Girl Thing - Last One Standing on TOTP

[@phoenixlazarus5184]

This is one of my favourite songs from the Noughties. It's so incredibly feel-good.

[@Loudwalker123]

Love this song

[@Elizalustof]

Wow they are actually singing live verses - and dancing. Not many girl groups can do that and not mess it up. Love it 🙏🏼💜💜💜💜

[@imalwaysright]

THIS WAS ELITE!! they were too good to not be successful. And when you think of (rare) live vocals on TOTP, UK pop groups aren’t the first to come to mind.

[@gavinjones6520]

such a shame for a few reasons these sassy fun girls never fulfilled their potential good 2 c them on the big reunion thou

[@moxgirl5]

They're singing live on TOTP. Rare for anybody let alone a girlband. Mad respect for them

[@jeffoliver2298]

The verses are sung live but the choruses are mimed. If you listen closely you can tell.

[@glenfleetham9903]

@@jeffoliver2298 yeah they have to mime a little very difficult to sing live and dance but they all could sing

[@imalwaysright]

@@jeffoliver2298 the choruses are mimed but it’s so impressive they’re singing verses live. Very rare on TOTP

[@universalsubliminals1174]

i can't get over how 2000s this is, so nostalgic

[@LingLiu2014]

Such a shame the record label dropped them they were brilliant

[@Helenanne77]

Jodi Albert before she married Kian from Westlife and became Jodi Egan. Read somewhere that Kian liked her from around this stage but because she was so young, he waited cos he didn’t want to feel like he or other people felt he may have been taking advantage of a young girl just cos of who he is. But anyway many years forward and three Kids later, it all worked out xx

[@Phierecephairy]

HOW DID THIS NOT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lulufang8181]

Because they had the wrong goal. They should be themselves, not the spice girls.

[@maryghek]

their next single flopped then Pure and Simple was given to Hearsay. And yes, their goal was to be bigger than the Spice Girls. Or shall we say, Simon Cowell's goal

[@sikerslalatm3147]

villanelle by the time they were Out , Spice Girls already Died down so...

[@paulhynes170]

the was created to rival the spice girls but came 2 years too late

[@yousafsabir7224]

Five talented & beautiful women. Bellefire & Girl Thing should've been so much bigger. No idea why they weren't.

[@danitydon22]

i actually enjoyed this

[@glenfleetham9903]

We loved them in Australia I bought their album wish they carried on

[@gorfsixtyfour4030]

Lol no we didn’t.

[@imalwaysright]

@@gorfsixtyfour4030 we did

[@raymondlanglands]

Love that they sing live on the verses but mimed the chorus. The last chorus anneka was playing up to the camera that much she went to mime her line but then decided to stick her tongue to cover up the gaff 😂

[@user-ey9uj6vp9s]

That actually wasn't her line, the "Yeah you know we are the last one standing" line rotates between Annika and Linzi. You can hear the difference in the voices if you listen carefully.

[@pant-hootingchimp8917]

This is such a catchy song. I loved it back then and I still love it now. I think what spoilt it for them was the accompanying video. It was such a complete rip off of the Spice Girls' Wannabe that sadly Girl Thing weren't taken seriously. If they weren't forced into being clones of the Spice Girls and had a completely different video and they might have got to number 1 with this track (No.8 was still a big hit - anything in the Top 10 is considered a big hit, or at least used to be) - and they could have gone on to bigger things. They all had the looks and the voices and their dancing is really good. They should have been allowed to have their album released too. Ridiculous to scrap it after just two single releases. Maybe if they'd been allowed to release their own version of Pure And Simple that could have been the song that really did it for them. It's a shame. Simon Cowell is surely to blame for just trying to make them clones of The Spice Girls instead of allowing them to have their own image. How could they be taken seriously? I mean, look at Jamie Theakston here, at the start and end of their song, making Spice Girls jokes about them!

[@gorfsixtyfour4030]

Pure and simple couldn’t have saved this crap though. Pure and simple only did well because of the Popstars tv hype at the time. It’s actually not a good song lol 😂

[@bjornjohansen5397]

They reunited on the reality TV series The Big Reunion back in 2014 and told their side of the story. Was very refreshing to learn the truth from their own mouths about how they were overhyped as a big success in the media before even releasing anything to radio. It was all empty promises from the record company and their management. One thing that was mentioned is how the girls were never that tight knit as a unit and their communication was bad. It was hard to believe them as a solid friends group and so they never had that infectious spark that other successful groups had. At least they got to rewrite their ending during the reunion and not part on bad terms.

[@joshmarsters]

Jamie theakston throwing so much shade 😂😂

[@icicle241286]

I know! I was thinking "Dang Jamie, they're standing _right there."_

[@feeling-lovebaby5135]

Wow, really like those jeans style.

[@christown2827]

"Hey you it's the (girl) Rocksteady Crew".

