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

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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!

AIBU?

I don't get it... so you weren't into the Spice Girls. Millions of people of the same age weren't either.

Why would that be unreasonable?

Erm.... ok?

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!

Bully for you.

Hate to break it to you, but so were the other 'not like the other girls'. You're not special. The Spice Girls largely appealed to tweens so not many teens were into them.

No they're not classical musicians. No they can't play their own instruments. They wore fun clothes had outrageous personalities and were fun. They were never cool. But I like them.
Even Victoria. I have some.VB eyeshadow and it's tip.top.

My DC were horribly obsessed with the Spice Girls. Even got dragged to London to see them at Earls Court. My ears are still recovering years on. Clearly the autotune had lost the will to live and refused to work anymore.

Girl Power was a very clever marketing strategy of its time. Quite ironic when you look at the relationships that 3 of them are/have been in....

I was 13 in 1993 so I guess it was at the height of my era. Nope I did not dress like a spice girl ever!

Everyone, sit back and bask in awe at how edgy the OP is!

Not liking the spice girls. wow

Who do you think you are? Some kind of superstar?

No need to be so harsh, you need to stop right now.

TYVM.

I don’t think they were really a teen thing were they? They came out in 96 when you were 16, so I doubt many of your peers liked them either? I was 6 in 96 and was obsessed, but I wouldn’t have been at 16

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

nope, I am a similar age and it was girls who were 8-12 in 1996-8. You are far too old to have been into them.

Sorry, too much...it's bad enough.. but something came over me...

Yeah you were too old for them. I was a tween when they came out and I loved them! My older siblings did not.

Is the OP in response to something because it seems weird if not

Still don't get the AIBU... you're not unique for not liking the Spice Girls.

You would have been 16 when Wannabe came out so it's no wonder.

It’s the on-going obsession that really annoys me. Like VB 50th and Mel B all over the talent shows as a judge.

Didn’t realise I was too old for them!

Spice girls didn’t start until 94. They were more of a kid thing than a teen thing, you’re not as unique as you think.

@missmollygreen why respond to the OP if it doesn’t interest you?

I did have a little cousin who was 3 and he adored them.

I was also 13 in 1993 and Spice Girls were not for my age group when I was growing up. We were much too busy being cool.

What ongoing obsession? I literally haven't seen a spice girl anywhere for donkeys years.

I'm a decade younger than you and was really into them... So more my age group than yours I think. I wouldn't have been interested by my teens, that's when I too was going through my edgy grungy "not one of the cool kids" phase. I've since grown out of that, thankfully.

Why haven't you yet grown out of the idea that not liking something popular makes you cool and interesting? You're in your 40's.

I couldn't stand them either. I'm a similar age to you, OP and loads of my friends my age loved them! I found it deeply embarrassing 🤣