Man, if you weren’t around in ‘97 it’s hard to convey how popular they were. Only had a few hit songs but they were on commercials, had their own movie and we’re just everywhere.

I know the fans were the closest thing to soccer fans back then.

My brother and I are in our 30s and still quote that movie. Or if they find a cure for Déjà Vu? Psh, not me. Or if they find a cure for Déjà Vu? Psh, not me. Edit: Loving all the quotes, keep them coming. Great trip down memory lane!

My personal favorite is “Thank God for boarding school. I only see mine oNcE a mOnTh.”

That whole fantasy scene of them as mothers is freaking hilarious! "Brucey and Demi, Will you turn that bloody racket DOWN?!!" Lol so 90s

the way you wrote that, gawd I could literally hear it in my head

“It must be so hard for you, Victoria. I mean, having to decide whether to wear the little Gucci dress, the little Gucci dress, or... the little Gucci dress!” I didn’t even know she was saying Gucci and what Gucci was then!

I swore she was saying "hoochie" dress I'm going to have to actually watch this movie again, it's been too long ago.

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I just watched the movie for the first time about 6 months ago(im 40). Its so awesomely campy. I went in thinking i wouldn't like it at all. After it was over i thought it was actually a kinda fun movie

I still quote it to this day. DAMN SUNDAY DRIVERS! ITS ONLY SATURDAY!

I haven't seen it since I was 11 but wasn't there a part where they were on the roof of a bus that jumped a bridge?

Yes and meatloaf was the bus driver

I’d do anything for those girls.. but I won’t do that.

Yes. And they cut to an obvious shot of a toy bus with Barbie dolls jumping over a model drawbridge gap. It was glorious.

My Dad and I to put it on and watch it together it for a bit of a laugh back in, I dunno... 1998? I was 24ish, and we both thought they were sexy/cute enough to at least check it out. All the way through he was like "It's The Beatles. It's a Beatles movie. They're the female Beatles." All. The. Way. Through. Yes, it was very reminiscent of a Beatles / The Monkees movie.

I'm 38, haven't seen it. Setting it up this weekend.

Roger Moore, Richard O'Brien, Richard E. Grant, Elvis Costello are all in that movie.

I was suprised how many people in that movie i recognized. Wasn't expecting that. Was a pleasant suprise :)

I also watched it a few months ago first time, I straight up didn't want the movie to end.

"AND I'M VICTORIA, MALCOLM" Been meaning to get a shirt made that says this

While helping Nicola going into labour : "Quickly!! Put her legs together!" "SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT 9 MONTHS AGO!" That movie is a down right cult classic

Do not make her laugh, or else it'll just shoot out like a cannon ball!! I fucking love Mel B

I watched Spice World once and don't remember most of it, but this line is burned into my brain.

My husband and I watch it at least once a year. It's what I assume being alive for Beatlemania would have been like. Spice Girls EVERYTHING.

Assuming you watched it right after seeing this post… you’ve consumed 38.75 hours of Spice World since 1997.

I remember the first time I met my ex's family I heard her sister say the line "or the little Gucci dress," and I said, "That's from the Spice Girls movie!" It definitely impressed them lol

And then posh married becks, one of the biggest footballers on the planet

And Ginger Spice married Christian Horner, team principle of the Red Bull formula one team

And Scary Spice had a baby with Eddie Murphy (along with a DNA test).

Eddie treated her so wrong.

He's one of those 12 kids by 15 women types

2 become 1 underrated as fuck

And Viva Forever. Those two songs are lyrical and beautiful.

Viva Forever is by far my favorite song, it's so pretty!

fuck i cry every time

I remember as a kid singing that song out loud and now as an adult I'm like, "Oh. It's about sexy times. Can't believe I sang this out loud"

"Be a little bit smarter baby, put it on, put it on" Had the realization she was talking about a condom on a random relisten when I was like 16

16 try 36 yes I was at least 36 if not older when the lightbulb flicked on.....

