 Genius Meanings
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Spice Girls – Mama
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This maternal tribute was released in March 1997 alongside the Comic Relief official song, “Who Do You Think You Are”. It hit no. 1 in its native UK its first week, making the
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Spice Girls – Mama (Radio Version)
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[Verse 1: Baby with Sporty] / She used to be my only enemy and never let me be free / Catching me in places that I knew I shouldn't be / Every other day I crossed the line, I didn'
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Spice Girls – Mama (Biffco Remix)
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[Verse 1: Baby with Sporty] / She used to be my only enemy and never let me be free / Catching me in places that I knew I shouldn't be / Every other day I crossed the line, I didn'
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Aminé – Spice Girl
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The fifth single off Amine’s debut album Good For You, this catchy track describes looking for a “spice girl,“ inspired by UK girl group he grew up listening to – theirs was the
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Spice Girls – Wannabe
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“Wannabe” is a hit song by the British pop group Spice Girls. It was a single from their debut album Spice, released in 1996. The girls wrote the song with the help of Richard
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Spice Girls – Do It
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[Intro: Sporty, All] / Oh yeah, come on / Come on and do it (Yeah) / Come on and do it (Do it, do it) / [Verse 1: Scary, Sporty] / It's just another thing, you gotta keep your eye
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Spice Girls – Who Do You Think You Are
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Released in March 1997, with “Mama” as its double A-side, “Who Do You Think You Are” was the official single for Comic Relief that year. With “Mama”, it spent 20 weeks on the
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Spice Girls – 2 Become 1
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“2 Become 1” was released as the third single of Spice Girls' debut album Spice.
The single has received a double Platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry and a
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Spice Girls – Say You'll Be There
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Released as the album’s second single, “You’ll Be There” became their second number-one single in the United Kingdom, and was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic
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Maroon 5 (Ft. Cardi B) – Girls Like You (Remix)
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The existence of the remix of the original “Girls Like You” was initially confirmed in a tweet by the band:
https://twitter.com/maroon5/status/1001866378100359168
Leaving the
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Pouya (Ft. Denzel Curry & SDotBraddy) – Spice Girls
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[Verse 1: Denzel Curry] / I'm hard, ready for the bogard / Hunger, nigga I'm the hunter / My bar, nigga mind on mars / Worldstar cause a nigga wanna be star / Throw the fist, have
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Spice Girls – If U Can't Dance
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[Chorus: Ginger] / If you can't dance, if you can't dance / If you can't dance, if you can't dance / If you can't dance to this, you can't do nothing for me, baby / If you can't
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Aqua – Barbie Girl
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“Barbie Girl” was dance-pop group Aqua’s third single, appearing on their debut record Aquarium.
Due to its explicit removal of innocence from the children’s toys of the same name
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The Pussycat Dolls – Buttons
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[Intro] / Mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm / Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm / Mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm / Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm / [Chorus: Nicole Scherzinger] / I'm telling you to loosen up my
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Spice Girls – Take Me Home
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[Intro: Ginger] / There's no place I call height / There's no mainstream / There's no happy medium / There's no in between / So do your searchin' until you're down / Then realize
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Spice Girls – Oxygen
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[Verse 1: Sporty, Baby] / There will come a time / I know I'm gonna need / Someone I can trust, someone who'll fight for me / That's the way I love / This is my time to work things
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Spice Girls – Love Thing
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[Intro: Ginger, All] / Ow / You know I don't wanna know / Don't wanna know about that love thing / Give me what I'm needing / You know what I'm dreaming of / Don't wanna know about
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Spice Girls – Voodoo
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[Intro: All] / Hey hey hey ey party la / [Verse 1: Baby, Ginger] / Look in the mirror / Behind the make up / Like what you see / Not foolin' me / I get the picture / You got
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Spice Girls – Baby Come Round
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[Verse 1: Sporty with Posh, with Baby] / Hey come round and remember / How it started up, oh-oh / Cause no one wants to be a one hit wonder / Why can't we / Work it out? (ah-ah
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Spice – Frenz
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[Intro] / Mama used to tell me, friends not good for you girl / But I know I would learn the hard way / [Verse 1] / Smile inna yuh face, them a chat behind yuh back / Gwan like
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Gwen Stefani (Ft. Eve) – Rich Girl
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On “Rich Girl,” Gwen Stefani expresses her wishes of having everything a rich girl could get, while Eve raps about her riches and her rich sense of fashion. Stefani and Eve had
