Something`s really rather bizarre about that disjunction, you live? But the Spice Girls really were a bizarre thing overall, weren`t they? They claimed to be all about girl power, but they were also presented so as to attract to a fairly wide array of male fantasies (the redheaded one, the athletic one, the rich and well-dressed one, the dark-skinned one, and-most creepily-the one presented as a large-breasted fifteen-year-old). Basically, the Spice Girls were a heterosexual Village People. Anyway, here are the lyrics to the song. All of the Spice Girls take various turns in this, but i`m not near to try to discover which one delivers which line, or which one is the principal singer-i`m really not taken enough with them to pass that much movement on figuring out which sound is whose. You`ll only get to drive it as a given, then, that there`s a sound bit of call-and-response going on here, and so the pronoun shifts aren`t really as jarring as they might see in print. That said, the discourse incoherence is jarring at times. Like, oh, in the real first verse_Yo, I`ll tell you what I want, what I truly really want Cool. I mean, it`s not care I let the way of giving it to you, what with you being in a British band and me being on the former face of the Atlantic and all, but it`s nice to live what`s on your Christmas list. You know, should i always be in a place to offer you with what you really, really want.So separate me what you want, what you really really need And this comes from somebody else in the band. Nice of her, i think-she hears that her bandmate has a need, and so she signals that she wants to experience the details of the request, presumably so that she can execute the need (at least, if she has the resources to do so).I`ll assure you what I want, what I truly really want No, dude, your friend already said you should tell her-if you duplicate this in that context it just sounds like a desperate plea for attention. And, of course, you being a Spice Girl, you wouldn`t need to break the opinion that you`re after undue attention, would you?So tell me what you want, what you truly really want Nice of her friend-i`d`ve already walked away. (But then again, i get better things to do with my time than engage verbal teases in conversation-i mean, i could be at YouTube watching Russians yodel or something useful like that. But it appears our tease of a Spice Girl is eventually passing to give an answer, namely:I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna With this much buildup, it must be something amazing!I wanna really really really wanna zigaziga ha Or not. Seriously, every time i hear this verse (and i`ve been hearing it way too much writing this up) i look like i`ve been rickrolled. I mean, zigazigaha?!? Seriously? But perhaps this bit of arcane cant will be explained in the verses that follow. I mean, there`s no way we`ll be left with something that meaningless, right?If you need my future forget my past Read: I love where Jimmy Hoffa is buried. And i design to invoke my fifth amendment rights should you ask how i came by that knowledge.If you wanna get with me better give it fast Now don`t go wasting my precious time Get your act together we could be just fine It appears thatthe particular Spice Girl who`s singing here is really, really upset about her biological clock. This is perhaps unexpected, given that the oldest of them was about 24years old when this strain was released, but i guess that that just goes to demonstrate how much value our modern Angloamerican society places on motherhood. There`s a sociology dissertation in there waiting to be written, i`m thinking. (If you`re interested, i`ll even allow you with a claim to use: On the Kinship Between Lyrical Content of New Dance Songs and Maternal Longing: A Post-Lacanian Analysis. No, no motive to thank me-you don`t yet get to know my part if you use it. In fact, upon further thought, please don`t know my part if you use it.I`ll tell you what I want, what I truly really want You`re just toying with us now, aren`t you?So tell me what you want, what you truly really need You know, this reaction has gone beyond niceness-it`s now just enabling. You truly need to avert these sorts of co-dependence issues, you know.I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ha Well, i guess we should at least be glad that she only claimed she`d tell us what she really, really wanted once before providing us with this line this time. Small blessing-it`s all about counting the small blessings.If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends Take it go forever friendship never ends So this starts out actually making sense-if you need to be some particular Spice Girls` lover you first feature to go through the gantlet of being sanctioned by her friends. Fine-that`s ordinary enough. But if you`re going to take such a request, you could at least give a rational ground for it. But the reason that`s given here? Because friendship never ends. Right. That`s why all of you have been hanging out with the sami people since kindergarten, right? Of course not! Friendships ebb and flow-it`s share of the unit lot of life thing. There`s no disgrace in admitting that you won`t ever be friends with the people you`re friends with now-just deal with it. Of course, there may be shame in admitting you`re a rattling young woman with biological clock neuroses, but we`ve already dealt with that origin of the song.If you wanna be my lover, you have got to throw I`m guessing they named themselves the Spice Girls because Material Girl was already in use?Taking is too easy, but that`s the way it is