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About This Track
“Wannabe” is a song by the British pop group Spice Girls, released as their debut single, and widely considered to be their signature song. It was written by the Spice Girls, Richard Stannard and Matt Rowe for the group’s debut album Spice.
“Wannabe” is an uptempo pop song with a touch of white hip-hop, rap and dance music; the lyrics are a demand of sincerity, with a feminist message of choosing friends over relationships, the song became an iconic symbolism of female empowerment and the most emblematic song of the girl power philosophy. Despite receiving mixed reviews from music critics, the song won Best British-Written Single at the 1997 Ivor Novello Awards and Best Single at the 1997 BRIT Awards.
The single was released in July 1996 in the United Kingdom, reaching the top of the UK Singles Chart for seven consecutive weeks, and received a platinum certification by the BPI. In January 1997 the song was released in the United States topping the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, becoming their only number-one single in that country.
“Wannabe” is one of the most recognisable and successful songs of the 1990s. By the end of 1996 it had topped the charts in 22 nations, and by March of 1997 this number had climbed to 31, before it became the best-selling single by a female group in the history of recorded sound, selling over six million copies worldwide.
Writing and inspiration
“Wannabe” is an uptempo pop song with a touch of white hip-hop, rap and dance music; the lyrics are a demand of sincerity, with a feminist message of choosing friends over relationships, the song became an iconic symbolism of female empowerment and the most emblematic song of the girl power philosophy. Despite receiving mixed reviews from music critics, the song won Best British-Written Single at the 1997 Ivor Novello Awards and Best Single at the 1997 BRIT Awards.
The single was released in July 1996 in the United Kingdom, reaching the top of the UK Singles Chart for seven consecutive weeks, and received a platinum certification by the BPI. In January 1997 the song was released in the United States topping the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, becoming their only number-one single in that country.
“Wannabe” is one of the most recognisable and successful songs of the 1990s. By the end of 1996 it had topped the charts in 22 nations, and by March of 1997 this number had climbed to 31, before it became the best-selling single by a female group in the history of recorded sound, selling over six million copies worldwide.
Writing and inspiration
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Shouts
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CosmiC-KastAway wrote:
My fist fav. band/ group from my childhood
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murjanb wrote:
This is the Death of Music....just kidding, it's a fun song :))
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Filipizinho wrote:
my childhood
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JunkMark wrote:
LEGEND
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peterpetroff wrote:
An awesome song from my childhood... unforgettable ..:)))
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MJRocker1987 wrote:
The jam that started it all! I do feel like asking them, though, what the hell it means to "zigazig-AH". LOL!
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wiki149 wrote:
So tell me what you want, what you really really want ~xd~
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Serebiii wrote:
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ha
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magdalen101 wrote:
i'll tell you what i want...what i really really want...
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sunshyne84 wrote:
slam ya body down and wine it all around!
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aineb wrote:
1 250 625 scrobbli 267 055 Słuchaczy
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Dangerous_Man wrote:
POP CLASSIC [17] This song is pure happiness
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Megawarrior345 wrote:
This song IS the 90s [2]
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Dash_PR wrote:
Você fez o scrobble desta faixa 71 vezes. Você fez o primeiro scrobble dela em 5 Mai 2010.
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ButterflyGirll wrote:
POP
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AsylumLeeches wrote:
POP CLASSIC [16]
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Diih_Cardoso wrote:
POP CLASSIC [15]
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aniaia wrote:
POP CLASSIC ♥ [14]
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eddyydde wrote:
Bacon lasts forever. Breakfast never ends!
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NoreenFrancois wrote:
hit
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