Behind the three-part documentary
'Spice Girls. The price of success', which Movistar + premieres,
there is a great work of compilation and analysis that is not satisfied with following the group, its glories and miseries, but also puts it in
context
so that we understand
why it affected
the way it made
their proposal in the 90s.
They sold more than
100 million records
despite their short / intermittent life (they
were born in 1994
and began to disintegrate in 1998, although they have continued touring - without
Victoria Beckham
- and
Mel B
recently dropped that such
live performances will
resume
in 2023),
They received numerous awards and became, almost from birth (his first single, the legendary
'Wannabe' 1996
was
number one
on the charts in
37 countries),
on
pop icon.
If they don't deserve a great documentary (the movie already had it), nobody deserves it.
That the Spice Girls were an
'invention'
(specifically, by agents
Bob and Chris Herbert,
who saw the opportunity to fill a void: there were many boy bands but
no girl bands
at the time) is not lost on anyone, and It is precisely at that point where the documentary begins, with images of the
auditions
that took place to
recruit
what would end up being the
five members of the group.
A
Geri Halliwell
is worth discovering
that already at that time it was clear how to play with better cards to be selected, or an 'unpolished' Victoria Beckham who did not stand out too much in the casting scores but was convincing as a whole.
WHEN SPICE GIRLS GOT INDEPENDIZED
It is very interesting to see in the documentary how the five - Melanie Brown,
Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton,
Geri Halliwell and Victoria Beckham - fit in from the start, and how they immediately began to think that they did not need Bob and Chris Herbert, especially Geri, that constantly, according to the protagonists of the story, he gave pulses to 'the bosses' to see who could do more.
"And there it was," says the narrator, a pre-made pop product that wanted to go it alone. "By the time record companies began to probe them, they had already taken control of their own future.
SPICE GIRLS BEFORE AND AFTER.
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THEM
They seemed inseparable, but in 2011 they parted ways. What happened to each of the group members? Click on the photo and we will tell you.
"They were loud, cheeky and came stomping," says
Lorraine Barry,
Virgin Records'
director of International Marketing
, in the first chapter of the documentary
.
"There was a real battle to hire them," he adds.
"And Virgin won it."
That huge
machinery
had to be assembled
around them to make them a
worldwide phenomenon
was also clear from the beginning.
That they became in a very short time, in turn, a machine to generate large amounts of money, too.
In 1997 alone, for example, they generated more than
356 million euros in sponsorships.
THE RULES OF THE GAME CHANGED
"That a group of five young women participated in the composition of their songs and decided what they sang was something extraordinary at the time," says television host
Jayne Middlemiss,
referring to the change in perspective that 'Wanabee' brought, a lyric that spoke of feminine solidarity. The Spice were the
feminine alternative
to the boy groups, the
boy bands.
It was taken for granted that
female audiences
consumed boy band music because somehow they fell in love with those
shaved yogies;
with the Spice the tables turned; the
girls identified
with his joy and desire for
adventure
. The fact that each one represented a
type of woman
made it more attractive, because it invited the game to identify with one of them. The formula was simply perfect, what the young audience needed at the time.
The documentary also 'turns'
the Spice
into
feminists
, by discovering the
impact
that their slogan
'girl power'
had on
girls and adolescents of the 90's.
In fact, in the documentary we see them clash during the filming of an advertisement, which they detain a young man from the team who makes a
lewd comment
about them. They all approach him, accuse him of being
macho
and reproach him for his behavior, while he defends himself by saying: "Welcome to show business." Which makes it very clear that even at the
peak of their career, they
had to put up with a
masculine
type of
behavior.
much more widespread than we have wanted to remember later.
By the way, according to the narrator, this type of
conflict
during filming and photo shoots occurred quite
frequently
.
THE BEFORE, THE AFTER AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM
How the group progresses over time, how differences arise between its members and Geri's exits are first gestated (although after a solo career that started very well but deflated, he returned to the group's tours) and After Victoria (whom they have never managed to convince to return; her career as a fashion designer has been so successful that she never wants to hear about show business again), the dissolution, regrouping and even glimpses of the future, complete this documentary. As for what has become of each of the members of the group, we will tell you in this album that we have elaborated on the before and after of the five girls who revolutionized the pop of the 90s.
The documentary premieres on Thursday, October 28 at 9:05 p.m. on # 0 (dial 7).
The episodes will also be available on the Movistar + on-demand service.
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