Exactly two decades ago, five girls from London exploded onto the global pop-music scene in platform shoes. Time flies! Who remembers belting out the song? In the August issue of Marie Claire, Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell looks back at the beginnings of a Pop Culture phenomenon.
Quotes:
On Adele singing Spice Girls on Carpool Karaoke : “I felt so proud watching Adele on James Corden’s ‘Carpool Karaoke’…saying she loved the Spice Girls. She connected with us, she says, because we were just five ordinary girls who ‘got out.’ We all wanted to get out, stand up and be heard, be counted and have a voice that mattered…Our message screamed it for every girl…The Spice Girls is bigger than one, two, three, four, or five members. It belongs to us all.”
On girl power: “Girl power, for me, was a voice for the voiceless, screamed from a megaphone and kicked out hard: ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.”
On missing the initial audition: “I actually missed the first round of auditions because I was visiting my grandmother in Spain, but something told me to ring the managers behind the ad, Chris and Bob Herbert from Heart Management, to ask if they were still looking. They were…. I wonder if I would’ve made it if I’d been in line with all the hundreds of girls who initially auditioned.”
On the early days: “Five girls living together in a small three-bedroom house in Maidenhead, just outside London, was lots of fun, albeit at times tricky. I was the oldest at 22 and had already experienced living away from home, so the other girls probably found me to be quite bossy.”
On ‘Wannabe’: “It didn’t take any longer than a day to write ‘Wannabe.’ Mel B came up with the ‘zig-a-zig-ahh’ line—…The record execs were probably a bit horrified when they saw the video. They even wanted us to shoot a separate video for the American market, but we refused. This was our video, and this was what we wanted.”
On her first wow-we-did-it purchase: “A 1965 MGB Roadster for £15,000 [about $17,000].”
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