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In May 1998, a 25-year-old woman walked out of her job, and it made world news. "I was standing on this mountaintop and I jumped, not knowing where I was going to fall," says Geri Halliwell of her abrupt departure from the Spice Girls. "Everyone was saying I was bonkers, but I had to go, get my feet back on the ground."
For Geri Halliwell, it was time to go, to find out who she was when she wasn't Ginger Spice. "There was nothing contrived about the Spice Girls and Ginger is a part of me, but I'd been wearing platforms since I was 18 and it was natural to grow out of it. I wasn't wearing those kind of clothes off-stage. My makeup was getting less and less. When I left, I needed to strip the lot away and say, 'Actually I'm an egg at the moment. I'm in incubation!'"
And eventually, she made an album. A rather good album, in fact, which is called Schizophonic, which reflects her own contradictions. "I wanted it to be a very honest album, a blueprint of me. The manifesto, the brief I gave to the other writers I work with was that if I was to die at the end of this album, I wanted to know I'd taken each song to the max. There were no half-measures, it was a real reflection of my personality. It's an emotional roller-coaster, a hormonal mood-swing. I poured everything into it, it was almost like therapy for me."
When she left the Spice Girls, Geri released a statement, which ended with a promise to her fans: "I'll be back." A year later, she's kept her word with a record that's a lot like herself: strong, warm and big-hearted with a touch of mischief. Some of you may be surprised that she has a voice. Some of you may be surprised she can write songs. But no one who knew anything at all about the eldest Spice girl will be surprised that she has plenty to say and that she's saying it loudly, passionately, with energy and gusto. "I want everything I do to be special, to be fun and wow! I could never be run-of-the-mill."
Geri Halliwell is back. But then, you always knew she would be.
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Bag It Up
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Sometime
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Let Me Love You
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Someone's Watching Over Me
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You're In A Bubble
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Look At Me
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Mark's Big Vocal Mix
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Terminalhead Remix
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CD-Rom Video
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Lift Me Up
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Live & Let Die
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Very Slowly
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CD-Rom Video
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Mi Chico Latino
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Gay
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Summertime
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CD-Rom Video
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