Best Spice Girls solo single 1998-2007

I somehow remember none of these except for Geri's Weather Girls cover. Were they big(ger) in the UK?

Maybe is the only thing I absolutely love here.

Geri's version of It's Raining Men used to be one of the pieces of hold music when I worked in a call centre, no plan to listen to that again.

xps All until the mid-00s were UK hits, with almost all the earlier ones making the top five. That's including eight number ones, after which (the final was It's Raining Men) the collective goodwill started fading a bit.

"Out of Your Mind" is one of my favourite singles full-stop so that has to get my vote. "Maybe" and "Never Be the Same Again" run a fairly close second and third.

I assume "Out Of Your Mind" will walk this but "Maybe" and "I Turn To You" (in its dance form not its original album form) are great singles.

The "Lift Me Up" vs "What I Am" battle was the SM:TV audience equivalent of Blur vs Oasis. It amazes me that Geri had solo success, the vocal takes on some of those singles are truly abysmal, although I love "Look At Me" as a doubling down on everything that everyone said was unlikeable about her. "Out Of Your Mind" vs "Groovejet" also was a good tabloid feud.

I vividly remember Mel G doing "Word Up" fully seated in a DFS chair in every promo performance at the time, like she was above standing up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvYDRJlqW7c

This Geri documentary is astonishing - it's like Lisa Kudrow's character in The Comeback but as a real person

I prefer - love - the album version of "I Turn to You" (sorta like an even better version of Madonna's "Skin") but the single mix is great for being about as unabashed a 2000 summer record there is. I'm maybe biased because that's the first year I have any vivid memories of, but like the ElementFour Big Brother theme to pick a hit from around the same time (or maybe Rob Searle's Power of Love remix) something of that elemental, world-as-I-first-remember-it bigness is there in that mix, even if I don't remember it from the time.

"Look at Me" and "Bag It Up" I enjoy a whole lot more than a lot of people. Really they're catnip to me, partly for being major couldn't-be-anyone-else setpieces in a musical story that mattered then but now are hardly heard at all ("Lift Me Up" I guess is famously where her bad signing is really a problem. She sounds like she's putting on a voice for the whole song to mask it until the laughable key change).

"Word Up" is rubbish. Timbaland not even bringing his C game. You'd hardly know it was him.

Victoria's debut proper was also billed as a chart race, though the idea of NSAIG ever posing any sort of thread to "Can't Get You Out of My Head", no less, seems impossible to contemplate two decades on.

Also, never seen the Geri doc but heard lots about it, thanks for reminding me of it.

Voted "Maybe"; I like that whole album.

I was never much engaged by the Spices but I remember finding “Never Be the Same Again” quite hypnotic and unexpected.

justice for bacon rind

I stopped scrolling after 03 and I doubt I missed anything.

Mel C undoubtedly has the best overall ones - I Turn to You & Never Be The Same Again both bangers.

Geri, HMMMMM. All hers are ruined by her having a terrible voice but Bag It Up is fun. Look At Me had a great video.

Emma’s What Took You So Long? might be my overall favourite.

Mel B I don’t really remember outside of the Missy Elliott collab which was fine?

Sorry but I would be completely unsurprised to find out Victoria’s solo career was a money laundering op. Absolutely could not stand her work then or now, zero understanding of how Out of Your Mind stopped being a bad joke. To pull a comparison from around the same time, it’s Lucy’s presentation from 13 Going on 30 and Groovejet is Jenna’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXvPTNZfB9Y

To me it was dated as soon as it dropped and it’s got some of the worst voiceover since Madonna’s Die Another Day.

xps to westbury white horse Bag It Up also has a fun Brits performance where Geri emerges from between a giant inflatable pair of legs

"Never Be the Same Again" by some distance

I like Die Another Day a lot too (which was a few years later). imo OOYM feels about as consciously (some might say painfully) up to the minute as a record possibly can, not that this affects my love for it. Idk if OOYM's ever been championed too widely, I feel a bit contrarian for liking it as much as I do - that said it found a major fan in Simon Reynolds ("almost atonal, R&B-meets-Schoenberg") who named it the 15th best single of the 00s. I don't know how well it was received within garage, tho maybe True Steppers didn't particularly care either way, having already collaborated with Dane Outta Another Level on the prior single "Buggin" (it's not like the Artful Dodger keeping it in-house with Romina Johnson and [I was about to say Robbie Craig but hadn't he been hanging around for years?])

my challops is that I cannot stand Mel C's voice, it alternates between simpering and blaring foghorn and it's a mystery to me why she has this critical consensus behind her.