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Spice Girls – Spice Girls Party Mix
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La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la / La-la-la, la-la-la-la / La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la / La-la-la, la-la-la-la / When you're feeling sad and low / We will take you where you gotta go
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Spice Girls – 2 Become 1 (Single Version)
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[Verse 1: Sporty, Scary] / Candle light and soul forever / A dream of you and me together / Say you believe it, say you believe it / Free your mind of doubt and danger / Be for
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The Cheetah Girls – Cinderella
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The second song featured in both The Cheetah Girls movie and the soundtrack, “Cinderella” is a song that talks about girls doing more than just waiting around for their “prince
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Spice Girls – Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)
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“Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)” is the last single by the Spice Girls. It’s a ballad song about the group’s friendship. The single peaked at #11 on the UK Singles Charts
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Spice Girls – Feed Your Love
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[Intro: Ginger] / Promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you / Promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you / [Verse 1: Scary] / I get a rush when I look at you / There's a
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S Club – S Club Party
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[Intro: Hannah, Bradley, Jo] / S Club / Get down tonight, uh, come on, yeah / Get down tonight, uh-huh / Everybody, get down tonight, yeah / [Chorus: girls, boys] / S Club (There
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Spice Girls – One of These Girls
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[Intro: Scary and Ginger] / Ow / [All] / One of these girls is doin' their own thing / [Ginger] / Oh oh / [All] / One of these girls is just not the same / [Verse 1: Scary, Baby
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Spice Girls – Last Time Lover
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[Intro: Ginger] / Treat me right, all night / Makes me feel good, like you should / [Verse 1: Scary] / Listen up, I gotta tell ya / About the ins and outs and goings-on / I wouldn'
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Labelle – Lady Marmalade
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Lady Marmalade is a song by American girl group Labelle, written about a prostitute from New Orleans, Louisiana. The song’s inspiration was from Bob Crewe’s observations of New
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Lil Mama – Lip Gloss
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“Lip Gloss” is the debut single from American hip hop recording artist Lil Mama. The song was released as the lead single from her debut album VYP: Voice of the Young People. The
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Spice Girls – Naked
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[Verse 1: Ginger] / Naïvety and childlike left behind / Deprived of the goodness of mankind / Past encounters have made her strong / Strong enough to carry on and on / [Pre-Chorus
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TLC – No Scrubs
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“No Scrubs” was the lead single from TLC’s third album, FanMail, released on February 2, 1999. The song was a huge success. Topping the charts in early 1999 and going #1 in the
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The Cramps – What's Inside a Girl?
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[Verse 1] / Woah, there's some things, baby, I just can't swallow / Mama told me that girls are hollow / [Refrain] / Uh-uh, what's inside a girl? / Huh, something's telling me
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Spice Girls – Something Kinda Funny
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“Something Kinda Funny” was the original demo Simon Fuller heard that led to the girls being signed to Virgin Records. It later appeared on the 1996 debut album Spice.
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Saweetie – ICY GRL
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“ICY GRL” serves as Saweetie’s introduction to the mainstream rap scene. The track, a freestyle over the beat of Khia’s “My Neck, My Back,” was first uploaded to Instagram. After
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Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want to Have Fun
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Written and demoed by Robert Hazard in 1979, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” was found and revived by Rick Chertoff and rewritten by Hazard (who retained all songwriting credits) for
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"Weird Al" Yankovic – Polka Power!
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["Wannabe" by Spice Girls] / Yo, I'll tell you what I want / What I really really want / So tell us what you want / What you really really want / Yo, I'll tell you what I want
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Spice Girls – 2 Become 1 (Orchestral Version)
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[Verse 1: Mel C, Mel B] / Candlelight and soul forever / A dream of you and me together / Say you believe it, say you believe it / Free your mind of doubt and danger / Be for real
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Nicki Minaj – Your Love
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The new Thug Mistress gets surprisingly mushy in this track.
The sample’s from Annie Lennox’s 1995 hit “No More ‘I Love You’s,” which had previously been sampled for a couple pop-
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Destiny's Child – Survivor
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“Survivor” is from Destiny’s Child’s third studio album of the same name. Unlike the group’s previous two albums, the majority of the songs on Survivor were co-written and co-
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