Spice Girls are finally releasing a song that was too horny to be featured on Spice
Hornier than "2 Become 1"? We find that hard to believe
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We’ll tell you what we want, what we really, really want: new Spice Girls songs. But alas, while Spice Girls haven’t recorded new material after their reunion, they’re giving us the next best thing: Wannabe25, an EP celebrating the iconic song’s 25th anniversary. The EP is coming out on July 9 digitally, and in vinyl and cassette on July 23 . The upcoming release includes the original version “Wannabe” (obviously), a Junior Vasquez remix that originally appeared as a bonus track on the 2 Become 1 maxi single release, the “Wannabe” demo, and the most exciting addition of all—an unreleased song called “Feed Your Love.”
The song is described as “a ballad written by Spice Girls and ‘Wannabe’ co-writers Richard ‘Biff’ Stannard and Matt Rowe, recorded for the album Spice but previously unreleased” in the album pre-order page. The song also features all the women, including Posh—a rare moment in Spice Girls’ discography. Nylon reported that the song didn’t make it on Spice because it was considered “too racy” for Spice Girls’ young audience, even though they had some other horny songs too, like “2 Become 1" (to jog your memory, the song goes “Come a little bit closer, baby/Get it on, get it on/’Cause tonight is the night/When two become one”).
Part of “Feed Your Love” was actually leaked in 2016, and clips of it are still up. From what we’ve heard, it’s not quite as horny as “2 Become 1,” so it’s quite a head scratcher as to why it wasn’t tame enough to release a song that says “Feed your love to me (To me baby)/Cause’ I really, really, really/Want to share my feelings with you.”
Hey, maybe the rest of the lyrics are a bit raunchier than what the clip shows, but we’ll learn soon enough if the song was too risqué for preteen girls.
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You didn’t quote the best line from 2 Becomes 1: “Be a little bit wiser, baby. Put it on, put it on.”Not sure I have heard another pop song praising safe sex practices, but condom-talk is peak horniness to me.
I feel like this was actually a very 90’s thing to do.
How about Salt-n-Pepa’s “Let’s Talk About Sex” which came out in 1991?
‘Making love’ has always been a term for sex, but I like to think it’s a bit of a gentler term and offers some interpretative wriggle room as to what is actually happening. Like, maybe you hear ‘making love’ and think of two people sitting in side-by-side bathtubs and holding hands.
…but when the Spice Girls are telling you to rubber-up? ‘Making love’ now clearly means that penetrative intercourse is happening.
‘Making love’ now clearly means that penetrative intercourse is happening. 1. It meant something else ever?
2. Your pillow talk must be straight clinical filth. Soooo hot.
As late as the 1940s and maybe even into the ‘50s, to “make love” meant to court or seduce someone—to “woo” them, as the kids back then would say.
Although in the Victorian era and earlier the phrase referred to far tamer acts like reciting love poems fully dressed. All those references in old novels about couples making love on the front porch were less X-rated than they sound today.
‘Making love’ is the new ‘pitching woo’
“Like, maybe you hear ‘making love’ and think of two people sitting in side-by-side bathtubs and holding hands.”
What?
Are you excited for your fifth birthday?
There was a song out around the same time that was literally called “Let’s Talk About Sex” by TLC which was almost completely about safe sex. But yeah, they were rare.
Left Eye wore a condom over her eye! As was the style at the time…
That was Salt N Pepa. Came out in 91, way ahead of Spice Girls.
Good catch. Now I have to remember what the TLC song about safe sex was.Ain’t Too Proud To Beg? Or maybe it was just literally Left Eye with the condom which, like, who needs words when you’re at that level of fashion accessory?
“Let’s Talk About Sex” was Salt-n-Pepa! TLC had “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” and “Creep” tho (plus TLC did wear condoms as accessories). And of course we can’t forget Salt-n-Pepa’s earlier hit, “Push It”.
“red light special” was all about fucking.
That’s not TLC, that’s Salt-N-Peppa.
I thought that was Salt n Peppa.
Salt N Pepa did LTAS but Left Eye from TLC often wore glasses with a condom for a lens.
It was definitely by Salt-n-Pepa nearly a decade earlier but sure.
There’s also Too Much Too Young by The Specials although that’s more about population control than safe sex ( as might be expected from a late 70s track.)
2 Become 1 was the song that got the Spice Girls banned around my mother.
“I can’t buy the new Spice Girls album on cassette because it’s sold out” doesn’t feel like a very 2021 sentence and yet here we are
I would be much more interested in an unreleased Spice Girls VIDEO that was too horny. The “Say You’ll Be There” video hit me right in the puberty when I was a lad, I was delighted to find an actual legit/official HD version of it had been uploaded to youtube, I wish that happened with more old music videos.
Ahem:
“At a Middling Pace”
“2 Become 1″ is nowhere near as horny as “Naked”. Smh @ you fake fans who only know the singles!
Their Greatest Hits album is one of the best pop albums. Really wished they’d stuck working with Richard ‘Biff’ Stannard and Matt Rowe for the thirs album, rather than go all r’n’b
Maybe feed your love means dump your load in me.
not that it is used here, but just taking this opportunity to note that the phrase “Horny on main” makes me chuckle.
The song also features all the women, including Posh—a rare moment in Spice Girls’ discography.
Rare? 100% of Spice Girls songs featured all of the members singing. That was their whole deal – no lead singer, vocals split equally between them all.
But we gotta acknowledge that Mel C was very much the strongest voice of that group (or at least the way Spice Girls’ songs were sung and produced). Victoria Beckam nee Adams aka Posh was the Michelle Williams of the group – talented but not necessarily at the same things or level as the rest of the crew.
True, but irrelevant to the point I quoted. Even if her vocal talents didn’t stand out, she did sing in literally every song they ever recorded. That’s the opposite of “rare”.
True.
I’m so tired of thinking for myself. Please, AVClub, tell me what I want, what I really really want.
I wanna be 25 again.
maybe the rest of the lyrics are a bit raunchier than what the clip showsI sincerely hope there’s a Scary or Sporty rap-verse that’s absolutely filled with curse words and terrible euphemisms like “go another round on the Slip and Slide” or “time to get my knickers mucky”.