I think Feels So Good is maybe the most unjustly forgotten, all of Mel B's solo singles seem to have not left much trace, even I Want You Back.

What Took You So Long? is pretty good, but the guitar riff at the start sounds a lot like the intro to In The Car by Barenaked Ladies and makes me wish I was listening to that instead, so I don't enjoy it as much as I might otherwise do.

Oh wow yeah those are quite close. In the past it has reminded me of Losing My Religion (tho I knew WTYSL first).

I have a vague sense that Barenaked Ladies had already lifted that riff from an older song, but I can't think what

Emma probably had the best run of singles. Maybe is still one of the catchiest songs of all time and Free Me, What Took You So Long and Crickets Sing for Anamaria are all good too.

This has to be When You're Gone by Mel C and Bryan Adams for me. Just a brilliant melody and such an earworm that kind of hints at where The Cardigans would go on their excellent and very underrated last two albums. It's filled with such great simple lyrics like, "even food don't taste that good, drink ain't doing what it should". Mel C's adlibs towards the end are wonderful as well. Even the video is fantastic. It looked like she might be the Robbie of the band with that first album with the hits getting bigger and bigger. Shamed she spoiled it with If That Were Me and all that, "I couldn't live without my phone and you don't even have a home" nonsense.

Victoria's singles were ok. I remember not minding This Groove/Let Your Head Go at all. They kind of followed on from the R&B of the final Spice Girls album. This Groove in particular had a pretty nice Scritti Politti style chorus that was similar to Kylie's Body Language. Mind Of Its Own was catchy too.

Mel B's singles were fairly forgettable apart from the covers. Today going in at 41 was the first big flop by any of them. The accompanying album didn't even make the top 100.

Geri had zero good solo singles. Just very good marketing or memorable videos. When she went head to head with Emma for the number one in November 2000 I remember that particular week was the same week she just happened to have a brief fling with Chris Evans. Lots of carefully planned photos of them together in The Sun. Really grim stuff.

I always had a soft spot for Emma's solo work - some kind of melancholy in that early career of pretty, tasteful, sophisticated pop that never quite took off. Crickets Sing for Anamaria, I think - not claiming it's a great version but it always pleasantly surprised me when I'd hear it on the radio or TV

"Look At Me" is possibly my most hated song ever. It almost makes me hate the existence of music. It makes me sick.
It's not merely annoying, or bad, like much of the Mel C output. It's not merely flat and feeble, like much of Emma B's stuff.

It's like they actively got together and designed something to sound so altogether dire it surpasses even my other most hated songs by some measure.

Emma B covered Life in Mono, which is a very good song, but she made it quite a bit worse than it should've been. Guess it wasn't a single though.

What's the Mel C one about not living without her phone but homeless people don't even have a phone?

"If That Were Me" - if they really needed a fifth single from Northern Star there were many better songs to choose from, including quite a few that would have charted better than no. 18.

Emma does fine on "Life in Mono" but the arrangement is stodgy. Too much like the original but with the skitters, harpsichords and dubby bits handpicked out, presumably to try and emphasise the spy theme within but it doesn't go far enough.

probablly 'When You're Gone' for nostalgic reasons. Its one of those earworms that intrusively comes into my head. I just made the mistake of giving it a relisten and ugh, not sure I can vote.

growing up in america i think i heard 3 of these: "look at me" (on mtv), "i turn to you" (played once on a new-music battle on the top 40 station, which it lost), and "it's raining men" (on dance dance revolution lol)

i didn't think much of "i turn to you" at first as i only heard the radio edit, but years later hearing the full-length version (of the hex hector mix) i was pretty astonished and it's now one of my favs of the decade. so i'll vote that.

"I turn to you"

Because if it had been released by a totally unknown singer, it would still have been a hit.

I Turn To You is a banger. Felt like it was in the charts forever.

It’s Raining Men was huge not just for being a cover but it was a tie in with the first Bridget Jones film.

