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Melanie C (Spice Girls) · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I won with Mario.
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  Speaker 2: Litpez Febro Mario Lopez joining me right now. She's one
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  Speaker 2: fifth of the legendary girl group of Spies Girls Melanie
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  Speaker 2: See how.
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  Speaker 3: You know them? Well, I'm good. How are you? I'm well.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited because you just released through a ninth solo album.
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  Speaker 2: It's called Sweat. It's a true dance album, which I
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  Speaker 2: can appreciate. Can you hear in the club? Get your
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  Speaker 2: groove on? What inspired this sound?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: So many things, but I think the biggest inspiration for
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  Speaker 1: this album has been DJing.
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  Speaker 3: I've been out there for the last eight years.
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  Speaker 1: Alongside working as a live artist with my band, I've
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  Speaker 1: also been djink and I'd be there at different festivals
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  Speaker 1: all over the world, and it just reignited this passion
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  Speaker 1: that I have for dance music, which I discovered like
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  Speaker 1: in my late teens. Yeah, So it was just it
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  Speaker 1: was really important for me to try and bring my
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  Speaker 1: world's closer together as an artist.
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  Speaker 3: And a DJ. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Djing's so much fun and it's so different now the
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  Speaker 2: way it's sort of evolved in the video too. For may,
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  Speaker 2: I said, you're an incredible shape. When did healthy?
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  Speaker 3: I'm just checking out these guns as we speaking. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: thank you, really nice.
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  Speaker 2: But health and fitness clearly a top priority.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, obviously, going all the way back
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  Speaker 1: to the beginning, being sporty, spvice fitness has always been
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  Speaker 1: a really big part of my life, and you know
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  Speaker 1: it helps me in so many ways, not only physically
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  Speaker 1: but mentally.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, as I've got.
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  Speaker 1: Older, I just I've been having more fun with that
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  Speaker 1: part of myself and wanted to lean into the sporty fitness.
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  Speaker 3: And there's so much crossover. It's been really fun.
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  Speaker 1: Like lyrically, the sports really works with club culture as well,
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  Speaker 1: so it was it was a really fun, fun project.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I love songs that you can dance to too, especially
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  Speaker 2: with summer right here. It seems to be perfect timing.
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  Speaker 2: And you're heading out on a world tour as well, Canada, US, Europe, Asia.
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  Speaker 2: What new songs are you looking forward to bring to
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  Speaker 2: the stage.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean this whole album. I'm so excited to
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  Speaker 1: bring it to life. I really want to approach these
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  Speaker 1: shows quite differently. I want to look at it more
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  Speaker 1: as like a DJ set than a band set, so
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  Speaker 1: that just could do so much more scope to have
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  Speaker 1: to have some samples in there to get a bit
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  Speaker 1: of spicing as well, so they're going to be like
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  Speaker 1: really energetic and lively.
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  Speaker 3: The show's fun.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of which, I saw on your ig your bandmate
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  Speaker 2: mel B joined you on stage the other week and
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  Speaker 2: you did a couple of Spice Girl songs live. That
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  Speaker 2: had to be a special moment.
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  Speaker 3: Ah. Honestly, it was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe that we'd never actually been on stage
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  Speaker 1: together unless it was a Spice Girls show because ever
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  Speaker 1: before I've even got up with Victoria and Jerry at
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  Speaker 1: little occasions, but me and Melan never done it. And
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  Speaker 1: like we have this affinity on stage. We're both from
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  Speaker 1: the North of England. You know, there's there's something about
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  Speaker 1: the personality of the people in those places, like we
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  Speaker 1: really go for it with super energetic performers. So to
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  Speaker 1: be back on stage and she was there at my show,
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  Speaker 1: I was celebrating the release of the album she came.
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  Speaker 1: I was in her home city, I was in Leeds.
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  Speaker 1: She jumped up with me and it was so special.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was only about It was such a
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  Speaker 1: small show, about eight hundred capacity, so the fs that
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  Speaker 1: because you can imagine like my solo shows, it's all.
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  Speaker 3: Spice Girls slands. So for them that was such a
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  Speaker 3: special man.
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  Speaker 2: Had the two males.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome. Speaking of a Spice.
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  Speaker 2: Girls, I can't believe this year is the thirtieth anniversary
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  Speaker 2: of the release of your debut album, the single want
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  Speaker 2: to be a huge hit all over in thirty seven countries.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, do you remember most about
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  Speaker 2: that particular time.
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  Speaker 1: I just remember how exciting it was and just we
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  Speaker 1: were just like in this whirlwind or like cult up
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  Speaker 1: in this we will.
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  Speaker 3: Wind right back this week.
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  Speaker 1: We were cold up in this whirlwind and we were
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  Speaker 1: traveling all over the world because one of the things
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  Speaker 1: when we got together as a band, we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be international. You know, we all loved to travel, and
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to break the whole world and we did,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I think especially for British acts to
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  Speaker 1: have a success in America, it's tough, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people do it, and we achieved that,
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  Speaker 1: and we just we were having the time of our lives.
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  Speaker 2: I bet and I love that you all remain close
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  Speaker 2: and you all, yeah, actually we do.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're kind of closer than ever, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think when you get older, you really appreciate everyone
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  Speaker 1: and everything in your life, right, so especially for a
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  Speaker 1: Spice Girls, because we all know without having the Spice Girls,
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  Speaker 1: we wouldn't have gone on to have the lives and
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  Speaker 1: the careers that we've had as individuals.
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  Speaker 3: So we do fully appreciate that. Yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: And I got to say the Spice Girls as a
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  Speaker 2: port not to disparage any other boy bands out there,
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  Speaker 2: but you girls seems to have really done a good
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  Speaker 2: job of sort of parlaying it into your next act
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  Speaker 2: in life.
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  Speaker 3: So kudos team. Yeah, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know there was there was so much
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  Speaker 1: love for the Spice Girls in the nineties that it
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  Speaker 1: really did enable us to carry on and do things
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  Speaker 1: as individuals.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's an amazing thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, everyone listen, go check out Mel's new album Sweat
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  Speaker 2: right now on iHeartRadio and you get all the tour
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  Speaker 2: dates at melaniec dot Net. Thank you so much checking in.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, thank you, good to see it you too.
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