But, on the flip side of this, the album does flow cohesively as a body of work. Sonically, the sound flows across each track and weaves them together collectively, which is both a positive and a negative.
A negative in the sense that coming from their Magnus Opus, ‘Spice World’ which was an array of sounds and styles, ‘Forever’ felt more generic than it should have been, when it actually is a good album.
As for the positives, the harmonies are a lot tighter and on certain tracks, you can hear all the girls singing their parts perfectly. It’s also distinctive enough that it stands up on its own, away from Spice World to be considered a really strong pop/R&B album in its own right.
The only thing I would have changed would have been to ditch ‘Time Goes By’, get Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis to make 1 or 2 more hits in the same style as ‘If You Wanna Have Some Fun’ and include a few more of the funkier (unreleased) third album tracks alongside bringing the album to 13/14 tracks. If it were to be the final album, they could have made it a bigger collection and gone all out as they had the material.
