Spice Girls (Part 1) - How Girl Power Changed Britain
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Twenty five years since their debut album Spice, the story of how five British women became a global phenomenon, reflecting and influencing a generation in the process.
Featuring archive footage and interviews from the early days of the band and their meteoric rise to fame, `Girl Powered: The Spice Girls' tells the story of English pop sensation the Spice Girls. The series considers how the Spice Girls influenced a generation of women, and how the band fits into the world of modern feminism and the #MeToo movement. Emerging from the British `ladette' culture of the 90s, the band used their mega-stardom to promote the message of `girl power' to a global fanbase.
Featuring archive footage and interviews from the early days of the band and their meteoric rise to fame, `Girl Powered: The Spice Girls' tells the story of English pop sensation the Spice Girls. The series considers how the Spice Girls influenced a generation of women, and how the band fits into the world of modern feminism and the #MeToo movement. Emerging from the British `ladette' culture of the 90s, the band used their mega-stardom to promote the message of `girl power' to a global fanbase.