I just want to acknowledge that the Spice Girls reforming and playing to sold out shows goes well beyond beating a dead horse. This is kind of like hybrid cars: look, here’s something that is a bad thing dressed up to feel good in new marketing! New marketing! Oh man, now that makes it suddenly all better.
That the Spice Girls are playing a sold out 17 night run of shows at the O2 Arena in London speaks to the indoctrination of many young girls during the Spice Girls first run as living Barbie Dolls regurgitating manufactured production-line pop on demand. It was crap then and it is crap now. They are not important, useful or nostalgic. May they harvest the masses for their gullible dollars one last time and cease to exist.
Seeing the Spice Girls in their push-up bras singing about “girl power” is far from empowerment and much more about selling out all over again a generation of women to their right to liberation.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I remember being about 13 years old or something, probably even younger (which shows you how ancient and embedded the crawling darkness that is the Spice Girls really is) and listening to Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and the number one was this song I’d never heard before that started “Well I’ll tell what I want…” and I thought “mate, that is the worst song I’ve ever heard - how can this be popular?”.
I take from this that I am so spectacularly off the pulse of modern pop music that I could probably write for Pitchfork.