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"Too Much" is a song by the British pop group Spice Girls. 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, it was produced by Wilson and Watkins for the group's second album Spiceworld, released in November 1997.
"Too Much" is a pop ballad with influences of R&B. It features instrumentation from a guitar, brass and string instruments, and is structured using doo-wop records as a template. The music video, directed by Howard Greenhalgh, features each Spice Girl in their own individual scene playing different characters, inspired by their own movie fantasies. The song received mixed reviews from music critics, with many of them criticising the R&B-infused production.
Released as the album's second single in December 1997, it topped the UK Singles Chart for two weeks, becoming the group's second consecutive Christmas number-one single, and their sixth consecutive chart-topper, which made them the first act to have its first six singles reach number one in the United Kingdom. It was moderately successful internationally, peaking inside the top twenty on the majority of the charts that it entered. Although in the United States "Too Much" did better than its predecessor, "Spice Up Your Life"; peaking nine places higher on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming their fourth and final top ten single on the chart; it failed to match the success of the group's previous singles from the Spice album.
"Too Much" was released in the United Kingdom on 15 December 1997, in two single versions. The first, released on cassette and in a standard CD single format, included an exclusive PlayStation postcard from the group's upcoming video game Spice World. The track listing contained the radio edit of the track, a Soulshock & Karlin remix, and the B-side "Outer Space Girls"—written by the group with Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard. The second version, released on a standard CD single, contained the radio edit, an orchestral version, and "Walk of Life", a different B-side, written by the group with Absolute. The images on the single's cover were taken from a photoshoot the group did for the October 1997 issue of Elle magazine.
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Amanda Murray of Sputnikmusic gave a positive review: Murray called "a genuinely great song", and that "the girls have obviously improved as singers on this record, and can finally pull off more difficult passages with at least an iota of conviction".
David Wild of Rolling Stone gave a positive review: Wild called that "Too Much" finds the Spice Girls dealing with the relative troubles of "too much of something" and "too much of nothing", and stating that "now that they've achieved world domination they're no longer the multiracial British girls next door but iconic commodities and mass-marketed objects of desire".
Yahoo! Music gave a positive review: Yahoo! Music compared it to 2 Become 1 as well as complimenting Mel C's performance "hit the spot".
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"Too Much" is a song by the British pop group Spice Girls. 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, it was produced by Wilson and Watkins for the group's second album Spiceworld, released in November 1997.
"Too Much" is a pop ballad with influences of R&B. It features instrumentation from a guitar, brass and string instruments, and is structured using doo-wop records as a template. The music video, directed by Howard Greenhalgh, features each Spice Girl in their own individual scene playing different characters, inspired by their own movie fantasies. The song received mixed reviews from music critics, with many of them criticising the R&B-infused production.
Released as the album's second single in December 1997, it topped the UK Singles Chart for two weeks, becoming the group's second consecutive Christmas number-one single, and their sixth consecutive chart-topper, which made them the first act to have its first six singles reach number one in the United Kingdom. It was moderately successful internationally, peaking inside the top twenty on the majority of the charts that it entered. Although in the United States "Too Much" did better than its predecessor, "Spice Up Your Life"; peaking nine places higher on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming their fourth and final top ten single on the chart; it failed to match the success of the group's previous singles from the Spice album.
"Too Much" was released in the United Kingdom on 15 December 1997, in two single versions. The first, released on cassette and in a standard CD single format, included an exclusive PlayStation postcard from the group's upcoming video game Spice World. The track listing contained the radio edit of the track, a Soulshock & Karlin remix, and the B-side "Outer Space Girls"—written by the group with Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard. The second version, released on a standard CD single, contained the radio edit, an orchestral version, and "Walk of Life", a different B-side, written by the group with Absolute. The images on the single's cover were taken from a photoshoot the group did for the October 1997 issue of Elle magazine.
User Album Review
Amanda Murray of Sputnikmusic gave a positive review: Murray called "a genuinely great song", and that "the girls have obviously improved as singers on this record, and can finally pull off more difficult passages with at least an iota of conviction".
David Wild of Rolling Stone gave a positive review: Wild called that "Too Much" finds the Spice Girls dealing with the relative troubles of "too much of something" and "too much of nothing", and stating that "now that they've achieved world domination they're no longer the multiracial British girls next door but iconic commodities and mass-marketed objects of desire".
Yahoo! Music gave a positive review: Yahoo! Music compared it to 2 Become 1 as well as complimenting Mel C's performance "hit the spot".
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