Babyboy

I WANT YOU BACK Director: Hype Williams Location: New York, USA Shooting Date/Period: I flew to New York from Nashville on a day off to shoot the video with Missy. Jim also featured in it, although the director didn't know he was my fiancé. I'd just sent off a picture with a note saying: I want this guy in the video. Hype Williams had had no objections. Yeah, he's good looking and cool. Okay. My make-up on the video was amazing applied by Missy's personal make-up artists. The Americans treat make-up as an art. They sculpted my face with dark and light contouring and made me look almost too perfect. But I took it all on board and went with it. My eyebrows were trimmed down and dyed light blonde and I had six different hairstyles during the shoot from braids to extensions. In the last scene my body was covered with luminous green make-up. Hype Williams joined in and painted the black cat stripes on my legs that completed the tiger look. He enjoyed it more that I did, but at 3 AM who gives a s**t? And all that body painting and messing about with my hair was worth it because the final cut of the video was wicked. Mel B - Catch A Fire WORD UP Director: Jimmy Gulzar/Wiz Location: Shooting Date/Period: I filmed that when I was pregnant, with all, like, laser dots on me so they could take my body movements and put it into a computer, so that's why it kind of looks like me a little bit, but it doesn't. It was my husband, really, who decided let's do a strange video, and he kind of looked at all the directors' showreels, and he chose Wiz, and he's just fantastic, and he just went for it with the video and story board and all that, and it just turned out brilliant, I couldn't've wanted a better video. But for the children I have done a different video, with the little guy, Mini-Me, from Austen Powers, cos you know the song's on the soundtrack, so I've done one that's allowed to be shown on kids' TV. Mel G - C3 Videotech Interview WORD UP (AMERICAN VERSION) Director: Matthew Williamson Location: Los Angeles Shooting Date/Period: My next stop was Los Angeles, to shoot a second video for my single Word Up featured on the soundtrack of the cult Austin Powers film The Spy Who Shagged Me. I'd given Jim the job of directing the original video. The end result was was an amazing piece of animation but a bit too wacky for the Americans, so I was advise to make something more mainstream for the US market. The second video was directed by Matthew Williamson and featured Mini Me, the comically evil dwarf character from the film. Williamson insisted that I had a facial the day before the shoot. Well I did have really bad acne at the time, a definitive sign of stress. Also I still had a bit of pregnant belly and was feeling insecure about my body. The stylist of the video had done the TLC video for Unpretty, so I was really pleased to be working with her. However I was very self-conscious about my figure and insisted on wearing a corset underneath my outfit. When she came to measure me for the tight-fitting silver catsuit that that I was planning to wear she tried to reassure me. What's wrong with you? You look fantastic, you don't need a corset. Mel B - Catch A Fire TELL ME Director: Nigel Dick Location: Shooting Date/Period: FEELS SO GOOD Director: Martin Weisz Location: Shooting Date/Period: LULLABY Director: Andy Orrick Location: Marrakech, Morocco Shooting Date/Period: Phoenix was with me in Morocco when I filmed the video for my third single Lullaby, the song I wrote for her with Biff when she was a baby. I found Marrakech quite a strange place, partly because absolutely everyone was dressed in the same way. It was like entering a different world. Mel B - Catch A Fire Really plain and simple. The song's all about Phoenix when she was born, so I've got little clips of Phoenix in it. I was a bit dubious about putting her in it but then I thought, "Well, the song's about her, she might as well be in it." It's just a simple, really chilled song. It's just me walking around the streets of Morocco and then I get home to my beach house - it's great. It's a bit more toned down than my other stuff. Mel B - Official website (2001) PROPER CRIMBO Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: TODAY Director: Mark McConnell Location: Shooting Date/Period: FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE Director: Martin Weisz Location: Los Angeles, California USA - Universal Studios Hollywood Shooting Date/Period:

