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Spice girls insist girl power still rules
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Reuters
LONDON:
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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