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Friday December 08 07:01 PM EST
Mel C on the Future of Spice Girls
By Gary Graff
Melanie Chisholm — a k a Mel C, a k a Sporty Spice — says not to go
dogging the Spice Girls just because the British group's third album,
Forever, isn't exactly spicing up our lives. Or the charts.
Forever debuted at No. 39, with sales of 34,000 copies, and has
dropped to No. 131 on the Billboard Top 200 chart four weeks after
its release — a far cry from the multiplatinum explosions of
predecessors < I>Spice and Spiceworld.
Is this a Girl Power failure? Mel C thinks not.
"Of course we would've liked it to be more successful," Chisholm says.
"At the end of the day, we haven't worked as hard on the promotional
side as we did on the previous two records, mainly because we do want
to have a life as well as a career. It's to be expected that if you're
going to work your ass off, every day of the year, of course you're
going to have more success. We're trying to find balance in our lives
now; two of the girls have got babies, we have solo projects. We're
just happy to have a good album, and the fans who have it are enjoying
it. As people discover it and get to hear it, it will be more successful
in the future. We definitely feel this is the best Spice Girls album
ever."
In fact, those other interests are clearly taking precedence over
Forever. With no Spice Girls tour on the horizon, Chisholm is continuing
to promote her solo effort, Northern Star, which has been bolstered by
the dance-club success of the track "I Turn to You." Melanie Brown is
also concentrating on her solo album, while Victoria Beckham and Emma
Bunton are planning their own releases for 2001.
"[Next year] is probably going to be a year of more solo work; right
now, we haven't got anything planned, specifically, as a group,"
Chisholm says. "We're enjoying what we're up to at the moment. Nobody's
leaving the band, and we're not splitting up. We're taking a bit of time
out and exploring things for ourselves. When we started, we were young
and hungry and wanted success; we still want it, but we've now had two,
three years of living that crazy life, and we've missed other things a
little bit. It's a change of pace for the Spice Girls, that's all."
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