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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The band fell into this category with their last album ''Seeing Double''. Two songs in particular that stand out are:
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** The breakdown of "S Club Party" has the boys calling the girls "hoochie mamas" (whores) and calling for them to "show your nanas" (vaginas)! It's safe to assume that that the lyricists had no idea what those words meant and just threw them in as generic slang. Not to mention that in the video, this is followed by [[ShakingTheRump a montage of each of the girls shaking their asses for the camera]].
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** Their previous albums weren't safe from this, either. The breakdown of "S Club Party" has the boys calling the girls "hoochie mamas" (whores) and calling for them to "show your nanas" (vaginas)! It's safe to assume that that the lyricists had no idea what those words meant and just threw them in as generic slang. Not to mention that in the video, this is followed by [[ShakingTheRump a montage of each of the girls shaking their asses for the camera]].
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** "Natural", lead by Rachel (the Fanservice of the group), has her singing "when you touch me, the reaction it just blows me away" and "turn out the light, lay your head next to mine". The video likewise has several slow motion shots of the girls writhing around on the beach with {{Sexy Soaked Shirt}}s and the boys showering under a waterfall.
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** "Natural", lead by Rachel (the Fanservice MsFanservice of the group), has her singing "when you touch me, the reaction it just blows me away" and "turn out the light, lay your head next to mine". The video likewise has several slow motion shots of the girls writhing around on the beach with {{Sexy Soaked Shirt}}s and the boys showering under a waterfall.
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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: TV musical series? Attractive young cast with equal singing parts? Current music all the kids are listening to? Sounds familiar, right? Well, it didn't back in 1999. The BandToon was nothing new and Music/TheMonkees had a show, too. However, in 1999, musicals were essentially for old folks (it took ''{{Theatre/Rent}}'' to attract a younger demographic back to musical theatre). The idea of combining the genre with this style of music was new. These days the show simply comes across as a pop group singing their own songs with a standard sitcom plot tacked on. The likes of ''Series/{{Glee}}'' and ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' have certainly been influenced by the format, even if they came to much better results.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: TV musical series? Attractive young cast with equal singing parts? Current music all the kids are listening to? Sounds familiar, right? Well, it didn't back in 1999. The BandToon was nothing new and Music/TheMonkees had a show, too. However, in 1999, musicals were essentially for old folks (it took ''{{Theatre/Rent}}'' to attract a younger demographic back to musical theatre). The idea of combining the genre with this style of music was new. These days the show simply comes across as a pop group singing their own songs with a standard sitcom plot tacked on. The likes of ''Series/{{Glee}}'' and ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' have certainly been influenced by the format, even if they came to much better results.
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** Jo vs Rachel: who was better? Jo was pushed as the FaceOfTheBand from "Two In A Million" onward and Rachel's only lead single was "Natural". It's very much a TechnicianVersusPerformer situation - Jo having the powerful voice, but Rachel having more sex appeal and charisma. Nowhere is this divide more apparent than with the alternate version of "Alive", which features Rachel's vocals instead of Jo's.
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** Jo vs Rachel: who was better? Jo was pushed as the FaceOfTheBand face of the band from "Two In A Million" onward and Rachel's only lead single was "Natural". It's very much a TechnicianVersusPerformer situation - Jo having the powerful voice, but Rachel having more sex appeal and charisma. Nowhere is this divide more apparent than with the alternate version of "Alive", which features Rachel's vocals instead of Jo's.
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* FaceOfTheBand: Jo, though they did like to push equality, by virtue of being the best vocalist and therefore most likely to sing lead. In their last year, when Jo was sidelined due to back injury, this shifted over to Rachel.
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* NightmareFuel: While TheMovie is a light-hearted comedy, there are a few moments with the clones.
** The first half of the story has the band just assuming they're lookalikes, with robots being jokingly suggested once. Then Jon, Rachel and Hannah notice how the clones don't have any belly buttons.
** When Bradley, Jo and Tina are trying to convince the clones to remember their identities, they each get flashbacks of being in Eagle Peak, with jump cuts to Victor inspecting them that can be quite startling.
