80s & 90s Music was, & still is The BEST! for Me! Michael J, Janet, the GoGos, the Bangles & Sooo Many more & then Britney, The Fugees, Lauryn Hill, BSB, NSYNC, Maya, Aaliyah, TLC, The Spice Girls! Fun Music & Good Vibes!❤
Thank you so much for sharing. One of their best / funniest interview 😄 !! Please post more Spice Girls or some Britney (L&K Friday 1999) / Beyoncé (National Lottery 2003) / Destiny's Child (The Ozone 2000) videos 😇
I was a rock and indie fan. But looking back now, even the cheesy pop and hip hop was belting back then. 80's, 90's and dare i say up until around 2005. Everything went downhill with the onslaught of the cowell influence.
Mel. B was so shady towards Geri a lot of the time.. Taking the piss behind her back, and interrupting her, when she wanted to be serious about something. Or just generally shouting over her.
This is just as pants as it was in 1997. The arse end of the 1990's when the dominant commercial side of music started to push aside talent - when the ratio of good / manufactured reached a tipping point. Don't get me wrong, the Spice Girls themselves came out of this manufactured stuff relatively intact - they were all smart and sassy enough to escape at least some of the worst impacts of exploitation. I guess, though, compared to now, it all looks so innocent and unstaged - news flash, it wasn't.
@@ColinnOk By "Commercial", I mean formed by a company/corporation. "The Spice Girls were formed by Heart Management, who held auditions to create a girl group to compete with the British boy bands popular at the time" It wasn't exactly a new concept, but by this point in the 90's, they had honed it to a fine art. The bulk of pop had become manufactured, manipulated, a "hits machine". If it makes people happy, that's fine, but when the charts are dominated by it so that bands that come up the hard way can't get a look-in, not so good. However, moot point now - there's even less money in music now than there was then.
Anyone who thought this was innocent/unstaged needs their head checking. Very forced (e.g. the constant guffawing). I didn't like them at the time but thought maybe I was being harsh remembering them through the lens of my early teens, so watched to see if I was wrong. Turns out I wasn't 😂.
@@omarnour348 There's probably a good bit of "real" in it, but totally, it's been edited - I'm sure the outtakes would be far more revealing and probably a lot more fun too, likely a LOT saucier - even in 1997, the beeb had to keep it clean. For goodness sake, it was the late 90's - cocaine was everywhere, booze was everywhere - the decade was hedonistic at the start and hedonistic at the end. You've got a bunch of attractive and sassy women that have been put together - manufactured - to form a band. They aren't going to be shrinking violets. But they also aren't necessarily going to be that talented either, just good enough to belt out the songs given to them and rake in the money for Heart Management. There's were millions of young women just like them, but they made the grade - and why the hell not. Who wouldn't go for it. I've never had ANY truck with them as individuals - they all did well out of it. I don't even have any truck with the music, I just hate the behemoth that was the music industry then and indeed now. I hated the fact that music which required blood, sweat and tears - a huge amount of effort and risk for so many aspiring artists, was being held back by manufactured garbage. All the great stuff that happened in the mid-to-late 70's through to the early 90's - DIY incredible stuff, slowly diluted by the pop machine, churning out the hits, fixing it so the manufactured artists got the limelight. By the time we hit the noughties, popular music was in a dire place.
@@omarnour348 This is absolutely unstaged, why on earth would it be otherwise? You obviously don't remember how fun and unpredictable the Spice Girls were!
So true. Geri being the most common of the lot...nothing can hide it....followed by Sporty...but Scary was pretty then...and if Posh said nothing, she looked half decent.
Victoria then Adams now Beckham "Posh Spice" rarely cracked a smile even back in 1997! Why is it that when you are a six year old in October 1997, you never noticed these things back then?
The rot had truly set into popular culture in the UK at this stage, it was becoming more and more braindead by the year. An overload of pure tacky cringe pushed out by the likes of Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell. 1997 was a terrible year for music.
Yeah, you can really see it on the classic TOTPs on BBC 4. They’ve been going through the 90s lately and by 97 it’s just all manufactured crap. Not a single guitar in sight.
or women were beginning find their voices and not conservative dullards. In the UK music scene you had Elastica or Sleeper in the Britpop scene, who were sidelined for the likes of Oasis, Pulp & Blur. On the pop side, you had Mariah or Celine who didn't offer much apart from ballads and lack of personality (through no choice of their own). The Spice Girls offered something refreshing to young girls and thank God because it was needed. The music industry were happy for women to objectified by gracing the covers of lad magazines but didn't actually want to hear their voices, just be quiet and pretty (a la Louise). When the Spice Girls decided to use their autonomy and also have a voice, then it was a problem. A common theme with misogynists.
