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Originally Posted by Washing Machine
The Spice Girls had a huge cultural impact, if you are of a certain age the music makes you re-live that time and place and that goes beyond all the hip, ironic and elitist reasons people may think. Every kid usually has some music to which he has a certain degree of nostagia and why is the Spice Girls any different? The reason is because The Spice Girls are a real unifier. They defined an age. Now this probebly meant a lot more to you if you were between the ages of 8-13. People forget how great it was to have a band that was your band, not something your parents liked or something you picked up from your older brother. These wer the days before we understood youth orientated marketing so it was as real as anything else. If I was a little older perhaps I would have wished the whole annoying fad away and spent to hours instead up in my room listening to OK Computer and A Thousand Leaves.
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This is a superb point. And, at the time of the Spice Girls, I was in that awkward 'I want real music' phase of teenhood and, strangely enough, sat in my room listening to Ok Computer and A Thousand Leaves. Some of the music from that period I was wrong to overlook, methinks. I wouldn't include the Spice Girls in that, but that's probably a personal thing.