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Will 'girl power' still rule?
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THE Spice Girls have insisted that girl power still rules -- even if the feisty five may now be whittled down to three.
Melanie Chisholm, also known as Sporty Spice, provoked pop bedlam when she told Reuters she had no plans to keep working with Britain's biggest pop phenomenon since The Beatles.
"Really I've not been comfortable being in the Spice Girls for probably the last two years. It doesn't really feel that natural to me anymore," said Chisholm, now concentrating on her solo career.
Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell abruptly quit the band in 1998 amid internal disagreements. Sporty Spice could now be next to go -- even if their record company vociferously denied the end was nigh.
And the news certainly seemed to have taken the rest of the band by surprise.
"As far as I know, we haven't split up," Scary Spice Mel B told Saturday's edition of the Sun tabloid, which invited readers to phone in and listen to a tape of the Sporty Spice interview.
Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham vowed that the group, who have sold 38 million albums worldwide since 1995, would sing on without Mel C.
"I don't know what Mel said but I talk to the other two girls all the time. All three of us want to keep going with the band. I'm completely certain of that," she told the Mirror tabloid.
"We are definitely going to carry on. I would be the first to know if we were breaking up and we're not."
But Posh Spice, interviewed recently in Cannes by Reuters, did also admit that their solo careers were taking priority right now.
Her sights are firmly set on her own solo album. "I have been working on it for the last year," she said. Her first single from the album comes out in May.
Chisholm, 27, is widely considered to be the biggest individual talent in the group and has developed a successful solo career eclipsing that of her colleagues.
Her 1999 solo debut "Northern Star" emerged as a big international hit, except in the United States, selling around 2.5 million copies worldwide to date.(SD-Agencies)
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