Spiced up my life

So I promised myself that I would write more this year again, and god damn it I will.

I am back from Rio, having had a GREAT time there, and despite feeling like crap from the stomach bug thats been going around in London, I headed out the the SPICE GIRLS reunion concert tonight with three friends.

And I had a really good time. And I am disturbed by the fact that I knew the words to ALL OF THE SONGS. Thats my slightly flakey eidetic memory for you again. Lyrics and plots/scrips for TV shows – I seem to be able to auto recall anything I have ever seen or heard. Not all the time, or on demand, but enough to be spooky.

Anyway the concert was fun. Incredibly staged and art directed – although little could cover up the fact that these girls really do have fairly marginal talent. Victoria Beckham in particular is unbelievably talentless.

No really. Can't sing. Doesn't dance. Walks like a truck driver in heels and zero stage presence. But the gilrs from Essex scream their guts out when ever she comes on stage. Amazing! Its the whole Cinderella thing I think, they are all thinking "That could be me – I am that talentless". Well good for her, she has made a little go a very long way.

I saw her on Ugly Betty the other night and, well, we can add "can't act" to the list.

Bless.

As for the others, Mel B/Scarey who I always thought had the best voice, seems to have not done much with it; Emma/Baby is sweet but again the voice hasnt hed up. I am actually surprised she hasn't parleyed her very good looks into an acting career – she did a pretty good job on Ab Fab; Geri the Media Whore did a good job of stealing the show – she has a combination of an ok voice and seemingly unlimed show mans ship; and Mel C/Sporty, who always has the most interesting voice, has turned that into a pretty spectacular set of pipes. She has had four albums since the break up and they are all very good.

All up the show was ok, without being amazing. There really wasnt much clever in it, but then did there need to be. The one thing that I thought was a disappointment was that they didnt focus on the Girl Power thing. The Spice Girls came along at the right time and cauught a social wave, they represented a new age of girls being more confident and empowered and while there music was marginal, the message they sent was a good and important one.

IF they are still coming to your town, and would want a camp, high colour night out, get along and see them. Relax and enjoy the tack – its worth it.