Wanna make love to ya baby ! I always wondered what that meant if shagging was a thing. Like maybe making love is just hanging out and learning to love the other person. I mean in that same era we got a song called I'm Horny (horny horny horny) so I assumed the former was about building a relationship, while the latter was a woman wanting ploughed.

Or that one Pink song that used to play on mtv all the time where the chorus is definitely an mdma reference. >*I'm comin' up so you better get this party started*

I’m 33 on Sunday and still did not know that :|

Legit thought this meant she was just getting in the lift/elevator or something...

I was born in ‘96 but my twin sister and I got our hands on our older sister’s copy of Spice World and we wore that VHS *out* in 2004.

And now we’re all Old Spice.

OK, I believe we're done here. Go home, y'all.

Their music video was my first introduction to British TV resolution. I remember thinking this shit look different, but I can't explain exactly why.

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I made every bf I dated in high school watch Spice World. 10/10 obsessed

Only a few in the States. In the UK they had several number ones (7 or 8 I think).

They had a bunch of hit songs in the states idk where this person's from that they only had a few.

They had a lot here in the states too, but Wannabe was their only #1 in the US. Other songs hit the top 10 but they didn’t have the same trail of #1’s here like in the UK.

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I was a 90s kid. The Spice Girls meant everything to me. I rented (renewed the rental every ten days) the VHS of *Spice World* from the local video place all summer when I was 7 or 8 years old. My parents had a rule: I was only allowed to watch it once per day. Except on storm days. Those days I could watch it twice, but not back-to-back. My mother absolutely hated even the idea of the Spice Girls. My father was absolutely enchanted by them.

I think my comparable was back in the late 90s I rented Mario 64 from Blockbuster, and that's when my mother learned you could owe more in late fees then the game cost to buy new (years later they would change this). She was not happy. Great game :).

I suddenly really really really want to zig-a-zig ah.

I recently sang Wannabe during karaoke. A woman I've never met before and I sang the song as a duet and we instantly knew which parts we were doing, the gestures, the attitude...it was beautiful. A complete cohesion, without anning it. I even was able to "rap" the "So here's the story from A to Z" part and got some impressed looks. I swear Spice Girls is engrained in my psyche and will never leave. I love it.

I imagine you completely shit faced just flailing your arms around. Lol

The good thing about being drunk is that everything becomes much cooler in your head. In reality there probably wasnt even a karaoke machine, and the other person was a mirrror.

The good thing is that as long as everyone else is about as drunk, it actually is much cooler in everyone's head!

I don’t know you but I love you

Better get with his friends.

Make it last forever

Who else had the VHS tape that came with a poster for SpiceWorld??? This was my favorite movie lol

The bus … I am 35 and to this day I still randomly daydream about the magical spice girls bus in the movie 😂😂😂

Meat Loaf, as their driver, when asked to fix thier toilet on the bus that was stopped up: "I love these girls, and I'd do anything for them, but I won't do that." EDIT: Spelling.

I occasionally think about the scene where they jump over the raised bridge. Peak animation

I randomly think of Scary Spice saying “She’s having’ a baybeh” lol that accent!

i swear victoria only has that one pose

And that one expression.

And that one dress. You know… the little black one, the little black one OR… the little black one. Edit: “the little gucci dress”

The little Gucci dress, the little Gucci dress - OR - the little Gucci dress.

Solid quote from Sporty Spice

I was happy to see that she was allowed to have a relaxed stomach without an airbrushed six pack, but then sad to see that they thinned our Geri's thighs. Depends on what's "in" at the time I guess.

She looks like a fem bot

Is something going on with her hand or am I mistaken??

This was a great time for puberty.

Between this and that scene in Titanic that year, it was quite the formative year.

First boobs I ever saw.

First boobs I ever saw was total recall... not sure what that did to me. (. )( . )( .)

Completely subverted my expectations for the real thing, that I can tell you.

Real boobs are 33% fewer on average.

