Spice Girls - Forever 

"Holler" is and will be my favorite song ever.

A great episode. Forever has become my favourite spice girls album over time, it’s the one I listen to the most

It's wild to me the release timings of all the solo stuff, Mel C having a 4-5 single album run in-between Spice albums?! Mel B releasing her album less than a month before Forever? They were literally churning them out, the girls must have been exhausted.

It seems like the most time they've spent together making Forever was filming the videos and then pretty much giving up on it. Even the photoshoot which took a day to do resulted in publication of 5 medium quality pictures. Such a weird era. They were so over it before it started.

“If you want to have some fun” should’ve been a single with a music video release.

The best video you have ever done!! Such an interesting, strange and mysterious album with a undeniably awkward energy attached to the limited promotion and general rollout. Your video did a great job at presenting that.

Melanie C has a beautiful voice and her solos songs are incredible, best of the lot. have all her cds

Those interviews during the making of Holler with Mel C are a really tough watch. I adore her solo work and love her voice, and for her to go from her own music and sound, to effectively just fulfilling a contractual obligation while also struggling with her mental health, it’s not easy viewing. Especially with hindsight and knowing now what she was going through. I enjoy Forever but I agree with what others have said - it’s very much Spice Girls by name but not by nature. I felt the same way with Headlines in that you get the sense they’re taking it all a bit too seriously. Anyway, great video as always! Love the feature length, although I wish I noticed how long it was before I started watching it in bed as it’s now just after 1am haha. Fab work as ever!!🎉

I think you should do a documentary of what all the 5 girls were doing from their breakup in 2001 to their 2007 reunion since most fans and general public didn't really keep up with any of them until they had the 2007 reunion. It'd be nice to know unknown information from that time.

Having read Melanie C's recent book, it makes so much sense now. She was going through some dark time.

Wow... there is a clear division between the four. Mel B and Emma were enjoying themselves while Mel C and Victoria were so over it.

Fun fact when I met Mel C shortly after the release of Forever at the MTV studios in Camden, I got her sign my forever CD and as she was doing it she said to me “what was I thinking having my hair like that!?” I didn’t know what to say so I just smiled 😂

This album was everything for me at the time. I actually remember the day I bought it. It was cold and dark and raining and I was at a careers fair from school. I never ever understood why not everyone had it or knew the songs like I did after the impact of the two previous albums. I didn't really listen to radio or watch TV or read magazines (ahead of the times, Madonna American Life lol), so it was a little bit of a jarring feeling, I remember. I love every track, not a weak one for me. And the visuals we got are really so beautiful. It's a shame it didn't get the attention and love it deserved, Thanks always for your videos allowing me to explore my memories and experience of such seminal albums in my life. EDIT: Ugh - so many amazing solo songs in the years between Spice World and Forever. What an incredible time and many great memories. Every Spice fan is a huge fan of Mel C's Northern Star album, surely? It's really quite an achievement. Vicky B really turned it with her performance of Out Of Your Mind - well gone gal 😍

Mel C just seems like such a lovely person

0:13 the irony of Mel C not liking R'n'B at the time when her biggest solo hit was 'Never Be The Same Again' an R'n'B song lmao

Thanks for including my personal rips 😊 I have been working on this video for ages and will try to finish it before Forever turns 25 😅 really enjoyed the video

The vocals in FOREVER were amazing. Better harmonies, bigger vocal ranges. It seemed they had worked a lot with theor craft. The songs were fantastic. But they almost lost their initial soft pop sound. It is great for an artist to experiment and change his sound. But the Spice Girls were faced bt the audiences as pure bubblegum pop. Their audiences by then had grown and it wasnt any cool no more to listen to the Spice Girls. The 4 of them are the talented one. But Geri was the spirit, the crazy one, the idea of girl power more than anyone.

Love the transitions to the live performances. Thanks for this. I can tell a lot of effort and love went into this video, it's appreciated!

A LOT of things happened in 2000. Pop switched to many other genres. You can see with acts like Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Britney Spears, S Club 7, Christina Aguilera (a few with them with only one album prior) that they all switched to a much mature sound and towards R&B…it was a natural progression at the time…so of course it was a radical change from Spice Girls’ previous work. It couldn’t have gone any other way honestly: they were so huge it was only a matter of time for each to do their own thing and ditch the branding and also grow out of their Spice personas and sounds. Kuddos to them! It’s a funky mature album!

