... hello, I permit myself to rectify some uncorrect things - while I thank you for some aneddoctes I didn't know about how the girls already knew each other. * auditions were in 1994, not 1993. The first audition was on Friday, March 4th. * actually Mel C, too, passed the #1 audition; it was the second one (mid-April) that she wasn't able to join 'cause of serious tonsil problems. * the five-girl band when initially formed included Victoria, Mel B, Geri, Michelle Stephenson and Lianne Morgan; it was Morgan that was in the end replaced by Mel C. * actually Emma was the second one of a couple girls that the vocal coach Lemer had in mind, in order to replace Michelle. The former was a girl named Abigail Kis, about seven months younger than Emma, who stayed in the band very briefly. After Abigail left, Emma joined the girls toward the last week of July 1994. So, the group as we know it was eventuially put together about five months after the initial ad for auditions (late February 1994).

Also, they were originally just gonna be called “Spice”…but record executives kept messing up their name and lazily calling them “those Spice girls”…so the “girls” part just kinda stuck. Thus were born, the Spice Girls

ABSOLUTELY AGREE ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🙌🏽

Definitely. The chemistry they create together made everything. They bring so much energy when they’re together having fun!! ✨

@@camrentoorealcam8437 YEAH! I AGREE🙌🙌🙌😁 #GirlPower

I never even realised that while making the video haha: but yes, except for Mel B. But no one knew her lol

@@CrystalEye90210 Well Geri, Emma, and Victoria are from the London area and Mel C went to college in the London area as well. Mel B stayed in the North and Leeds and Liverpool are lie 2 hours apart.

Same😊❤

Agree

Right? I was like sir what are you trying to say?? Why would someone see Mel B and immediately assume she's terrible?

I always found it confounding that she was "Scary" Spice. I wonder if she felt some kind of offense to that initially. Even as a young girl, I felt the term "Scary" was unfortunate.

Lol it’s Jamie Theakston, he interviewed the spice girls a lot back in the day, usually for the tv show “The O-Zone”. Their interviews together are some of their best, they always seemed to have a great time with him. His relationship with Mel B was always playful, acting like he was afraid of her and she’d retaliate by jumping on him or teasing him. It was just a funny act they put on, nothing more :) He also had a massive crush on Geri that they teased him about constantly

Then we're mates lol, they were just joking around. Don't take everything so seriously 😅

I can't even imagine the group without Emma, she was truly destined to be there.

@@csa856 SAMMEEE

Maybe they're related and we don't know it 🤷‍♀️

they really did try to portray it that way. They did start off as manufactured but they really did turn it around themselves while they were looking for a new management after leaving Herbert. Geri had a lot of influence with the song writing and melody concepts. I do believe that their styles and personalities are organic, you can see it in the earliest of clips. They just enhanced it as they became more popular. manufactured originally? Yes but I do believe that they had a lot of power and control over a lot of aspects considering that they had more than half the Spice album written before they signed a record deal or had management (Simon Fuller), Geri convinced the other girls to leave the Herbert management because they were taking their time with a contract. They did an overnight runaway. They went and found the songwriters and producers themselves through the phonebook. they looked up their names, gave them a ring & persuaded Kennedy Elliot to work with them so he agreed. After the album was finished they went out and knocked on various record label doors and tried to get somebody to sign them. because they really had everything finished they had a lot of power and control over the contract, their style, band name, the singles they wanted to release, music video in put, the type of music they wanted to play, they have song writing credits on all of the songs.

sadly they were slammed for being manufactured but they really did turn it around and made it their own.. if you go back to some of the earliest videos from touch you can see Sporty, Scary, Ginger, Baby, and Posh before they enhanced their image. they still live like that today.

If it weren't for how "common" and streetwise she was, they probably wouldn't have made it as a group as she was the mastermind and pushing force behind it all in so many ways.

And? She can be whatever she wants to be. She’s earned it.

​@@jollyfighter7319They're not saying she can't, obviously she can. But there's nothing wrong with pointing it out, it's true. She's common as muck, in the nicest possible way. She can be as pretentious as she wants but it doesn't change the facts.

Mel B: she came into my room one night Victoria: i found out she was a man... and we got on perfectly ever since

@@shaggypoo4120 thank you, I was wondering the same, so the notion I had that Vic and Mel had done something more intimate, was right 🤗👏

She gave it her all.

she still is!

Get a grip, they were mates, he was just joking because she was called 'scary' spice and loud, not because of her skin colour 🙄 not everything's about race.

To you.

@@JaiProdz agree how ignorant to say the other 4 are bland in that line up.

Vocally, yes. They needed Mel C's unique sound

@@rayoflight6505 right? Like the deep tone of Mel B, Vicky and Geri is unique on it's own. The sweet/lightness and high abilities of Emma round it out. The rap style Geri and Mel B employ, Vicky's seductive theatrics... The group is unique period. Mel C is ofc supremely vocally talented and carries the group during concerts- but denying the other girls *is* ignorant. Together or even in pairs they are Spice- alone they are not. It's the combo that makes them so special.

@@JaiProdz Precisely 👏