Little Lenny wrote:even though they were not a band as such and not even a rock band, the Spice Girls..oh my goodness they were so over rated, over hyped, over exposed... to me it was the equivalent of selling horse manure in harrods, in a fancy bag with a big girly bow on it! Exactly a bag of S**T ...Just my opinion of course
I'm not sure overrated is the right term here. They were extremely popular, as a novelty act that went on much longer than usual for that kind of act, but surely nobody actually 'rated' them as a band anyway, and certainly wouldn't have over-rated them. Everybody knew there was no quality to their music - they just appealed to the teenyboppers who bought their singles by the shedload. Having said that, I thought some of Mel C's solo work wasn't too bad. I thought she sounded better than Bryan Adams in that single they did together, and she was the only Spice with a true singing voice.
However, nobody in their right mind would rank them as a great band.
Marty
And as for rating them, maybe that was the wrong term to use....maybe just too much exposure for my liking is more like it! LOL 