I wondered how these singles ranked commercially and there was an article for this:
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-ultimate-official-spice-girls-solo-chart-all-their-singles-ranked-by-sales-__19520/

So basically most successful by sales in the UK charts:

1. When You’re Gone - Bryan Adams ft Mel C
2. It’s Raining Men - Geri Halliwell
3. Never Be The Same Again - Mel C ft Lisa Left Eye Lopes
4. Out Of Your Mind - Truesteppers & Dane Bowers ft Victoria Beckham
5. I Turn To You - Mel C
6. Mi Chico Latino - Geri Halliwell
7. Lift Me Up - Geri Halliwell
8. Look At Me - Geri Halliwell
9. What Took You So Long - Emma Bunton
10. Bag It Up - Geri Halliwell

All grown up in Canada I heard 3 of these: "When You're Gone", thanks largely to CanCon, "Look at Me", and then "It's Raining Men" promoted as a novelty. We were quick to start ignoring the disbanded Girls.

Either Never Be the Same Again or Maybe, the latter of which 100% should have been our Eurovision entry that year.

The only one I know or remember is “Scream if You Wanna Go Faster” because of that hurtful line about Americans saying “Have a nice day”

Decided to listen to all the songs in this poll before it closes because today is a boring day. I’ll hide text though. I Want You Back to Mi Chico Latino:

I Want You Back - Mel B ft Missy Elliott
The black and green grid in this video is probably supposed to reference Tron or something but I just think about Homer in the episode with the third dimension. Regardless this is pretty good imo? Missy is barely on this though. There’s a comment on the YouTube video of this that says “I love how you can hear her Yorkshire accent when she says ‘well let me hit this one before I go’” and honestly, otm.

Bryan Adams feat. Melanie C - When You're Gone
I remember thinking Mel C looked really pretty in this video and honestly, still true. Especially in contrast to Bryan Adams. I think it works well cos they don’t have Mel C overdoing her vocals. Really generic guitar bit in the middle.

Geri Halliwell - Look at Me
Real heads will remember this came out almost a year after Geri left the Spice Girls. I remember an issue of at least one pop magazine I bought, probably Smash Hits, having a story about the video and coverage of all the various jokes and references? Am I wrong in remembering the hearse scene at the end was considered a bit near the knuckle being less than a year after Diana? Anyway the song would probably work better with someone who could sing better but I don’t think any of the others could pull off the video. Think you had to be there for this.

Melanie G (B) - Word Up
Shout out to appearance of Mel’s former married name, Gulzar. Surely the worst married name downgrade of all time? Anyway, pleasingly funky but it’s a cover that doesn’t touch the original. I don’t recall the video at all but it’s surprisingly avant garde and Mel herself only appears heavily disguised.

Geri Halliwell - Mi Chico Latino
I listened to this maybe more than any of the others bar What Took You So LongLong? because it was on Now 44 which I played to DEATH. The Wikipedia for this song quotes Geri as saying re this song “I think my core audience is young teenage girls and gay guys. Both those groups tend to like pure pop music and I think that’s what ‘Chico’ was.” Very listenable imo, but I’m biased because I love anything with castanets.

"When You're Gone" is great but this is "Never Be the Same Again". "What Took You So Long" also a nice little tune. Don't get the hype for "Maybe".

'When You're Gone' reminds me a little of 'Stumblin' In' by Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro, so that.

between

i want you back

what i am

never be the same again

most absolutely trash if on the forgettable side of that

look at me a lowlight, the first word of the chorus maybe the worst combination of voice/note ever released upon the public

Apart from anything Victoria ever did, you mean.

Can’t believe you have no room in your heart for What Took You So Long?

I've been listening to a Spice Girls solo playlist I found on Spotify and I'd forgotten how good Here It Comes Again and Calling are

look at me a lowlight, the first word of the chorus maybe the worst combination of voice/note ever released upon the public

Right!?

All the "big band" fun that would usually signify some kind of grand, outrageous or slinky melody.... and instead it's THAT.

Weirdly I have no memory of 'Maybe'. Just listened and it's decent enough.

