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Estimates of Spice Girls cumulative contributions to world GDP

ChatGPT: $3T
Gemini: $500B
Claude: $500B
Grok: $3T
DeepSeek: $25B

Just realized you need to add the cultural osmosis of Girl Power to non-die hard fans, direct economic impact thru medial and merch, girl boss cultural knock on, expansion of teen pop market (eg Backstreet, Britney), and Am Idol from their manager

Spice Girls world GDP impact prob closer to $3T

Then they could’ve all done their solo albums before teaming up again for a FIFTH album with GERI BACK plus the NEW GIRL for a total of SIX SPICE GIRLS!!!

Then they could’ve taken a year off to relax, have their babies, and then in 1999 come back stronger and team up with the same writers and producers (Rowe, Stannard, Kennedy, The Absolute) from their first two albums for an incredible fourth album (pop not R&B)

After Geri left they should’ve had a world wide talent search to replace her, spent 3x on production for the Spiceworld tour, turned footage of the tour into a second movie, and then rolled that into a third album of live songs and greatest hits

Now let’s assume the impact of Girl Power motivated these 18.2M die hard fans to earn an average of $5,000 more a year

That’s $182B a year combined increase

x avg of 15 work years so far
x a career ramp factor of 0.7

= $1T cumulative added to world GDP thanks to Girl Power

Let’s assume die hard Spice Girls fans were especially influenced by Girl Power and that based on a percentage of record sales and concert attendees there were 30M of them

30M die hard fans x 90% still alive x 75% workforce participation x 90% employed = 18.2M workers

Among other factors, you can draw a line between Girl Power and the success of millennial women in the workforce

Geri Halliwell contributed so much to world GDP by inventing Girl Power, it’s really amazing to think about

I’ve spent hours agonizing over this list

Over the past week I have absolutely saturated my consciousness with Spice Girls content

I don’t feel normal unless I’m listening to their music or watching their interviews

Things I love about the Spice Girls:

- fun infectious energy
- the come up from nothing to global saturation
- alchemy of personalities
- big brass hits
- call and response chants
- HOOKS
- melodies
- universally uplifting ideology of Girl Power
- bright colors
- constant laughing and chaos

Windows 95 and the Spice Girls had a lot in common. The bright colors and fun sounds, the philosophy of accessibility over elitism, embodied corporate joy, a sense of possibility and promise

Wow! The two most important cultural forces of the 90s together! Windows 95 and The Spice Girls

My favorite Spice Girls song is definitely Too Much although I also really love Saturday Night Divas and Stop. Wannabe and Spice Up Your Life are also really good

Please share your favorite Spice Girls related interviews, live performances, documentaries, b-sides, and unreleased songs. I’m a Spice Girls novice but I want to learn as much as I can

I’ve been trying to decide who my favorite Spice Girl is all weekend, and I just can’t do it. They all bring something so unique and great. I feel so deeply sad that Geri left, I don’t think we’d have any of the problems we do today if they’d all stuck together

The Spice Girls are so deeply inspirational to me and everything I’m trying to achieve. They created a global movement from the sheer strength and enthusiasm of their personalities. Go read about them, it was all them, the songs, the branding, the ideology, everything. They were geniuses

what a time to have been alive

It’s absolutely insane how the Spice Girls and Windows 95 single handedly ushered in the optimism of the late 90s

Sporty might actually be good for making my dog feel safe bc of her physical strength and confidence

Feel like Scary and Ginger would be waaaay too much energy for my dog’s trauma induced hypersensitivity

Well maybe since my dog was a mom she’d feel protective of Baby

Given how skittish my dog is, I feel like the only Spice Girl she’d get along with is Victoria

It’s May 1995, you’re the only one who knows the Spice Girls are about to hit. How do you capitalize off this knowledge?

It’s 1997, you’re an 11 year old middle schooler, and you’re the first person in your class with Spiceworld and you know all the songs and lyrics before anyone else

Saturday Night Divas by Spice Girls on Apple Music Song · 1997 · Duration 4:25

Trust me, this is a banger

Highly recommend this video

Thinking about the episode of Xena where she’s stuck in a time loop. And after dozens of days she’s sick of it and throws an axe at Gabriella when she wakes her up, and it still bothers me 28 years later bc I feel like even if Xena was really mad she wouldn’t do that

YouTube video by letsbepandas The Simpsons - Talkin' Softball

Please play this at my funeral