Thank you, Forever is my fav cd of theirs and it's nice to see someone finally give it some real respect. Beautiful job.

Excellent work, thank you. I was 13 when this album came out and was having a sk8er boi phase, so thought I was too mature to listen to the Spice Girls and was listening to Linking Park and Sum 41. I gave Forever a proper listen earlier this year, and what I took away from it is that most of the songs aren't that memorable. I love Holler and Goodbye, but apart from Tell Me Why, I couldn't sing you the chorus of any of the other songs off the top of my head. Like you said at the end of the video, it doesn't have the spice of the first two albums It's always a pleasure to see your videos pop up in my subscription feed. I love how your calls to action are limited and your main focus is the subject and the music

Mel C is by far the best singer in the spice girls and a talented singer on a whole. She is so versatile and can do pop, rock, rnb and dance tracks. So successful.

_Forever_ is a good album, quite ahead of its time and still sounds fresh and crispy now as if it were released yesterday. It was a reflection of who they were at that time, it was a new chapter, a reinvention. I love artists that evolve without repeating themselves (Madonna, Melanie C, Christina, Pink, Nelly Furtado etc), artists that aren't monotonous. I skip a couple of tracks off the album. _Holler, Wasting My Time, Right Back at Ya_ is my top 3.

Downloading this for the plane next week! Thank you 🖤

Can i say a massive thank you for doing this video. Learning new things that you don't already know. God the memories 🙏 ♥️

I was one of those who got Mel b’s album! I loved the singles!

OMG I love this so much! Thank you thank you! Forever is a gorgeous album and I wish they would give it more care than they do. Hopefully they will do a Forever25 anniversary edition, it has the potential to be the most fun one so far.

This is why Scary and Baby are my favourite. They stuck by the whole Spice journey while the 3 others were completely jaded

Wow, this took me back to the terrible 2000s I was having. Think this is is why Forever is so special to me. It definitely got me through the tough times. I hear what Spice fans say about it being a bit too far from what they had done previously, however, one point I do always make is that they’ve always had a bit of an R&B sound, especially from Spice with tracks like Last Time Lover, Love Thing, If U Can’t Dance. Spiceworld is defo the most pop sounding they did. If you think about the solo material in between Spiceworld & Forever, you was never going to get a pure pop album. We had Mel B venturing in the R&B, we had a real mix of genres with Mel C, Victoria had gone into garage/R&B, Emma had worked with Tin Tin Out. They’d all ventured from the very pop sound. To me, Forever was a very strong album. Lyrically and vocally they had really gone leaps and bounds. There is definitely spice sounds throughout just in a more mature nature. It’s sad to see the pain in Mel C’s eyes, she had admitted herself that she wasn’t ready to come back into the Spice Girls. If U Wanna Have Some Fun, Tell Me Why, Weekend Love, Get Down With Me, Wasting My Time, could have all been singles in my opinion. Due to the shift in sound it needed more promotion to get people on board. I mean look at how long it took for Geri & Mel C’s solo albums to gather pace, it was only after the 1st 3 singles did they start to rebound up the chart. The early 2000s sort of reminds me of now where the music industry was saturated with new music, so it needed time to breathe. It was sad that it never got to do so. Spice Girls are always my most played artists, Forever gets as much attention from me as the others. I always play them in order and I don’t feel Forever feels out of place at all. Once again, a great documentary! I throughly enjoyed this. Thanks for bringing back the Forever era, although there was issues, it was short I still very much treasure this era.

The album fell flat because there was no heart and soul put in it. It was produced for them not by them. People see through it. Spice Girls weren’t Spice Girls at this point. They’d grown up and so had their fans.

The third album if Geri stayed would’ve been a sonic mix of Schizophonic and Forever leaning more towards the former since Geri apparently was adamant on maintaining a pop sound with the first two albums when the others wanted more R&B and probably would’ve been released in 1999 since most of the material wouldn’t have been scrapped and Absolute would’ve been involved since there wouldn’t have been an ultimatum for the group to give had Geri stayed. Honestly though Forever should’ve been a double album with the first half being the pop songs and the second being the R&B ones. So the group could satisfy their desire for a new sound without alienating their fans.

