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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.
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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.
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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!
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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,
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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