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11-29-99 Album 3 Update Jimmy Jam give us two new names of tracks off the Spice Girls third album: "Oxygen" and "If You Want to Have Some Fun". Jimmy has this to say: "You know it's the Spice Girls. My wife probably had the best thing for it. She said when you listen to it, it doesn't sound like cheerleader music. It's fun because the Spice Girls are fun, and it's pop music and danceable, but there's an air of sophistication to it, of maturity, as mature as you can be at 22, 23 and I think it's a good blend. They're just better at what they do. They're better singers. And they're much more together now that there's four of them. 'Oxygen' finds the girls using oxygen as a metaphor for love and life. Each of the girls tells their opinion of what love is, relating it to basically breathing. 'If You Want to Have Some Fun' is more of a straight-up party record."
The Spice Girls' video for "Say You'll Be There" is running a close race for video of the millennium at MTV Brazil. Help the girls by voting for them at this MTV page.
Melanie C's "Northern Star" enters the UK Singles Chart at #4.
You can listen to Melanie C's Radio 1 interview in realaudio at this BBC link.
Melanie C's official website post:
Hiya Everyone,
Just got some great news about this weekend. I am performing on CDUK on
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Check out the discography for the covers of the "Northern Star" singles.
For Channel 4's(UK) special, Music Of the Millennium, Melanie C sang an outrageous cover of Madonna's "Like A Prayer".
Listen to the track on the audio section.
Melanie C's second solo single "Northern Star", the title track from her debut solo album, is released today in the UK. Go get em!
Ok, so the Spice Girls won't be releasing a Christmas song this year... but just try and keep them away from the festive action! A few months ago, the Girls were asked by the BBC to take part in a follow-up to Perfect Day. This time the song is called "It's Only Rock n Roll" - a hit for The Rolling Stones in 1974. It features a huge range of pop and rock stars, ranging from Iggy Pop, The Rolling Stones and Lionel Ritchie to Natalie Imbruglia, Ronan Keating and Jay Kay. The release date will be 13 December 1999 and all proceeds will be donated to the Childrens Wish Appeal.
There is also a new competition to win signed copies of "Forever", the Spice Girls' new book. Give me the comp!.
Watch BBC1's Live & Kicking this Saturday morning(11/20) to watch Melanie C.
The Spice Girls along with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Robbie Williams are the final cast for the charity single "It's Only Rock 'N Roll". It is a cover of a 1974 Rolling Stones track and will be released in the UK next month to raise funds for Children's Promise, a non-profit organization which will split the profits from the single among several European Children's charities such as BBC Children In Need, The Children's Society, ChildLine, and Comic Relief. The single is expected to make £200,000 and will be released in the UK on December 13th.
Thanks Joz
Melanie C on the press:
"I spend most of my life working and they don t like to write about your work, which is quite sad you know, because I've got a great album here. But they choose not to write about that because I haven't got a boyfriend, you know. They'd rather write about who I'm sleeping with at the moment. That's just the way it is and I'm quite grateful, really. I'd rather just keep me head down".
Vote for Melanie C on BBC Radio 1's Most wanted!
Watch ITV(UK) to watch Melanie C. Melanie C will be on TFI Friday(UK) this Friday on Channel 4.
Go to the photo gallery to see Melanie C's new dragon tattoo. This tattoo is the seventh tattoo she's done. The application took two hours.
"It's a Chinese dragon and compliments the phoenix on my back star rolling up her trouser leg. It didn't really hurt that much, I'm getting used to the pain. The only one that really hurt was the one on my back of a phoenix. That left me with tears in my eyes, I can tell you. I might still get another one. It just depends what kind of mood I'm in. Never say never. I love them and I think they look great. The reason I had this Chinese dragon done was because I read that the phoenix needed to balance out. It's like a Yin and Yang thing. In Chinese tradition the phoenix represents the female and the dragon represents the male, because before I was a little out of balance. I'm hoping it will find me a boyfriend, but he will have to be a mad biker
or tattoo freak."
Melanie C helped launch Digital One, the UK's first digital radio station on Monday. The first track that was aired in crystal clear digital quality was "Northern Star". A new digital radio station is expected to open once every month until Spring of 2000. Click through to the photo gallery to view a picture of Melanie C.
