Breaking the Spice Girls: Part three

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🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Helloooo! Welcome to the third and final part of our very special Spice Girls series. They’re the biggest girl group in history: five women who changed the face of pop music through the magic of girl power. But the ride to the top was far from smooth. This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to Betty’s Burgers and their Bestie Beach Resort for making this episode possible. Grab your Bestie and head to Betty’s, you just might win the ultimate summer holiday, in Noosa, the home of Betty’s Burgers. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast. Want to support our show? We are sending air kisses, air tea, and air hugs (too far?) to anyone who clicks ‘subscribe’ on Apple (bonus hugs for anyone who leaves a five-star review, too) or ‘follow’ on Spotify. Still not enough? Well! Our hearts! See below for everything else. Subscribe to the weekly ‘ASK SHAMELESS’ newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gFbYLT Join our book club: https://www.instagram.com/theshamelessbookclub/ Check out our website: https://shamelessmediaco.com/ Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours.

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0:00.0	You're about the new rules.
0:03.0	Call me a renegade.
0:05.0	The one in the lion's cage,
0:07.0	sipping on lemonade.
0:09.0	I'm a dream, got your match to stick the actor
0:12.0	back on the sea. They're the biggest girl group in history,
0:15.0	they're the biggest girl group in history,
0:19.0	five women who changed the face of pop music through the magic of girl power, but the ride to the top was far from smooth.
0:26.0	Welcome to Scandal from Shameless Podcast to the stories of the biggest celebrity controversies revisited.
0:40.0	Hello. Hi.
0:41.0	We are back for part three of three. We've covered a lot but we've got a lot to go.
0:45.8	Yeah, I was about to say we've climbed the mountain, but that is incorrect.
0:48.8	We're two-thirds of the way up the mountain.
0:50.4	Yeah, we're not quite there, yeah. Let's chat about what we spoke about in the last episode because I think one of the most fascinating parts of the last part for me was going through the Spice Girls kind of public and divisive love of Margaret Thatcher and like
1:06.4	their largely conservative values and we kind of had a conversation about how poorly
1:11.6	this was received at large by the public.
1:13.7	Yeah, absolutely. We also spoke about the year 1997 was a huge one for this band, particularly
1:19.6	because of the full-blown spice mania where the Spice Girls merchandiseed just about
1:24.6	everything they could and made hundreds of millions of dollars within the
1:28.4	span of 12 months. Yeah they certainly have their critics through this time as
1:32.0	well people who said that these guys were too commercial
1:35.6	and that basically they had no talent whatsoever.
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