** And each of the clones has to go to bed every night with headphones in playing various facts about each member they're a clone of, effectively brainwashing them into thinking they're the real S Club. Rachel even points out "they're not just lookalikes, they're permanent replacements", with Hannah sounding terrified as she says they have to get out of here.
** It's also not glossed over that, since Victor Gaughan has DNA of them all, he intends to KillAndReplace the real S Club. He would have previously just had them put in prison for impersonation, but they're being killed for knowing too much. And this likely would apply to the clones of Rachel, Jon and Hannah.
** The first half of the story has the band just assuming they're lookalikes, with robots being jokingly suggested once. Then Jon, Rachel and Hannah notice how the clones don't have any belly buttons.
** When Bradley, Jo and Tina are trying to convince the clones to remember their identities, they each get flashbacks of being in Eagle Peak, with jump cuts to Victor inspecting them that can be quite startling.
** And each of the clones has to go to bed every night with headphones in playing various facts about each member they're a clone of, effectively brainwashing them into thinking they're the real S Club. Rachel even points out "they're not just lookalikes, they're permanent replacements", with Hannah sounding terrified as she says they have to get out of here.
** It's also not glossed over that, since Victor Gaughan has DNA of them all, he intends to KillAndReplace the real S Club. He would have previously just had them put in prison for impersonation, but they're being killed for knowing too much. And this likely would apply to the clones of Rachel, Jon and Hannah.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaHyvAMLk7U "Wait for You"]] by Elliott Yamin sounds VERY similar to "Never Had A Dream Come True".
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: In the Hollywood 7 episode "The Stylist", it is wrong to forcefully change the band's identities to fit an image and it's not like their personalities had to be as in-your-face and cartoony as Simon Fuller's [[Music/SpiceGirls previous group]], but the stylist and record label did make a pretty valid point in that the members could stand to be a bit more distinct from one another, especially the boys. Take Paul and Bradley for example, even in the show, a lot of their characteristics tended to [[BigEater overlap]] [[LoudSleeperGag quite]] [[ManChild a bit.]]
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: In the Hollywood 7 episode "The Stylist", it is wrong to forcefully try to change the band's identities to fit an image and it's not like their personalities had to be as in-your-face and cartoony as like Simon Fuller's [[Music/SpiceGirls previous group]], but the stylist and record label did make a pretty valid point in that the members could stand to be a bit more distinct from one another, especially the boys. Take Paul and Bradley for example, even in the show, a lot of their characteristics tended to [[BigEater overlap]] [[LoudSleeperGag quite]] [[ManChild a bit.]]
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: In the Hollywood 7 episode "The Stylist", while it is wrong to forcefully change the band's identities to fit an image and it's not like their personalities had to be as in-your-face and cartoony as Simon Fuller's [[Music/SpiceGirls previous group]], but the stylist and record label did make a pretty valid point in that the members could stand to be a bit more distinct from one another, especially the bots. boys. Take Paul and Bradley for example, even in the show, a lot of their characteristics tended to [[BigEater overlap]] [[LoudSleeperGag quite]] [[ManChild a bit.]]
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: In the Hollywood 7 episode "The Stylist", while it is wrong to forcefully change the band's identities to fit an image and it's not like their personalities had to be as in-your-face and cartoony as Simon Fuller's [[Music/SpiceGirls previous group]], the stylist and record label did make a pretty valid point in that the members could stand to be a bit more distinct from one another, especially the males. Even bots. Take Paul and Bradley for example, even in the show, Paul and Bradley's a lot of their characteristics tended [[BigEater overlap]] [[LoudSleeperGag quite]] [[ManChild a bit.]]
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: In the Hollywood 7 episode "The Stylist", while it is wrong to forcefully change the band's identities to fit an image and it's not like their personalities had to be as in-your-face and cartoony as Simon Fuller's [[Music/SpiceGirls previous group]], the stylist and record label did make a pretty valid point in that the members could stand to be a bit more distinct from one another, especially the males. Even in the show, Paul and Bradley's characteristics tended[[BigEater tended [[BigEater overlap]] [[LoudSleeperGag quite]] [[ManChild a bit.]]