WANNABE Director: Johan Camitz Location: London, UK - St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel Shooting Date/Period: 22 April 1996 On Monday, April 22 we filmed the video for Wannabe. It was shoot in an empty building next to St. Pancras station that had been decorated to look like an old mansion house with with velvet drapes on the walls and echoing corridors. The central idea for the video was to recreate the same energy and dynamism that we showed when we used to crash into record companies and do the frentic hard sell. We invaded places and left people breathless. The director Johan came up with the location. The station building had been trasformed in an old mansion house populated with odd characters and stereotypes. Then we had to bounce through the place sing Wannabe sweeping away the cobwebs. I wore an outfit that had cost me 20 pound at a secondhand stall at Notting Hill market. The showgirl outfit was a leotard with sequins at the front and back. Unfortunately I also insisted on wearing a pair of towering platform shoes, à la Vivienne Westwood. I could hardly walk in them and certainly couldn't run. I fell over so many times that Johan grew hoarse yelling cut!. I wobbled through the entire video, nearly wiping out a lamp shade and almost toppling down a flight of stairs. All because I wanted to look tall. The video appeared to be shot as one continuous take from the beginning to end, but was in fact two takes that were so perfectly synchronized that nobody could tell. Geri - If Only here was a good feeling on the set of the Wannabe video even though it was so cold. It was our first one and I had a shock when I arrived and saw how many people were working on it - all there just for us! It was meant to be a documentation of uss, so it didn't have any close-up beauty shots. That made it a bit easier Victoria - Real Life Real Spice: The Official Story SAY YOU'LL BE THERE Director: Vaughan Arnell Location: Mojave Desert, California USA Shooting Date/Period: 7-8 September 1996 We filmed the video in the Mojave Desert just outside Los Angeles. As we squeezed into our skin-tight catsuits in the blinfing heat we couldn't help remembering how we'd recorded the song in our trackie and socks in Elliot's studio in Sheffield, constantly getting caught out by the damp patch on the floor of his toilet. It was a world away. It was a fun shoot even thought it was incredibly hot. We had a fantastic hair guy who put mad colours in my hair, it was the first time I'd dyed it. The set was in the middle of nowhere and we all had our own Winnebagos, which was hysterical. Every take was just such a laugh for me at any rate. We stayed at a hotel in the middle of the desert that felt like something out of Thelma and Louise. Mel B - Catch A Fire This was one of my favourite videos. We were out in the desert and all getting on really well, so it was a complete laugh. It was very hot and I nearly got sunstroke! Two of the nights, we went back to this hotel in the middle of nowhere - it was like Thelma and Louise. Emma - Real Life Real Spice: The Official Story 2 BECOME 1 Director: Andy Delaney/Monty Whitebloom (Big TV!) Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period: 5-6 November 1996 The video for 2 Become 1 was shot against a green screen, the background was added later, and involved a lot of hanging around and not doing much, interspersed with loads of close-up camera angles. Oh, and there was a deer in the studio, because someone had had the bright idea of featuring one in the video. What the f**k is that deer doing here? we whispered to each other. Oh dear! we kept saying loudly. Oh dear, oh dear. Mel B - Catch A Fire I think 2 Beeome 1 was myfavourite video. My coat was wicked in it and it was really different to the other videos - shot entirely in the studio, with high technology and loads of effects. It was really weird having to sing passionately into the camera - I felt a right mug! Victoria - Real Life Real Spice: The Official Story The video shoot for 2 Become 1 was really tough. It took two days in astudio, which was really cold because there were a load of wind machines going. It was funny because we wanted to get this effect of our hair blowing really slowly in the wind, so we had to lip-synch in double time. It was hilarious singing so fast. Melanie C - Real Life Real Spice: The Official Story MAMA Director: Andy Delaney/Monty Whitebloom (Big TV!) Location: Ealing, London UK Shooting Date/Period: February 1997 It look such a long time to film the Mama video, but if was nice that our mums were there and could see what we're doing. It's good, because they were actually knackered at the end of the dayand I said to my mum: "Ha! Now you know how I feel every day!" Victoria - Real Life Real Spice: The Official Story It was nice for our mums to get involved, but for me personally. I found it abit bizarre bringing my mum to work with me on the Mama video. You know: "This is what I do - come and do it, too." If you worked in Sainsbury's, you wouldn't get your mum to sit with you on the till. But it was nice for them to get made up, have their hair done and feel glamorous. Geri - Real Life Real Spice: The Official Story WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE Director: Gregg Masuak Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period:February 1997 We shot the video for Who Do You Think You Are in a really mad club - a real dive. The toilets were horrible and we bad to have our make-up done in a Winnebago. The vibe was excellent, though - I think it was mY favourite video because it was such good fun. I felt like a proper pop star because we did these Individual bits with a guy with a SteadlCam and we had to give it loads as we sang to the camera. It was just how you imagine it when you're young. We were all dressed up. too. I had a dress and shoes on for the first time ever and I felt like Kylie Mlnogue. It's just a real party video. Melanie C - Real Life Real Spice: The Official Story I enjoyed making the Comic Relief Who Do you Think You Are video so much. The women were all really warm and funny and nice. The freakiest thing about it was seeing Jennifer Saunders. She looked just like me and everyone said they thought she was me. It was absoluteh bizarre - the make-up, evervthing. It was scary - like, doI really do that? She takes off people and she'd got my mannerisms exactly. It was themost in-yer-face reflection of me. and I was thinking: "Oh my God!" Geri - Real Life Real Spice: The Official Story SPICE UP YOUR LIFE Director: Marcus Nispel Location: New York, USA Shooting Date/Period: 6-7 September 1997 TOO MUCH Director: Howard Greenhalgh Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period: November 1997 STOP Director: James Brown Location: Dublin, Ireland Shooting Date/Period: January 1998 (HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE) ON TOP OF THE WORLD Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: VIVA FOREVER Director: Steve Box Animated video At that time videos were primarily aimed at a programme called The Chart Show. They would tell us that you’d hear the first verse and the first chorus and that was all that they were going to show on the programme. So we put all the energy, the most polished piece of animation, into that area. I thought it would be a good chance to do something really unusual, that was unexpected. The video, it turns out, does touch on loss, but not exactly the loss of life. It’s like the sadness of the song is leaving your childhood behind. I came up with this idea for the girls to be tin toy fairies that were like lost toys, which was a little bit of a comment on that modern pop: you buy it, you put your money in, you get your music and then shortly afterwards it will disappear. At the time, I was reading a lot of the old Rupert the Bear ones from the 1940s and 50s. Often Rupert comes across some weird living toy in the woods or some secret doorway in a tree. They’re quite surreal stories, quite magical. Steve Box - crackmagazine.net GOODBYE Director: Howard Greenhalgh Location: Buckinghamshire, UK - Mentmore Towers Shooting Date/Period: 1-2 November 1998 IT'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL (BUT I LIKE IT) Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: HOLLER Director: Jake Nava Location: Elstree, Hertfordshire UK - Elstree Studios Shooting Date/Period: 27-28 July 2000 LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY Director: Greg Masuak Location: Shooting Date/Period: HEADLINES (FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS) Director: Anthony Mandler Location: Iver, UK - Pinewood Studios Shooting Date/Period:

