SPICE GIRLS (with Owen Myers)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Music journalist Owen Myers is back with DJ Louie to discuss the career and legend of British super girl group, Spice Girls. First, Louie and Owen talk through the history of girl groups and how various waves helped form the foundation for the Spice Girls’ ethos, before getting into the band’s journey from prefab answer to the UK boy band wave of the era to self-possessed girl-gang in control of their own destiny. Louie and Owen then discuss what made the Spice Girls and their explosion so singular with their debut album, 1996’s Spice, which cleverly fused American R&B tropes with a European pop sheen to create accessible music with edge, the ways they embodied their message of female friendship and solidarity above all else in their music and presentation and the vibe of fun, goofiness and sexiness which rendered them wholesome without ever seeming pandering. Next, Louie and Owen discuss Spice Girls’ second album and its accompanying movie, 1997’s Spice World, how the record expanded their sonic palette and the film, along with a panoply of endorsement deals, doubled down on their commercial prowess but also lent to burn out both on the part of the public and girls, how member Geri Halliwell’s sudden and explosive departure from the group in 1998 ended their brief imperial phase, the ways they’ve sured up their legacy over the last couple of decades and how the true meaning of Girl Power has reverberated through the pop that’s come after them. Finally, Louie and Owen rank Spice Girls in the official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:17.7 | This, of course, is your host, DJ Louis X. Louis X. |
| 0:20.3 | And I'm here to remind you to please rate, review, and subscribe to Pop Pantheon. This, of course, is your host, DJ Louis the 14th, and I'm here to remind you to |
| 0:21.6 | please rate, review, and subscribe to Pot Pantheon. Every review you leave, especially in the |
| 0:27.1 | Apple podcast store, helps the show get recognized by the algorithm and in front of more people. |
| 0:32.6 | So thank you so much to everybody that's been doing that. Please don't forget to follow us on |
| 0:36.8 | social media at Pop Pantheon Pod on both Instagram and |
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| 0:40.5 | I'm at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on both Instagram and Twitter, so that's where you can find me. |
| 0:45.6 | Hop in our Discord channel. |
| 0:47.1 | This is where all smart, fun, cool pop fans come together to talk about the podcast, talk about |
| 0:53.7 | pop, et cetera. Check out our Spotify |
| 0:55.8 | playlist for this and every episode. And come to Gorgeous, Gorgeous, my queer pop party this |
| 1:02.9 | weekend Saturday at Resident in downtown Los Angeles. As ever, seeing Pop Pantheon fans at Gorgeous, |
| 1:08.9 | Gorgeous is one of my favorite things. And this is our Halloween edition. So you can come in a costume. We're encouraging costumes. You don't have the work costume. I'm still trying to figure this out because I'm not the biggest costume person on earth. But my partners are trying to force it upon me. So my costume will be revealed. Maybe it's actually going to be someone that we've talked about on the podcast. Maybe. |
| 1:27.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:28.3 | I really hate dressing up, but I'm going to do it for the team. |
| 1:31.6 | And I love other people's costumes. So with all that said, come to Gorgeous Gorgeous, our Halloween edition, October 22nd. That's this Saturday at Resident in downtown Los Angeles. Links for the tickets, links for the Discord, links for Spotify, etc. |
| 1:27.7 | We'll be in the show notes of this episode. |
| 1:29.2 | I will also share them on our social media channels. the tickets, links for the Discord, links for Spotify, et cetera, will be in the show notes of this |
| 1:44.8 | episode. I will also share them on our social media channels. And lastly, I will also share the link |
| 1:50.0 | to buy our Pop Pantheon Dad Hat. It says niche legend and pink because you are all my |
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