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and ng to love herself — from working oots and, at times, a rocky childhood as left with someone she barely knew e months at five years old while her ian mum toured) to stratospheric ss with three Spice Girls albums and solo studio albums. it’s hard to argue that Chisholm had the most success as a solo artall the Spice Girls — who could forget Be The Same Again and the collab ryan Adams, When You’re Gone?
Reunite
8, she’s still making music, her voice powerful and unmistakably Mel C as nded some 26 years ago. completely my wish” for all five band ers to reunite once again, she says, g: “We still obviously have to conVictoria... toria wouldn’t mind me saying [the lympics 2012 show] was difficult for her, she had a lot of anxiety about that performance,” she says. “Obviously, her life has moved in such a different direction, she didn’t feel like she wanted to put herself through that again — especially when the level of the Spice Girls’ profile is super-high; anything we do, all eyes of the world are on us.”
Just recently, Chisholm split from her partner of seven years, music producer Joe Marshall.
But she’s good, saying: “Obviously, it’s always sad when things come to an end, but [writing] the book has helped me recognise that life really is a series of chapters.
“It’s exciting to wonder what’s going to happen.”
In fact, throughout the
Spice Girls years, she was the only one who was mostly single, she notes, and the way singleness was so obsessively and negatively discussed in the Nineties compounded her insecurity about it.
“I hate the notion that, the generation I grew up in, traditionally learned we need to be part of a couple, that it’s the thing that makes us whole. We need to find our soulmate — all that s**t.
“[That thinking means] we’re not learning that we need to be the whole thing ourselves.”
They wrote Who Do You
Think You Are as a response to men trying to order them about (it was
Horner who acted as the main catalyst pushing to write their own music and leave the managers who’d originally put them together) — and what Chisholm calls “early expressions of our version of feminism”.
●Who I Am: My
Story by Melanie C, is out now.