Girl Groups

So the Spice Girls have reunited for a world tour...I wish I could afford tickets...
Reason being that I liked the Spice girls when I was nine, and a decade later, I still groove to their music.
I turn it down when people come into the room, but it's usually too late- they've heard the embarrassing poppy music and cheesy lyrics, and pictured five skinny girls in silly clothing.
To my surprise, they say "Hey, turn that back up! I love the Spice Girls!"
(these people are usually girls. I haven't tried the Spice girls on any of my guy friends as of yet. My nine year old guy friends were more into other music.)

I've even added the Spice girls as one of my radio stations on pandora.com. Pandora takes your music selections and mixes them with similar music. I like it because it introduces me to new artists I might like and even opt out of music I don't like. My Spice girls radio station usually comes up with other pop music of the 90's. Britney, 'NSYNC, The Backstreet Boys, Janet Jackson, and Destiny's Child are among the mix. Yes- this is the blissful Spice Girls station.

I listen to it all the time.

And then, as I am nostalging over the 90s, a song comes on the radio station that does fit in.

And then, it DOES fit in...but it's NEW!

The Pussycat Dolls have sung their way onto my Spice Girls station.

This doesn't make sense to me at first. How are the lingerie- wearing, sultry, come- hither singing Dolls like the....wait...

They pretty much are the spice girls- 11 years later and up- to date. A clique of attrative women. Revealing clothes. Suggestive lyrics. Attitude. Personality. Lots of production. The center of the pop world.

Girl groups begain in the 1960, when Ron Spector started the Ronettes and Motown supported the Supremes. Girl groups were fun. The british invasion and put girl groups in the background. Flash forward to the 80s with Salt 'N Pepa, and continued with TLC and then Destiny's Child. The Spice Girls were the most successful of all of these.

Each wave of girl group fun was up- to- date on society's norms. Each has gotten more risque with their clothing and their lyrics. They seem to come into the spotlight and then leave after their run is done.

But people still like the Supremes. My conservative, too- embarassed- to- dance mother shakes it UP when she hears them.

And girls my age like the Spice Girls...

Are girl groups more classic than I gave them credit for? They might not seem serious enough to be taken seriously. But what is classic music? Could it be the stuff we listen to and love repeatedly, no matter how long it's been or how many times we've heard it?

And the Village People wrote silly songs a long time ago. People still listen to them.