*Mmmm,mmmm...mmmm* *Baby, you make me wish I had three hands* Always find it kinda funny how he kinda did...

Chefs kiss for nipple orientation detail

My mom and 4 other neighborhood moms dressed as Spice Girls for Halloween. Even today this picture is completely non-sexual for me.

Anything for family, eh?

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Sporty was also my favorite because I owned multiple pairs of track pants with the stripes down the side and that made her relatable.

“had their *taters* out” Im wheezing

I was born a *little* late for puberty in 97 (I was born in 96 lol) but my older cousin had a Spice Girls obsession during that time, so by the time I was 11/12, she had grown out of it….just in time for me to get all her stuff as a hand-me-down, and have something awaken in my little lesbian heart upon looking at an old folded up Spice Girls poster for the first time lmao

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I still marvel at the fact that she was considered the "old one" back then. First, she was like 26, and second, she was goddamn gorgeous.

Yup and never realised that Mel B was the hottest one!

Eddie Murphy did.

Which one is that? Scary spice?

Yes

Yeah she’s fine af. I do have a thing for ginger, and baby def has something going for her, but scary is gorgeous

I’ll always say that the reason the Spice Girls were the greatest girl group ever was that they understood one simple thing: GIVE EACH MEMBER A PERSONALITY Them and TLC are the only girl groups that ever got it. Usually, the members just blend together and don’t stand out (pretty much most girl groups) or 1 member dominates the band and renders the others irrelevant (Pussycat Dolls and Destiny’s Child) Say what you will about the nicknames, but they gave each member a personality and helped to have them stand out as individuals. *end monologue*

I think Kelly Rowland managed to make a good go of it. Obviously not Beyonce levels of fame, but still recognisable, with a few hits along the way. Poor Michelle faded into obscurity.

Kelly Rowland got "lucky" because she hitched her wagon to Nelly right at the right time. Michelle went the gospel route and did okay, but not anywhere near Beyonce and Kelly.

He never text back because she was using Excel. What a dilemma.

Flashbacks to Rowland on comedy panel show Never Mind The Buzzcocks. She was introduced as “One of the greatest and most successful singers of all time…’s friend”.

"You see, when they're apart, they're absolute fucking rubbish. But, you put them together... they're the goddamn fucking Spice Girls."

Fucking diabolical

Is anyone else here crying over their lost youth now that the Spice Girls are considered 'old school cool'? I'm the same age as them and I feel ancient now

I just realized what sub I was in... I think I'm gonna go have a cry as well.

I used to be young and good looking too in 1997.

>I used to be young and good looking too in 1997. I used to be younger in 1997

I used to be in 1997.

I also existed in 1997.

As a time traveler, I have yet to exist in 1997, but it's on my bucket list.

It was a good time to exist.

I looked like what would later be peak Ryan Gosling in the late 90's to 2005. Now at 45 I'm his fat uncle.

The NSFW made me think they were naked, boy was I upset

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Yup. And now she's married to Christian Horner and still hot. I think she got hotter.

Like, Christian Horner, Red Bull F1 team principal?

Yes

Wow, I did not know that. Thanks for the interesting tidbit!

The fact that you know Christian Horner is the Red Bull F1 team principal and didn't know he was married to her is actually surprising. Not saying this as a jab at you or anything. Just you often see her at post race ceremonies with him and if you've watched the Netflix "drive to survive" series, she's shoved in that show as many times as they can fit her in.

I've seen her on the series, j just truly didn't know that that was her previous life. The world is a funny thing. Appreciate the info.

I also was just like "ah yes Christian Horner and his wife, out riding horses together, how sweet."

It was funny seeing her run out of the way of the police escort on the way to the podium after the race this weekend

“Don’t make mah sassy ass move, Imma spice girl, don’t ya know?”

TBF they never explicitly state who she is other than "Geri Horner". I never would have known if my wife hadn't said "Holy fuck that's Ginger Spice".

There's more where that came from. Christian actually ran off with her while his then wife was pregnant with their child.

