I just decided i will post some random videos along the week… like music videos, old interviews, old performances, so we can remember how good they were (not that we forgot lol but you know what i mean)!

I will start posting my favorite music video ever: Say You´ll Be There!! It is also my fave group single. The song was written by the Spice Girls and Eliot Kennedy, for their debut album Spice:

The music video was inspired by the films Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Pulp Fiction, and features the group as a band of female techno-warriors, who use martial arts and high-tech ninja influenced weapons to capture a hapless male. It includes symbols of male disempowerment, and serves as an example of solidarity and the group’s bonding. It received positive reactions from fans and was nominated for numerous awards including the 1996 Smash Hits! Awards, the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, and the 1997 BRIT Awards.

Released as the album’s second single on 14 October 1996, it became their second number-one single in the United Kingdom, and was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). It was a commercial success across Europe, reaching the top ten in most of the charts that it entered. As a result of its popularity, the song was released in 1997 in Australia, receiving a gold certification by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), and in North America, entering the top five in both, Canada and the United States.

The music video for “Say You’ll Be There” was directed by Vaughan Arnell, produced by Adam Saward and filmed on 23 September 1996, in the Mojave Desert, located in California. It was inspired by the films Pulp Fiction and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,^[15] the latter in which led the girls to adopt fictional identities, an idea that Halliwell came up with.

The video features the group as a band of female techno-warriors, who use martial arts and high-tech ninja influenced weapons to capture a hapless male, played by American model Tony Ward, who happens to appear in a blue Dodge Charger Daytona. The clip is presented as a narrative, with movie credits at the start introducing the Spice Girls as fantastic characters.

Melanie Chisholm played “Katrina Highkick”, Geri Halliwell’s alter-ego was “Trixie Firecracker”,Emma Bunton took on the rôle of “Kung Fu Candy”, Victoria Beckham played “Midnight Miss Suki”, and “Blazin’ Bad Zula” was Melanie Brown’s alter-ego. The shots of male bondage are unexplained, and function as symbols of male disempowerment, just as the rest of the clip serves to assert the power and fighting abilities of the women. At the end the group captures a confused man who appears in his pick-up truck. He is carried off on the roof of the car as a trophy.

The video won for Best Pop Video at the 1996 Smash Hits! Awards, for Best Video at the 1997 BRIT Awards, and was nominated for the Viewer’s Choice at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards. It won the FAN.tastic Video honour—given by online Billboardreaders—at the 1997 Billboard Music Video Awards, and was also nominated for Best New Artist in a Video and Best Pop/Rock Clip.

- Source: Wikipedia