1998 Spice Girls: Goodbye

'Goodbye'? For now anyway - final single of Spice Girls Mk 1, 'Goodbye' is also a kiss off of sorts to the departing Geri who for the first time doesn't appear on the song at all. But such the backstage shenanigans add nothing to the light breeze of a tune that uses a soufflé of a soul mix to sell a lyric bristling with every "Look for the rainbow in every storm" 'message of hope cliché in the book that can never quite decide if it wants to be the Dunblane tribute it originally started out as or something else entirely. What that 'something else' might be is never made clear, but 'Goodbye' doesn't have the substance to hang around in my ears long enough for me to find out. Or want to really. Not their finest hour.