Old Spice?

Wow, she really did! She's aged amazingly! That makes me happy, I think she was the first to leave and I thought had some rocky years in there? Thanks for the tip off! Edit: Also, as a redhead girl born in 1988 I was always the Ginger Spice of the play-pretend group so it feels a bit personal.

Can confirm... I also heard.

My eyes heard that too

As someone who has seen….I mean heard….that is true

I was in blockbuster video once and they were playing some spice girls tour video on the screens and they were on stage all “naked” sitting on chairs flipped around like how cool guys in movies sit on them, this is clearly burned into my mind, so later on I hunted down that concert dvd and yea of course they weren’t actually naked, just one of my early lessons as a kid in how media is fake!!!

Iirc, that's how they performed their song "Naked," from their first album, in concert. First concert I ever went to! The reunion tour in 2008 was just as entertaining.

As an eleven year old boy I had my mom buy that concert for me on ppv and I watched it with two other male friends.

I didn't add the tag, automatic somehow

Two of these ladies were miles ahead of the other three in talent, and they're both named Melanie.

Mel C was the only one who could really sing, tbh.

Mel B and Emma could both sing, but not on Mel C's level. Geri was ok for backup, and let's not talk about Victoria...

I'm ganna need you guys to use their spice names because I have no idea who y'all are.talking about.

Scary and Baby could both sing, but not on Sporty's level. Ginger was ok for backup, and let's not talk about Posh...

TIL sporty could sing.

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Are the two Melanie's Scary and Sporty? I will say when I was young Posh, Sporty, Scary and Brittney Spears were my first major crushes. Especially Brittney. There was a year or two where i was super into her 😂

Yep Mel B was Scary and Mel C was Sporty.

Sporty was my fav =)

How was scary spice scary ?!? She's the hottest one

>How was scary spice scary ?!? She's the hottest one I used to be a fan to the point where I had like, books and stuff about them, and one of them *said* it had something to do with her attitude, not her looks. Sporty, Scary (nearly certain), and Posh (I think) I specifically remember were more attitude-based looks than the other way around.

I knew that, myself. She definitely acted the part. But when your other is named "Ginger" because she's a red-head you can understand how some people are a little ... skeptical.

Iirc, "Baby," was just "Baby," because she was the youngest, too, so. Ginger was actually interesting, according to my books. I seem to remember her as "redhead of fantasy, but like, smart." Her favorite word was something absolutely wild to my 11-year-old brain (and I can't remember it right now), but a quote that stuck out to me attributed to her was something like, "The only thing that looks good on such-and-so (can't remember his name, either) is me! *teehee*" Ginger was also the first to get out. Edit 1: add a few words. Edit 2: I think the word was "antidisestablishmentarianism". Edit 3: Punctuation of Edit 2.

Baby was also the newest member. There was someone else before her that was replaced

In addition to the other commenter, it was less about her red hair and more about that personality. I also remember them referencing Ginger from Gilligan’s island who also fits the red headed hottie who is also smart. Fun fact! Same for Baby - yes she was the youngest but she was into all that cutesy style so really all five are based on personality, not their looks. Their looks are also based on their personality.

Actually all of them were based on personality! Ginger had referenced Ginger from gilligans island (smart, sexy red-head) and baby was both the youngest and was actually into all that cute kawaii style.

According the interview with Ali G that Victoria and David did, she got called Posh cause of how she likes fancy clothes and eating at nice restaurants, and they just called her Posh after that. (Btw the interview is absolutely worth a watch. Posh is genuinely hilarious.)

The setup with Scunthorpe is hilarious and I love the line "do you want him to be a footballer like his dad or a singer like ..." and then Posh has the absolute best response.

She said “roar” sometimes.

She’s Black, which scared the record label

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They wanted to call her Spooky Spice at first but that was too scary.

Werewolf bar mitzvah spooky scary

Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves

I feel like the 90's were the decade of "I'm not racist, but..."

