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

[djchameleon]

Originally Posted by starrynight

Well there's 2 things wrong with that.

First, I like quite a lot (not all) of what The Beatles did because I like the music, not because it sold well.

Second, as far as record sales The Beatles are in a different league to The Spice Girls anyway. So no doubt are others like ABBA.

Not quite sure why ABBA keeps getting brought up when there are two males and two females in the group. Not all girl group.

Of course The Beatles are in a different league but the Spice Girls are the second most successful group from the UK behind The Beatles!

[Scarlett O'Hara]

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.

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It was a phenomenon.

[starrynight]

Ok it was big at the time. But a more important test is whether it keeps being interesting for other people in the future, rather than simply being nostalgia music for those who first heard it at the time.

[right-track]

Originally Posted by djchameleon

taste is subjective, people like to listen to whatever they like to listen to even if it doesn't hold up to your standards.

Not sure why it bothers you what they like to listen to, it's not like they are forcing you to listen to it.

Oh, but they are. Albeit inadvertently.
Unfortunately, I have to listen to this kind of mainstream rubbish on a daily basis, on the local radio station at work.
Now if more people had taste then the radio playlist would be very different...

Enjoying the avatar btw.

[djchameleon]

Originally Posted by right-track

Oh, but they are. Albeit inadvertently.
Unfortunately, I have to listen to this kind of mainstream rubbish on a daily basis, on the local radio station at work.
Now if more people had taste then the radio playlist would be very different...

Enjoying the avatar btw.

oh you are stuck in one of those situations where a top 40 radio station is played at work. That's a horrible situation that I have never been in but I'm glad that I'm not.

Thanks on the avatar compliment, when I saw the gif a few weeks ago, I knew that I had to have it as my next avatar

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

You mean you've never experienced the joys of Vanilla?



I don't know how much truth there is in this but I hear this band only exist because one exec from one record company bet another that in the wake of the Spice Girls success he could get together any random bunch of skanks who couldn't sing a note, give them a really awful song and it would still be a hit.

It got to no 14 in the UK charts so I guess he had a point.

... and I guess his point was the Muppets could help push a crap song into the top 40 hit.