I just checked, looks like somebody changed it back lol.
Probably didn’t help that they failed to capitalize “English”.
I’ve always hated the descriptions “girl group” and “boy group”.
Imagine being a post-apocalyptic historian trying to make sense of what these people did or why they were famous enough to be pictured everywhere and the only description is that they were a group.
It’s impossible to tell if they were a notorious mob group or famous for making gay group sex videos.
This reminds me of an edit wars in the article, iirc, of Janis Joplin, because someone insisted on adding “female” to “One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era”.
I mean they aren’t wrong.
It’s highly subjective and adds nothing of value, though.
It should have a citation to something comparing popular bands over time and across countries… Because they were absolutely huge at the time
Well, if the single sentence description is supposed to also describe the popularity, then every musical group in Wikipedia would need to be described by that metric. It might get a bit absurd very fast. (“…a bit obscure band which was really really big in Japan at one point”)
So how big were the Spice Girls? Well, they were big enough to warrant a Wikipedia article, if that is any metric worth of anything. I guess if you need to compare statistics, perhaps you need a deeper dive than a single sentence summary!
That’s fair.
Past tense, see?
Like walking by a camping ground.
