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As a 90s teenager I was not influenced by the Spice Girls!

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RecruitmentGuru · 26/04/2024 19:41

In fact I found them throughly frustrating and annoying! I had wide taste in music from Nirvana to Aaliyah! I even went to see Take That!

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JudgeJ · 27/04/2024 00:02

Denou · 26/04/2024 20:28

Some people don’t like the Beatles either. crazy innit.

That was me, I recall going into school after their first TV appearance on Granada's People and Places, everyone was raving about them except me, never did get to like them. I'd be about 15.

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RecruitmentGuru · 26/04/2024 23:57

Saschka · 26/04/2024 22:59

Thing is OP, I bet you were into Bananarama in 1987, and the Spice Girls were basically the same thing ten years later 🤷‍♀️

No as I was 7 so didn’t have access to pop music. My parents listened to music from their country of origin.

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phoenixrosehere · 26/04/2024 23:21

I liked them as a kid along with a lot of other genres of music. I was already girl power before I knew who they were so no they didn’t influence me but I enjoyed their music. I don’t think you have to be influenced by an artist’s or groups music to like them.

I still enjoy lots of different genres of music as an adult. I don’t understand the need to be annoyed by specific musicians and groups or have an issue with them because you didn’t/don’t like them and others do.

agncndmkd128494 · 26/04/2024 23:07

It depends on your age, I was a 90s teenager but just a bit too old for them, about 15 when they became big and I remember finding them annoying and something younger kids liked, I was more into alanis morisette/oasis and secretly take that haha.
I quite enjoy some of their music now though, they were pretty good looking back!

TuesdayWhistler · 26/04/2024 23:05

I was hardcore goth. Big old new rocks. Long coats. Leathers. Ripped up fishnet gloves. Black and orange nail varnish. And all the other stuff that 1995 said was edgy.. 🤣

People thought I was listening to my Discman with Metal like Maiden & Metallica & Marilyn Manson & Slipknot etc..

But I reality...

I was listening to Spice Girls and Kylie Minogue. 🤪🤣

Saschka · 26/04/2024 22:59

Thing is OP, I bet you were into Bananarama in 1987, and the Spice Girls were basically the same thing ten years later 🤷‍♀️

misssunshine4040 · 26/04/2024 22:57

I have a wide ranging taste in music and absolutely loved the Spice Girl vibe when I was 15.
They were cheesy but so much fun and a bit of girl power was very much needed.

They are not a serious/ talented musical band, we all know this ...but they absolutely smashed what they were there to do and made the 90's even more fun

AngelsWithSilverWings · 26/04/2024 22:56

Not sure why some
Posters are talking about 93 and 94 as they didn't realise their first single until 96.

I was at their first ever live appearance in 1996 and I was only vaguely aware of who they were. I was 26 so not really their target audience. I was there by accident really as my company had loads of last minute tickets for the fashion awards at the Albert Hall so a few of us went.

My niece was 3 at the time and became obsessed with them before moving on to S Club. I remember them being a tween thing ( and I think maybe the word tween was quite new then too)

I love them now - they were such fun.

underpresha · 26/04/2024 22:54

Spice Girls were marketing done brilliantly.
All style, very little substance.

Hoglet70 · 26/04/2024 22:52

They were shit.

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RecruitmentGuru · 26/04/2024 22:50

@OutOfTheHouse I feel like I'm seeing them everywhere again or is it my phone's algorithms?!!

Firstly VB 50th, then Geri and Mel B arguing over ages? I don't know why these stories keep appearing on my phone!!

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853ax · 26/04/2024 22:47

Yes it was younger ages into Spice Girls

OutOfTheHouse · 26/04/2024 22:47

Did you start this thread out of the blue or did someone say something? I feel like I’ve walked in half way through a conversation.

MillshakePickle · 26/04/2024 22:35

Kindleonfire · 26/04/2024 19:45

Did you not dress in stereotypical 90s fashion in anyway? I'm a 90s teenager hated the spice girls back then. I was far too cool to listen to that shit and was onto all my grunge, indie and rock etc.

I still had platform trainers, a line mini skirts and a pony tail with bits at the front. Still looked like a spice girl!

