Speaker 1: Our next guest is a musical. I can't responsible for
Speaker 1: so many amazing tunes that we know.
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 3: It's just the beginning.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: Member of the Spice Girls aka Spotty Spice now turned
Speaker 1: judge on the Voice Australia. Who is Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Shower Melody.
Speaker 5: Morning, Welcome back to Australia.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much. It's great to be back.
Speaker 4: You're going to be a resident, You're just going to
Speaker 4: be a local at the end of this.
Speaker 5: I saw you down here on the weekend over the
Speaker 5: Grand Prix. Did you enjoy your time in Melbourne?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: My goodness, I love Melbourne. There's something about Melbourne. It
Speaker 3: feels a little bit more like England, the energy and
Speaker 3: then what a weekend ago? The weather was crazy but
Speaker 3: the race was super.
Speaker 4: Where that was well? Were you either at a poncho Melanie?
Speaker 3: I avoided the poncho, but there was lots of lots
Speaker 3: of Rollie's been blown about right.
Speaker 7: Well, Melanie's also been at the the AFLD into you
Speaker 7: have history the Sydney match which kicked off the AFL season.
Speaker 4: Did you have fun? Did you love our great game?
Speaker 3: I absolutely loved it. It was my first game unsurprisingly,
Speaker 3: but it won't be my last.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fun the old AFL, isn't it? Jeeve swanned
Speaker 5: into town. I also saw you DJing at my mount
Speaker 5: at Crown after the Grand Prix on Sunday.
Speaker 4: That party looked fun. Was it wild?
Speaker 6: My goodness?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like when I got there, things were just kicking off.
Speaker 3: As a night progressed, it got pretty wild.
Speaker 4: What's on the set list? Did a Melanie see dj?
Speaker 7: Gig?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: I do you know what?
Speaker 3: We we mixed it up, But I I have a
Speaker 3: lot of fun using like Spice Girl songs for mixing
Speaker 3: them in. There's some great reason. But I also love
Speaker 3: doing mashups. So sometimes I'll play, you know, a little
Speaker 3: bit of Wanna Be, but we'll kind of mix it
Speaker 3: into a little bit of Nirvana and.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, And do you still go by sporty spies
Speaker 5: because you still look very sporty. When I saw you
Speaker 5: DJing the other night, I was like, you are so fit.
Speaker 5: You look like you have an age today. How have
Speaker 5: you done that?
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I work with some great professionals.
Speaker 3: What I do love keeping fit, and I just I
Speaker 3: don't think I'll ever stop. Really, I think as you
Speaker 3: get older, you kind of you need to lean into
Speaker 3: that a little bit more. But it's great, you know,
Speaker 3: because we're so much more aware, aren't we of like
Speaker 3: nutrition and what's good for us fitness wise. I've been
Speaker 3: here in Australia, it's perfect. This outdoor lifestyle really suits me.
Speaker 5: I love that you still embrace the Spats Girls because
Speaker 5: so often you see like people who were in bands
Speaker 5: and then they move on to their solo career and
Speaker 5: they want to park it and they don't want any
Speaker 5: cross pollination. But you obviously still happily embrace that Spice
Speaker 5: girl's era, which by the way, was just my entire childhood.
Speaker 5: Like I'm having a bit of a freak out that
Speaker 5: we're having this conversation right now because I dressed up
Speaker 5: as you and your girlfriends so many times in my childhood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing, you know, and I think, you know,
Speaker 3: for all young artists, I think if you're lucky enough
Speaker 3: to be in a band that is successful and then
Speaker 3: you move on to other things, you do want to
Speaker 3: distance yourself for a little while, and then you realize
Speaker 3: if you don't embrace where you can, especially you know,
Speaker 3: the Spice Girls. It's such an incredible legacy that now
Speaker 3: I'm just obviously so proud and always like to have
Speaker 3: a nud to sporty spice in the rest.
Speaker 6: Of the gang.
