So we all remember the Spice Girls
right—an English pop girl group formed in 1994. The group comprised five
members, who adopted nicknames: Melanie Chisholm ‘Sporty Spice’, Emma Bunton ‘Baby
Spice’, Melanie Brown ‘Scary Spice’, Victoria Beckham ‘Posh Spice’, and Geri
Halliwell ‘Ginger Spice’. They have sold
over 75 million records worldwide, making them the best-selling female group of
all time.
But in 1994 the girls were all very
young, the oldest just twenty and they were marketed to a young girls market with
their famous girl power attitude. What we saw at the Olympics last week was something
else altogether—five showgirls in their late 30’s early 40’s, mums and wives, successful
business woman independently and oh so very glamorous. I can relate to them on
a better level now and have become a fan all over again. They look like the
kind of girls I’d love to have a few champers with.
It was these reunited Spice
Girls that made the biggest splash at Sunday night’s event, which was viewed an
estimated 300 million around the world and 80,000 fans at Olympic Stadium. They
arrived via multicolored taxis into the centre of
the stadium, the floor of which was arranged to resemble the Union Jack and performed
a medley of their megahits Wannabe and
Spice Up Your Life as they stood atop
their taxis and circled the stadium, dazzling the same fans who helped make
them one of the most popular worldwide acts back in the late 1990s.
