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DID you think the Spice Girls were history? Well, think again as the fiery foursome are back with a new album, Forever, which will be launched today.
Featuring 10 new songs and the hit single, Goodbye (which was recorded and released soon after Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), the fifth member of the group, left), the album bears testimony that, contrary to widespread speculation, the group is still very much intact.
Since their debut album Spice in 1996, second album Spiceworld (1997), Spiceworld movie debut, and sell-out Spiceworld World Tour in 1998, the girls - Melanie Brown (Mel B/Scary Spice), Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice), Melanie Chisholm (Mel C/Sporty Spice) and Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) - have all gone on to "do their own thing", which includes recording solo albums and having babies (in the case of Mel B and Victoria).
"Well, the truth of the matter is, we haven't really been apart, you know. Although to the public we've not been doing that much together, but behind the scenes, we've been in and out of the studio and see each other on various occasions," says Mel C in a Press release on the Spice Girls.
"But it's different to be back and performing again, and that's the best bit," says Mel C, adding that the group's time apart, and their individual pursuits, have contributed to the strength of Forever.
Those who have heard the hit single, Holler, from the new album, would probably attest that the music arrangement and style are atypical of the Spice Girls and its previous hits - Wannabe, Spice Up Your Life, Say You'll...