Speaker 7: Does the world have enough girl groups these days?
Speaker 4: I don't think they do it.
Speaker 5: It's k pop are the big girl bands?
Speaker 7: They stays.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a time, isn't it in music?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 6: Because, like you say, k pop is big.
Speaker 3: But other than that, we haven't got like you know,
Speaker 3: the boy and girl bands that were used to traditionally
Speaker 3: like the eighties, nineties and nineties really only out there.
Speaker 5: We do, for one, we should do one of those
Speaker 5: shows again where you do the auditions and put one together.
Speaker 7: What kind of judge are you, Melanie on the Voice
Speaker 7: Australia do you think?
Speaker 6: Do you know what?
Speaker 3: I don't want to sound like a I don't want
Speaker 3: to use a swear word on the air, but I
Speaker 3: don't want to sound like a div as we would say.
Speaker 6: I want to be authentic. You know.
Speaker 3: TV isn't my natural place of work and I have
Speaker 3: to like just be like truely to who I am,
Speaker 3: So I just try to be kind and honest and
Speaker 3: really reach out and try and mentor the people that
Speaker 3: I think I can really.
Speaker 6: Help you know what.
Speaker 2: Australia is going to love you with that attitude, just
Speaker 2: like you know, you're not trying to be some showy
Speaker 2: TV person.
Speaker 4: Just want to get on there and be real. Hey
Speaker 4: ma on, are you're a mum as well? Just the
Speaker 4: one child?
Speaker 7: I do?
Speaker 4: I have one, she's enough, damn and I got three.
Speaker 4: I was going to see if you wanted one of them?
Speaker 4: Is she She got the singing gene?
Speaker 1: Do you know what?
Speaker 6: She can sing? She's very, very musical, but she doesn't
Speaker 6: want to and probably for the best.
Speaker 3: She's so talented in so many ways, but yeah, performing
Speaker 3: isn't her thing.
Speaker 5: He still mates with the other Spice Girls. Do you
Speaker 5: guys have like get togethers like girls night out?
Speaker 6: Yeah? We do, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean sometimes we don't see each other as often
Speaker 3: as we'd like, but always in touch, always chatting about
Speaker 3: things and yeah, and partying.
Speaker 6: When we can.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you imagine if you're on that group chat,
Speaker 2: how fun melodic could you be? Kicking Lauren out after
Speaker 2: ten minutes? Just pump the break style.
Speaker 7: That's nine messages And you said you used to dress
Speaker 7: up as the Spice Girls.
Speaker 5: You and your girlfriends, they're good enough at sport to
Speaker 5: be sporty. I was always partial. My friend else was
Speaker 5: always sporty Spice. Always it was in demand playing sporty
Speaker 5: Spice though in the girls dress up group.
Speaker 4: I like that, Hey you're here for two months and
Speaker 4: then heading home.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'll be back to the UK. I'm just putting
Speaker 3: the finishing touches to a new album. Actually working on
Speaker 3: some of that here in Australia, which is really exciting.
Speaker 3: I've found some new while i've been here, so yeah,
Speaker 3: hopefully you be having some music before.
Speaker 6: The end of the year.
Speaker 5: Australian producers. We're seeing a lot of musicians come out
Speaker 5: to Australia and use Australian producers, Australian artists.
Speaker 3: I've done a bit of time in the studio with
Speaker 3: Don Dullo. I'm a big kind of found myself. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of Australia in my life currently and I'm
Speaker 3: loving it.
Speaker 5: I agree, and you know what, it is one of
Speaker 5: those things they say, never meet your heroes because they
Speaker 5: always disappoint, but that is not the case here. We
Speaker 5: will happily adopt you any day of a week.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Melanie say she is here for the Voice Australia. It
Speaker 4: is coming to seven and seven plus later in the year.
Speaker 4: Australia is going to bloody love you. Thanks so much
Speaker 4: for your time this morning.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much. Have a great day.