Melanie C Talks the Spice Girls, the 90s, Raving, and New Album ‘Sweat’

Zach Sang Show

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Music, Tv & Film

4.6 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Can you believe it’s been 30 years since the release of the Spice Girls’ seminal debut single “Wannabe”? Bananas. Now in her 50s Melanie C — formerly Mel C, or known to many as Sporty Spice — joins us on the couch to chat about her new, euphoric album ‘Sweat.’ Born from her abiding love of dance music, which started as a teenager on the Costa Brava in Spain as a teenager and was reignited when she started DJing and hanging out with LDN’s influential queer DJ collective Sink the Pink.

We talk to her about all this, her workout regime (abs!), the harshness of British tabloids and the phone hacking scandal affected so many high profile people in the UK for well over a decade. Melanie also reflects on the Spice Girls — both then and now — and if a reunion might be on the cards.

Plus, she drops some great stories about Madonna and Liza Minelli, while also discussing some of the collaborators she worked with on ‘Sweat.’

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0:00.0	By the way, hi, beautiful human.
0:07.1	I'm Zach.
0:07.8	That's Dan.
0:08.4	And that is Melanie C.
0:09.7	Yay to us.
0:12.0	We're just talking about like...
0:13.1	We're united and it feels so good.
0:17.6	We are talking about a mutual friend that we have.
0:20.7	And this mutual friend has been in your life for 30 years or maybe even a little bit longer than that.
0:26.7	But you go like, I remember her from Istanbul.
0:30.4	Yeah.
0:30.6	Like how many memories are linked to locations and like larger things?
0:36.3	Do you know what I'm saying?
0:37.2	Oh my gosh. Yeah, absolutely. It's know what I'm saying? Oh my gosh.
0:38.0	Yeah, absolutely.
0:39.4	It's wild.
0:40.6	I think there's so much.
0:42.2	You know what's weird?
0:43.1	Like when I get together with the other girls, the other spice girls, we fill in the gaps.
0:48.2	You know, because we all remember some things, but not everything.
0:51.7	So we kind of need these little memory groups.
1:32.2	Isn't it scary that like you literally live so much life? And you think you remember a lot of it and all of it, but you really, like our memory is very Swiss cheese. Yeah. Oh, totally. It's, I don't know. Like, why do we remember certain things and not others? And yeah, I think especially that time we were together, you know, the real spice mania, like mid to late 90s, it was so hectic. Your brain just can't keep up with it. Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah, you kind of just need to keep going for survival. Yeah, yeah, totally in survival mode. That's so true. And it's hard to stay present. Yeah. But now we're in a totally different spot. We are. The album is so good. Yeah. Thank you. I'm so excited. You should be. It's listen to the album. It's bangers. It makes you want to go to the club and dance. Yes.
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