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ALL SAINTS

Rating: NN


Even I used to collect Spice Girl bubble-gum stickers back in the day, so I appreciate the massive cultural impact that girl groups had in the mid-90s with all that prefab “girl power” brouhaha. But that was a long time ago, and most groups have split up or moved on to other things, because, frankly, as fun as some of that music was, it doesn’t exactly stand the test of time. It seems that the once super-hyped and self-imploded All Saints have not grasped that mid-90s girl group pop had a time and a place, and by trying to recreate the sounds and the styles of a bygone era they’ve effectively made themselves obsolete. Now that the masses have shifted their attention to sophisticated Europop, songs like Chick Fit and Hell No sound embarrassing by comparison, and while the foursome could have made a fierce return, they end up almost entirely unmemorable.

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