[@truecrimestorieswithcillawet]

If Simon Cowell did promotion the right way for these girls they could of stood a chance. Instead of hyping them up the way he did by doing pre recorded interviews celebrating a number one, I think 8 was a good position for their debut in the charts. With the right promo they could of got number one a couple of weeks later

[@Ineddiblehulk]

And this with pure and simple as a follow up single is a pretty good one two punch for opening singles.

[@baal1999]

The fact that the show master has to distinguish them from the spice girls is so symbolical.

[@crystalfa4334]

I remember this from 2000

[@Edd25164605]

Ha Ha i remember watching this and thinking 'Damn Shes got a great smile' (3:15)

[@elmin82]

the song is actually not that bad, kinda catchy

[@ios332]

Remind me of 5ive

[@muzikguyla]

thats very true....

[@ericaleslie257]

GT was rapping BEFORE rapping was even cool here indeed!! GREAT JOB AND PRAISES TO ALL 5 OF YOU GIRLTHING INDEED!!

[@jeffoliver2298]

"I wonder how long the red head will stay..." This is a direct reference to how Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls at the height of their fame leaving them to continue as a four-piece.

[@crystalfa4334]

Ahaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa

[@88rtd]

They sang live and there was room for them considering spice girls were splitting and steps were near the end I really feel like they could have had more success

[@cragerzz]

This was Simons new "spice girls" but he disnt realized that what made spice so good was personality! These girls are just any girls you could find on a council estate that can sing a bit with no personalities at all

[@sikerslalatm3147]

NwO 4LiFE lol y’all dumb . Plus , Spice Girls really wasn’t “all that” anyway by the time Girl Thing came Out so their label should have shifted their goal Towards creating something special.

[@paulhynes170]

I take it you know them personally

[@juliemalone-xw6sl]

Some of the most famous stars around came from bad backgrounds bad childhoods etc music is a way for them to express how they feel.. I look up to a lot of them cuz some came from nothing and had nothing and there success came from not wanting to give up personality probably does help tho lol Jody did good for herself mind you she blaged kian from westlife! Some of the other girls were not that lucky

[@crystalfa4334]

Ola fijan

[@etipe-gk3ce]

ファッションが素晴らしい90年から03この時代の以外のファッションは認めない

[@vergelaldiano9618]

Better than kpop

[@JaiAston1983]

Something spice girls never did on totp SING LIVE

[@imalwaysright]

Or many other pop artists

[@jackjackson3769]

Disaster from the beginning.. they were too like the spice girls and the single wasnt very good, not even a one hit wonder type song. Simon really didnt think too hard on this group, they should have released pure and simple as the first single and it would have worked better.

[@paulhynes170]

I think the bridge is catchy

[@kurt479]

It’s good they could sing and dance. They could have been like a female n sync. But this song is ridiculous, sounds like a billie piper reject.

[@etipe-gk3ce]

イギリスの番組は素晴らしい

[@apples3213]

There better looking than the spice girls by far.All cute.

[@rubyromaine3911]

Wow, this “band” was cringe, and an obvious copycat. The performance was laughable. They embarrassed themselves. 😂

[@paulhynes170]

don't be mean

[@Jenniferlwarm]

This was just a 5ive rip off

[@sikerslalatm3147]

Jenny Warm lol No it’s more of a Spice Girls RIP Off plus 5ive wasn’t that popular to be ripped off 😂

[@jeffoliver2298]

All the girls bands that appeared in the late-90's/early-2000's were Spice Girls rip offs. Record companies saw how popular the Spice Girls were so they decided to cash in and create clone groups.

[@glenfleetham9903]

@@jeffoliver2298 yeah they are a rip off of them but I think these girls had huge potential their album was fun and catchy marketed wrong

[@Senate300]

And Simon Cowell admitted as much in his Oprah Winfrey Masterclass interview.

[@jimboswamps5602]

Omg it’s so cringe . They were trying sooo hard to be something they are not. It’s a shame because they are individually talented. trash record company.

[@flowergirl8815]

omg they were shite

[@plokoon436]

Now, now, anger is not the Jedi way. It leads to the dark side, you need to convert that into peace and tranquillity in the KZbin comments. May the force be with you.

[@imalwaysright]

You’re a fan

[@liferenz]

read Simon put tons of millions to promote them but failed. 200,000 copies of the single were published and machines on standby lol. I think it failed because 3/5 of the band have ugly faces. only Jodi, wife of Kian is the pretty one

[@_AceReject]

micandro nella Who are the ugly ones? Michelle (the ginger), Anika (the brunette) and the other one??? I think both Linzi and Nikki are beautiful and Jodi is flawless

[@joanneskelton9304]

How superficial are you?

[@glenfleetham9903]

@@joanneskelton9304 I think they are all really cute shame they had something but they were marketed terribly

[@ios332]

They were cute but not sexy enough