Lisa Verico

But you could just hear it.

And this is the thing about young women.

They could tell that it was genuine.

And

So, yeah, it was masterminded by a man and the song was mostly written by two men.

But it was their personalities, their strength of personalities and the fact that they were actually genuinely kind of strong women.

I think what's interesting, if you look at maybe the best legacy of the Spice Girls really is that we don't have a lot of girl groups now.

There was this, you know, lots of them, the All Saints and

by which the Sugar Babes, and then there was the TV show ones.

But actually, if you look at a lot of the women who were inspired by the Spice Girls, so Billie Eilish, Adele, Charli XCX, women who thought, well, actually, I don't need a Svengali to be put into a group to make it in pop and to get my voice heard.

So I think maybe the fact that we don't have this kind of turning industry, like there's K-pop girl bands now, and that's very much, you know, on that production line that we don't really seem to have in this country anymore.