Absolutely this!!! Just in black with heavy eyeliner and spiked bracelets and a wallet chain.

cheesychipsontheoche · 26/04/2024 22:33

You're the same age as me.

At the time, I appreciated the spice girls as a "girl power" thing. I remember seeing wannabe on mtv and thinking they would be massive. Weren't my thing, but that was fine, I was an indie kid. We weren't so tribal back then.

Since then, I've been to see them live (was alright actually) as well as a whole load of other 90s bands. You get a different appreciation when you're older. It's all fun though.

Singers/non singers. That level of performance/dancing/keeping up public image is hard. I salute all of them who have managed to keep it up.

Rainydayze · 26/04/2024 22:28

JudgyGarland · 26/04/2024 20:40

So? Mel C can genuinely sing, most talent judges can't without auto tune.

I've got a lot of time for Mel B. Survived abusive relationship with cracking sense of humour. I can see why you would want her on a panel. Can't see any of the 90s cool band miseries cracking a joke.

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Agree re Mel B - her holding Eddie Murphy to account when he lied about paternity and her press statement when paternity was proven was great.

Musically SG are crap. But the documentary series which showed the sexism and media intrusion into their lives in the 90’s was interesting.

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RecruitmentGuru · 26/04/2024 22:26

People love to be cruel. It's odd, well it's not.

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RecruitmentGuru · 26/04/2024 22:25

And yes omg UK Garage!

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RecruitmentGuru · 26/04/2024 22:24

Btw what is a pick me girl?

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Crowgirl · 26/04/2024 22:23

NewYearNewName2024 · 26/04/2024 20:45

I'm younger than you and adored them, still do ✌️

Same. I love them so much. But I did also have my edgy days bit later.

Spice Girls were total joy. That musical in 2012 ish was terrible though.

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RecruitmentGuru · 26/04/2024 22:22

TheOriginalEmu · 26/04/2024 22:10

I was 16 when the spice girls became a thing, and into alt rock/punk/goth type music, so they weren’t for me. But I know a lot of people who were.

I don’t think that Aaliyah to Nirvana is massively wide a taste in music. They’re both firmly popular music. I was playing Rachmaninov and James Macmillan on piano by day, then playing in heroin cover bands at night for a while, whilst listening to the Ohio players, funkadelic and Eminem at home. 😂

Lover Eminem, but also Tu-PAC, Dru Hill, Dr Dre…Snoop Dog! But also listened to Blur etc

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RecruitmentGuru · 26/04/2024 22:21

@Laurelcanyons thank your for wording it so much better than me! You’re right I don’t know why they’re still around and still deemed relevant.

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Devilsmommy · 26/04/2024 22:18

TheOriginalEmu · 26/04/2024 22:13

I walked around swathed in black, with black hair, black eyeliner and black ‘lipstick’ that was really eyeliner because you couldn’t buy black lipstick in boots in 1994 😂 I wore knee high dr martens at all times. I put talc on my face to make it paler. My grandmother was horrified 😂😂

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Shouldn't your name be TheOriginalEmo 🤣

TheOriginalEmu · 26/04/2024 22:13

Kindleonfire · 26/04/2024 19:45

Did you not dress in stereotypical 90s fashion in anyway? I'm a 90s teenager hated the spice girls back then. I was far too cool to listen to that shit and was onto all my grunge, indie and rock etc.

I still had platform trainers, a line mini skirts and a pony tail with bits at the front. Still looked like a spice girl!

I walked around swathed in black, with black hair, black eyeliner and black ‘lipstick’ that was really eyeliner because you couldn’t buy black lipstick in boots in 1994 😂 I wore knee high dr martens at all times. I put talc on my face to make it paler. My grandmother was horrified 😂😂

TheOriginalEmu · 26/04/2024 22:10

I was 16 when the spice girls became a thing, and into alt rock/punk/goth type music, so they weren’t for me. But I know a lot of people who were.

I don’t think that Aaliyah to Nirvana is massively wide a taste in music. They’re both firmly popular music. I was playing Rachmaninov and James Macmillan on piano by day, then playing in heroin cover bands at night for a while, whilst listening to the Ohio players, funkadelic and Eminem at home. 😂

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