"Hey, great pretender, time to break free
A kinda magic, lookin' at me"
Lowest rate: Blur, dinorel - 0
Highest rate: Duca - 9
Average score: 5.38
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Footnotes:
One of the two 'new' tracks included on the Spice Girls' compilation record, Greatest Hits; the other being "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)".
Originally written by all five members back in 1998, the song was scheduled for an inclusion on their then-upcoming third record, Forever.
The song was scrapped, but the initial vocals recorded still remained in tact, with a few modern modifications.
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"Voodoo"; infectious in an innocuous manner, a fleeting slice of sugar coated slink that will give you a bop and be forgotten just as fast. Typical SG material, drawing heavily upon '80s styled studio funk and electro shock. Thing is with "Voodoo", it's so reminiscent of the Girls' previous material that it's almost sickening: both to think about and listen to. It's like the concept of the song reeks so much of Geri, you can practically smell the camp. No one would pay much mind if this happened to surface as an uncovered hidden track from the depths of the Java Sea. No, we'd all gladly accept it. Point is, "Voodoo" isn't the type of song the recently reunited best-selling female group in history wants to release as a "comeback track".
Weird. I actually expected "Voodoo" to hit home with you lot. I, myself, find the song to be mind-numbingly garish, but that's usually right up ATRL's alley, no? Maybe there's hope for you yet.
"Small town, big attitude... is more than just a state of your mind
But you and me belong to me and you
'Cause honesty's so hard to find."
Lowest rate: Blur, dinorel - 0
Highest rate: Rainbows - 10
Average score: 5.48
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Footnotes:
Pepsi launched a £1 million 'generation next' campaign in the United Kingdom - running alongside sales promotion activities, notably one by where consumers collected twenty pink ring pull tabs from promotional Pepsi cans, sent them off and received the free Spice Girls CD single Step to Me - which was not available in high street retailers.
Collectors were also entered into a free prize draw to see the band play their first live concert in Turkey who Pepsi were sponsoring.
The advertising and the promotion were integral to Pepsi's marketing strategy, television and press ads and the Pepsi Chart Show all spelt out that the only way to listen to the single was to buy Pepsi.
Producing 92 million promotional packs of the cola, 600,000 CDs were redeemed with the promotion.
This song was included on the Japanese edition of the Spiceworld album.
Interesting development.