Spice girls greatest hits

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
Mel C was always good at that weird sense of combining the themes of devotion in a pseudo-spiritual sense and romantically. The big eurotrance hit she had perfectly demonstrates that.

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Anyway, keep going Barti

been playing this one a lot the last few days. lovely.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Say You'll Be There


the opening image introduces the theme of futurism that’s present throughout the video. the jazz harmony of the opening chords couples this notion of futurism with black identity, which is only heightened as the g-funk arrangement kicks in. of course the notion that the future-as-blackness was a very apt one in the 90’s, the decade that rock died and white culture stopped innovating.

the desert was the backdrop to a lot of late-90’s pop videos; s-club, madonna and shania twane all having videos set in the desert. in fact, in the latter two and this spice girls video, the songs were to varying extents about dissatisfaction with love; the desert acting as a metaphor for the lack of suitable males. aridity of course being a rather on the nose metaphor given the moisture involved in female arousal (the pornographic wah wah guitar only accentuates the sexual component of the piece).

This is my favourite.
 
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