Spice Girls -- load of hyped shit or smth good too?

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5 years ago Spice Girls was biggest act in the world, the great future of British pop, heroines of feminists, object of hundreds of theories and "scientific" speculations etc, etc. And of course, seller of the sellers. But now -- nothing. Were we fooled again?

― Margus Kiis, estonian rock critic (Margus Kiis, estonian rock cri), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

heroines of feminists

HA! Why, because they stole a chant from Helen Love?

― Xii (Xii), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to say -- I am not a SG fan or smth. I´m about the manipulations of media and other such things.

― Margus Kiis, estonian rock critic (Margus Kiis, estonian rock cri), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

who is smth

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

As in Robert, duh.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The other day I realised I couldn't remember any of their songs except Wannabee, despite generally liking them at the time.

― rw, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Smth is something. Thats my parasite word :P

― Margus Kiis, estonian rock critic (Margus Kiis, estonian rock cri), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't understand this thread at all. or maybe i'm just a gullible idiot.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 26 June 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.rollingestonians.ee/img/header-logo.gif

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 26 June 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Wannabe" might be the greatest debut single of all time

― dave q, Thursday, 26 June 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Spice Girls killed BritPop, and for that alone, they are endless eternal CLASSIC!!!

And come on, their movie is comic genius.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 26 June 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I Love LOVE Say you'll be there and Viva forever. (especially Viva) but that's about it.

― lid, Thursday, 26 June 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked the fake Spanish one, whatever that was called, where they were all flying around in Blade Runner spaceships. What was the one called again?

― kate (kate), Thursday, 26 June 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

They really shouldn't have done that Spectator interview, should they? Bang goes the cred, bang goes the crossover, bang goes the future career...

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 26 June 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Spice Up Your Life"? Yeah, I think that's easily their best single.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 June 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Spice Up Your Life! Yesyesyesyesyesssss, so good and fizzy pop, yum. Hi Cee Ya! Ho Thai! Or whatever the heck they are really singing. Who cares? It's GRATE!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 26 June 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Where did this "Spice Girls killed Britpop" theory come from? The fucking Bluetones managed to get to number 2 a good seven months after Wannabe was released.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 June 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Spice Girls WERE Britpop

'Wannabe' i couldnt fucking stand for ages, my rockist 'shame'

i dont think anything went 'wrong' with the Spice Girls as such. they ran their natural course. they split up too late in fact as irrespective of Rodney Jerkins' slick but dull work for them on the incredibly blandly titled last album (so bland i cant remember what it was called, 'Forever'?) the media were starting to lose interest in them and there seemed to be a natural shift in the perception of them...a backlash rather like the one that befell Oasis

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

TS - the GOOD solo Spice records vs Spice Girls records?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

dave q is right.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

There are good solo Spice records?

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 26 June 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Never Be The Same Again", "I Turn To You", the Emma Bunton song, "Out Of My Mind" (to my eternal surprise), "Want You Back" (in a train-wrecks-are-funny kind of way)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 June 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Who cares, I love the movie, its got KITH content, Elvis and space aliens. This ranks it up their with Sex Dwarf video.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 26 June 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"2 Become 1" was also a fantastic song (with an important safe-sex message).

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 26 June 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, those songs aren't good at all. I Turn To You is ok. Actually Look At Me was pretty good.

The movie is RIDICULOUS, Alan Cummings is like the best crappy movie actor ever! Spice World and Josie and the Pussycats, I want to marry him. Has anyone seen his talk show? It's madness.

Spice Up Your Life was their best song.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I Turn To You and Look At Me (along with all the other Geri songs) are actually the worst ones, according to this pamphlet.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

expensive lies, but you're playing for free.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Dom, the Bluetone got to number 2 five months BEFORE 'Wannabe' came out

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

But I get what you mean. Bands such as Kula Shaker, the Longpigs, OCS etc, were big that summer and for the next couple of years at least too.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 26 June 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

good solo spice is "never be the same again" but also that old emma bunton one "what took you so long" was quite lovely. i want old emma back.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 27 June 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

'spice up your life' is ace, but i still have a soft spot for 'too much' and the faux-motown stylings of 'stop'.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 27 June 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Stop roXors as well. Yes. SO MUCH BETTER than when S Club 7 tried and failed at the same trick.

― kate (kate), Friday, 27 June 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

best video: say you'll be there.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 27 June 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Were we fooled again?

No.

― mei (mei), Friday, 27 June 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

dammit what was that one called with the 'whooooo-ooooo-oooo do you think you are' bit ? their 2nd hit single ?
i liked that best

(though 'stop' was good too)

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 27 June 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I really hope you're talking about "Who Do You Think You Are?"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 June 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh come on Dan it can't be that straightforward i mean otherwise we'd have songs titled the same as their chorus lyrics which is simply preposterous cos then you'd end up with songs called things like 'da da da' or 'de doo doo doo, de da da da'

er...

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 27 June 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"who do you think you are?" = best spice single evah

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 27 June 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to think they were Twisted Sister

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 27 June 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

NEVER FORGET.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I was in elementary school when the Spice Girls made it big, and I was obsessed. Wannabe, Say You'll Be There, Who Do You Think You Are, If You Can't Dance...all classic from the first album. My obsession fizzled when the second album came out, but I do remember it had some great tunes. I don't think I ever heard any of their albums after that.

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

This thread makes me happy, and nostalgic for the heady mid-late nineties.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

"The Spice Girls are here to stay ... Friendship never ends"

——The Spice Girls minus Ginger

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Wannabe, 2 Become 1, Say You'll Be There, and Spice Up Your Life are all super-excellent. The rest of the singles are generally listenable. Except for the post-Geri ones. But do we count those?

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

"Wannabe" is awful. "Say You'll Be There", "Who Do You Think You Are", "Stop" and "Live Forever" were all great pop songs though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

i remember being real bummed that the b-side to the CD single of Spice up your Life ("Spice Invaders") didn't live up to its name...what a title though!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

Mr. Ewing/Popular hits "Wannabe"

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2014/01/spice-girls-wannabe-2/

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 January 2014 23:32 (twelve years ago)

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