Today, it’s official: The Spice Girls are reuniting for a world tour (11 dates have been announced, starting Dec. 7 in L.A.), and as you’ll see in the eight-minute video below, no one is more excited about it than… the Spice Girls! Let’s hear from Baby: "The big news is we’re going on tour! Global! Very exciting! A little bit scary! But I can’t wait!"
The five women look fabulous — especially Ginger (still my fave), who claims the fans really brought the Girls back together: "You could almost feel the energy, and the want, and the need for it." (She also takes some credit herself. After spending time with a few of the Girls, she woke up the next morning and, "I was lying in my bed, and I went, ‘I want to be a Spice Girl!’ And then I went, ‘Ohmygod, I am a Spice Girl!’ I quickly rang Emma, and I went, ‘I want to be a Spice Girl! And she’s like, ‘Me, too!’) The tour, and a greatest hits album, will be overseen by the Spice Girls’ original mastermind, Simon Fuller (American Idol).
So tell us: Will you be there for the Spice Girls, or did you stop feeling the Girl Power long ago?
After the jump, we tackle the day’s other big announcement…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC has just ordered 18 more episodes of the According to Jim! We here at PopWatch don’t recall hearing about any Jericho-magnitude campaigns to save the show after it was booted from the fall schedule and presumed canceled back in May — and we sit firmly in the "Not to Care" camp. Still, should someone post a genuine, passionate defense of the series below, I promise to give it a chance when it returns to the schedule. I was, after all, wrong about Reba.
Well, Scary can sing about being a single baby-mama, and Posh can eat a sandwich. I’d watch that. And don’t give Jim another chance. It’s had 5 years to get good, and it hasn’t.
I’m one of those girls who loved the Spice Girls, then said they were lame even though I really still liked them, then just embraced the fact that I loved them! Now as a senior in college I still listen to their music all the time. It’s my guilty pleasure, but I don’t even feel guilty about it anymore. Am I excited for a reunion tour? Heck yes! Do I live in any of the cities they’ll be in? Sadly no
And now I’ll probably never get to see them perform live!
Couldn’t have said it better myself Cassie!
There has been talk about the Spice reunion for years (at least on some of the UK pop websites I visit), so I am glad this is finally happening. I actually got to see them live when they toured in the US before, but, that was after Geri (also my favorite) left. So, I’d love to see them all together again.
I need some love like I never needed love before, wanna make love to ya baby…
…not excited but it should be fun.
I’ll never forget when “Wannabe” came out my freshman year in High School. It was a defining moment in my life. I wanted to see the Spice Girls in concert in 98/99, but couldn’t get tickets. Then Ginger Spice/Geri left the group and my hopes of seeing the 5 of them perform had been dashed ever since. I’m not even kidding – this announcement today has been one of the most exciting things I have heard in a very long, long, time. I’ll TOTALLY be at this concert come hell or highwater. Zig-a-zig-ah!!
I’ve always felt bad for Jim Belushi. His brother died nearly 30 years ago and is STILL considered the talented one. But bas as I’ve felt, I’ve never forgiven him for that awful K-9 movie (note to Belushi: Still waiting for my $8 refund on that one).
The Spice Girls return does excite me though. It’ll give us at least one more bubblegum hit, and you know that inevitable Ali G interview’s going to be fab!
Spice Girls were positive people, but the songs were super cheese!
The Belushi show is now just as bad as Drew Carey’s show when it was on it’s last legs. I hope next year ABC has the common courtesy to finally youthinize According to Jim.
As soon as I saw the AP news report, I rang up my friend in Florida (I’m in Ohio) and told him to start saving his money, as we’re traveling to either NY, LA or Las Vegas come December. They were awesome when I saw them on their Geri-less U.S. tour, and now we get to see all five!! They made a definite positive impact on my life, and this news has just made my day. Girl Power!
I’ll tell you what I want/What I really really want…./ The Spice Girls should do a show of all Joni Mitchell and Prince covers! Yeah!
Spice up your life!
I am so excited! Like Cassie, I don’t live anywhere near one of these 11 cities but I am definitely going to try to get to Las Vegas or NYC. I do not want to miss them this time around!
So there’s room for “According to Jim”, but not for “The Knights of Prosperity” on ABC’s sitcom slate? Gimme a break! The “Knights” theme song (“stealing from the rich to give to themselves!”) is funnier and better than any of the actual material on “According to Jim.”
By the way, Ginger’s always been my fave too.
I’m not going to go out and purchase tickets for their concert or anything, but I would defintely buy their greatest hits album.
Well, here it is, from a guy’s perspective: I always liked Ginger back in the day, while feeling like Scary was a bit underrated, and Posh was overrated. Current day? Definately Baby, wow did she ever get HAWT, good god almighty!! As far as According To Jim, that’s always been my benchmark go-to show for celebration of total and complete mediocrity and demonstration of the complete lack of taste of 90% of the USA, or as I call them, the “Des Moines, Iowa crowd”. For example: “So Arrested Development got canceled…but According To Jim is still on. Riiiight.” You can plug in Firefly, Freaks and Geeks, or any other number of shows into that statement and it works just as well.
I know people who work on “Jim”–and have nothing to do with the writing, so you can’t blame them–and I’m sure they will be very happy to have a job to go back to in the fall. Not the most passionate defense, but it’s something. And I actually worked on “Arrested Development,” so I mourned its demise both because the show was great and because it meant I was out of work.