Spice Girls
 

Okay this is a thread is dedicated to my LOVE for the Spice Girls.

Perhaps my love is based more on nostagia than anything else but the more I listen the more I think there is something magical going on beneath the glossy, commericial surface.

And I know this will no doubt be criticised, as many people think there has been far to much 'Ironic Discussion of Cheesy Music'....But fuck you all because these guys Spice Up My Life!:D

I'd like to agree with you, I just never thought they were that good. Great(ish) idea, but never had the records to back it up.

take it for the fluffy cotton candy that it is, and try not to ever tell anyone else you love them.

Yo I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want,
So tell me what you want, what you really really want,
I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want,
So tell me what you want, what you really really want,
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really
really really wanna zigazig ha.
If you want my future forget my past,
If you wanna get with me better make it fast,
Now don't go wasting my precious time,
Get your act together we could be just fine.
I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want,
So tell me what you want, what you really really want,
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really
really really wanna zigazig ha.
If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever friendship never ends,
If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give,
Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is.
What do you think about that now you know how I feel,
Say you can handle my love are you for real,
I won't be hasty, I'll give you a try,
If you really bug me then I'll say goodbye.
Yo I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want,
So tell me what you want, what you really really want,
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really
really really wanna zigazig ha.
If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever friendship never ends,
If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give,
Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is.
So here's a story from A to Z, you wanna get with me
you gotta listen carefully,
We got Em in the place who likes it in your face,
We got G like MC who likes it on an
Easy V doesn't come for free, she's a real lady,
and as for me, ha you'll see,
Slam your body down and wind it all around,
Slam your body down and wind it all around.
If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever friendship never ends,
If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give,
Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is.
If you wanna be my lover, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta,
you gotta, you gotta, slam, slam, slam, slam,
Slam your body down and wind it all around,
Slam your body down and wind it all around,
Slam your body down and wind it all around,
Slam your body down zigazig ah.
If you wanna be my lover.

People Of The World


Spice Up You Life

I remain amused/not overly fussed at the Spice Girls "Phenomenon" in the late 90's, but the "Spiceworld" movie remains a classic piece of doggy poo.

That made me laugh for its horrendous acting, and all that crap. Funny indeed.

If only Gary Glitter had ended up starring in "Spiceworld"..."Baby Spice, you'll always be my little girl".

Isn't he the idol of all the members of NAMBLA?

This is true, although the S Club movie was oodles better.

I can't agree with Mr Machine in liking the Spice Girls, but I have to have the utmost admiration for his appreciating things shamelessly.

Hopefully T&B hasn't cought MRSA and can interject at this point with the sort of fresh wit he's become reknowned for by about no people in some obscure corner of the insignificanternet.

I'm a HUGE fan of the Spice Girls.
It's weird but it's weird when you think that you've been living through a moment like 1996, when Spice Girls, BSB, Hanson and all that stuff appeared. Girls going crazy, magazines with their faces in everywhere, dolls, cd's, posters, t-shirts. They all were fucking phenomenons.
At that time I didn't know shit about music. They were the first musical band I decided was my favourite(my mom used to listen to Elton John, Caetano Veloso, while my father listened to Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles.)
Now, 10, 11 years later I listen to them and seriously find awesome arrangements in their songs (of course, they didn't do them. So those arrangements didn't directly come out of them.) because since I took guitar lessons and started recording music myself I saw and understood music in a completely different way.
One thing people really need to admit is that they weren't like the other phenomenons at the moment. There were like 4 or 5 bands like the Backstreet Boys. They all had a latin kind of guy (or black guy), the rebel one, the classy one, the blonde stupid one. Their songs were all the same.
I didn't know what commercial products were back then, but now I see it and I don't see Spice Girls as one of them in such an obvious way. I mean, they were. But they weren't so fucking obvious.
OK. Somebody told me about this thread and I had to say something ahsjdhsaj

I'm seeing them January 24th! HSJAHSJA
10 years later than I thought. But that tends to happen in Argentina...

spice girls suck ass.

they were a barbie band for 10 year old girls.

ignore them for the rest of yr lives please.

Goes for them and all the girl bands people on here think it's ok to pretend to like. It's getting tired now.

well, i was 7, 8 years old when they happened.
how old were you?
20?
it's obvious you weren't going to like them, asshole.
if they happened now, i'd hate them.

looks like i'm finally making you see sense mr glice, first step the spice girls, next step Westlife and Il Divo.

i liked two becomes one or whatever.

the rest sorry, no, can't stand them. even i have my limits, same for that one member who left before they were forgotten and actually had singles and videos, awful stuff. plus, they were butt ugly.