@@ColinnOk Plenty of female artists spoke their minds. The Spice Girls were not famous because they were the first, people like Madonna were doing it years earlier. Persoanlly I do not like Oasis but to say that Elastica or Sleeper were good enough to take on Oasis, Pulp and Blur but were sidelined because they were female is a crazy thing to say.
@@Zauchi Yes but aside from Madonna, in this specific time in the industry there was lack of outspoken females, especially for a younger generation. So why weren't females taken more seriously in the Britpop field? They were simply objectified and seen as lad mag fodder, not for their musical contributions - and the male bands did nothing to uplift the female fronted bands but complained about the Spice Girls.
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I miss the 90's, what a time 😢
80's and 90's were peak, I'm convinced of it.
@@grahamt19781 the music, the shows, even the politics
@@Londonechoes it's the internet, smart phones, and instant access to everything. Somehow it's just fundamentally made everything worse.
Haven't seen this since I was 7 back when it first aired. Amazing memories and an incredible time to be young. Take me back, PLEASE!
Someone asked Eminem why he hadn't liked them. He said their music just sounds like they're horny 😮. Lol
@@Raquel-g9fwho cares about what he thinks
These girls are so iconic
This truly is one of my most favorite interviews of the Spice Girls!
They are absolutely funny, that too so, so cheeky to Jamie Theakston.
Geri has changed so much since then, it's impressive.
Generation X! The days when our generation was young and care free! I miss the 90s.❤
This interview is the best. You don’t see interviews like this anymore where the personality just shines through
80s & 90s Music was, & still is The BEST! for Me! Michael J, Janet, the GoGos, the Bangles & Sooo Many more & then Britney, The Fugees, Lauryn Hill, BSB, NSYNC, Maya, Aaliyah, TLC, The Spice Girls! Fun Music & Good Vibes!❤
My favourite interview of the girls
Jamie Theakston interviewing his future radio colleague.
Thank you so much for sharing. One of their best / funniest interview 😄 !! Please post more Spice Girls or some Britney (L&K Friday 1999) / Beyoncé (National Lottery 2003) / Destiny's Child (The Ozone 2000) videos 😇
kinell 👀
best interview eveeeeer ✌🏻
I can't believe it, but I just worked out how long ago that was. 486 years and 4 months ago. Sheesh.. time flies.
thats some gen z maths there. lol
He's no bright but he can lift heavy things.
I thought I'd time travelled to the future for a sec
I was a rock and indie fan. But looking back now, even the cheesy pop and hip hop was belting back then. 80's, 90's and dare i say up until around 2005. Everything went downhill with the onslaught of the cowell influence.
Please upload more Spice Girls interviews! ❤
Hey bbc archive, have you got any Massive Attackoe Gorillaz interviews? Please share
I found Spice World on VHS at the thrift store a few weeks ago so I had to watch it that night!
Very 90's. But that's fine with me. Did I like The Spice Girls? No, not really. They were just pop pap but I'm fine with that too.
Always loved this interview
So 90s...
Brazil 🇧🇷
27년 전이라니! 이런 영상들 볼 때 마다 내 나이를 실감하네 😮
"GET WELL SOON, GERRY !"
Geri*
One of my fav interviews ❤
Always had it bad for Baby Spice!
I used to fancy the pants off Gerri back then.. I was only like 10 😂😂😂
❤
Mel. B was so shady towards Geri a lot of the time.. Taking the piss behind her back, and interrupting her, when she wanted to be serious about something. Or just generally shouting over her.
Victoria was so funny here when Jamie started asking "I can't seem to switch on the TV..." and she went "Why?" 😂
This is just as pants as it was in 1997.
The arse end of the 1990's when the dominant commercial side of music started to push aside talent - when the ratio of good / manufactured reached a tipping point.
Don't get me wrong, the Spice Girls themselves came out of this manufactured stuff relatively intact - they were all smart and sassy enough to escape at least some of the worst impacts of exploitation.
I guess, though, compared to now, it all looks so innocent and unstaged - news flash, it wasn't.
Which 90s artists do you refer to that weren't part of the dominant commercial side of music?
@@ColinnOk By "Commercial", I mean formed by a company/corporation.
"The Spice Girls were formed by Heart Management, who held auditions to create a girl group to compete with the British boy bands popular at the time"
It wasn't exactly a new concept, but by this point in the 90's, they had honed it to a fine art.
The bulk of pop had become manufactured, manipulated, a "hits machine".
If it makes people happy, that's fine, but when the charts are dominated by it so that bands that come up the hard way can't get a look-in, not so good.
However, moot point now - there's even less money in music now than there was then.
Anyone who thought this was innocent/unstaged needs their head checking. Very forced (e.g. the constant guffawing).
I didn't like them at the time but thought maybe I was being harsh remembering them through the lens of my early teens, so watched to see if I was wrong. Turns out I wasn't 😂.
