All Saints
...sassy, catchy and disposable, the way pop music should be. --PeopleThe Spice Girls are shamelessly prefab, personality-rich bubblegum and therefore huge fun, whileAll Saints, with their borderline soul jams and insincere lack of contrivance, are pseudo-real, and therefore a drag.... If the songs stick in the memory, it's not because they've got that spark but because they're so bleedin' repetitive. One rappin' Saint sounds like TLC's Left Eye doing a Bart Simpson impersonation, and you don't wanna know what these wispy-voiced waifs do to Labelle's mighty "Lady Marmalade".... Their symbolism is inadvertently clear; here's another pack of mostly pale wannabes milking black culture dry. --Spin