Calling is quite slight and low-key, probably too much for it ever to have had much chance of becoming a big hit, but it's very pleasant and I think Geri's voice works better here than on any of her other solo singles.
Here It Comes Again sounds like it could fit on Belinda Carlisle 's Heaven On Earth album, a sort of heightened, melodramatic ballad, but not bombastic

Weirdly I have no memory of 'Maybe'. Just listened and it's decent enough.

The video felt really aesthetically charming at the time and ushered in Emma's delightful swingin' cocktail kitsch era; it all got a bit diluted by the time she did the Downtown and Life in Mono covers alas

Calling should maybe have swapped places with Lift Me Up

I Want You Back would be high in my rankings. It's true it uses up all its ideas fairly quickly but that's not a problem imo.

Not mentioned yet (cus I doubt anyone will vote for it) but Goin' Down is sort of a charming tuneless. Bits of INXS' The Gift and Utah Saints' I Want You in there among the more obvious nods to Beetlebum and Speed of Life. I saw the French and Saunders parody of it before I ever knew the original song (the sketch relies on familiarity with it) so I had no idea what was going on. Again like the Geri singles it enhances the 'you had to be there' element. Good job Mel had other aces to play.

Goin’ Down occupies a similar space in my mind as Robbie’s South of the Border (rockish forgotten singles from ex-pop group member debuts) except South of the Border is marginally better. Wikipedia says that Mel C said Goin’ Down was inspired by Song 2, to which I say JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. Meanwhile

After a few relatively unknown songs parallel to Gary Barlow's career and "South of the Border" failing, many thought this was the end of Williams.

I have to go for Look at Me. Geri is probably my least favourite Spice Girl as a personality but that record is so great in all its cocktail nation-adjacent, Music to Watch Girls By-adjacent groovy glory. I do think it was genuinely daring to launch her career with a mid-tempo, somewhat dark bossa nova; it works for me but it doesn’t seem to have remained in the public memory.

I had forgotten how Look At Me went so I put it on Spotify

I’m 30 seconds into this and seriously, what the hell is this

it's the worst song ever recorded is what it is

I feel like important context for Look At Me is that Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads had released History Repeating about a year or so earlier, and the former sounded like it was obviously inspired by the former? (I looked it up and History Repeating only got to #19 in the UK, which surprised me, but I feel like it was way more ubiquitous than that chart placing would suggest, was used on tv a lot etc)

Lift Me Up to Never Be The Same Again:


Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up
I actually had no memory of the song. The video I remember because it was a really shoestring budget type thing that featured someone in an alien costume? Anyway I don’t think this ever gets past supermarket background music and her voice isn’t good enough to elevate it. Yet commercially one of the more popular ones? Idgi.

Tin Tin Out and Emma Bunton - What I Am
This also ranks highly on the pleasant but not earth shattering scale for me. Remember that brief period when half the chart had a Tin Tin Out remix? While I was looking TTO up I came across this highly interesting fact:

In addition to his involvement with Tin Tin Out, Lindsay Edwards is an Oxford University-educated researcher and lecturer who holds qualifications in both physiology and mathematics. He specialises in the fields of systems biology and machine learning, was Lecturer in Physiology at King's College London, Head of AI for Respiratory & Immunology at AstraZeneca, and is now Chief Technical Officer and Head of Platform at Relation Therapeutics.

Think he ever sits there looking at reports on immunology studies and rues the fact that their last remix was Simply Red?

Melanie C - Northern Star
I don’t remember the actual release of this but I heard it plenty of times because it was on a Now compilation. However, it was sandwiched between When You Say Nothing At All and Kiss Me, which is snooze central, so if I hit this portion of the compilation at night I was asleep. Anyway, it’s nice enough but not one of her best.

Geri Halliwell - Bag It Up
Now we’re cooking. I know every word of this by heart still. Amazingly daft Brits performance (she emerges from between a giant pair of inflatable legs), almost no lingering cultural value, it’s kind of like a downstream Who Do You Think You Are? It’s sparkly, it’s cheap, it’s cheerful, it’s got the lyrics “treat him like a lady”. Again, the song works in spite of Geri’s voice, not because of it.

Melanie C feat. Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes - Never Be the Same Again
Would be a worthy winner of this poll. It’s slow but it’s not boring. Listening to it now and it’s still an absolute classic. Nice melancholy vibe, good vocals, and probably one of the best aged songs?