They are the perfect example of manufactured pop and mass marketing in the music industry.
The person/people behind the idea were pure genii

haha thanks man

I love Glice's lack of indie snobbery and general bollocks. Good music is good music.

Anyone who was about 9 - 13 at the time can perhaps understand my love. I mean Viva Forever is just one of the most incredable singles ever for me. Great memories, great melodies.

I understand you because I was 7, 8 years old by the time.
These people don't understand that because they lived it in another moment of their lives. I can't understand why some of them think Nirvana was fucking amazing because I was 2 years old when Nevermind came out, so I can't tell how great they were at that moment.
What did you expect 7,8,9,10 years old girls to listen to?
It's like High School Musical and Hannah Montana. I fucking hate them because I'm 18, but I'm sure I'd like them if I was 7.

I was in my 30s, and rather liked the singles. I was making a living playing '80s hits (Madonna, Prince, MJ) in Olympia WA with the occasional slightly more indie/underground track thrown in (Pixies, SY/Ciconne Youth, Buzzcocks, Damned, etc.) and the Spice Girls were the current band I had to play. The first time I was drinking in King Solomon's Reef and I saw a chick play them on the juke box and all the girls in the bar started doing these dance moves, I knew I'd have to get that and play it to death. I'm pretty sure they were older than 7 or 8, or they had some pretty good fake IDs... Sure enough, it paid the rent, and kept my bed warm. What more can anyone expect from pop music?

hahaha
well,
i'm sure that some people over 10 liked them aswell.
i am not saying it's nocive to like them. that's what the others think.
we think that it's nocive because we don't like it.
that's not fair at all.
it's like when people talking shit about madonna's 80-ish era. i think it's ridiculous. it's amazing to dance and sing to at new year's eve, but that's MY opinion because I wasn't even born when those songs by madonna were being played in every radio station and made sense for EVERYONE , EVERYWHERE. it's all about the context.

if you wanna be my lover
you've gotta get with my friends
friendship lasts forever
friendship never ends


That's like a song from the PBS show ghostwriter.
wuh-wuh-wuh-word

Well, I still get paid every year by my former boss in Olympia to head up there for NYE and dust off the Madonna discs, so I know exactly what you are talking about, and I thank you. Mind, when those Madonna songs were new, Sonic Youth were playing them at their noisiest of shows, and people thought they were being ironic. But they weren't exactly.

Actually, what it always makes me think of is the song from the Repo Man soundtrack by Sy Richardson. Here, compare and contrast:

"If you wanna be my lover
you've gotta get with my friends"

"Think your girlfriend loves you? Guess again. One way to tell if a woman really loves you. If she’ll have your dog. I’m a bad man."

I like a couple of songs but the rest bores me more than watching Baby Spice scrubbing floors for £ 3 per hour.

I went and actually saw Spice World in the theatre until about halfway through, had to bolt. Bleeeeeeeeeechhhhhhh!

Victoria Beckham looks like a fucking skeleton with boobs made of plastic.

The definition of the word "disgusting".

Westlife, Il Divo unmitigated turd. The point is to listen to the good music Mr & Bowels, rather than whatever you think is 'cool'. You can't be cool when you die of MRSA, remember that. When will you fashionistas ever learn?

You still haven't told me how old you were when the Spice Girls appeared....

yeah, she's terrible.
she's always been terrible.
i am not sure why they chose her to be part of the group...

ginger was cute in a few pics.

I do not remember what year they first stepped off the corpo-music factory production line. let me research.
Their first album came out in 1996. That was 5 years after I graduated High school, and the year I got married so I was 23 years old.

yes yes quite, but that doesn't mean doing the opposite either, listening what you think is "uncool" just to cause a stir.

Indeed. I think a couple of their singles were ok but a lot of it was deeply, deeply irritating and continues to be to this day. The first single is pretty much unlistenable.

Girl Power!

Baby Spice Nipples


Scary spice preggo with eddie murphy's love child




Ginge Spice nekkid




Posh spice arriving at a elton john party with cocaine dusting her bosom



girl power!

well, that's normal if you hate them, then.
you are a boy
you were 23 years old

Theres a niche market for that

You're a riot.

Why on earth would you ever like that group? I could understand if this was 1997 and you were a 7 year old girl, but now and still...???

And Rob INstigator is right, don't ever tell anyone you like the Spice Girls.

Most people would take you out and tar and feather you. Not me, though. I'd just look at ya funny.

AAAAAAAAhaha
ok.