I personally knew Girl Thing through Jodi Albert, as she was a family friend. I was besotted with her as a girl band member and I was fiercely supportive of her. I felt sympathetic to the group for their inability to break the market. I think they did not present their own identity through their image. The market back then was saturated with so many imitating pop groups that there were probably five or six girl bands trying to imitate the Spice Girls success.
like with this video they where doomed to fail the Spice Girls have already been done at that point in time and they where trying to turn them into something they just wasn't watching hearsay take their single pure & simple to number 1 must have been a killer
in the early to mid 2000s PCD broke through. They all had distinct looks and characteristics but they were completely different and didn't try to copy The Spice Girls. they weren't as big as Spice Girls (between two albums they still sold 55 million which is still incredible) but I think that they could've been bigger if all of them had the chance to sing/shine instead of just Nicole
I have always felt bad for Girl Thing. They should have been massive, their album is really, REALLY good pop music. Too much hype and too much comparison to the Spice Girls ruined it for them, which is a shame.
Right On! If anything they were more of a Pre-Fabricated POPSTARS Group. I saw The Big Reunion 2 and what they went through after they didn't make it. In order to make it you have to have your own Vibe & Flavor. Case in point, there was The DeFranco Family in the 1970's where Tony DeFranco was compared to Donny Osmond, didn't go far although they made bank in Real Estate. Debarge were supposed to be the next big Family Group at Motown and they really had a terrible downfall.
The interview was cringe though, they literally told the same story that the Spice Girls did of storming into record companies and dancing on their tables. But with Spice Girls it actually happened like that, they quit their management that put them together, wrote their ow debut album before they got signed while Girl Thing were entirely manufactured to make a new Spice Girls. It was never gonna work like that. Too many girlbands obviously didnt help, at the time, you had Spice Girls( fading away but still), All Saints, Destiny's Child, TLC, Sugbabes, Atomic Kitten, Honeyz, B*Witched, Precious and some others no one remembers. They can't all be huge.
Chris herbert and his father created the spice girls and the girls left them bcause there was not contract. Stright to simon fulker hand after he saw them in special act to all the lables music companies.
Fun fact: Chris Herbert was the OG manager of the Spice Girls who put them together through the newspaper ad. But then he refused to give them a contract for a good while due to the financial backer telling him to do so and he did it for so long that the girls eventually left with their demotapes one night and couldn't even be sued because... no contract. So he dropped the ball on them and then dropped it again on Girl Thing. And Nicki Chapman was actually the promotions manager for the Spice Girls as well. For someone as expert as her, I don't get how she could let these girls down that badly... I don't think they were bad, their songs were actually catchy and they could have become successful, had they been given more time.
I really think the hype surrounding them prevented them succeeding. "Last One Standing" was a super catchy song, but the way they were marketed (four years after the Spice Girls' breakthrough) was just trash.
@@Senate300 Their music wasn't bad, the album is actually pretty good. It's the excessive pr the label did and constant comparing with the Spice Girls that made the group fail. They should've let things progress naturally but it's Simon Cowell's own fault. Sucks for the girls though.
@@user-ey9uj6vp9s Simon said himself that he hyped the hell out of Girl Thing in the most pretentious manner and that they were put together for him by Chris Herbert at a time when his ego was out of control.
Everytime I see Simon waxing nostalgic about Westlife I begin to ROFLMAO😂! If he was telling the true story it would go: "I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST SAW THE FIVE IRISH BOYS THAT WOULD FORM WESTLIFE.😌 I FIRED THREE OF THEM IMMEDIATELY FOR BEING UGLY AND HIRED TWO NEW PRETTIER ONES!"
The story, the music industry climate along with the bought and paid for hype train surrounding Girl Thing before the group's implosion was more interesting than their music. The kids near the end saw the flop coming from a mile off.
I honestly think the public looked at them and thought "Didn't we do this kind of group/band just a few years ago?" The Last One Standing video is a blatant rip off Wannabe. Selling yourself as the most derivative girl band imaginable was a pretty weird strategy
If only they were introduced as what they are w/o dragging or ridding on with the Spice Girls.. i think they would do well.. people expected alot from them since they were introduced as the NEXT spice girls..
I rember buying this on CD in my youth. Still got it
Simon Cowell: "You look for something what I think is called 'The X Factor'..."
