Spice Girls Album: “Forever”

It is the best spice girls album yet.With 11 amazing tracks who doesn't want to buy it? It features the amzing singles "holler" which is a cool cool r&b track and "let love lead the way" which is a wonderful ballad which you can cry and sing along to. Other tracks includes the nice and soft ballad "oxygen" the up-beat "If you wanna have some fun" and also the song which we had already heard a live version of it, "right back atcha"! and other great tracks!The album is really amazing so amazing that no words can describe it go get it out on nov.6 in the UK/Asia the 7th in the US and get ready for the spice of your life!Everything you want is on the new spice girls album "Forever"

I bought the album because I liked "Holler" and the single wasn't released in the USA. My first run-through the album was OK - a few stand-outs - "Holler", "Right Back At Ya", "Get Down With Me" and "If you Wanna Have Some Fun". By the third listen, I loved all the songs. Excellent arrangements, excellent ballads - "Oxygen" and "Time Goes By" are now my favorites. Excellent album all around. Their fans that have not yet bought this CD are missing out on a lot. I am now a Spice Girls fan. Imagine, I previously thought they were annoying.

No wonder Victoria said in a recent interview that it wouldn't matter if they didn't go to number 1 in the UK because Westlife release theirs on tha same day: becasue they aim at gaining even more success in the US, this album is totally R&B, and in my opinion this is a stab at the old fans. They totally abandoned the formula that got them this far. So what if they recorded the tracks all over the world? They all sound the same and for R&B tracks there's much better out there, even for a R&B hater like myself. Don't know how other fans will take this in Europe, I'm sure it will do good in the US, but I don't like it one bit. Goodbye is totally out of place (I like it).

Can't the shi-e girls do anything right? Their first two albums were personifications of what is wrong with modern music. This travesty is a contender for worst album of the year!

A lot of people (naive optimists?) thought that the girls had decided to leave us alone after ginger split. It's too bad they didn't: music is already suffering enough under the likes of limp bizkit, britney spears/christina aguilera, kid rock, blink-182, boy bands, girl groups, and so-on.

To the girls: if you want to be taken seriously, you are going to have to do more than just dress differently. The fact is, your songwriting is awful and none of you can sing. To justify the new image you are trying to create, these two core problems must be resolved.

Otherwise, I suggest you stay in the UK and leave the rest of us alone. Despite the image change you are still very annoying, and like I said earlier, we've got enough problems of our own.

Don't get me wrong: I love Geri, she was my favorite. I also loved the "Who cares if we're cheesy, we're goofing off and having fun and reveling in the wonder that is girlhood!" attitude of their previous albums. Considering that two of the remaining Spice Girls have married and become mothers, we have to expect their music to mature as well. For all those who doubted the girls named Spice before, I assure you that this move was NOT a mistake! In their words "the Girls are coming back again," and their new sound is worth a listen. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

Some of the tracks were produced by Dark Child, a well known producer who has worked with the likes of Toni Braxton. That, coupled with the girls' heightened contributions to the writing and producing of the album, gives us a more urbanized, stylish sound. Their harmonies still retain that Spice sound, but their tone is different. Standouts include "If You Wanna Have Some Fun," "Get Down With Me," and the awesome "Wasting My Time."

I gave this album only 4 stars because the girls included some ballads. They weren't awful, but they didn't match the upbeat, confident tone of the uptempo songs, which are the true trophies of the album. They hit the highest point they could ever reach, ballad-wise, on the first album with "Two Become One," and should have left well enough alone.

Despite the slow songs, this is a wonderful effort from the Spice Girls, and it's a shame that it hasn't gotten as much airplay as the first two albums did. I hope the girls won't be discouraged, and continue to progress in their music, because this was a huge leap forward. For the listeners, continue to play "Spice" and "Spice World" for your all-girl-flannel-pajama-parties, but for your all-girl-nite-on-the-town evenings, play "Forever." This album celebrates the feeling of being a young, attractive woman, confidently making her way into the world, who says "no" and is heard, but only has to beckon when she wants something. This new image of the quintessential Spice Girl doesn't have to giggle at her mistakes to save her own ego and endear herself to others by acting cutesy to win their approval. We left that girl behind with "Spice World."