Untangling the Wildest Spice Girls Stories

Halliwell mentioned that she missed the sisterhood, and the fact that she was on her personal wasn’t simple to regulate to, however she pressed on together with her solo profession and wrote that she was happy to see the Spice Women thriving with out her, and was joyful for every of their solo successes after they had them. 

The following huge rumor to maintain the cat-fight narrative alive sprung from Halliwell having a single due out the identical day that Bunton, a.ok.a. Child Spice, was releasing her debut single as a solo artist, Nov. 7, 1999. 

“It was like Blur v. Oasis yet again,” Halliwell wrote. However on the finish of the day, she insisted, it was an entire coincidence, at the very least to the extent that she or Bunton had something to do with it.

Beckham additionally ventured into solo territory in 2000, dropping her first single, “Out of Thoughts,” that August after, as she solely lately revealed, she had realized that lady group life wasn’t for her.

“Keep in mind years in the past,” the style and cosmetics mogul wrote in a letter to her future self revealed in British Vogue , “watching your pricey buddy Elton John on stage in Las Vegas. He carried out ‘Tiny Dancer,’ as if it have been the primary time, and also you realized this was like oxygen for him. It was a life-changing second—whereas singing and dancing was enjoyable for you, it wasn’t your ardour.”

“That day, you began your quest to uncover your individual goals,” she continued. “It was time to step away from being a Spice Woman. For the primary time, you have been venturing out by yourself, and it was terrifying.”