Episode 150 (February 21, 2025)
It only took us eight years but we finally reached 150 episodes. How about that? To celebrate, we squeeze into matching Union Jack dresses and slam our bodies down and wind them all around to discuss Spice World (1997), the notoriously bad (but secretly good?) Spice Girls movie.
To elder millennials, this movie’s a big honking deal, folks, and we pull out all the stops to unpack exactly why that is. And to then marvel at how, of all the directions they could have gone with a Spice Girls movie, this is what they made.
Time stamps:
06:13 — Our personal histories with the Spice Girls
16:06 — History segment: What is “Cool Britannia”?; a brief history of the Spice Girls; how the Spice Girls made a movie
45:12 — In-depth movie discussion
1:18:53 — Final thoughts and star ratings
Sources:
“How the ‘Spice World’ Movie Became a Deranged, Postmodern Masterpiece” by Sirin Kale | Vice, 2018 – https://bit.ly/41qK2nx
“When the Spice Girls hit Cannes: the inside story of Spice World, ‘the worst film ever made’” by Alice Vincent | The Telegraph, 2019 – https://bit.ly/3Qrjdua
Roger Ebert’s half-star review of Spice World – https://bit.ly/4i0PKTB
Artwork by Laci Roth.
Music by Rural Route Nine. Listen to their album The Joy of Averages on Spotify (https://bit.ly/48WBtUa), Apple Music (https://bit.ly/3Q6kOVC), or YouTube (https://bit.ly/3MbU6tC).
Songs by Rural Route Nine in this episode:
“Winston-Salem” – https://youtu.be/-acMutUf8IM
“Snake Drama” – https://youtu.be/xrzz8_2Mqkg
“The Bible Towers of Bluebonnet” – https://youtu.be/k7wlxTGGEIQ
Our favorite movies about bands: ALMOST FAMOUS (for Laci) and METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER (for Matt). What are yours???? pic.twitter.com/Q0Xx47Wtcd
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