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Video: Look At 1996 NYC In Spice Girls' "2 Become 1"
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Jen Chung
Published Aug 12, 2012
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As a nod to the Spice Girls performing in tonight's Olympics Closing Ceremony (people, NBC will STREAM IT LIVE but if you want to watch it on your big TV in HD, NBC's broadcast starts at 7 p.m., with the ceremony actually beginning at 8:30 p.m.), here's the Spice Girls' very stylized 1996 video for "2 Become 1," also known as the group's safe sex ballad.
The five Spices—Ginger, Baby, Sporty, Scary and Posh—were filmed in a studio walking around, standing, and sitting on green screen with their images dropped into New York City backdrops, like Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, the courthouse, Columbus Circle, Wollman Rink, and, most poignantly, Brooklyn Heights, with a view of the World Trade Center-filled skyline.
However, we have a feeling they'll perform Wannabe today—although safe sex is encouraged by the Olympics.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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