“Spice up your life” of the Spice Girls is “cleaned up” by the radio

“Spice up your life”, a classic of Spice Girls, It is transmitted in a new version in which an adjective is deleted today deemed inappropriate.

“Spice Up Your Life” has become one of the best known songs of Mel B, Melanie C, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Victoria Beckham. At the time of the release, in 1997 the song remained, with its original text, in the top 20 of the rankings for six weeks, and then remain in the top 40 for 12 weeks.

However, a controversial verse of the song meant that the song was censored by numerous radio stations. The original text read: “Yellow man in Timbuktu. Color for me and for you”. Today, however, the radio stations, including BBC Radio 2, are transmitting a modified version of the song with the removal of the word “Yellow”.

In reality, the controversies around the text already date back to 2019, when the news emerged that the group itself was considering replacing the word “Yellow” with “Happy” for the reunion tour of that year. This decision was then discarded and the group performed the song with the original text.

The British edition of the newspaper Metro also stresses that a censored version of the successful song was played during an episode of Doctor Who in 2023, when the characters spoke above the words.

When asked in this regard, a representative of BBC Radio 2 has released a declaration to The Sun, stating that the modification was not made by them, but it is a modified version that is reproduced by numerous broadcasters.

Meanwhile, what do the Spice Girls do? How is the hypothesis of their reunification, an idea that has been circulating for years now?

Some new hope, for those interested, had had themselves last April, when the members were seen to perform surprisingly with their hit “stop” at the party for the 50th anniversary of Victoria Beckham.

Even individual members have declared that they would be willing to reform. Mel Bfor example, gave hope last March saying that the group would “certainly do something” for their 30th anniversary (which would have been in 2024). Then, in December, Emma Bunton He revisited their discography and shared a version inspired by the Christmas of “2 Become 1” with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra.

Also Mel C He recently spoke of the hopes of a spice girls reunion, claiming to believe that “the time has come” for a return.

In the summer of 2023, some fans were convinced that the Spice Girls would perform in the “Legends” slot in Glastonbury that year, after Mel B had mentioned the Big Narstie Show.

But nothing to do: it was the same Mel C who denied the voices, stating that this would not work from a logistical point of view for the group.

The Spice Girls organized a reunion tour in 2019, but training did not understand Victoria Beckham. The last time they performed together publicly was on the occasion of the closing ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012.