Spice Girls Insist Girl Power Still Rules
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Friday March 9 7:00 PM ET
By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - The Spice Girls have insisted that Girl Power
still rules -- even if the feisty five may now be whittled down
to three.
Melanie Chisholm, a.k.a. Sporty Spice, provoked pop bedlam when
she told Reuters she had no plans to keep working with Britain's
biggest pop phenomenon since The Beatles.
``Really I've not been comfortable being in the Spice Girls for
probably the last two years. It doesn't really feel that natural
to me anymore,'' said Chisholm, now concentrating on her solo
career.
Her feelings were perhaps most eloquently portrayed to paparazzi
camped outside her London home -- she gave them an obscene one-
figure gesture as she sped away by car.
Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell abruptly quit the band in 1998 amid
internal disagreements. Sporty Spice could now be next to go --
even if their record company vociferously denied the end was nigh.
And the news certainly seemed to have taken the rest of the band
by surprise.
``As far as I know, we haven't split up,'' Scary Spice Mel B told
Saturday's edition of the Sun tabloid, which invited readers to
phone in and listen to a tape of the Sporty Spice interview.
Victoria ``Posh Spice'' Beckham vowed that the group, who have
sold 38 million albums worldwide since 1995, would sing on without
Mel C.
``I don't know what Mel said but I talk to the other two girls all
the time. All three of us want to keep going with the band. I'm
completely certain of that,'' she told the Mirror tabloid.
``We are definitely going to carry on. I would be the first to
know if we were breaking up and we're not.''
But Posh Spice, interviewed recently in Cannes by Reuters, did
also admit that their solo careers were taking priority right now.
Her sights are firmly set on her own solo album. ``I have been
working on it for the last year,'' she said. Her first single from
the album comes out in May.
Chisholm, 27, is widely considered to be the biggest individual
talent in the group and has developed a successful solo career
eclipsing that of her colleagues.
Her 1999 solo debut ``Northern Star'' emerged as a big
international hit, except in the United States, selling around
2.5 million copies worldwide to date.
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