{"id":491898,"date":"2019-11-06T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=908459"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:18:30","slug":"the-first-time-melanie-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/the-first-time-melanie-c\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: Melanie C"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whether as Sporty Spice or as Mel C, Melanie Chisholm has been a fixture of the British pop landscape for more than 20 years. On the heels of a Spice Girls<\/a> reunion tour, the singer stopped by Rolling Stone<\/em> to discuss her first time being recognized on the street as Sporty Spice, the experience of meeting her personal hero Madonna and the emotions of performing onstage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t remember the very first time I cried to a song, [but] I cried a lot onstage,\u201d she said. \u201cOften when I see other people\u2019s reactions \u2014 to the song that you\u2019re singing, and obviously you see what it means to them \u2014 that can often make me cry. Which is a pain, because crying and singing don\u2019t really work well together. That\u2019s my excuse for any bad vocals \u2014 I was totes emosh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Melanie C also noted the difference between British and American fans who dressed up as Sporty Spice: \u201cWhen we toured the U.K., all the kids would come dressed as their favorite Spice Girl, and then we came to the U.S., it was all the adults.\u201d She then recalled her first time performing a song onstage in front of an audience, when she was 15. Her song choice was a Whitney Houston powerhouse ballad, and it did not go as planned.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Melanie C released a new solo single, \u201cHigh Heels,\u201d<\/a> accompanied by a glittery music video.<\/p>\n