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A review by harrietj
What Would the Spice Girls Do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up by Lauren Bravo
2.5
I was never a massive Spice Girls fan so I'm probably not really the target audience for this. The 90s nostalgia was fun, and seeing how dismissive of the group some other, 'proper' musicians were was interesting, but overall it felt a bit light and a bit padded out. I wanted it to take a slightly more in-depth look at the relationship between The Spice Girls and feminism, or how the group managed the music industry in the 90s, or really anything.
Having been a fairly obsessive fan of many other things in my time (Buffy, Spider-Man, frogs), I did like reading about the all-consuming devotion of the (then) eight year old Spice Girls fans that Lauren Bravo interviewed, and was herself. That was probably, for me, the most relatable thing in the book.
Having been a fairly obsessive fan of many other things in my time (Buffy, Spider-Man, frogs), I did like reading about the all-consuming devotion of the (then) eight year old Spice Girls fans that Lauren Bravo interviewed, and was herself. That was probably, for me, the most relatable thing in the book.