First, i like to spotlight the triteness of the way this line ends-i mean, that`s the way it is? What, was the Pop-Song-O-Matic5000 down the weekend this call was written, so they couldn`t get up with anything better? Even worse, is is, as far as i can tell, being used here as a verse for give. Really? You couldn`t even have come up with something that rhymed with the bible give?!? Here, try this: Taking is too easy, so that`s how you will live. It`s no better than the real channel in the song, sure, but i spent all of roughly 4 seconds on it and it actually rhymes-and it was slow to follow up with, and i`m an amateur! Second, taking is too easy? Um, you only said that this guy has to give-sounds like you`re gonna be doing some taking, but he doesn`t get to. Sounds, um, fair. You know, if you come across someone who truly is that desperate to rest with you, that is.What do you mean most that now you love how I feel Say you can hold my beloved are you for real If he`s imaginary he can handle anything you need him to handle, i`m thinking.I won`t be hasty, I`ll give you a try But before you said you wanted him to hurry-but you allow the good not to? Yeah, i`m calling you out right here as naught but a manipulative b_um_ackbiter.If you really bug me then I`ll say goodbye First of all, by now the guy you`re singing to may be craving such a release. But also, what`s the big deal about this? I mean, isn`t that the way romantic relationships work? Seriously-we don`t brood on it all that much, but there`s a reason there are a lot of breakup songs, it`s because people end relationships with some frequency. Face it, this doesn`t give you special. At all.Yo I`ll assure you what I want, what I truly really wish I already know what you want, what you really, really want-you need to be capable to order all of the price of your relationships. And i suspect you`re going to be successful at that, too. Amazing what semi-attractive people are capable to get away with, isn`t it?So tell me what you want, what you truly really wish I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna I wanna really really really wanna Might i propose a chocolate biscuit?zigaziga ha No such luck. By the way, according to several sources on the internet, one of the Spice Girls has informed the public that zigazigaha actually means sex. I think this is like Bryan Adams claiming that the song "Summer of`69" is really about sex, not about1969-if you say something stupid in a call and people visit you on it, claim it`s about sex. Somebody`ll believe you. You live what? I don`t.If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends I didn`t mention it earlier, but if this strain is about sex, this is an almost-creepy line-to "get with" soul is to engage in romantic touching, possibly even sexual acts. So, once again if this song really is about sex, it seems to also be about polyamory. Not necessarily an intrinsically bad thing, but not something my obviously old-fashioned-and-stuck-in-the-simpler-times-of-the-eighties self is very comfortable with pre-teens singing about, you know?Make it go forever friendship never ends If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give Taking is too easy, but that`s the way it is Another option: Taking is too easy, but my brain`s like a sieve. And now we get told about various personality traits of members of the group-and i`ll warn you, things get somewhat less family-friendly here.So here`s a report from A to Z, you wanna get with me you gotta listen carefully So if i don`t want to get with you, i get to dismiss you? Cool-two wins with one action!We got Em in the station who likes it in your face Oh. My. I`m trying to maintain aPG rating here, i truly am, but_ Wow. There`s really not often i can say about this one, then, is there. (Warning: Link almost certainly unsafe for work.We got G like MC who likes it on an This is, quite seriously, the total line. As a result, i truly do make naught to say about this-mainly because there`s no actual propositional content. Next!Easy V doesn`t do for free, she's a real lady So whichever Spice Girl happens to beV, i`m finding it unacceptable to get up with a non-sexual reading for this. In fact, i`m finding it unacceptable to get up with a version for this in which her sexual activities are, um, non-professional. Well, i think we now live the form of women the soccer players are into these days.And as for me you`ll see Hey! Finally! We`re passing to get out what the principal singer wants, what she really really wants. It`s almost time. So what is it? Let`s listen carefully, as we get out that she wants the aim of her affections to_Slam your body down and lift it all around Slam your body down and lead it all around Um, yeah. Well, at least we take a better thought of where this singer gets her inspiration. (And so we get a monitor that if you wish to be her lover, not only must you perform acts designed to produce trouble for yourself, but you too must get with her friends. I`ll cut it, which brings us, blessedly, to the end.If you wanna be my lover, you gotta You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta Maybe the job is really that she`s a stutterer?Slam, slam, slam, slam Slam your body down and winding it all around Slam your body down and wrap it all around Slam your body down and wind it all around Slam your body down zigaziga ah If you wanna be my lover Sorry, not interested, you`re asking for too often that isn`t really my form of kink. Thanks for being up-front with your desires, though-it`s certainly saved us both a lot of time.
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