Mel B refused to confirm or deny whether there is still a Spice Girls reunion in the works, but she said she hopes it might happen. Appearing on The Tonight Show, the singer, born Melanie Brown, was asked whether the Spice Girls are getting back together, particularly after they joined forces at Victoria Beckham’s birthday party last year.
“I’m always the first person to say, ‘Oh, it’s going to happen. It’s going to happen,’” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “But, just this once, I’m not saying anything.” Fallon excitedly replied, “That means something! I’ll take that as something.” