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The "Girl Power" publicity machine was humming long before the lights dimmed at the San Francisco "Spice World" screening. Twelve-year-old girls rushed the stage as flacks dangled Spicy gifts -- Spice pencils, Spice posters, Spice T-shirts, Spice CDs -- before the kids' eager faces. "Hey, I neeeeeeeeeed one!" screeched one girl from the balcony. In lieu of previews, an MC coordinated a Spice wave throughout the theater, as every fan undulated to the Spice Girl beat. The pre-game festivities were the perfect segue into "Spice World" -- which, in essence, is one big pep rally for the group.
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The Spice Girls visited New York City on the 1 July 1998 on their first world tour. The concert sold out in 12 minutes, which was a record for a British pop act.
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Album No. 3- Spice Girls second album "SpiceWorld" moves up from number 6 to number 3 on Billboard's top 200 album charts for period ending 25 Jan. Sales of 109,000 units up from 78,000 units sold the previous week. Meanwhile Spice Girls "Spice" album moved up to number 11 on sales of 60,00 units after 51 weeks on the charts. And the Spice Girls single "Spice Up Your Life" is number 25 after 14 weeks on the charts.
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"Spice World" doesn't answer any questions about why the Spice Girls are so popular, or exactly when they're going away. But it does provide evidence about which of them is the most annoying.
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Variety is the spice of Spiceworld. The LP seems less a song cycle than a series of aural production numbers. "Spice Up Your Life," the first single, is a global call to arms and legs with a distinct carnivallike flavor and a message of Up With Spice People positivity. "Stop" is a retro, Supremes-lite confection that's as undeniable as it is unoriginal. The big finish, "The Lady Is a Vamp," is a vaudevillian track that name-checks Jackie O., Twiggy and Ziggy Marley among those who the Spice Girls apparently feel are "legends built to last."
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It's entirely possible that bands are scared off by the candy-colored flipside to Night's black-and-white beauty, Spice World. Just to clarify, that's the Spice Girls movie, not a film about the fifteenth century spice trade. You may remember it from a variety of instant punchlines circa the turn of the last century.
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