What I Am sounds almost exactly like Tin Tin Out's mix of What Can I Do?

TTO were pretty much what I think of when I hear the term "dance outfit". totally faceless, could change their entire sound in a heartbeat if necessary (and did), hard to imagine them having 'fans' (look at their first album: the album title, sleeve, band name, all of it free of meaning), and YET none of this needs to have a bearing on the records and if anything acts to deliberately let them stand on their own - and some of them really do. Strings for Yasmin is brilliant for instance. And the Tooley St mix of Always (Something There to Remind Me) was by far the best tune from March 95 to be using those specific sounds (towering way over Clock's Axel F and the radio mix of the Outhere Brothers' Don't Stop). But a consistent sound? Clearly not their priority.

As well as History Repeating I think Robbie's Millennium was also probably on Look at Me's spy theme radar. Not that there's any resemblance. But she knew 'doing a Robbie' was what people hoped for from one Spice Girl and for a while she took pains to propose that it could be her.

Oh believe me, I remembered the context of Look At Me as soon as it started but I must reiterate: what is this

Geri was also “the Robbie” in terms of being a big personality and the first one to go solo. Entirely intentional parallel imo.

The other possible Robbie was ofc Mel C, who basically did all the remaining Robbie moves that Geri ignored.

Including continuing to have a solo career

I lived through that period and Mel C is the obvious winner. I can still hum "Northern Star" and "Never Be the Same Again". For almost literally everything else on the list you had to be there.

As mentioned passim Geri Halliwell simply had a terrible voice. I admire the fact that the producers didn't use ghost singers or autotune, which was state-of-the-art at the time. "Lift Me Up" has a solid melody. On a personal level she is by all accounts at the very worst uninteresting. But she simply couldn't sing. I can't think of another pop act from the same period where the vocalist was genuinely incompetent.

I can think of lots of pop singers who were characterless, or boring, or their phrasing was poor, or they had a grating voice, but Halliwell couldn't even hit the notes. It's obvious that the singles were just blatted out as quickly and cheaply as possible in order to ride the wave. I remember feeling a wave of dread when Pop Idol because a thing, because the producers of the show obviously needed lots of pop music as quickly and cheaply as possible, and for a while pop music production seemed to regress.

I mean, I grew up with "Two Tribes" and "Go West". And then all of a sudden pop music sounded cheap and naff. It was us. We did it to ourselves.

Emma does a duet with Robbie on her last album, doing 2 Become 1. And it's fairly standard stuff to begin with - borrowing the Latin rhythm box bit from Back for Good actually a neat idea even if sounds just as cheap - but when Rob comes in I did let out a wee chuckle (it's not that he's off-key or anything it's just, he absolutely has a 'ballad' voice that he uses now)

I mean, I grew up with "Two Tribes" and "Go West". And then all of a sudden pop music sounded cheap and naff. It was us. We did it to ourselves.

he absolutely has a 'ballad' voice that he uses now

I dunno, I just assume the way he's dealt with his voice ageing is to sing stuff like that pretty deeply. But it catches me offguard. I can imagine younger Robbie handling the song fine in the same key (tho I don't necessarily think I'd prefer it)

Also forgot to say:

The video I remember because it was a really shoestring budget type thing that featured someone in an alien costume?

Five small aliens, could have been cheap to film, but it was done in The Desert and is very stylized and expensive-looking (What Took You So Long? is quite similar, without any small aliens). It's baffling really.

the video has a very evocative write up on wikipedia:

The music video for "Lift Me Up" was directed by Howard Greenhalgh and filmed in October 1999 in Málaga. The beautiful twilight shots of Geri driving through the sprawling Malaga countryside create a mood that perfectly complements the whimsical string-synth melody snaking through the song. The plot involves Geri happening across a posse of aliens who are trying to repair their ship by befriending. Before helping them on their way, she takes them to the car wash for a water fight and back to a motel room to show them the latest music videos from herself (including "Mi Chico Latino"). Geri drives to the store then the aliens steal cash from the cash register and they went out, a police car with a police officer was seen chasing after them but they disappear. At night, Geri bade farewell to the aliens before returning to their home in outer space. Up in the sky, the spaceship is gone leaving her name's signature at the bottom end as their remembrance.

