Girlbands Forever

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Following the success of Boybands Forever last year, BBC Pop Music TV announces Girlbands Forever (3x60'), a new series for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from award-winning Mindhouse Productions. This new series will explore the inside story of girlband fever throughout the 90s and beyond and is set to air later this year.

Girlbands Forever will feature in depth interviews with members of All Saints, Atomic Kitten, Eternal, Little Mix, Mis-Teeq and Sugababes, including Heidi Range (Sugababes), Kelle Bryan (Eternal), Kerry Katona (Atomic Kitten), Melanie Blatt (All Saints), Perrie Edwards (Little Mix) and Su-Elise Nash (Mis-Teeq). The series will also feature interviews with names across the industry including Andy McCluskey, Clara Amfo, Darcus Beese OBE, Lucie Cave, MNEK, Nicki Chapman, Pete Tong, Pete Waterman, Scott Mills and Tulisa.

Jonathan Rothery, Head of BBC Popular Music TV says: “Following the fantastic, headline-grabbing Boybands Forever series from Louis Theroux and Nancy Strang at Mindhouse, the focus now turns to the stories of some of the UK’s most influential girl groups. Girlbands Forever promises a nostalgic trip through that time in pop music history, as well as an exploration into the truth of being a young woman thrust into the spotlight, the lived experiences and the lessons learnt.”

Louis Theroux, Executive Producer for Mindhouse, says: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be part of making this wonderful series. I well remember when the Spice Girls, Eternal and All Saints burst on the scene in the 90s. It was a special time in pop music and British culture generally. Then in their wake came a parade of girl bands, made up of girls who were all in different ways beautiful, talented and often very funny. Going back and rediscovering all that music and those videos and the interviews they did has been an absolute pleasure. There was pain behind the music, too, and as is so often the case there was price to be paid for that level of young fame. But mainly we wanted this to be a celebration of a time of very special music and talent.”

Girlbands Forever is a Mindhouse production for BBC Pop Music TV and BBC Two. It was commissioned by Jonathan Rothery, Head of Popular Music TV. The Commissioning Editor for BBC Popular Music TV is Rachel Davies. The Executive Producers are Nancy Strang and Louis Theroux for Mindhouse.
 
Ready for this but could they not get a Spice Girl? I'm sure Mel B, Mel C and Emma would have been there with bells on. Unless they are holding out for a future Netflix doc.

Heidi's stuff will be interesting :disco:
 
Kelle has been pretty diplomatic though clear in the past about her time in Eternal, I hope she reveals a bit more this time.

I’d rather hear from any other of the Kittens than Kerry Katona.

Jacquie O’Sullivan did a really interesting podcast interview about Bananarama a few years back, would have been good to have her on.
 
Heidi is a good choice, and I'm looking forward to her anecdotes, but I hope there's a second part in the future with Amelle and Jade, please! Also, I agree with @Halli, both Mels would have been perfect to balance things out, Mel B would tell all sorts of lies and exaggerate stories while Mel C would be like "that's not how it was, Mel hun".
 
Heidi was also in the original Atomic Kitten and left 'to go solo' before they released the first SINGAL and apparently slapped either Liz or Natasha according to Kezza Katona on a podcast I listened to. I imagine it was Liz, as I am not sure Natasha would have allowed that to happen
 
Halli said:
Heidi was also in the original Atomic Kitten and left 'to go solo' before they released the first SINGAL and apparently slapped either Liz or Natasha according to Kezza Katona on a podcast I listened to. I imagine it was Liz, as I am not sure Natasha would have allowed that to happen
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Her voice was too powerful for their music, they couldn't take it :disco:

 
I used to have one of them on Facebook. She posted happy new year once and I peaked in life when I bravely replied "no way, you said that to me last year" and thankfully she replied with more classic quotes from the classic hit. 2 of them have remained good friends. The other 2 are sisters, with one having lots of kids (the blonde) and the other (the sort of lead singer) looking a bit rougher around the edges, bless her.
 
I must have left for school when this housing scheme Big Breakfast performance happened. I always remember them singing Never Ever acapella whilst still promoting At. The history re-writing about Spice Girls alienating older kids, not to mention Nicki Chapman claiming that breaking new acts being her "forte" whilst a visibly 40 Simon Fuller is labelled an up and comer.
 
Not even a mention of Girls Aloud?

