Four Unheard Spice Girls Songs Just Miraculously Landed Online
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It’s been 21 years since the Spice Girls were born, forged out of the hopes and dreams of 400 hopefuls who answered a humble trade mag advertisement: “WANTED,” it read. “R.U. 18–23 with the ability to sing/dance? R.U. streetwise, outgoing, ambitious, and dedicated? Open audition. Please bring sheet music or backing cassette”.
Their debut single ‘Wannabe’ rocketed the Spice Girls to the top of the UK charts in 1996, and their debut album, Spice, was certified 10x Platinum — making them the fastest selling British act since the Beatles. As young girls around the world designated roles for their friendship groups (I was posh, because brunette and surly), their follow-up album Spiceworld set a new sales record. It also resulted in Spice World: one of the best/worst meta music biopics that has ever, and will ever, happen.
Then, after Geri quit the band, Forever was released, landing with a mostly-dull thud everywhere outside of the UK. The band went on hiatus in 2000, and — save solo careers, a fairly non-eventful Greatest Hits reunion tour, and a by-all-accounts terrible stage musical based on their storied history — they haven’t been heard from since.
…UNTIL NOW.
Earlier today, the internet started buzzing with four new (Geri-less) demos that had appeared out of the cavernous space the Spice Girls’ left in their spangled wake. One of them is an alternate version of ‘Right Back At Ya’, from Forever — but the three others, ‘Pain Proof’, ‘A Day In Your Life’ and ‘If It’s Lovin on Your Mind’ have never before been heard.
Initially posted to SoundCloud, they have since been deleted — but an enterprising YouTube user was quick enough to catch them for you. Have fun.
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‘If It’s Lovin’ On Your Mind’
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