@@omarnour348 There's probably a good bit of "real" in it, but totally, it's been edited - I'm sure the outtakes would be far more revealing and probably a lot more fun too, likely a LOT saucier - even in 1997, the beeb had to keep it clean. For goodness sake, it was the late 90's - cocaine was everywhere, booze was everywhere - the decade was hedonistic at the start and hedonistic at the end.
You've got a bunch of attractive and sassy women that have been put together - manufactured - to form a band.
They aren't going to be shrinking violets.
But they also aren't necessarily going to be that talented either, just good enough to belt out the songs given to them and rake in the money for Heart Management.
There's were millions of young women just like them, but they made the grade - and why the hell not. Who wouldn't go for it.
I've never had ANY truck with them as individuals - they all did well out of it.
I don't even have any truck with the music, I just hate the behemoth that was the music industry then and indeed now.
I hated the fact that music which required blood, sweat and tears - a huge amount of effort and risk for so many aspiring artists, was being held back by manufactured garbage.
All the great stuff that happened in the mid-to-late 70's through to the early 90's - DIY incredible stuff, slowly diluted by the pop machine, churning out the hits, fixing it so the manufactured artists got the limelight.
By the time we hit the noughties, popular music was in a dire place.
@@omarnour348 This is absolutely unstaged, why on earth would it be otherwise? You obviously don't remember how fun and unpredictable the Spice Girls were!
Geri was 25 here?
Had forgotten how much I hated music in the 90s.
Geri
Utter filth
Fantastic
The film A Hard Day's Night could have been.
Spiceworld was their version.
The bang list :
Emma
Vicky
Mel C
Geri
Mel B
Ah Jamie Theakston, had an eye for the prostitutes off screen and ironically went on to narrate Traffic Cops 😂
Not so much "prostitutes" as "ladies of *negotiable affection*" 😂😂😂
Geri all day long
Geri 🤤
He was living out my 11 year old self's dream.
They say that 'variety is the spice of life', however, there is a COMMON theme with these lot !
Shame they never wrote a song with that title.
and what's wrong with being common?
So true. Geri being the most common of the lot...nothing can hide it....followed by Sporty...but Scary was pretty then...and if Posh said nothing, she looked half decent.
@@ColinnOkNothing if you don't have ideas above your station..
2 Become 1 is my favorite song of theirs.
Victoria then Adams now Beckham "Posh Spice" rarely cracked a smile even back in 1997! Why is it that when you are a six year old in October 1997, you never noticed these things back then?
Poor Jamie - they ate him alive
Annoying then and annoying now, Mel B truly awful Bobby bint. Please don't try and make a comeback.
Can we still like him? not a weirdo now?
Why you asking strangers online? Decide for yourself if you like him or not.
They're annoying AF.
Women having fun = annoying. Shocker. Misogynist.
Humm no
Going on about having injections ? 🤔
Get the tinfoil hat off fella.
Yep, in those days people still thought those things did what they were supposed to do. We know better now don't we?!
It truly was the beginning of the end. Just awful!
The rot had truly set into popular culture in the UK at this stage, it was becoming more and more braindead by the year. An overload of pure tacky cringe pushed out by the likes of Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell. 1997 was a terrible year for music.
Yeah, you can really see it on the classic TOTPs on BBC 4. They’ve been going through the 90s lately and by 97 it’s just all manufactured crap. Not a single guitar in sight.
or women were beginning find their voices and not conservative dullards. In the UK music scene you had Elastica or Sleeper in the Britpop scene, who were sidelined for the likes of Oasis, Pulp & Blur. On the pop side, you had Mariah or Celine who didn't offer much apart from ballads and lack of personality (through no choice of their own). The Spice Girls offered something refreshing to young girls and thank God because it was needed. The music industry were happy for women to objectified by gracing the covers of lad magazines but didn't actually want to hear their voices, just be quiet and pretty (a la Louise). When the Spice Girls decided to use their autonomy and also have a voice, then it was a problem. A common theme with misogynists.
House music and dnb was thriving at this time, if anything it had more power and imagination than the 20 years after.
@@ColinnOk Plenty of female artists spoke their minds. The Spice Girls were not famous because they were the first, people like Madonna were doing it years earlier.
Persoanlly I do not like Oasis but to say that Elastica or Sleeper were good enough to take on Oasis, Pulp and Blur but were sidelined because they were female is a crazy thing to say.
@@Zauchi Yes but aside from Madonna, in this specific time in the industry there was lack of outspoken females, especially for a younger generation. So why weren't females taken more seriously in the Britpop field? They were simply objectified and seen as lad mag fodder, not for their musical contributions - and the male bands did nothing to uplift the female fronted bands but complained about the Spice Girls.