VB - Let Your Head Go / This Groove

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  • Let Your Head Go... is a pop classic

  • ... is one of the best spice solo tracks

  • ... is an iconic banger

  • ... is overrated

  • ... is bad

  • This Groove is a pop classic

  • ... was a banger

  • ... is underrated

  • ... is overrated

  • ... is bad

  • VB was briefly a good popstar

  • VB was never a good popstar

  • VB's solo career died too soon

  • Other please state

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Jark

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following on from several mentions in the best solo spice songs thread, Let Your Head Go is now considered a critically acclaimed banger and a minor pop classic. and despite her efforts for it to be the serious single, This Groove is also high camp, and has quite a fabulous chorus.

I watched for the videos for both videos and think it's quite interesting to see the effort that went into some kind of character for her as a popstar. this vampy, high glam woman who was embracing being sexy while being also kind of in on the joke.



and it's such a strange twist of fate that despite going top 3, the single ultimately ended her career and/or made her want to leave music behind completely.



does anyone know which song went higher on UK radio? and what do you think of this aa-side now?

I can easily see somebody like SG Lewis or Fred again.. producing Let Your Head Go for a current popstar/dance vocalist, and it would pop off. the hooks are so :disco:

would she have done better as a 00s dance vocalist, rather than leaning into "urban" sounds? was her career cut short or it was end inevitable? paging all spice correspondents. but don't be a hater @Pipo.
 
Jark said:
following on from several mentions in the best solo spice songs thread, Let Your Head Go is now considered a critically acclaimed banger and a minor pop classic.
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BY WHO?

VoR and a few Moopy gays does not a “critically acclaimed banger” make!
 
like VB, I have a dry sense of humour that you might not have heard about 😇
 
I like "Let Your Head Go" but it literally could be anyone singing it (and probably would've been better served for virtually anyone else :D )

Didn't she have an unreleased album to go with the single package? Is there a reason it wasn't released off the back of this making the UK top 3?
 
I just don't think she's a pop star, which she presumably figured out. Not enough of an identity to pull off anything other than something as vapid as LYHG or anonymous as OOYM. She served her role well in The Spice Girls, but aside from being a caricature of herself as Posh Spice it never really worked as a solo project. She needed much better material to compensate for that.
 
POP! said:
I like "Let Your Head Go" but it literally could be anyone singing it (and probably would've been better served for virtually anyone else :D )

Didn't she have an unreleased album to go with the single package? Is there a reason it wasn't released off the back of this making the UK top 3?
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her new record label went bankrupt in the new year of 2004 and dropped her before they had decided on a second single I think.
 
Cause they spunked loads of money on the double a side package and it massively bombed sales wise.
 
Because she won the “Which Spice Girl Has The Hairiest Fanny?” poll on Dotmusic and her label didn’t want to shell out for the IMMAC.
 
As a Posh Spice fan from the first time I heard Wannabe (where she has no line of her own), I never really liked Let Your Head Go (but I was obviously happy for the its unprecedented success), but obviously preferred the sultry gem that is This Groove which suits her rich vocals the best.
 
Jark said:
would she have done better as a 00s dance vocalist, rather than leaning into "urban" sounds?
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Her unreleased album had both of these and obviously it’s the dance songs that worked better for her. Not sure it would have changed anything if it were released or not but some of the songs were fine pop songs.

(Hearing them now they sound very much of their time and her vocals are shockingly bad so I can’t believe I actually liked any of this :D)





 
POP! said:
Didn't she have an unreleased album to go with the single package? Is there a reason it wasn't released off the back of this making the UK top 3?
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The record company went bust hence the album was canceled, but yeah, it was completed and ready to go. They had another single ready to be released during 2004l My Love Is For Real which also had its remix package.

Once that dried up she just gave up (For the best tbh) unlike the rest of the band who carried on relentlessly to diminishing returns.

I will always maintain that Simon Fuller ruined the group and overworked them; if they had taken a break during 1998 perhaps Geri might have held on for a little longer, we could have had a third solid album before getting something along the lines of Forever which as a swan song honestly, it sucks. The worst thing Virgin could do were being convinced they could maintain 5 different profitable solo deals! Having 5 successful singers from a band sounded ridiculous from the get-go, especially when half the group didn't scream solo artists.
 