I love this album! I wish they released more singles from it. I hope we get a 25th anniversary version with the demos and some new remixes. Will you be making a video for the Greatest Hits album?

I imagine if Geri was on the Holler video, she would be the 5th element girl, her camp element is what made Spice Girls fun.

I love Forever so much but the fact that they didn't even know most of the song titles during the promotional interview tells you everything you need to know about this era 💀

I absolutely love these documentaries! Forever is my favorite Spice Girl album out of the three. It’s interesting people find it a complete departure, because I feel that R&B elements have always been incorporated throughout their albums, especially with the first one. it’s definitely more evolved considering the trends that we’re going on at the time, but I feel like it’s very very strong and deserved more. I also really enjoy the more mature look that the girls were doing starting in 1998. I understand people enjoy the campiness about the Spice Girls, but it looked really good on them. I also wonder what it would’ve been like if the third came out in 99 with some of the original tracks. I love the leaks as well from this era.

Love this episode. ive been playing holler this whole week, and this came out right on time. Its like you read my mind

Thanks for making this. I enjoyed the first half of the documentary more than the second. I understand why you took such a long time on the making of the two music videos and the promotional interview they did; there wasn’t much else going on. However I think you could’ve condensed the entire documentary by at least 30 minutes if you didn’t include so much of it. I also think it would’ve been good if you did a voice over of the interview questions vs using the title cards.

Melanie C was over with the spice girls after her solo album. I'm glad she overcame her fears and embraced her sporty personna again.

Thanks for another Spice production! I'm already ten minutes in and what a telling statement when Mel B states "I don't want to insult her by saying that she left because of the singing and dancing (Geri)." Very telling on what Mel B thought at the time. Almost sad. But time has moved on and Geri did get the last laugh!

Absolutely love the Spice content, would be interested in a video on the rise and fall and redemption of the girls as both a band and as solo artists (not so much in the redemption category here unfortunately).

Amazing documentary 🥹 So many memories ❤ Thank you so much for making these wonderful gem ❤

To me its their best album. IF YOU WANNA HAVE SOME FUN is perfection. WEEKEND LOVE too. Maybe a bit too serious compared to their previous but it was ok. Still the best Spice-related material ever is NORTHERN STAR, as a Madonna fan I loved all the RAY OF LIGHT references, Mel C showed that she could do lots of genres and sell the songs. She was always my fave and this album confirmed her talent. 🤟

Wow, what a great documentary. ❤ I love that you take time to show longer clips and music. Also sooo well researched! I really enjoyed it. 🙂

Melanie C tends to be blamed for the premature end of _Forever_ due to her solo success. Yes, she wanted to be a solo act and was right given that she had the most solo success out of the group by far, sold millions, had a string of hits all over Europe for years and multi-certified albums (8 in total) however she was also not ready to go back in the group. She made wonders vocally on the album but mentally she wasn't in a good place and wasn't even given the right time to heal. Otherwise I'm sure she would have enjoyed that era. Mel B and Emma at the other hand are universally referred to as the most loyal members of the group so far but actually they were both creating their solo projects while working on _Forever_ and I refuse to believe that they genuinely thought they could promote both and be solo stars and a group at the same time, it's unthinkable. They all turned their backs on the group in favour of their solo ambitions.

I love the Spice Girls and the Forever album. Thanks for making this video. The departure of Geri lead to everyone pursuing their own thing, which compromised the group's synergy. The girls were overworked and exhausted, not recording together and promoting together plus too many other projects released around Forever is what ultimately affected the album. It took too long to be put out and it's a shame that so many great songs didn't make it to the final tracklist.

This is a great Spice documentary... I be watching ALL of them.

I love all your docs please keep doing them with all of the girls solo materials too!! ❤❤❤ thank you for the amazing job

Mel B shading Geri when saying it can also be a relief to say goodbye to someone. 😂

Mel C chanelling MJ On the Goodbye session JHEEZE

Thanks a lot for making these videos

I'll never forget when I first heard Holler as a kid. "Spice Girls, Dog Chow 2000." I'm like ...dog chow?

I didn’t care for the album at the time cause it was such a departure from their first two albums, but listening to it later, I really enjoyed it. You can tell the music scene was changing. The album could’ve had a different impact if it wasn’t thrown in the middle of solo careers, but virgin wanted to bank on everything.

