In the mid-nineties, there was no radio station that did not play non-stop Wannabe, the theme of some British girls that remains in the collective memory of an entire generation: “If you want my future, forget my past // if you want to be with me, you better hurry // don’t waste my precious time // for your sake life in order and we can be well.” With the Mel B’s latest statementsit seems that the fans’ dream of seeing Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Mel C, Mel B. and Emma Bunton on stage again, thirty years after its formationit’s already a chimera.
© GETTY IMAGESThe appropriate steps had been taken. In 2012, the dream was cherished when they got on stage together againwith the usual energy and its spirit of praise for feminine power, during the closing of the London Olympic Games. Then, not long ago, Victoria Beckham’s fiftieth birthdayalthough without cameras involved, they returned to their old ways and acted together. Without cameras, but with David Beckham recording with his cell phone the moment in which his wife and the other four Spices became the queens of the party. They broke out at Oswald’s, an exclusive London club, they sang Stop, They had fun, they made the attendees dance to the celebration, among whom were Tom Cruise and Guy Ritchie, and revalidated their title of incombustibles. On that occasion, Victoria Beckham revealed that she had been one of the funniest nights of his life.
© GETTY IMAGESthat moment Stop It made a plethora of fans dream that, in 2024, there would be a tour with all of them to commemorate three decades of the birth of that global phenomenon that was the emergence of the Spices in the recording industry. In 2019, almost two decades after its dissolutionthey starred in a tour… but without Victoria, because she had decided to focus all her forces on her role as a businesswoman and designer.. In 2024 it seemed that yes, that all of them, like in the old days, would go on tour, but again a series of disagreements has prevented it.
© GETTY IMAGESThe reasons for ‘no’
After months of teasing out the “yes” or “no” daisy, Mel B has just made some statements that clearly tip the balance towards him there will be no tour. Melanie Janine Brown, from Yorkshire (England), defines herself as an intense northern girl who says things exactly as she thinks them.
The forty-nine-year-old singer said, in a program sky maxone of the reasons for the disagreement between the members of the most successful band of the nineties. According to Mel B, her colleagues, last April, They had expelled her from the WhatsApp group for insisting so much about the tour. “We will definitely do something, but if I keep talking they will kick me out of the (Whattsapp) group again.” Furthermore, he made a comment that has had a lot of echo. Mel B. He called the other Spice Girls “imbeciles”although as he points out The Independent This outburst was released in a tone that was more sarcastic than real. Mel B. is the strongest defender of that meeting and its intensity has come to saturate other colleagues who, like Victoria Beckhamdo not have a Spice Girls reunion among their priorities.
© GETTY IMAGESWhat happened to make the first big girl-band of history would collapse and separate back in the year 2000? And why, although their story and music continue to attract interest, do they not return through the front door to the stage? To elucidate everything that happened, we must explore its origins. It all started in 1994 when a casting call was called to form a girl group capable of overshadowing the power of the men’s group of the eighties. The Jackson 5, in the seventies, showed the way; Later, The Beach Boys came, but the nineties fever offered the choreography and music of Take That, New Kids of the Block or the Backstreet Boys.
In that effervescent musical climate, the Spice Girls emerged. It was never hidden that it was a “prefabricated” group, which emerged from an audition attended by more than four hundred young people. Of those girls full of sleep only five achieved their goal. Curiously, the first to get a resounding yes from the jury was Mel B. who dared to talk about Whitney Houston The Greatest Love of All; Then, it was Victoria Adams’s turn (her maiden name), dressed in stark black, who performed a legendary song: Mein Herr, the one that Liza Minnelli embroidered in Cabaret. He passed the test, although he received an unflattering comment about his physique: “I didn’t have very good skin.” Mel C. opted for the Pointer Sisters with their I’m so excited. The next chosen was Geri Halliwell who, according to Mel B. herself in a documentary called Spice Girls: the price of fame, They recruited her more than for her talent for singing and dancing for her overwhelming personality and extravagant style: “She seemed like an eccentric crazy woman from another planet.” Finally, after trying with Michelle Stephenson and Lianne Morgan, Emma Bunton joined the band in December 1994. The Spice Girls were already a global phenomenon.
© GETTY IMAGESThe cracks
From 1994 to 2000, the Spice Girls achieved it all. The figures obtained were overwhelming. You may like them or not, but they clearly struck a chord with an entire generation because, who can boast today of having more than one hundred million certified albums sold? They.
His concept of Girl Power crossed borders. With Wannabe They triumphed and went to number one… in forty-one countries! They became a symbol not of a single concept of femininity, but of the different aspects of that femininity. Because there was Emma, Baby Spice, with a childish and naive touch that captivated some; but also Mel B, Scary Spice, daring, outspoken, daring; Geri, aka Ginger Spice, redhead, extravagant, unique; either Victoria, the Posh Spicewho was already showing off her elegance, and Melanie C, the Sporty Spice. The girls of the time felt identified with one or the other. On the stages they displayed their charms; Musically, critics said that they made the poppiest pop that had ever existed. However, although they seemed to be part of a perfect machine on stage and in the cinema – they triumphed with their Spice World The Movie1997 – the cracks did not take long to appear.
© GETTY IMAGESOn the last day of May 1998, Geri Halliwellthrough his lawyer, confirmed that he was leaving the group for “differences from the others”. A jug of cold water poured over the fans. Since then, the remaining quartet tried, by all means, to continue fighting as a group for their musical dreams, but in 2000 they announced that they were taking a break, with no return date.
In 2019, two decades after their dissolution, all of them returned, except Victoria Beckham. Ginger Spice He surprised everyone by singing mea culpa at the last concert of the tour: “I need to say something I should have said a long time ago: I’m sorry. “I’m sorry I left, I behaved like a little girl… It’s wonderful to have returned with these girls that I adore so much.”
© GETTY IMAGESDespite their differences, their private and public arguments, the Spice Girls know that they were a phenomenon of global repercussion. Their lives have followed five different paths; sometimes, they argue; Sometimes, they meet privately and remember those times when they had the world at their feet; Normally, they forgive each other. The most rebellious, Geri, left her excesses behind and converted to Christianity; Emma Bunton is a happy mother; Mel C. continues to struggle within the demanding musical career; Victoria has positioned herself at the top of the fashion world; and Mel B. works to overcome a long, traumatic marriage.
And who says there won’t be a reunion later? After all, to paraphrase the tango, thirty “years is nothing.”