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: In the Hollywood 7 episode "The Stylist", while it is wrong to radically forcefully change the band's identities to fit an image and it's not like they their personalities had to be as in-your-face and cartoony as Simon Fuller's [[Music/SpiceGirls previous group]], but the stylist and record label did make a pretty valid point in that the members could stand to be a bit more distinct from one another, especially the males. Even in the show, Paul and Bradley's characteristics could [[BigEater tended[[BigEater overlap]] [[LoudSleeperGag quite]] [[ManChild a bit.]]
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: In the Hollywood 7 episode "The Stylist", while it is wrong to radically change the band's identity identities and it's not like they had to be as in-your-face and cartoony as Simon Fuller's [[Music/SpiceGirls previous group]], but the stylist and record label did make a valid point in that the member members could stand to be a bit more distinct from one another. Especially another, especially the male members, even males. Even in the show, Paul and Bradley's characteristics could [[BigEater overlap]] [[LoudSleeperGag quite]] [[ManChild a bit.]]
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** Their signature hit in America, "Never Had a Dream Come True" sounds like a slightly quicker-paced version of Dru Hill's "We're Not Making Love No More".
** Their signature hit in America, "Never Had a Dream Come True" sounds like a slightly quicker-paced version of Dru Hill's "We're Not Making Love No More".
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: In the Hollywood 7 episode "The Stylist", it is wrong to radically change the band's identity and it's not like they had to be as in-your-face and cartoony as Simon Fuller's [[Music/SpiceGirls previous group]], but the stylist and record label did make a valid point in that the member could stand to be a bit more distinct from one another. Especially the male members, even in the show , show, Paul and Bradley's characteristics [[BigEater overlap]] [[LoudSleeperGag quite]] [[ManChild a bit.]]]]
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** Their signature hit in America, "Never Had a Dream Come True" sounds like a slightly quicker-paced version of Dru Hill's "We're Not Making Love No More".
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** Their signature hit in America, "Never Had a Dream Come True" sounds like a slightly quicker-paced version of Dru Hill's "We're Not Making Love No More".
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* {{Adorkable}}: Hannah, especially in the movie. Trying to distract guard dogs with a sock puppet routine, wearing all her clothes on top of each other to hide that she's sneaking out of a hotel, trying to hide a kidnapping with an improvised dance? She's a dork and beloved for it.
* AudienceAlienatingEra: The third album ''Sunshine''. Despite having the group's best known single "Don't Stop Movin'", it's conspicuously lacking in the enjoyable bubblegum fun of the ''S Club'' album, and the mixture of pop and R&B from ''7''. While the ballad "Have You Ever" is decently popular, the attempts at a more mature sound meant that the album had overall less heart. The fourth album ''Seeing Double'' would improve on this, adding lots more disco, electronic and even garage influences. Aside from "Don't Stop Movin'", ''Sunshine'' tends to have the fewest songs performed from it.
* AudienceAlienatingEra: The third album ''Sunshine''. Despite having the group's best known single "Don't Stop Movin'", it's conspicuously lacking in the enjoyable bubblegum fun of the ''S Club'' album, and the mixture of pop and R&B from ''7''. While the ballad "Have You Ever" is decently popular, the attempts at a more mature sound meant that the album had overall less heart. The fourth album ''Seeing Double'' would improve on this, adding lots more disco, electronic and even garage influences. Aside from "Don't Stop Movin'", ''Sunshine'' tends to have the fewest songs performed from it.
* FanPreferredCutContent: An alternate version of the "Alive" single with Rachel's vocals instead of Jo was planned to be released but never got one. Thanks to footage of performances where Jo couldn't participate due to her back problems and bootleg copies making it online, a lot of fans have said they prefer that version. A lot of fans would have also liked to hear the original plan for Paul to sing lead on that rather than Bradley.
* HamAndCheese: David Gant, playing Victor Gaughan in the ''Seeing Double'' movie, understood the assignment - a MadScientist cloning the world's pop stars to influence the youth of today - and he helps make the movie quite fun to watch.
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** Paul. To a lot of people, his departure ruined everything and started the band's downfall. Even more so in recent years when he was ironically one of the first members crawling back for a reunion. He's also the only one who's resorted to public mud slinging towards the other members, notably Jo and Hannah. Additionally, Stronger, one of the few songs with Tina singing lead, was originally planned to be a single but that plan was apparently scrapped because of Paul leaving, so some Tina fans aren't too fond of him either. The fact he's lost his looks the most of all the members also certainly doesn't help.
