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littleangel - 20.10.2005, 09:47Artikel aus Malaysia - sporty as ever
Former Spice Girl Melanie C is back with a new album released on her own independent label. ZACK YUSOF caught up with the singer during her recent visit to Malaysia.
MELANIE C, also known as Sporty Spice or just plain ol’ Melanie Chisholm, is a true survivor. Even after a decade on from when the Spice Girls – the Brit all-girl pop sensation that enjoyed unbelievable global success in the 1990s – first exploded on to the scene, the Liverpool–born singer still makes music her number one priority.
With The Spice Girls, Melanie, as she likes to be known these days, experienced the kind of head-spinning success, fame and notoriety that can seriously mess with a person’s mental state.
Less we forget, the Spice Girls were so popular that they even had a big budget Hollywood movie, starring the likes of Richard E. Grant, Elvis Costello and Bob Hoskins, made about them at the height of their fame.
“Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience,” Melanie recalled during an interview held at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur last Saturday. The singer was in Malaysia for a short promotional tour to push out her latest album Beautiful Intentions.
“Being in that band was a lifestyle that you can’t maintain for more than two years because you just ended up getting burned out. But I wouldn’t change it for the world because I experienced so many great things and it enabled me to have a great life. But to have that intensity again, I don’t think I could physically do it.”
Although the Spice Girls did consider reforming for the recent Live 8 concert (In the end, they could not take up the offer because Mel B had other commitments), Melanie feels that getting back together as a group is not a viable option.
“I know that there have been a lot of rumours about new material and tours and all that stuff but none of that stuff is true. It’s never been discussed. I don’t feel the Spice Girls would be done justice if we tried to do something new. I think it would be quite transparent as a money– making exercise if we did get back together.”
In person, Melanie comes across more like your friendly girl-next door type rather than your average pop diva. A pleasant and accommodating interviewee who speaks politely and informatively without ever giving too much away, she comes across more like your typical young British tourist rather than a multi-million unit shifting pop star.
But one gets the impression that rather than trying to sell records on solely her image and her Spice Girl past, Melanie is happy to let her music speak for itself these days. She’s had a love/ hate relationship with the press, particularly the notorious Brit tabloid press, who have printed a lot of horrible comments about the singer in the past.
Through her career, she reckons that she has learned to handle any jibes from the media.
“The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I’ve learned to ignore the comments,” reckoned Melanie. “The thing is, they are never critical of my music, only about my appearance, which I find a bit odd. Like, why do they even care about how I look?
“A lot of the time, the British press make me ashamed and embarrassed to be British. They give others the impression that the British are selfish, envious and bitter people, which is simply not true in my opinion. I think that British people in general are really nice and friendly.”
Bad press aside, life as a solo artiste after the inevitable Spice Girls meltdown has been pretty good to Melanie. With solo album sales close to three million copies as well as a host of top five and top 10 singles, she’s among the most successful Brit female artistes of the last decade. While the solo careers of the other Spice Girls – Gerri Halliwell, Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton and Mel B – continue to be on a surprisingly low-key level, Melanie’s looks to be going from strength to strength.
Her latest album Beautiful Intentions marks a shift away from pop into more rock-influenced musical territory. Recorded over a period of nine months with producer Greg Haver, whose credits include Manic Street Preachers, Super Furry Animals and Catatonia, Beautiful Intentions is filled with catchy anthemic guitar rock songs, much like lead single Next Best Superstar, which boasts lyrics about the celebrity culture and the perils of instant fame, a situation Melanie knows only too well.
“I recognise a lot of myself in these kids who enter shows like Pop Idol. It’s very hard to get into the music industry and you have to take every opportunity that you can. Something like Pop Idol is a great opportunity but unfortunately, I think it’s tainted by the people that make these shows. At the end of the day, I think they are the only people who really benefit from them.
“The contestants who have success, in Britain at least, usually have very short-lived careers. I think they are exploited and very often become victims.”
As well as co-writing all the songs on Beautiful Intentions (with the exception of Next Best Superstar, which was written by Adam Argyle), Melanie has also taken to releasing the album on her own independent label, Red Girl Records, a name which was inspired by her lifelong love of Liverpool FC and her self-confessed propensity to blush easily.
“My new album enjoyed some of the best reviews I’ve ever had and the live reviews have been great too. So I’m very happy,” grinned Melanie. “I think that it’s got my strongest collection of songs. Northern Star, my first record, was a very special album to me but I just think that this one is stronger. Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It’s been very inspiring. It’s like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.”
Melanie C’s Beautiful Intentions is available here through EQ Music.
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