RaspberrySwirl said:
Her unreleased album had both of these and obviously it’s the dance songs that worked better for her. Not sure it would have changed anything if it were released or not but some of the songs were fine pop songs.

(Hearing them now they sound very much of their time and her vocals are shockingly bad so I can’t believe I actually liked any of this :D)





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Like I said in my other post, something post-2003 went completely wrong with her and she just started phoning it in, I'd rather have her sing with her real voice, flat notes, and all instead of being vocodered to death. Even her bit in Headlines was bad!
 
I can't actually remember how either of them go, but I know I didn't like them at the time.

I'm not sure how many people rate them highly, in order to mark them as overrated though.
 
It is the Best solo Spice Girls track by some distance and I will die on that hill if need be.
 
Why on earth is it not on Spotify? I had it in my head it was produced by Full Intention? Whoever produced it should definitely have had full reigns on the rest of the material she was working on. Of what leaked, it sure was a nifty little album.
 
straightorbroken said:
Why on earth is it not on Spotify? I had it in my head it was produced by Full Intention? Whoever produced it should definitely have had full reigns on the rest of the material she was working on. Of what leaked, it sure was a nifty little album.
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When Telstar Records went bankrupt shortly after release, it complicated rights issues, and Victoria later appears to have regained control of the music but chose not to re-release it (physically or digitally). When labels collapse, music rights can become messy: masters, publishing, and distribution rights may end up split, sold, or reverted.
I fully believe she has intentionally left LYHG and This Groove (Original mix, not the chopped remix found on streaming) off official streaming platforms.

Months ago I read on Popjustice (because apparently it was full of people who have intercated with her or her team) that heard/read stories about when Virgin uploaded the first album and some b-sides she tried to stop it as well but, even though she is co-credited on some songs (vanity stuff no doubt) she does not hold the publishing rights so they ignored her and went with it anyway; When she could she bought what she found left and that's why about 2 b-sides are missing along with a handful of remixes.
 
Pipo said:
When Telstar Records went bankrupt shortly after release, it complicated rights issues, and Victoria later appears to have regained control of the music but chose not to re-release it (physically or digitally). When labels collapse, music rights can become messy: masters, publishing, and distribution rights may end up split, sold, or reverted.
I fully believe she has intentionally left LYHG and This Groove (Original mix, not the chopped remix found on streaming) off official streaming platforms.

Months ago I read on Popjustice (because apparently it was full of people who have intercated with her or her team) that heard/read stories about when Virgin uploaded the first album and some b-sides she tried to stop it as well but, even though she is co-credited on some songs (vanity stuff no doubt) she does not hold the publishing rights so they ignored her and went with it anyway; When she could she bought what she found left and that's why about 2 b-sides are missing along with a handful of remixes.
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What a bitch!
 
Pipo said:
When Telstar Records went bankrupt shortly after release, it complicated rights issues, and Victoria later appears to have regained control of the music but chose not to re-release it (physically or digitally). When labels collapse, music rights can become messy: masters, publishing, and distribution rights may end up split, sold, or reverted.
I fully believe she has intentionally left LYHG and This Groove (Original mix, not the chopped remix found on streaming) off official streaming platforms.

Months ago I read on Popjustice (because apparently it was full of people who have intercated with her or her team) that heard/read stories about when Virgin uploaded the first album and some b-sides she tried to stop it as well but, even though she is co-credited on some songs (vanity stuff no doubt) she does not hold the publishing rights so they ignored her and went with it anyway; When she could she bought what she found left and that's why about 2 b-sides are missing along with a handful of remixes.
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That DRY SENSE OF HUMOUR, eh? What will she think of next!
 
Pipo said:
I only stan mad, fascist, racists sourfaced bitches with a dry sense of humor hun 💋
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You need to redirect your energy elsewhere Pips. She isn't worthy and was a terrible pop star.
 
Is it tonite bubbly bee is going to get you or bumbly bee is going to get you - or something else entirely. I could look it up, I’m sure someone here could tell me -but the truth is - I choose for it to alternate between the two and I won’t be corrected.
 
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