** Inevitably, Jo has a few detractors as well. Though the dislike of her ''Celebrity Big Brother'' scandal seems to have mellowed out in recent years - especially as Bradley defended Jo and that Shilpa Shetty said she felt no ill-will towards the girls involved.
** Inevitably, Jo has a few detractors as well. Though the dislike of her ''Celebrity Big Brother'' scandal seems to have mellowed out in recent years - especially as Bradley defended Jo and that Shilpa Shetty said she felt no ill-will towards the girls involved.
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** Paul. To a lot of people, his departure ruined everything and started the band's downfall. Even more so in recent years when he was ironically one of the first members crawling back for a reunion. He's also the only one who's resorted to public mud slinging towards the other members, notably Jo and Hannah. Additionally, Stronger, one of the few songs with Tina singing lead, was originally planned to be a single but that plan was apparently scrapped because of Paul leaving, so some Tina fans aren't too fond of him either. The fact he's lost his looks the most of all the members also certainly doesn't help.
help. [[DueToTheDead His death naturally caused that to change rather a bit]].
** Inevitably, Jo has a few detractors as well.Though While the dislike of her racist bullying scandal on ''Celebrity Big Brother'' scandal seems to have mellowed out is still held against her today by some, a drop in recent her vocal quality over the years - especially as Bradley defended Jo thanks to smoking didn't do her any favours. She seemed to shake off both in the 2020s after quitting smoking and demonstrating that Shilpa Shetty said she felt no ill-will towards the girls involved.was still able to perform quite well on her [=YouTube=] channel.
** Inevitably, Jo has a few detractors as well.
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* TheWoobie: Rachel in the special ''Boyfriends & Birthdays''. While on the road to LA, her boyfriend gives her an ultimatum - come home to England at once or he'll dump her. And when she chooses being in the band, he dumps her over the phone.
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** While the final single "Say Goodbye" was already sad, due to the disbandment, the fact that it's the six members minus Paul makes it even more heart-breaking after his passing. There's even a shot of the group watching a clip of Paul from the "Have You Ever" and then Bradley having to look away as the next line is "I'll miss your love in every day".
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** "Reach" is of course the most bubblegum of their songs, with saccharine lyrics about following your dreams and reaching for the stars. The accompanying video is likewise ridiculously upbeat and colourful. But there's no denying it's one of their most popular songs and the sweetness is part of the appeal.
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* HoYay: In the video for "Natural", all three boys get several shots where they're showering together under a waterfall.
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** Three out of four TV specials had plots about a member considering leaving the group. In the ''Christmas Special'' it's Paul who considers leaving (due to EasyAmnesia) which becomes a little harsher to watch with the knowledge that he would eventually leave. Although his actual departure was an amicable one in real life, as opposed to the ones caused by fights on the show.
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** Some episodes see the group struggling financially. Jo's reason for participating in ''Celebrity Series/BigBrother'' was that she was in danger of having her house repossessed and Paul later became so hard up that he resorted to selling his BRIT Award on EBay.
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** Some episodes see the group struggling financially. Jo's reason for participating in ''Celebrity Series/BigBrother'' was that she was in danger of having her house repossessed and Paul later became so hard up that he resorted to selling his BRIT Award on EBay. Hannah also had a well publicised case in 2022 where she and her family were evicted and left homeless for a few months.
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** ''LA 7'' also seems to embody the [=Y2K=] Era the most in terms of the fashions; BareYourMidriff, baggy pants, leather jackets, tank tops on multiple members. Jon and Paul have SpikyHair, Hannah has chunky highlights, all the girls have shoulder-length layers, and Joni has a holdover from 90s PowerHair.
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** ''LA 7'' also seems to embody the [=Y2K=] Era the most in terms of the fashions; BareYourMidriff, bare midriffs, baggy pants, leather jackets, tank tops on multiple members. Jon and Paul have SpikyHair, Hannah has chunky highlights, all the girls have shoulder-length layers, and Joni has a holdover from 90s PowerHair.