While its my least favorite of the Spice Girls albums, to say that Mel C was too distracted with her own album promotion and that that contributed to the result of the album is an unfair assessment. During this time, as she describes in her autobiography, she was at her lowest point mentally and was just barely going on about which culminated in her having to leave the group altogether due to the toll that their grueling schedule + her eating disorder took on her mental health. Her not being there 100% was her way of coping while also not breaking the arrangements she had made with the group. I feel what contributed to the album not clicking the same is honestly the switch in genre and ofc Geri leaving which led to the group losing some of its authenticity. Besides any artist by the 3rd album around this time was seen as old news, a tendency that only grew from there after the pop scene became so saturated and ever changing. The fact that they managed to still get #1 singles with all this going on is a feat in itself.

1:36:18 There was a competition (either on their website or in a magazine) to guess the album title a few weeks before the it was officially announced. 'Third Time Around' was one of the options, 'Forever' was obviously one, and I wanna say the last option was 'Spice Universe' (not 100% sure on that one, but I'm sure it had the word Spice in it)

Brilliant video, the only missing bit was when Mel B (G) released Word Up for the Austin Power's movie.

Wow! What a wonderful work you have done in here. This documentary is 10/10 ❣️

Huge Thank you Pop Underrated !!!!!! because I've been a fanatic Spice Girls fan for the longest time but this video that you made is one of the best that described the new Spice girls journey after Geri left

great video! the research was fantastic, it gives too much context that I was not aware of... it was also great to watch a lot of very detailed bts footages

I’d like too hear the scrapped songs

"What if Melanie C had not been so distracted with her own solo music." She was despressed, bulimic and dealing with ptsd after being a*used. Her solo stuff was probably her survival kit at that point. It might sound exagerated, but if she wasn't distracted with her own solo stuff she might've ended up not well (mentally of physically).

Thanks! So much background information. Great!

Forever lost the endearing camp that mostly Geri brought to the first two albums. It's a good enough album, if only it didn't sound like almost everything in mainstream pop that time - the slick, millennial, frenetic, Rodney Jerkins sound that made the rounds from Brandy to J.Lo, MJ to TLC, Toni to Britney, etc. Holler is perfectly serviceable, but is pretty tame for a Spice Girls single. Wasting My Time, Get Down With Me, and If You Wanna Have Some Fun are quite danceable. It's the ballads that really let this collection down. They're just glacially-paced, hella long, and just drag the pacing.

Forever had all the vibes of a band that were absolutely burnt out and simply going through the motions. Mel C has said in her autobiography that she was not in a good mental frame of mind to make Forever and said it was an album that she didn’t want to make and it definitely shows.

I live how Victoria said "in this country" when talking bout Westlife haha. It's true. Spice Girls were global... Westlife didn't really make it far outside of the UK

Loved this video!!❤

You can tell Sporty had kinda tapped out here. Bless her, she’d tasted the other side and she preferred it.

Absolutely love this!!!

I really appreciate the effort put into making this, thank you. My only feedback is that there is more footage out there that could have been used (MTV EMA performance/interviews, TOTP Plus interview, LLLTW National Lottery, TFI Friday) rather than too much from the video shoots. It just would have been good to see the maximum footage available from that era, since there is so little overall.

I don't think it was likely that their 3rd album would have covers at all. All acts perform covers on tour... especially with limited music.

I love your videos ❤ could you please make a video about Kelis or Anastacia? They are super underrated

I was so pumped when this came up on my feed. i LOOOOVED this album. it was this and the original pokémon!

Mel C has said “Geri leaving was the beginning of the end”

what made the Spice Girls a unique entity in the music industry was their visual approach combined with very clever and various mix of songs .... by this third album the absence of Geri is evident ...their chemistry had somehow gone away ,the happy girl power concept disappeared and the songs were conforned to the mainstream rnb pop of the time ... a couple of very good songs,but the rest sounds pretty average unfortunally

Great doc...go viral...love it❤

Everytime I hear the song goodbye, I can't hold my tears to full,.so sad...

