I was listening to the discography, and I must say I can not listen to Wannabe anymore. I mean it’s a fun song but Holler aged so well. For the video to the beat.
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Holler was the right sound and the right progession for them to make at the time. Even more as a quartet post Geri and the changing pop landscape since Goodbye.
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I agree. Sadly, Spicemania was already gone, but the Forever album was wrongfully criticized at the time for sounding "“old” etc, and if they had just pushed it more, it could have done miracles.
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Holler absolutely deserves to have a viral moment!
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It was just the whole blink and you miss it era of Forever that sucked I think. Not the album itself.
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Holler is that bitch and she knows it.
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If I never heard Wannabe again I wouldn’t be mad.
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Wannabe for me is still as fresh as it was back in 1996, so I’ll gladly play it. I think I’m kinda over “Stop” though, the amount of “Stop to No. 1” things during the mid 2000s kinda overdid it for me.
Because I feel like it! The singles ranking of 96–00:
1.Spice Up Your Life
2.Viva Forever
3.Who Do You Think You Are
4.Holler
5.Stop
6.Say You’ll Be There
7.Goodbye
8.Too Much
9.2 Become 1
10.Mama
11.Wannabe
12.Let Love Lead The Way
None of these are bad by the way. I just prefer some more than others naturally. And yes I did almost forget about Let Love Lead The Way. Pleasant and I do enjoy it. But lacks something compared to their other ballads, plus Wannabe IS more iconic so does go above it.
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Forever an R&B girlie.
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Doing a “Solo Spice” one of these soon
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Settled down to their US tour documentary again last night.
Still one of my favourite comfort watches when I’m wanting something calm and soothing to help me relax. But I just know the GP must have been very confused - expecting a loud, brash and colourful account of their life on tour and getting something so…sedate and almost depressing in tone. But for me it’s so real and a true insight into their life on the road, especially in that immediate post-Geri period when they must have been so exhausted and unsure of what the future held for them.
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Oh. Holler is very cool and made the Girls sound more modern… Still it lacks the power and soul of their older hits, maybe it’s also because it is the lead single without Geri.
I enjoyed Headlines both as the moment of their full reunion in a song and as a nice tune around Christmas time. Pity an album did not follow.
Spice Up Your Life was the first Girls’s song which I heard, in 1997. I always perceived it as very crazy and intensive. And I like it. Wannabe is great and iconic. The only thing is that is sounds trite nowadays, played hundred of times with every retro playlist and so on. Same thing with Baby One More Time or Bad Guy but does it make them uncool? Nah…
Other single hits by Spice Girls I enjoy a LOT:
Goodbye
Viva Forever
2 Become 1
Say You’ll Be There
Too Much
Mama
My first post belongs here and nowhere else - girl power!
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I mean it’s totally worth watching for the ambience music they use in it. Such a time capsule of a documentary.
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What an era. We will never ever see the like again. Greatest Girl Group of all time.
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Same I will never love another pop act with the same level of passion.
For better or worse they own my 
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I always feel so lucky I got to grow up during Spicemania.
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Listening to Victoria’s unreleased Open Your Eyes album. Just wow. We lost out on so much great pop music in the mid-aughts.
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Me too. What a time that was! Such fun. The whole pop world felt, and was, so different back then. The first time I saw the Spice Girls was in my local park at a Radio One roadshow, they’d just released Wannabe. I was hooked from then on.
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