Word: spice
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Million dollar question (okay, for those of you who care deeply for the Spice Girls at least)--can any of the individual Spices create a (respectable?) singing career outside of the multi-colored, in-your-face, garish persona of the past? Melanie C makes a decent attempt on Northern Star--the opening drum and bass notes of the first song "Go," are exciting and unexpected, and the rest of the album too, with its pop/R&B influences is surprisingly listenable, especially on Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (of TLC fame) rapping on "Never Be the Same Again." Look...
...tunes, while catchy, are still the same teenage-targeted, forgettable tunes as before. Heck, the girl won't even use her full name, still clinging on to the Mel C moniker (it's Melanie Chisholm, if you must know). Solo album or not, this is still the same Spice Girls album dressed up in slightly more sophisticated hues...
...they're sexy, they're sporty, their enthusiasm may even be a little scary, but don't you dare call them the Spice Girls. First of all, they're women, not girls, and they are anything but bubble-gum pop vixens. Aside from their aforementioned bare-it-all costumes, the flygirls plan on doing the scene where Jesus comes before Herod in dominatrix-chic, complete with fishnet stockings and rhinestone brassieres (the scene was often treated in previous productions as a cross between a vaudeville soft-shoe and soft-core porn as envisioned by the cast of The Rocky Horror...
...flygirls aren't the Spice Girls, who are they? The Christian tradition on which Jesus Christ Superstar is based (in theory, at least) makes use of the via negativa to define who God is, outlining everything He isn't (e.g., "God is not mortal") and implying that He is everything else. A similar tactic works for the flygirls. They're not the Supremes, exactly, although in some scenes they do alternate their backflips with do-wop backup harmonies. They're not all TLC, despite their crazysexycool attitude and hip-hop flava (they describe their dance style...
...flygirls who initially had not wanted to do the show decided to take the part because she was so amazed at the audition). In a characteristic move of flygirl solidarity, the dancers all agree that they are each the others' greatest inspirations. The flygirls may not be Spice Girls, but the women who play them sure seem to echo the five pop tarts' girl power sentiments...