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}} "Stop" is a song by the British pop group Spice Girls. It was written by the group members with Paul Wilson and Andy Watkins—the songwriters and production duo known as Absolute—at the same time as the group was filming scenes for their movie ''Spice World''. "Stop" was produced by Wilson and Watkins for the group's second album ''Spiceworld'', which was released in November 1997. "Stop" is an dance-pop song with influences of Motown's blue-eyed soul, and features instrumentation from a guitar and a brass. The music video, directed by James Brown and filmed in Ireland, features the group in a traditional 1950s working class street and showed them playing with young girls in various children's games. The song received mostly positive reviews from music critics, with many of them complimenting the Motown influences and production. "Stop" was performed by the group in a number of live appearances in Europe and North America including their three tours. Released as the album's third single in March 1998, it peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart behind "It's Like That" by Run-D.M.C. vs Jason Nevins, ending the Spice Girls' streak of consecutive number-one singles in the on the chart at six. It was moderately successful internationally, peaking inside the top twenty on the majority of the charts that it entered. In the United States, "Stop" peaked at number sixteen on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 becoming the group's sixth consecutive top twenty on the chart. It was the group's last single that was released before Geri Halliwell's departure in May 1998 though it was not the last single to include her vocals. ==Background and writing== 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 ''Spiceworld'' album's promotional campaign, which was set to be released in November.〔Sinclair, 2004. pp. 113–114.〕 No songs 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;〔 Melanie Brown commented 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."〔 The concept of "Stop" was mainly penned by Geri Halliwell. She came up with the first lines of the song and recorded them into a dictaphone;〔 the next day she played the tape to Paul Wilson and Andy Watkins—the songwriters and production duo known as Absolute. The duo then worked with the melody and began playing with it.〔Halliwell, 1999. p. 287.〕 Halliwell commented on her autobiography:
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