Hello everyone, I hope you and your family are at home safe. Bored, I decided to open this thread to collect information related to the Spice Girls videography. For some videos it's not easy to find them. I ask for your partecipation if it's possible! Thanks

UK charts: #27 Downloads #27 Sales #37 Scotland

The track does not fit in both album musically in my opinion. So it was OK for the Pepsi campaign.

She said also that she is planning another music video with the same director of Who I Am. .. So another single is coming.

Same for me.

Voted for Step To Me.

Love the song! Video is a bit boring.

An aussie fan/journalist said that the album is full of bangers He has listened six songs.

Mine will arrive next week. Probably for the Corona virus.

Melanie new single is called Who I Am and it will be out on march 20th.

Cool winner! How about video survivor?

Technically is not possible.

She said album will be out end of the year and she will publish a few singles before.

New single out in March

High Heels charted on downloads and sales chart at #90

Physical copies are available on Emma store. Just 500 copies.. hurry up.

Cheap and forgettable.

No news yet?

What I Am for me. I really like the video.

Good.. Something new!

Spice World and Forever will be out in vinyl format next month. ----- https://spicegirls.lnk.to/SpiceworldBlackLP - Spiceworld https://spicegirls.lnk.to/GreatestHitsBlackLPFP - Greatest Hits

Mel B with no doubt!

Emma has started rehearsals for the concert.