as the audience didn't really know it. The presenting awful, horrible tacky things like doing shots. Tate whatever her name was absolutely awful. Raye talking about how she has been releasing music for 10 years winning best new artist. It is just so flat and bad. Raye winning everything because absolutely no one else bothered to turn up and they need an angle for the papers tomorrow.

The vinyls have done as well as I expected. I think they could have each been top 100 had they been released 1 at a time rather than all 3 albums at once as I'm sure most fans got 1 of each. I get the sense that Steps will keep milking their fans (in a good way as they provide the content to justify it) that they didn't need to space out the 3 albums any way. With a RSD vinyl coming already I don't think Steps fans will go the whole year without anything else to buy. I'm expecting a GH vinyl of some sort come the musical opening.

It is a pretty known thing that he started seeing Geri before he left his long term partner who he was having a child with. His parents didn't go to Geri and Christian's wedding as they didn't approve of what happened. Not that that is anything on Geri just that he has history. One of the whatsapps leaked reads very much like he had something with this woman too as she mentions boundaries changing. I think he almost certainly was seeing her either whilst he was with Geri or his previous partner too.

I actually feel a bit sorry for her, she actually looked sad and it was a bit uncomfortable watching them together. I don't think she will leave him because she loves that lifestyle but I don't think she is happy having to accept this either. Notice they weren't interlocking fingers holding hands he is holding her hand, I do wonder if he is controlling in certain ways. I wouldn't be shocked if he said you need to be by my side supporting me even if she has reservations about it.

We all know it is a 'Happy birthday' and pics of kids kind of group. Can you imagine Mel B daring to bring up performing, Victoria would be removing herself instantly.

It also asks big questions of the internal 'investigation' Red Bull did as no one seeing those messages would surely think that is appropiate between a boss and employee. Christian also was very careful in his statement, he didn't call them fake or comment on the whatsapps directly which is very telling. Just parrotted his I'm innocent of accusations line. Having seen these I'm inclined to believe he did try and pay her off too as he would not want these messages seeing the light of day.

Though having read through more there are some very dubious messages when you think he is her boss. He admits wanking over her in a plane bathroom, he also asks for pics of her, he asks to see her on cam (pretty much begs), he sent her pics of his body. That isn't the sort of stuff a boss should be sending an employee. She is receptive at times but also does constantly question should he be sending these messages too. You have to think was she worried about her job in any way if she outright said stop this is inappropriate, which she does at the end.

The leaked whatsapp are more damaging to Geri/his relationship than his job I would say. He was clearly persuing this woman and or having an affair with her from what can be read. I guess it could also cross a line if he is her boss too as an abuse of power. Not sure how Geri plays this now, he was obviously playing away or wanted to with this woman. With his job he will be away from Geri a lot and it would be hard to trust him after knowing about these messages.

Mixed feelings, happy for Geri despite whatever I think of her now (and I have never really liked Christian) but ultimately I want Geri to be happy. Though I cant deny the thought of her away from him and any version of her than the lady of the country manor version I would take in a heartbeat. I just cant stand the person she is now, it is exactly the person I avoid in life at all costs.