Every Spice Girls song, ranked from worst to best
Photo: Ann Summa/Getty Images Last week, the Spice Girls reunited for their 13-stop reunion tour, and while any Real Fan will tell you it doesn’t count without Victoria Beckham , it’s still exciting to think that a few select cities will get to revel in a live version of “Spice Up Your Life”
For any other group, it would be average. For the Fab Five, it was a bold step toward an even spicier , more grown-up persona. Imagine that the Spice Girls covered the Backstreet Boys’ “We Got It Goin’ On.” Now, imagine a pop song written from the perspective of the Spice World aliens. Enter: “Outer Space Girls,” a song that merges the worlds of boy-band beats, rhetoric about space travel, and the lyric “close encounters of the female kind.” Why NASA doesn’t use it today, I do not know.
Plus, it was the Girls’ first step into the world of obvious autobiographical writing. Because while any one of their songs could apply to their personal lives, only one event was enough to shake up Spice Girls fandom: the departure of Geri Halliwell. And while we all went on to comb through the lyrics of Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and/or literally any other pop star, “Goodbye” and it’s message of finality and endings ushered in an era of deep-seated lyrical analysis.
Plus, the lyrics were the stepping-stone from “Wannabe” to “2 Become 1.” Each member asserts herself as a woman of her own agency and reminds whoever it is she’s over it, moved on, and that she will decide the terms of her relationships. Which set us up for delivering the same type of discourse in “2 Become 1.” A true evolution.
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