"Always is an accomplishment for me, the
concretion of a dream."
Junnior, a 20 years
old male from Brazil describes thus the result of a simple thought that occurred to him: create a
way of interaction between Melanie B fans. "I realised that the others Spices
had a fansite in Portuguese, or one active mailing list... Melanie B didn't!
Then I thought: Why don't I create something? ".
That's
exactly what he did! Late May 2005 he created a mailing list, called Always
Melanie B.
"This name means to me: it was rumored that
Melanie B's new single would be called 'Today'. I thought: I'm not Melanie B
fan only for today, I have been for more than nine years, and intend to be fan
of her work for much more time... Why don't always? Therefore this name, Always
Melanie B."
"I am satisfied with the result of mailing
list. The mailing list has archived a peak of 47 messages for month (during the
months of "L.A. state of mind" release) and has participants from several
countries, like Brazil, U.S.A., Peru, South Africa, United Kingdom and
Germany".
Despite the creation of fotolog and a orkut
community, Junnior ever saw the mailing list as the main promocional tool for
the spreading off of Melanie B work. He never intended to create a website.
Until one day he realised that mailing list reach was delimited, only who
entered it would have access to the informations. Junnior wanted a bigger
reach...
That's when arose the idea: create a website.
He started working on it, and the result was a very simple site hosted in
GeoCities, that nor officially arrived to be inaugurated: the GeoCities didn't
give the support (for media files) that Always
needed.
The site moved off from GeoCities (to brazilian
host MaisEmConta.com) and address, being officially inaugurated on 21st November
2005, in the address www.always-melanieb.br22.net. During November (only 9 days
on-line), Always reached 878 hits... \o/
But a new
change happened: this time, Junnior wanted an easier address to type and
memorize... As a resultant of this, in December of the same year the website
address changed to www.melanie-brown.org, in the same host. And now with two
names: Always Melanie B or Melanie-Brown.org In the same
month Always become the tenth biggest Yahoo Brazil mailing list, in the category
Spice Girls. And finished the year with impressive 7,202 brazilian hits (and
more than 19,452 international ones - so much for a only portuguese
website).
In 2006 (as resulted of the address change),
the visitorship of the website had increased in 260%, and the mailing list went
up two positions: now, the eight biggest in Yahoo!
Brazil.
The english version of the website was finally
online in 25th March 2006.
Is this the start of the best
brazilian source for news and media on Melanie B? Be
sure!
Disclaimer Always
Melanie B (Melanie-Brown.org) doesn't have connections with Melanie B, neither
is her official website. This is a unofficial fansite, a site created and
updated by a fan (Junnior).
All material (images,
audio, articles) belongs to its respective
owners.
Dedication Obviously,
I'd like to dedicate the site to Melanie B and to her solo work fans. I also
dedicate it to all Spice Girls fans and to all people that is interest for
Melanie B and her work.
Thank
yous! First of all, I wanna thank Melanie B, with
her work brought me many happiness and lessons, gave me motivation and
inspiration to create all this Always Melanie B history. I'd like to thank each
visitor, each mailing list, orkut community, fotolog and picture gallery
participant... Last, but not least, a big thank you to each person who comes in
supporting (and divulging) us in this time of
existence.
Thanks to my family and friends, who have
stimulated and supported me during the process of creation of this site, to our
affiliated sites, ours hosts and each fan of Melanie B and the Spice Girls, that
support them until nowadays.