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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 Latin influences. 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.
"Spice Up Your Life" was released in the United Kingdom on 13 October 1997, in two single versions. The first one, released in cassette and maxi single format, included the Mark Stent radio mix, the Morales radio mix, an instrumental version of the song, and the B-side "Spice Invaders". The second version, released on digipak format, contained three tracks: the Stent radio mix, the David Morales carnival club mix, and the Murk Cuba Libre mix. In the United States, Virgin Records sent the song to radios on 1 October 1997, and the single to record stores on 21 October 1997. The American version, released in cassette and maxi single format, featured the same track listing as the first UK version.
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