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}} "Spice Up Your Life" is a song by the British pop group Spice Girls. It was written by the group members, with Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard, at the same time as the group was filming scenes for their movie ''Spice World''. The song was produced by Rowe and Stannard for the group's second album ''Spiceworld'', released in November 1997. "Spice Up Your Life" is a dance-pop song with influences of Latin rhythms such as salsa and samba. The lyrics are inspired by Bollywood films and reflects the group desire to "write a song for the world". The music video, directed by Marcus Nispel, features the Spice Girls in a futuristic setting, inspired by the 1982 film ''Blade Runner'', controlling every aspect of society in a dark futuristic cityscape. The group promoted the song heavily, performing it on many television programmes and award shows. Despite the lukewarm reception from music critics, it was a commercial success. Released as the album's lead single in October 1997, it topped the UK Singles Chart on 19 October 1997 for one week, becoming the group's fifth consecutive chart-topper. This made the Spice Girls the first act to have its first five singles reach number one in the United Kingdom. It performed almost as well internationally, peaking inside the top five on the majority of the charts that it entered. In the United States, the song did not perform as well as their previous releases, peaking at number eighteen on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. ==Background== In June 1997, the group began filming scenes for their movie ''Spice World''. At the same time, Virgin Records started the first marketing meetings for the promotional campaign for the album ''Spiceworld'', set to be released in November.〔Sinclair, 2004. pp. 113–114.〕 No song had been written for the album at this point, so the group had to do all the song-writing and recording at the same time as they were filming the movie.〔Halliwell, 1999. p. 286.〕 Between takes and at the end of each filming day,〔Brown, 2002. pp. 273–274.〕 the group usually went straight into a mobile recording studio set up in a Winnebago, which followed them between film sets.〔 The schedule was physically arduous with logistical difficulties,〔 as Melanie Brown commented on in her autobiography: "doing the two full-time jobs at the same time took its toll and within a couple on weeks, exhaustion set in."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spice Up Your Life」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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