♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- What is this?
- (amused) Oh, is this Spice Girls?
- Spice Girls.
(singer laughs)
- ♪ Yo, I'll tell you what I want ♪ - I love this!
- This is, like, my childhood song.
- ♪ Really, really, really wanna zigazig ha ♪
♪ If you want my future, forget my past ♪
- Remember how good old music is.
- This is definitely on my, like, Spotify party music list.
- I literally don't even know who sings this.
I don't know who this is. I've just heard it a thousand times.
- ♪ I'll tell you what I want ♪
- (singing along) ♪ What I really, really want ♪
♪ So tell me what you want, what you really, really want ♪
- ♪ I wanna, I wanna really, really, really ♪
- Yes.
- ♪ If you wanna be my lover ♪
- The temptation to sing along is so intense.
- (singing along) ♪ If you wanna be my lover ♪
♪ You got to get with my friends ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Make it last forever ♪
♪ Friendship never ends ♪
- ♪ If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give ♪
♪ Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is ♪
- Is that Mel B? Yeah, she's a judge on America's Got Talent now.
- ♪ ...G like MC who likes it on an... ♪
- This is a really weird music video.
- I feel like this is one of those songs
that every single person knows the chorus
but doesn't know any of the verses.
- ♪ If you wanna be my lover ♪
- This is gonna get stuck in my head for days now.
- ♪ Make it last forever ♪
- I mean, it's a little cheesy, a little corny.
- Is it bad that I know every word to this song?
- No, I do too.
- ♪ Slam your body down zigazig ah ♪
- They're so cute. I just love 'em. They're such iconic people.
- It's a catchy song. It's a classic.
- It's so catchy. Everybody is like, "They have to sing to it."
- (FBE) We're now gonna show you a medley
of more of this group's songs. - Oh, okay.
- I don't even know if I've heard their other music.
- ♪ I'm giving you everything ♪
- Are they singing in the middle of a desert somewhere?
- This is such '90s.
- ♪ Give you everything ♪
♪ And all that I want... ♪ - Honestly, I don't know any
of their other songs.
- ♪ ...promise you will be there ♪
- Yeah, I don't know that one.
- Considering I know when this came out,
yeah, it's pretty good for the time.
- ♪ 'Cause tonight is the night ♪
- I have never seen these videos, and they're so cool.
- ♪ I need some love like I've never... ♪
- That's an interesting setting.
- ♪ Wanna make love to ya, baby ♪
♪ I had a little love ♪ - This is kinda cringey.
- ♪ ...back for more ♪
♪ Wanna make love to ya, baby ♪ - This sounds so familiar,
but I don't know if I've heard it before.
- ♪ It's the only way to be ♪
- I don't like that song. It was kind of boring.
- That video just looks really weird.
I think it's just 'cause it's a '90s thing, I guess.
- ♪ Colors of the world, spice up your life ♪
♪ Every boy and every girl, spice up your life ♪
♪ People of the world ♪
- Oh, I'm pretty certain I've heard this one before.
- ♪ Slam it to the left ♪ - I've never heard this song.
- ♪ If you know that you feel fine ♪
♪ Chicas to the front, uh, uh ♪ - Okay, I've heard this song.
- Some science-fiction thing going on here.
- ♪ Shake it to the right if you know that you feel fine ♪
- "Spice Girls Coffee." That's amazing.
- ♪ Hi Ci Ya ♪ - Wait, is it the Spice Girls?
Oh, okay! I do know who this is!
- ♪ Stop right now ♪
♪ Thank you very much ♪
- This one's not bad.
- Well, they're very cute. I'll give 'em that.
- ♪ Hey you, always on the run ♪
♪ Gotta slow it down, baby ♪
♪ Gotta have some fun ♪
- I don't understand any of their music videos at all.
- That was painful.
It's too goofy. And I'm...
Oh. That was so bad.
- ♪ Goodbye, my friend ♪
♪ I know you're going searching ♪
- I don't know this one either.
- ♪ It's not the end ♪
- It seems like they're going to a funeral,
but they're all smiling super happily.
- ♪ So glad we made it ♪
♪ Time will never change it ♪
♪ No, no, no ♪
♪ No, no, no, no ♪
- (feigning excitement) Okay. Spice Girls.
I know nothing about them.
- For me, that was like enough Spice Girls for like a decade.
I'm done now.
- I could understand the nostalgia behind them.
- They're iconic, I think, '80s or '90s pop girl band.
And it's kinda hard just not to like them
or at least appreciate them.
- They are always gonna be a classic band,
'cause everybody knows who they are, the Spice Girls.
They represent a lot of girl power, girl femininity.
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- (FBE) So what do you think of the Spice Girls?
- They were really weird.
- Personally, it's not my type of music.
- They have a few catchy songs.
- It's cheesy, but it's okay if you like it.
- It felt very cheesy, but that's what made it so amazing.
- If I lived in the '90s,
I probably would've really been into them.
- They're like the epitome of a girl band.
Like, if you want to be a girl band,
you'd model it to some extent after the Spice Girls.
- (FBE) Well, the Spice Girls
are an English pop girl group from the '90s.
And we're covering them today because their first album, Spice,
is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
- Oh, nice.
- Wow, that's amazing. I wouldn't have known that.
- Wow, okay. Well, they're older than me.
