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!

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

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.

Btw what is a pick me girl?

And yes omg UK Garage!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Yes it was younger ages into Spice Girls

@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!!

They were shit.

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

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.

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

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

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. 🤪🤣

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!

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.

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

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.

I loved them! They were so much fun and played in clubs all the time when I was 19.

I still love them. I will always dance to their music. They remind me of my girlfriends and I having fun before we became mothers and wives. It was a fun time. 💝 Girl power always.

They were very lucky to be picked that's all. Can't sing but manufactured well by men.
Made themselves alot of money.
VB you definitely would never have heard of again if she hadn't married DB.
She's well known for doing nothing remarkable.

That’s interesting because my experience in my area was that we were much more tribal than my kids generation are. Loads of people didn’t want to be seen dead with me because I was both a classical music kid AND a goth kid. I was the weirdest of weird. It was also unheard of for kids from different schools to hang out together, or even from different year groups unless you were dating them. It just didn’t happen. My kids hang out with kids of all different kinds, their friendship groups are from age 14-19 for the ones still in school/college education and a much bigger mix of girls/ boys/nb than in my day.

They became popular in 96, not 93.

I was 8, so prime target audience probably. It was the first album I ever had. I absolutely loved them then and I still love them now.