After years of anticipation, the Spice Girls finally put any supposed tensions to bed and reformed last summer and played a huge world tour throughout the winter, and now they have decided to cut short said tour, and now they seem to have decided to call it a day altogether.
Now, you would think that this would disappoint thousands, maybe even millions, but there have been suggestions that the tour was cut short amid a lack of interest in it, but it is difficult to know who to believe.
Ever since the reformation of the Spice Girls the media have sought to stir up tensions between the members of the band. The split has generally been blamed on a rift between the five girls but whether the truth has been published, who knows?
Their official reason was family commitments and fair enough, they do have families, but for years they have done nothing and they knew when they made the tour dates that they would still have families to contend with, and predictably, the reaction has been negative to say the least. "Angry Spice Girl fans have started a vicious Internet hate campaign after the girls cancelled the rest of their world tour after bitch fighting." (Metro)
A story in the Daily Mirror claimed that the tour was cut short because of rows and that they were even staying in different hotels, and they were not the only publication to make such a claim.
Strangely enough, the Sunday Mirror claimed that the remainder of the tour had been cancelled due to a lack of interest. So the Mirror has published two reasons why the tour was cancelled, in two different articles. To me, this just smacks of desperation for a big story for the Mirror.
In my humble opinion I think it's wrong that the Spice Girls have cut short their tour and decided to msplit up. They made a commitment to play concerts to their fans who paid a hell of a lot of money to see them and they have turned their back on them. I take the point about families and needing to send the kids back to school, but they have husbands/boyfriends/friends who could look after the kids for a while. The comeback has been a major success and perhaps its premature end has tarnished it somewhat, but I think they have surprised a lot of people because I do not think a lot was expected from this tour performance-wise but they have received rave reviews despite the media's hopes that it would be a gargantuan failure.
Despite the uproar of recent events, the legacy of the Spice Girls is still in tact and they can be proud that they did themselves justice but the music consumers are what matter in the music industry but the Spice Girls don't seem to have recognised this and whilst, although I am an outsider to the situation, surely the girls could have finished the tour and ended their musical careers (at least as a group) on a high instead of under a cloud.
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Was it ever going to end any other way? Though I certainly think they should have continued with the tour even if they couldn't be in the same room, but I don't think it will eat them up inside. They all got their rub from the reunion, and sadly I think that was all they wanted.
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