Speaking of embarrassments, the Spice Girls have managed to imbue their long-awaited comeback with all the glamour and class of a hurried crap in a service station toilet by whoring themselves out to Tesco. The first instalment, in which the Girl Power quartet try to hide from each other while shopping for presents, represents a important landmark for the performing arts: Posh Spice becomes the first human being in history to be out-acted by a shopping trolley.
This is very tiresome. The Spice Girls never had anything to do with feminism despite that cry of “girl power” though if it encouraged girls to get out there and make something of themselves that’s all to the good. It’s entertainment. Bad entertainment, I grant you but you do not have to watch it. It seems a large number of people like it and do want to watch and pay large sums of money for it. So? How does it concern anyone else? The market speaks, n’est ce pas?
If ‘girl power’ means slapping on too much makeup and trying to make a comeback just for the extra cash as they never had any talent in the first place, feminism is well and truly dead.
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There are infinitely worse celebs out there than the Spice Girls.
Russell Brand for one.
I expect Jo to change her name if he keeps on like he does.
As one whose finger is never on the pulse of popular culture, might I enquire: weren’t they a quintet?
Apparently one of them (okay, I’ll own up, it was only a Google search – Baby) has a duff ankle so is on light “prancing around” duties for a while.
….that “hurried crap” does indeed have much more meaning to this Texan than does the Old Spice Girls.