Spice Girls - old Spice?

Generally, spices will not spoil, but they can lose their strength or potency. The only way to know for sure is to give them a test try. Unlike the spices rosemary or thyme you can't crush the Spice Girls and take a whiff... The only way thier former fans will know if their any good is by see what they do withtheir newly announced reunion tour.

Yep... the former vivacious Spice Girls announced they are reuniting for an upcoming tour. Spice Girls reunion gossip has apparently been swirling around for weeks. Sporty Spice helped fan the flames of the possibilities in the previous few weeks -- apparently.

• Sporty Spice / Melanie Chisholm,
• Posh Spice / Victoria Adams (married surname Beckham
• Ginger Spice / Geri Halliwell
• Baby Spice / Emma Bunton
• Scary Spice / Melanie Brown

The Spice Girls' sexy charisma, modest musical talent, and powder puff "girl power" philosophy made them a pop phenomenon in the mid-1990s. Where have they been?

This month, a DNA test confirmed actor-comedian Eddie Murphy was the father of Scary Spice's baby and Ginger Spice has never announced who the father is for hers.

Girl Power!

• Have a child out of wedlock without a stable career and only a short-lived celebrity history wearing skimpy outfits with a mediocre voice and singing about “giving everything all that joy can bring this I swear”

Meanwhile, Victoria Adams had a very short-lived music career and a bit part in the fashion industry -- but at least if her children were created and were born after she married.

Baby Spice (Emma Bunton) and Sporty Spice (Melanie Chisholm) have had mediocre music careers in the UK. Conversely, Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) announced her pregnancy last January. I’m now putting her down simply because she has been with her partner for eight years and it’s not a marriage certificate that stamps a commitment, it’s the people and their commitment t each other and their still together…

Girl Power wasn't exactly Anarchy in the UK, but at least it demonstrated that pop music can be used as a vehicle to transmit fun and flirty in a non-sexual gutter trash way. Ultimately that's what the Spices provided, a fun, brief pop one moment of the kind that is now lost in today’s music of “don’t you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me. “ Trying to recapture that moment makes about as much sense as their original fans attempting to be thirteen again.