Howard Greenhalgh also directed the music videos for all the singles from Very by the Pet Shop Boys

Oh yeah Malaga isn’t going to cost much money tbf

I just had this memory of Geri's last charting single, Desire so went to check it out on YouTube. She pretends to be a cat in the video at one point and it could actually be the worst song on this list.

Apparently she begged Richard X for Some Girls and I guess this was her attempt at doing something similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV5G-FR0Lvk

I feel like important context for Look At Me is that Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads had released History Repeating about a year or so earlier, and the former sounded like it was obviously inspired by the former?

didn't she lock herself in Richard X's car?

Iirc. This story is also seemingly the only reason "Some Girls", alone among individual songs, gets its own chapter in Reach for the Stars.

It's what Annie "Me Plus One" is written about isn't it?

Bryan Adams feat. Melanie C - When You're Gone (Nov 98)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

That Geri documentary is so interesting as she's just on the cusp of the very end of her solo career which at first was a massive success (four number 1's in a row, in two years) then the whole thing just hit a wall a few years later and she never had a hit again. It's like a nightmare alternate-universe version of Girls Aloud Off The Record which was actually happening around the same time.

I remember "Ride It" a lot from the time - I even owned it on a couple of comps - and it's really quite good. It's probably the most relaxed she sounds on any of her hits which suits the Annie/Kylie/Dannii/Rachel sweet spot it's going for but then that's not really on-brand for her.

Unrelated but the Yomanda remix of Bag It Up's great if you like his sort of thing (as I do). It keeps the faux ad lib 'who's wearing the trousers now?' but ditches everything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j30Mn3JCpY8

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Free Me was a bit robbed but hey

Always found it odd that Dr.Robert co-wrote the lead single from the second Mel C album.

I Want You Back deserved better!

"the video has a very evocative write up on wikipedia"

I think that's a legacy of the overly-descriptive video fab from the 2010s. Overly literal video? There was a fad on Wikipedia for ludicrously overwritten descriptions of videos. The gag was that the descriptions were worthless crap, but technically they fell within Wikipedia's rules, so the end result was Ashlee Simpson videos with thousand-word descriptions.

Geri Halliwell's debut album was released during the peak - chasm? - of vinyl's popularity nadir, and it must be one of the most-released albums that doesn't have an LP release, at least according to discogs.com. You'd think that the market of vinyl fans of Geri Halliwell fans would have at least a couple of thousand intersections, but no.

I can never tell whether something that only had one big release circa 1999 is technically out of print, or not. Presumably the record company just keeps reprinting the same issue with the same catalogue number, because it's still available brand new on CD, but perhaps they really did make fifty million of them, and there's a big warehouse filled with copies of Schizophonic that were pressed in 1999 and have been sitting, waiting, lurking, comma, ever since.

Per wikipedia, it seems that they did press far more than were sold.

It sold 483,853 in total, being certified two-times Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipments of 600,000 copies.[24]
[...]
It shipped 500,000 copies and received a Gold certification in the country by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[25] According to Nielsen SoundScan, Schizophonic has sold 181,000 copies there as of July 2007.[26]

Sold, Shipped, What’s the Diff?

So, somewhere in the UK there are, or were, 116,147 copies of Geri Halliwell's debut album that were pressed up, shipped to stores, but never sold. Presumably they were shipped back to the record label at some point - and given that Halliwell's career continued for a couple more albums they presumably weren't crushed immediately, so perhaps there's a room in a salt mine somewhere in Wales packed with crates of unsold copies. I can smell the little CD inlays.

If only the chap who bought up all those copies of The White Album had done the same for Schizophonic. Nailing 116,147 copies of that album to a huge wall would be incredibly therapeutic. It would be like a modern-day version of the Vietnam War memorial, but instead of having lots of names of dead people it would just be... Geri Halliwell pushing a car. Looking over her shoulder. The second album had the car. Would it be any less powerful a statement? You can't tell until you do it.

Free Me was a bit robbed but hey

I have a very strong but apparently entirely fake memory that Look at Me was written by George Michael.

Tbf not even you put your money where your mouth was on that one lol.

Might have been my fourth or fifth choice. If Spotify and YouTube are anything to go by - where it has less than a million listens/views - it's now in the shadow of Maybe.