My main takeaway though was why did Sian Pattenden decide to come as Jimmy Savile?
 
Interesting how Eternal were legitimately huge, yet they were focussing on how they couldn’t get a #1 for ages. And now the relative flash in the pan Mis-teeq were just elated with their chart positions.
 
Eternal had an incredible run of chart success and their albums sold very well up until the duo. The body language of Kéllé self-comforting herself in between the 2 sisters was certainly interesting.
 
All Saints and their live “harmonies” always remind me of the nuns at the start of Sister Act before Delores meets them.
 
straightorbroken said:
Eternal had an incredible run of chart success and their albums sold very well up until the duo. The body language of Kéllé self-comforting herself in between the 2 sisters was certainly interesting.
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Yes, more than one clip of her looking very uncomfortable. Particularly that other clip where she’s standing apart from the sisters but smiles over at them which quickly fades when they are whispering to each other. Some top notch icy stares from Easther though. The first 3 albums and best of were all very big sellers.
 
Woke back up, so made a coffee and onto episode 2. Mel is much more sympathetic this time, particularly when saying "cunt" bless her.
 
Loathe that Heat magazine woman. Vanilla had 2 top 40s thank you very much. God, I really thought they were going to unearth Vanilla as they are now.
 
I've watched the first two episodes. Do Girls Aloud really not get a look in at all?
I did think Mel Blatt sounded rather negative about the Spice Girls, but I do like her generally.
I was LOL'ing at the All Saints performance outside the houses with a perplexed elderly man looking out of his front door :D
 
No mention of B*Witched either.

I also found it odd that they didnt mention Heidi Range's involvement with the Atomic Kitten, considering they had both her and Kerry appearing on it, and such a big deal was (understandably) made of Sugababe line up changes.
 
I didn’t actually know the origins of All Saints as a band so that was BRAND NEW INFORMATION. Mel claiming not to know the title of ‘Wannabe’ was a reach but overall I didn’t mind her.

I’m glad Kelle pointed out Power Of A Woman predated girl power.

Never mind Girls Aloud I’m was hoping for a glimpse of long forgotten Fierce and (less so) Honeyz.
 
Was the story of Keisha 'leaving' the Sugababes quite as reported? In my memory it was some kind of 'them or me' situation and the label chose them, but I may well be misremembering.
 
Really enjoyed this, but it felt very hostile towards the Spice Girls and didn't really sell their impact by comparison to literally every other group.

Also, the complete absence of Girls Aloud and The Saturdays was BIZARRE - you're dedicating all this time to All Saints and Mis-Teeq but can't even muster a couple of sentences about those two?
 
They ended on Whole Again so I assume they’re doing it in some kind of loose chronological order, meaning Sugababes and Girls Aloud are in episode 3.
 
ButterTart said:
Really enjoyed this, but it felt very hostile towards the Spice Girls and didn't really sell their impact by comparison to literally every other group.

Also, the complete absence of Girls Aloud and The Saturdays was BIZARRE - you're dedicating all this time to All Saints and Mis-Teeq but can't even muster a couple of sentences about those two?
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I suspect it was just that none of the Spice Girls or Girls Aloud were willing to be talking heads. Saturdays don't really have a story to tell though, so I'm not sure that's such a huge oversight.
 
GNL said:
I suspect it was just that none of the Spice Girls or Girls Aloud were willing to be talking heads. Saturdays don't really have a story to tell though, so I'm not sure that's such a huge oversight.
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It just seems weird that they're not even mentioned. They didn't get any of VANILLA in as talking heads but they were considered more worthy of a feature than Girls Aloud and The Saturdays/

I dunno, it just feels incomplete to not even acknowledge their existence.
 
GNL said:
I suspect it was just that none of the Spice Girls or Girls Aloud were willing to be talking heads. Saturdays don't really have a story to tell though, so I'm not sure that's such a huge oversight.
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It's just odd that they made an issue of how Little Mix were the first girlband made from X Factor, whilst ignoring that a predecessor created a massively successful girlband around a decade before. And one of the judges on that show was a talking head on it.

Fair enough if none of the group wanted to be in it, but to not even get a mention in passing when they easily could have a number of times just felt like an error to me.
 
Did anyone else notice the really small captions on the video clips they used, which often seemed to bear little or no relation to the commentary, and I wonder if just somehow slipped through the edit without being removed?
 
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