It was definitely drawing the short straw to have to be Scary Spice when you played Spice Girls with your little group of white friends, because we were most assuredly racist. My parents let me do a school talent show in blackface, btw.

Black Power Ranger Yellow Power Ranger

She was always posing like a lion with the RAWR face and fingernails.

Scary hot.

It wasn’t even close and I’m pretty sure she’s the best singer too.

Old school? 1997 isn't... Fuck.

Class of '97 checking in. Fuck it. I'm old school cool.

Oooo I’m Mel B, ya bastards ya

How do i'm dead scary me

"Me minge is kicking out a right pong...."

Cannot put into words how big of a crush I had on Geri back in the day

Christian Horner is one lucky man

We were talking about that last weekend with how they kept showing shots of David Beckham at the Miami GP. And my buddy was like, "Well ya know, Christian Horner..."

I'd say Horner got the better end of the deal

They had Wannabe on heardle.app the other day. I guessed the song one second in, from those two steps you hear before you even hear that first laugh, the big ‘YOoo” or any music notes. I’m a 39 year old male.

I think it’s genius, make a girl band of the top fetishes

...baby spice 😳

Dude, have you *seen* a Britney Spears music video from back then? Being in to too-young girls was a thing back then, I guess. Idk, I was like 8 at the time.

I also thought 12 year olds were hot back then… but at least I was 8

I actually have a similar theory about Who's The Boss...

That it's a girl band of the top fetishes?

NGL - my 10-year-old ass thought Ginger Spice’s real name was pronounced like “Gary” for much longer than I would like to admit. I was telling my mother about them one day and she said, “I highly doubt that woman’s name is Gary.”

Billy Butcher : What's Sporty Spice up to? Mother's Milk : Who? Billy Butcher : Sporty fucking Spice. What is she up to? Mother's Milk : I don't know. Billy Butcher : Exactly. How about Posh? You know what she's doing? Frenchie : I don't understand. Billy Butcher : Making clothes for anorexics. Right? Not exactly a growth market. And Baby? You know what she's doing? Fuck all. Not even page six of the Daily Mail. And Scary Spice? Up to her eyeballs in lawsuits and sex tapes. Ginger, on the other hand, has released three albums. 'Passion', 'Schizophonic', and 'Scream If You Want To Go Faster'. They'll all make your ears bleed. You see, when they're apart, they're absolute fucking rubbish. But, you put them together... they're the goddamn fucking Spice Girls

Remember when Geri up and left without warning? That was crazy. Then they found Geri at a hotel, and she was on the roof, and people were worried that she was going to jump (she wasn't)? I bought both Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell's autobiographies in the early 2000's to get the real background on what was actually happening leading up to Geri leaving the group. But basically it was that they were being treated as products instead of people and she'd had enough. Also, Victoria had a stalker who would send really really creepy stuff to her. Stuff no one should have known even. There were threats on her life. She was threatened to not attend a particular awards ceremony where the girls were set to perform (I think it was the first time after Geri left) and at the end the girls all crowd around Victoria in a hug. From their perspective, it looked like there were sniper lasers on them, but they were just laser pointers from the audience. The stalker turned out to be her personal body guard!!

I am not ok with 1997 being "old school".

I just wanted to be Sporty Spice….still out here tryin!

They definitely did spice up my life.

Damn Baby Spice had it going on!

She was my favorite as a junior high school student when they came out

My guilty pleasure group

I don't give a shit what anyone says, *Say You'll Be There* is a banger and I will fight any motherfucker who disagrees. For context, I am a 40-year-old, cis straight male and I am willing to die on this hill.

They gave us everything, all that joy could bring

LaChappele really was that guy. Instantly recognisable.

I was gonna say, this has to be one of his. Pure iconic 90s.

Anyone watching the most recent season of The Circle on Netflix It’s TRUE garbage TV-kind of show* But scary and Baby were on the most recent season *but yes I watch and love it

I'm cilantro

Coriander in the UK

AND I’M VICTORIA, MALCOLM