Melanie C supports digital radio and said:
"It gives (musicians) more scope. The technology we make music with is now of such high quality, often we lose that on car stereos. Digital radio will provide better quality, more choice of stations and make things like tuning easier."
The Spice Girls will premiere their wax doubles at the Rock Circus, Piccadily (UK) on December 17th.
"Northern Star", the second solo single taken from Melanie C's debut solo album, "Northern Star", will be released in the UK on November 22nd. US dates are still uncertain.
The track was orignally slated in for release today, but the date has been pushed back. US retailers can't confirm the single.
Melanie C phoned into BBC Radio 1 for an interview from a tattoo parlor in Manchester. Melanie C said she was getting a Dragon Tattoo applied on her calf. The estimated time for the application was a couple of hours.
Melanie C will perform at the Children In Need charity on November 26th. She will be performing on her own.
The Spice Girls aasked Roy Wood for permission to play "Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day". This brings up rumours that the girls will release the track as a single. The track will be used in their Christmas concerts.
According to new charts, the Spice Girls debut solo album, "Spice" is the best selling album of the 90's. SpiceWorld is the third best selling album of the 90's.
Melanie C's album Northern Star is in the top 20 albums chart in Canada. The album is currently at #16. It didn't make it into the billboard charts in the US.
Melanie C's debut album Northern Star failed to chart in it's first week of release in the US. The album sold 6,717 copies in it's first week, missing the bottom of the chart by a few hundred.
It is listed as a Hot-Spot Seeker, in other words, with just little more sells it could enter the charts. Virgin needs to promote it more. This albums not been promoted where I live at all!
The Late Show with David Letterman with Melanie C from this past Wednesday will be aired in Australia on November 12th at 1am on channel 9.
Melanies C was at Elstree Film Studios in Hertfordshire, England on Saturday recording her track for "Music Of The Millennium."
"Music Of The Millennium" is a three hour television special which will be aired this Saturday on Channel 4(UK).
Melanie C will be appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight, she's already arrived in NYC.
The Pokemon Movie soundtrack featuring "(Hey You) Free Up Your Mind" by Emma Bunton with back-up vocals of Melanie C is out today.
Don't miss Melanie C's chat tomorrow onSeventeen Magazine Online.
EMI Music is holding a comp for Aussie fans to win a signed Melanie C Pack.
The pack, similar to promo packs excluding the signed copy of the album, includes a personally signed CD, single, and a poster.
MuchMusic(CAN) will hold a Spice Girls Day on November 27th.
Virgin Records releases a "box set" of "Spice" and "Spiceworld" today. The packaging makes it easy to purchase both cd....when making one purchase.
Melanie's appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman has been rescheduled from today to Wednessday.
Dotmusic has posted part 2 of the Spice Girls' press conference in RealVideo. Here is the link to that. The quality is slightly better then their first part, so this one might be worth checking out.
Spice Girls' press conference for their launch of "Forever Spice", their new book released yesterday, has taken place yesterday.
Dotmusic aired a clip of the conference here.
Check out new pictures at the photo gallery.
Her brisk world tour, promoting her album "Northern Star", has wound down. Melanice C was interviewed by Access All Areas and said she feared people would dislike her material, but found great support. Here are her exact words:
"I was paranoid no one would really like it. But I've been amazed at how much people like it all over the world. Playing somewhere like Taiwan is so much less nerveracking, because all the eyes are not on me."
Northern Star is to be the second single taken off "Northern Star", Melanie C's debut solo album. This would be the first official single in the US, not just promo single.
The UK release date will be November 15th and the US date will be the 25th.
Northern Star P1 UK
Melanie C's debut solo album Northern Star hits US shelves today!
The Spice Girls will hold a press conference this Thursday(Nov 4) to launch their new book Forever Spice. No further details available yet.
MSN Melanie C page will re-run Melanie C's London Astoria concert until November 15th.
Melanie C's whirlwind tour was great. The last concert in the London Astoria is definetly something that shouldn't be missed. Check it out, again and again and again.
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