Spice Girls Say Nerve-Racking But Fun Performing
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Friday November 17 4:20 AM ET
By Paul Majendie
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Spice Girls, back together after pursuing
solo careers, said it was great to be out there performing again --
even if the ordeal was a bit nerve-racking.
They joined a dozen of the world's top acts -- from Madonna to
Ricky Martin -- in the line-up of performers for Thursday night's
MTV Europe Awards.
Emma Bunton, reflecting on their live show before an estimated one-
billion-strong television audience, said: ``It was very nerve-
racking but it is so much more fun when we do it together.''
``I am a bit gobsmacked. It all went so quickly,'' said Mel C
afterwards.
And Posh Spice Victoria, barely off the tabloid front pages since
her marriage to Manchester United soccer star David Beckham, was
relaxed about their solo careers.
``At the end of the day if it wasn't for us being a group, we
wouldn't be doing our own thing anyway. It's great. We are really
proud to be up there,'' she told Reuters Television.
Mel C was short-listed for two awards at the ceremony and her
fellow Spice Girls teased her. ``It is only Melanie that is doing
well at the moment,'' Mel B said.
``No, shut up. We have all had hit singles,'' Mel C retorted.
The Spice Girls, brought together as a manufactured pop group
after they answered an advertisement in an entertainment trade
newspaper, have proved to be Britain's most successful pop band
since The Beatles when it comes to worldwide sales.
They have survived the departure of the fifth Spice Girl --
''Ginger Spice'' Geri Halliwell -- and appear more determined
than ever to make a success of their third album.
Press Obsession
Their first single from the album went straight to the top of the
hit parade but the album lost out in a much hyped battle of the
album charts with Irish boyband Westlife.
Pop critics have constantly written obituaries for the Spice
Girls and Mel B complained that people still do think of the
group as one hit wonders.
``It's nine hit wonders,'' said Bunton with a chuckle, reflecting
on their worldwide success and record sales that have topped 30
million.
Mel C, looking back on their meteoric rise to fame, said: ``We
looked good. We just came well packaged.''
They may have just come together for the new album but the Spice
Girls have an unerring ability to be frontpage news in Britain's
celebrity-obsessed tabloids with much of the coverage centering
on their image -- was ``Posh Spice'' too thin? Was Mel C facing
a weight problem?
Mel C said: ``A couple of things were said about me in the media --
one was about weight and one was about depression.''
Explaining why she had decided to talk frankly about her
depression, she said: ``It is just a common thing depression. It
is an illness -- try and get the stigma away from it. It's not
really anybody's business.''
Mel B agreed when asked about the need to be a healthy role model
for young, impressionable fans: ``At the end of the day, you have
got a responsibility but that shouldn't overshadow the way you are
naturally. Nobody is perfect.''
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