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Each week we decide who's to blame for historical tragedy.

And each week you tell us if we got it right. My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and this is the aftermath.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into this episode of the aftermath. Today we'll be

speaking with guest expert Lauren Bravo journalist and author of What Would the

Spice Girls Do? How the Girl Power Generation grew up?

Let's hear what she has to say about the breakup of the Spice Girls.

Hi Lauren, thank you so much for joining us today.

Oh, it's an absolute pleasure. Thanks for having me.

So can you give our listeners a brief overview of your book?

Sure.

So it's called What Would the Spice Girls Do? The question that's been on everybody's

lips for decades. And the subtitle is How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up, which I think sums it up. So it's partly a nostalgia trip.

There's a load of stuff in there about, you know, being a kid in the 90s and what that was like,

all the sort of paraphernalia that went with it. But it is also, I suppose, an examination

of the impact that the Spice Girls had on a generation of young girls and the sort of line, I guess,

that we can draw from that to the women that we have

grown up to be in the modern world.

So a major part of the Spice Girls appeal was the Girl Power mantra.

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