this is a joke, right? RIGHT?
photo credit: Associated Press.
A universe ago and a lifetime away, while I inhabited in the alternate reality known as “high school,” a British girl group called The Spice Girls entered American consciousness. What purpose they served, other than making for some REALLY great youth theatre drag inspiration, is beyond me. But we all knew then that they’d be big - even if they didn’t stay big. Some stars have staying power - I remember listening to “Ants Marching” when I was 10 or 11 and talking about Dave Matthews with my mom for a long time afterward. I remember the MTV special with Blues Traveler’s John Popper, where he went to buy a special harmonica because he could finally afford a really super-nice one. Dave and John are still making music, 1.5 decades later. We all rejoiced, on the other hand, when Posh, Sporty, Baby, sleepy happy grumpy bashful and doc Spice, seemingly exited the landscape as quickly as they entered it and went off to have babies and plastic surgery and do all the things vapid, wealthy women do. All was well, until I read my Yahoo entertainment news this morning. Seems they’re gearing up for a reunion tour. Yes, folks, quintet isn’t happy with royalties and solo careers and mommyhood. Oh, no, they have to bring their patriarchally-framed version of watered-down, stiletto-wearing, implant- and nose-job modified “girl power” to 11 cities around the globe in December and January. Tell you what I want, what I really, really want: for Victoria Beckham to eat a damned sandwich and stop naming her kids after cities.
Spice Girls, British musicians, concerts
July 1st, 2007 at 6:11 am
im actually a big fan of the group back then..i mean i guess they started the “girl power” thing. but i guess this reunion won’t be that big since their genre is already way way way out of the trend already.