STOP Right now! thank you very Much! Spice Girls Thread!!

TockTockTock · 07-06-2011, 01:27 PM

I prefer The Shaggs in terms of all-female musical groups.

Ben Butler · 07-07-2011, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

You are using solo careers to conquer America as a judge of how good Girls Aloud is but what has The Saturdays done collectively to conquer America?

I haven't heard much of their music stateside if any.

Nothing, but they are young and have their whole careers ahead of them. Girls Aloud don't have this luxury and Spice Girls were just as bad with anorexic, never smiles Victoria.

starrynight · 07-08-2011, 11:50 AM

I don't have an opinion on The Saturdays. But just because a group breaks America doesn't mean they are better than another group that doesn't. Those who do tend to make it there need lots of promotion from the label they have in America. Those who don't have that marketing and distribution may not make it but could still be very good, and popular elsewhere even.

Ben Butler · 07-09-2011, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by starrynight

I don't have an opinion on The Saturdays. But just because a group breaks America doesn't mean they are better than another group that doesn't. Those who do tend to make it there need lots of promotion from the label they have in America. Those who don't have that marketing and distribution may not make it but could still be very good, and popular elsewhere even.

The thing is, America is the biggest country for the music industry by far. It is for most things.

starrynight · 07-09-2011, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Ben Butler

The thing is, America is the biggest country for the music industry by far. It is for most things.

Yes, but that doesn't invalidate what I said.

jackhammer · 07-09-2011, 07:23 PM

I cannot believe that a Spice Girls dedicated thread has lasted for 3 pages.

They are no different to the multitude of manufactured bands that exist to this day. (yes you read that correctly- manufactured. That is a group designed in a board room to entice a particular demograph to part with their money).

Maybe they created a tune or two that is still stuck in people's mind's but they didn't did they? No one plays them anymore and every single member without fail who embarked on a solo career failed miserably because they have no talent.

I have no aversion at all to Pop music if it has some sort of sincerity behind it but the Spice Girls didn't and are just another band that have purely nostalgic value attatched to them.

I weep MB I really do.

ThePhanastasio · 07-09-2011, 08:05 PM

Well. My first crush on a female was Scary Spice when I was 9, so I guess there's always going to be a soft spot in my heart for them.

Then again, I still don't listen to their music. Just acknowledge that I had a thing for Scary Spice.

Lord Dweedle · 07-09-2011, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio

Well. My first crush on a female was Scary Spice when I was 9, so I guess there's always going to be a soft spot in my heart for them.

Then again, I still don't listen to their music. Just acknowledge that I had a thing for Scary Spice.

well she does have a nice ass

Neapolitan · 07-10-2011, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

erm? You think The Saturdays would be anywhere without The Spice Girls paving the way?

No!

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Originally Posted by starrynight

There were girl groups before The Spice Girls though.

Nah, I think DJ's right in terms of modern Pop vocal groups, The Spice Girls were relatively the first, they are The Beatles of Girl Bands they top selling Band surpassing mostly all Boy Bands and they are in the elite class with Barbra Streisand in terms of record sales and even surpassing her 71.5 million albums with the Spice Girls selling 100 million records but not as many as ABBA with 350 million records - womp womp. The Spice Girls were the brain-child of Simon Fuller who wanted a group to appear to teens like Boy Bands appealed to young teen girls, so they modeled after both "Josie and The Pussy Cats" and the 80's Boy Bands of the 80's like N'Sync NKOTB etc etc. really crappy Pop groups like that who were just plastic commercial imitation of real R&B vocal groups of the 70's.

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Originally Posted by Ben Butler

The Spice Girls are rubbish. They are just a bunch of Geordie chavs that won a reality TV show. Look at how crap Cheryl's solo career has been and her attempts to conquer America, Nadine and Nicola have hardly had any success either.

The Saturdays don't have much competition these days but I still think they would have done well. They release catchy music and are gorgeous, especially Frankie.

Yeah that's because all the good bands break up like Mika Miko.

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

I was about 8 or 9 when the Spice Girls were really popular. I was so ****ing obsessed with them, and years later I still remember all the words too all their songs. I even got to see them in concert about 2 or 3 years ago before they called the entire tour off. Toronto was their last show.

EDIT: I also loved how two of them were named Melanie. As that is also my name, I thought it was the absolute coolest thing ever!

That's cool, I got to see the Musical Box the premier Genesis tribute band from Canada, they are the only licensed band to perform Peter Gabriel era stuff. I'm not too into the Spice Girls but I love that feeling you get of seeing a band one's obsessed with,

Ben Butler · 07-10-2011, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by starrynight

Yes, but that doesn't invalidate what I said.

Yes, it does. The real stars conquer America. End of.

07-08-2011, 11:50 AM	#23 (permalink)
starrynight Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 937	I don't have an opinion on The Saturdays. But just because a group breaks America doesn't mean they are better than another group that doesn't. Those who do tend to make it there need lots of promotion from the label they have in America. Those who don't have that marketing and distribution may not make it but could still be very good, and popular elsewhere even. __________________ non-cliquey member of every music forum I participate on

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I cannot believe that a Spice Girls dedicated thread has lasted for 3 pages. They are no different to the multitude of manufactured bands that exist to this day. (yes you read that correctly- manufactured. That is a group designed in a board room to entice a particular demograph to part with their money). Maybe they created a tune or two that is still stuck in people's mind's but they didn't did they? No one plays them anymore and every single member without fail who embarked on a solo career failed miserably because they have no talent. I have no aversion at all to Pop music if it has some sort of sincerity behind it but the Spice Girls didn't and are just another band that have purely nostalgic value attatched to them. I weep MB I really do. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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ThePhanastasio Killed Laura Palmer Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Ashland, KY Posts: 1,679	Well. My first crush on a female was Scary Spice when I was 9, so I guess there's always going to be a soft spot in my heart for them. Then again, I still don't listen to their music. Just acknowledge that I had a thing for Scary Spice. __________________ Phish: Studio Discography Reviewed 100 Albums I Heartily Recommend My last.fm It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken Perhaps they're better left unsung

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TockTockTock They/Them Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,914	I prefer The Shaggs in terms of all-female musical groups.