- (FBE) How do the Spice Girls compare to girl groups of today?
- I couldn't tell you,
'cause I don't listen to girl groups of today.
- I know of Fifth Harmony.
And so similar. The music videos, the dancing, the music.
Like, very similar.
- They're much more classier than they are today.
Little Mix and Fifth Harmony, I feel like they're kind of--
they want to make another Spice Girls,
but you can't really compare to the first.
- I don't think they're as sexual as I'd say
a lot of girl groups are today.
- A lot of media nowadays is all about sexuality
and showing off your body and whatnot.
But in those videos, there wasn't really much of that going on.
They were kinda-- they have full-on coats on in one of them,
which is totally crazy to think about
compared to what we see in music videos now.
- They were having more general empowerment of girls and women.
But nowadays I feel-- this is just me.
But I feel like girl bands are more empowering
based off of guys.
- They're trying to be-- yeah. - I guess so it's like, yes,
you guys broke up, but you don't need him.
Okay, but why have the guy there anyways?
Just make a song about empowering girls.
- One of the most famous things about the group
was that they each had their own nickname.
Do you know what they were? - I have no idea.
- Argh, I can't remember, but I definitely know,
'cause my friends talk about them all the time.
- Isn't it, like, Ginger?
That's all I know.
- The only one I remember is Scary Spice.
- Scary Spice, Posh Spice.
That's all I know.
- Baby Spice. There's Sporty Spice.
Ginger Spice?
I don't know the other two.
- Posh Spice, Baby Spice.
And then... I'm just gonna go with
Cayenne and Paprika and Cinnamon.
- (FBE) We're gonna walk you through some of their nicknames now.
Okay? - All right.
- (FBE) This is Sporty Spice.
- "Sporty Spice." Wow, that's a great name.
- I guess, yeah, she looks pretty sporty.
She looks pretty athletic.
- She's holding a weight in her hand.
She's a fitness gal.
- (FBE) And this is Baby Spice.
- Oh, I can see how. 'Cause she has a baby face.
- She looks like a 22-year-old
who can't get out of her childhood.
- The other girl, she looked a little athletic.
This one, she's looking like-- with the pigtails.
You know? A little babyish.
- That's kinda weird.
Why are you equating yourself with being younger than you are?
But okay.
- (FBE) And this one is Ginger Spice.
- Hey, that's the one that I knew.
I was like, "She's pretty cute."
- Ginger? Oh, 'cause she's a redhead, okay.
- Ginger Spice. Oh, ginger. - Oh, Ginger, yeah.
That makes sense. - Uh-huh, I got you.
- Those shoes, oh my gosh, I need those in my life.
- Where's Pumpkin Spice?
Ha-ha! Sorry.
- (FBE) This is Scary Spice. - Scary Spice.
I suppose that hairdo is kind of terrifying.
- Her style's a little more edgy.
- Is she a judge on something? I feel like she's a judge on
America's Got Talent?
- Did Scary Spice become Mel B
who's the new person on America's Got Talent?
Got it!
- (FBE) Finally, this is Posh Spice. - Posh. Ooh, she's cute.
- Posh Spice. Okay, I can see why they call her that.
- "Posh" means, like,
privileged or dress up nice and whatnot.
She might be the most famous. She might be the most rich.
- (FBE) So Posh's real name was Victoria Adams.
But then she got married, and now she is Victoria Beckham.
- Oh! Okay.
- Whaat? I didn't know that.
- She's married to David Beckham.
- What the heck?
David Beckham's a lucky guy.
- (FBE) So finally, their album Spice ended up selling
over 31 million copies worldwide... - That's impressive.
- (FBE) ...making it the best-selling album
by a female group in history.
- Wow, okay. Well, go Spice Girls.
- Yes, represent, girls.
- (FBE) When you combine that album's sales
with the rest of the Spice Girls' album sales,
it's over 80 million albums sold,
which some say makes them the biggest British phenomenon
since the Beatles. - That's crazy.
- That's kinda scary.
I would never want to associate them and the Beatles.
- (FBE) They had sold-out tours.
They had tons of merchandise.
They even made a movie called Spice World.
- (amused) They did? They had a movie?
- Really? Oh, wow, I've never even heard of that.
- I feel like I've heard of that before
but never actually seen it.
- You know that was a bad movie.
I've never even seen it or heard of it,
but I can just tell it was bad.
- (FBE) If the Spice Girls were around today,
would they still be able to achieve this kind of success?
- Sadly, I don't think so.
I don't think that their particular sound
would go well in today's music industry.
- I think if One Direction's still relevant,
then yes, they'd be able to do it.
- Yes.
I still listen to their songs, and my friends love their songs.
- I think so.
- Probably. - I think they would have to conform
a little bit to fit modern music.
- If it's completely new, I think someone would've took it on.
But I'm not sure if it would've had the exact success it did,
because their outfits and the way they shot their music videos.
And even the music was definitely like '80s, '90s culture.
And the culture we have today is so much different.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Teens React.
- If you really, really, really want to see more, subscribe.
- Bye, guys. Make sure you spice up your life.
- Hey, guys. It's Kyle, associate producer here at FBE
and super-fan of the Spice Girls.
They were actually my first concert that I ever went to.
What are your memories of the Spice Girls?
Do you have any? Let us know in the comments.
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