This is great thank you for the research

How strange, I happened to like this album the most 😇

Tonight's viewing. I'm so excited 🎉🎉

On another note, Schizophonic is a rare gem of an album, from beginning to end. Absolutely amazing lyrical content, production is great, and the selection of songs was impeccable. If Geri had stayed in the Spice Girls, I do think Schizophonic would’ve been an absolutely AMAZING third album, but as a group. I imagine how they’d all sound together on those songs. It has a slightly more ‘mature’ pop sound, with some rock, Latin, and broadway influences; a very eclectic record. Not that the SGs didn’t do more serious or mature songs, like ‘Naked’, ‘Do It’, etc. Schizophonic as a SG album could’ve been such a hit. But I would’ve adjusted the singles a bit. Lol. ‘Look at Me’, ‘Lift Me Up’ and ‘Mi Chico Latino’ are good but idk…a bit plain. ‘Let Me Love You’ is a standout track. ‘Sometime’ is another excellent one too.

Me encantó, me encantó, me encantó!!! Ahhhhh excelente trabajo!! Infinitas felicitaciones!! ❤

Another wonderful video mate 👏 hope you are ok

Thanks for this. ❤ I love this album EXCEPT mel c’s hair 😂

Really seemed like they were struggling to remember the titles of songs from the album when asked - shows that they were ready to move on

Love this album so much, thank you! It's a bittersweet era, as it could have been one of their best eras if they had focused on it, but sadly they didn't... I was BORED of the solo stuff by the end of 1999 tbh.

After reading Melanie c’s biography I wondered if Let Love lead the way, was written by the 3 girls to Melanie c, since she was not involved in the production.

I think what made the girls stand out before this one is how campy and fun and eclectic they could be. While there is nothing wrong about doing an R&B album, they didn't put your own spin on the sound. Which made it disposable.

It’s really almost their best album. It’s so well produced. It deserved better! It’s really been underrated and undervalued. Their first two albums are obviously iconic but sound like good ‘spice girl songs’ this album is just a perfect r&b/pop album. They were really over it though. Actually seemed only Mel B and Emma were enthusiastic about it.

Is Let Love Lead The Way considered rnb? I always saw that as just pop

Forever translated is Fingers back up to Geri’s fingers up at them and we can get to number one without you We can do R&B as a rebellion and to be cool and go against Geri again Money Fingers up to the press Press Drag poor Mel C down further into a hole and back her into a corner Mel B hedging her bets with solo album and spice album It was a very messy time and completely different and I’m 50/50 tbh I listen to forever and I LOVE it just for the record ! But to me it’s not spice girls it’s Mel b Emma Victoria and Mel c that did an album once And in that process of silly ness and inconsistent behaviour and break up solo energy they just happened to produce a few bangers !! Especially HOLLER 😍 which I love so much but again it’s not in the spice girls league of spice/world quality I wish they’d just split up instead of trying to prove to the world they were as good as before and better without Geri and so cool now … or just simply released Holler as a one off bit of spicy fun and experimental love letter to the fans with a few one off performances Instead of the disjointed nonsense us fans felt conflicted by ( still loved them despite that though ) it could only go one way really To be honest at this point I got my spice fix from Mel C Solo stuff because it felt so true to just great honest heartfelt music regardless of any egotistical sillyness which is exactly what the spice girls started out doing in the beginning

Great work😮😮😮😮😮😮❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Forever was a very sad album for me 😔🤍🖤

I really don't like how people trash this album. If you know the girls, they LOVE r&b. Dark Child is a LEGEND. Their best vocal work.

One thing about all 5 spice girls, they be WORKING

I don't know why, this Album Launch near with Mel B's Album... Poor Mel B...

Mel c looked so gorgeous during the mini I turn to you era

29:38 - Who knew Bridget Nielsen done backup for Mel C?!

I remember Spice Girls Forever album and I still have the Audio cassette. Listening to each one make their Solo careers was really something. I was shocked to know Geri left. I've been collecting all they pictures. What a Journey. Love them all. The best Solo is Mel B and Mel B and Geri. Are my favourite after that Victoria and Emma. ❤

I sure she is Lovely BUT I really Dislike Sporty's voice. Its so distinct. FOREVER was a hard Album to follow tbh Holler was the only good one...for me. I think Geri's Albums does loops around it.

cool doc. I recognize some enhancements I did for some of these videos 1:30:02

I always hope that in some special edition or just because, they compile all the B-sides and unreleased songs on a single CD, instead of those 7 or 8 minute noise remixes that are the same for all artists. Even if it is an album of 10 or 12 songs. I hope they or the record company do it for Forever 25.