His subconscious: "Wait a minute, write that down, _write that down!"_
I personally knew Girl Thing through Jodi Albert, as she was a family friend. I was besotted with her as a girl band member and I was fiercely supportive of her. I felt sympathetic to the group for their inability to break the market. I think they did not present their own identity through their image. The market back then was saturated with so many imitating pop groups that there were probably five or six girl bands trying to imitate the Spice Girls success.
like with this video they where doomed to fail the Spice Girls have already been done at that point in time and they where trying to turn them into something they just wasn't watching hearsay take their single pure & simple to number 1 must have been a killer
in the early to mid 2000s PCD broke through. They all had distinct looks and characteristics but they were completely different and didn't try to copy The Spice Girls. they weren't as big as Spice Girls (between two albums they still sold 55 million which is still incredible) but I think that they could've been bigger if all of them had the chance to sing/shine instead of just Nicole
If only their management listened to those kids
You know what makes me laugh? Those kids were smarter than GT's management. They knew what was up and saw right through it.
2:15 - young Simon Cowell says "The X Factor" for the first time lol
I have always felt bad for Girl Thing. They should have been massive, their album is really, REALLY good pop music. Too much hype and too much comparison to the Spice Girls ruined it for them, which is a shame.
Right On! If anything they were more of a Pre-Fabricated POPSTARS Group. I saw The Big Reunion 2 and what they went through after they didn't make it. In order to make it you have to have your own Vibe & Flavor. Case in point, there was The DeFranco Family in the 1970's where Tony DeFranco was compared to Donny Osmond, didn't go far although they made bank in Real Estate. Debarge were supposed to be the next big Family Group at Motown and they really had a terrible downfall.
The interview was cringe though, they literally told the same story that the Spice Girls did of storming into record companies and dancing on their tables. But with Spice Girls it actually happened like that, they quit their management that put them together, wrote their ow debut album before they got signed while Girl Thing were entirely manufactured to make a new Spice Girls. It was never gonna work like that.
Too many girlbands obviously didnt help, at the time, you had Spice Girls( fading away but still), All Saints, Destiny's Child, TLC, Sugbabes, Atomic Kitten, Honeyz, B*Witched, Precious and some others no one remembers. They can't all be huge.
Chris herbert and his father created the spice girls and the girls left them bcause there was not contract. Stright to simon fulker hand after he saw them in special act to all the lables music companies.
Fun fact: Chris Herbert was the OG manager of the Spice Girls who put them together through the newspaper ad. But then he refused to give them a contract for a good while due to the financial backer telling him to do so and he did it for so long that the girls eventually left with their demotapes one night and couldn't even be sued because... no contract. So he dropped the ball on them and then dropped it again on Girl Thing. And Nicki Chapman was actually the promotions manager for the Spice Girls as well. For someone as expert as her, I don't get how she could let these girls down that badly... I don't think they were bad, their songs were actually catchy and they could have become successful, had they been given more time.
The girls also didn't get along with each other which affected their success
I remember this when I first move to high school
0:41 can somebody please remind me who these two are? I'm trying to remember them but I just can't. 😭
Sister2Sister - they were an Aussie duo, much bigger there than they were here!
I really think the hype surrounding them prevented them succeeding. "Last One Standing" was a super catchy song, but the way they were marketed (four years after the Spice Girls' breakthrough) was just trash.
Last One Standing reminded me more of Five than it did Spice Girls.
@@Senate300 The video was a blatant Wannabe rip off.
@@Marc-zi5cqYes indeed. The girls admitted as such. Instead it's them crashing a wedding instead of a hotel party. The rapping was cheesy as hell.
@@Senate300 Their music wasn't bad, the album is actually pretty good. It's the excessive pr the label did and constant comparing with the Spice Girls that made the group fail. They should've let things progress naturally but it's Simon Cowell's own fault. Sucks for the girls though.
@@user-ey9uj6vp9s Simon said himself that he hyped the hell out of Girl Thing in the most pretentious manner and that they were put together for him by Chris Herbert at a time when his ego was out of control.
They were so good their album is really good they tried to copy the spice girls but they needed their own identity
Everytime I see Simon waxing nostalgic about Westlife I begin to ROFLMAO😂!
If he was telling the true story it would go:
"I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST SAW THE FIVE IRISH BOYS THAT WOULD FORM WESTLIFE.😌
I FIRED THREE OF THEM IMMEDIATELY FOR BEING UGLY AND HIRED TWO NEW PRETTIER ONES!"
The story, the music industry climate along with the bought and paid for hype train surrounding Girl Thing before the group's implosion was more interesting than their music. The kids near the end saw the flop coming from a mile off.
I honestly think the public looked at them and thought "Didn't we do this kind of group/band just a few years ago?" The Last One Standing video is a blatant rip off Wannabe. Selling yourself as the most derivative girl band imaginable was a pretty weird strategy
If only they were introduced as what they are w/o dragging or ridding on with the Spice Girls.. i think they would do well.. people expected alot from them since they were introduced as the NEXT spice girls..