Spice Girl
May, 1998
They came from across the sea, armed with a couple of videos, five suitcases full of impossibly short skirts, a handful of infectious songs ("Tell me what you want, what you really, really want") and a slogan: girl power. Their reputation, promulgated across a great number of magazine covers, preceded them: They were the peppy, sexy new antidote to all those sullen, grungy boy bands that had come to dominate British pop music. These young women seemed primed for Stateside stardom by di...
