Such harmonics! Incredible choreography! Next Spice Girls discovered!

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>> ^youdiejoe:
I am in full agreement with the stated position of AC. I am totally against prefab holidays and this is the most prefabby of them all. I'm a firm believer of telling those you love that you love them as often as possible, and it doesn't require a special day of the year to show that love.
My favorite holiday, and not for the reasons that some celebrate it is Thanksgiving, lots of friends and food... that's a fricken holiday!


Dude, you want prefab holiday? Three Canadian provinces have created "Family Day" which is an actual statutory holiday. It's on Monday.

In other news, I'm just grumbling at the # of dead vids notices I'm getting. I have nothing against SiftMaintenance - it's key to keep this place a useful, er, repository? - but it's also bloody annoying to see so much viral magic getting the neo-realist shaft. UGH.

Try and kill my obscure video source now, you bastards.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Spice-Girls-Wannabe

>> ^Issykitty:
^This important comment brought to you by the one who tried to sift THE SPICE GIRLS REUNION.


And...I fully understand and accept that it did not get sifted.
Fully.

^This important comment brought to you by the one who tried to sift THE SPICE GIRLS REUNION.

This movie was the inspiration behind the Spice Girls' "Say You'll Be There" music video.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Spice-Girls-Say-Youll-Be-There

From Wikiepdia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_You%27ll_Be_There

Video is in a Sift-off race with http://www.videosift.com/video/Spice-Girls-Wannabe

Added a comment here to neutralize any impact of one comment being seen and the other not being seen/factored in.

Tickets to the new Spice Girls Tour. Oh, and a Ring-pop and some pink Crocs.

The world would be a better place without the Spice Girls.

i remember when the spice girls were suddenly all over the media saying "girl power" and pretending to be anarchists or something. Shame they were managed by a man working for a mostly male record company run by a man. Shame that every 5 year old in england suddenly wanted to dress like a skank.

there's your feminism.

persephone, am I a "masculinist" then?
seems crazy that a movement which is about equality has such a polarised name, but anyways...

@ Raven

That's probably because you don't hang around with Paris Hilton-type of party girls. Where have you been all these years? You don't remember the days when media started calling Madonna an ideal feminist, and that somehow got her kissing on stage with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera?? And the day after when people called it 'disgusting', other people defended the action by calling it a 'feminine expression'???

I've had the mortal displeasure of hanging around with a lot of brain-dead college girls, thanks to my party loving roomates. And these girls actually quoted Beyonce (the singer) to prove feminism to me. The whole argument started when they started driveling about what they learned in feminist class that afternoon and how they were 'oppressed' by the men all these years, and how it prevented the female gender to truly 'express' themselves.

The recent rise of 'expressive feminism' clearly had a huge impact on pop culture, and definitely are related to one another. The corporate world merely followed the trends, and all they did was identifying the market and going with the flow. In media, it is used as an excuse to further exploit the already lucrative idea of 'sex sells'. And as individuals, we are no longer allowed to tell them not to do it, because if you did, you'd be 'oppressing' women. And they've been selling sex for quite awhile, but the difference is that this time they've got the philosophic community on their side, so now you've got to argue against feminism when you're trying to limit them.

The MTV and the gangs did capitalize on this and thrived and using it as an excuse to start going with raunchier, naughtier shows without getting backlashed for being immoral. But the point is that the feminist idea was already there to embrace these things. And it was just a matter of time before major celebrities in popular culture started marketing themselves as 'newage feminists' and embraced this idea of woman 'expressing' herself with open arms, by justifying themselves from selling sex appeal, and just ran with it through mountains and oceans.

I mean, today's line of pop artists such as 'the pussy cat dolls' make the old 'spice girls' look like a bunch of Mormons in Halloween costumes. And I would've thought I would at least be 40 when I started talking about the big 'morality' subject and 'young people going too far'. But the transformation of attitude in popular opinion has been so rapid that even a person in their mid 20s like me are starting to fear if we really ARE that decadent.

So tell me, how are they not related?

p.s I'd like to see some female sifters' comments here to see what they have to say about the subject.

upvote for the cheese GIRRRL POWER SPICE GIRLS 4EVA

I give up - you're all right; the towers were brought down as part of an (almost) impossibly intricate conspiracy, involving the White House, the owner of the Towers, your mother, and your pet dog. The fact that the perpetrators have kept silent on this for going on five years proves they were abducted by aliens and tortured at Area 51 with anal lasers.

It's all so obvious; why didn't I see it before?
Not having to provide credible alternate theories is FUN!
What do you guys want to dream up next?
How about...the Spice Girls killed Princess Diana to keep her from revealing her alternative car fuel made out of packing peanuts?!?

Sorry, my 'Anti-Spice Girls' feelings still linger. Ginger Spice was the only reason I ever watched a video or tolerated there presence on the airwaves.

Wikipedia had this brief article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster%2C_Pussycat%21_Kill%21_Kill%21

The cultural references to this film are interesting - scroll past the plot outline.

For example:

the Spice Girls' music video for "Say You'll Be There."