Geri Halliwell: Classic Or Dud?

So, dud. Proof: "You're in a bubble. The money's just doubled. So call the police cause your karma's in trouble". That line is enough to dud her even if her next album is faultless - and given that she's working with Gregg Alexander it's a safe bet it will be crap - although it'll at least be better than that Texas song or that Rod Stewart song.

i) Took piss out of Radiohead in one line of a song. ii) Working with writer of best radio-pop MOR tune of last 5 years. (admittedly now written 5 times too but hey)

Blimey EdwardO I wouldn't hire you as my lawyer!

You are right about Schizophonic though. I bought that record first day of release and was bitterly disappointed.

I was talking about the autobiography last night - anyone else read it?

Yes, Suzanne from Hear'Say. It was one of two books she packed with her when she went to the Pop Stars house. The other was Andrew Morton's 'Posh & Becks'. That woman's single-mindedness scares me.

That said, one of the B-sides off "Mi Chico Latino", "Summertime" wasn't a bad stab at a sort of trip-pop thing. And I disagree that Gregg Alexander is the best radio pop writer of the last 5 years. He wrote "Inner Smile" by Texas. TEXAS! He must be silenced!

Heard "It's Raining Men", and as I suspected it's pretty appalling. It could have been done right if it had had the right production team working with her, but it's just too bland. If she was going to cover it, it really had to be don totally over the top and dancey, but as Geri has done it it's more suitable for a 40 yr old divorcee's Girl's Night Out.

AS UBERSPICE SHE'S LOOKED AT THE OTHERS AND KNOWS SHE CAN BE MORE BLONDE, MORE THIN, HAVE A BETTER SIX-PACK ETC. BECAUSE HER BLAZING AMBITION TO BE LOVED WILL DRIVE HER ONWARDS. SHE KNOWS THAT COME THE TIME WHEN THE WEIGHT PILES ON AND SHE GOES BACK TO CAKEY-ON MAKE-UP SHE'LL BE GINGER AGAIN - IN A GROTESQUE 'BABY JANE' WAY.

How can you slag someone who managed to get alien dwarves to fix her car without probing her ( top ambassador material )

Look what the lil fukas did to Steps that Xmas !

I don't know, Tom, Geri HAS hips, they are just not Emma's rather pronounced pear shape. It's certainly a comparitive thing, i.e. my mom's chihuahua is more attractive than Posh Spice (for example), but she's still the best looking out of the lot.

If Emma was thinner, she'd look like my friend Stephanie though so I can't slag her too much other than to say she's second in the looks race. Melanie C is SO out of it with that hostage-hair look and the puffiness, and Posh Spice is, I believe, Skeletor's sister, and don't get me started on that Mel B.

Giving away hips in exchange for lyrics to Weather Girls hit = poor.

Agreement on Mel B & Vic but to praise Geri and slate Vic for comparable unpleasant-looking boniness seems odd. Geri has infinitely better hair though.

Cheers.

This is, of course, the same argument that really used to get my fucking goat on a.m.a when I got into this huge ass fight with someone...err, Persi maybe? Or maybe it was actually you, Tom. Anyhow, it was over the worth of the song 4st 7lb, which I've actually come to like but at the time it was one that I just couldn't listen to. I NOW can ignore the totally irrational two-liner model attack in the song (ie skinny girls are the root of all evil and must all eat nothing, regardless of whether they actually have eating disorders or not), but at the time I thought it was cheap and disgusting and a nasty way to get publicity about how "understandible" Richey made anorexia. Now, this all ties to this in that it's rather clear by looking at the two of them that Vicky is far, far, far bonier than Geri Halliwell, but both are slender therefore both are "bony" to the pro-fat portions of society.

Not to say you are or you aren't Tom (then again now that I'm remembering the a.m.a fight more clearly I think it WAS you I fought with), it just gets my fucking goat, like I said. The girl is no bonier than *I* am, and ask Solinger: I'm far from anorexic. On the other hand, you can SEE every single one of Victoria's bones rather clearly - that bothers me, that's a sign you've lost too much weight. I've looked that way too, and it's ghastly as hell. To compare Geri (ie no visible bones) to Victoria (ie nearly skeletal at times) just because they're thinner than average-sized Emma is a bit off, just like it's off to call Emma "fat" because she's bigger than Geri.

Blah blah blah. I'm wearing a pink t-shirt that says "RUB MY BELLY FOR LUCK" with a picture of a buddha on it, and pink Josie and the Pussycats ears. I'm really cute, so you can just ignore everything I said about the relativity of weight in the media and think about how adorable I am, because really no one's interested in my opinions on anorexia.

And you're right, it's perception. I'm basically not attracted to skinny women, so I don't - in a conversation about celebrity attractiveness - notice the gradations once skinniness reaches a certain level.

still classic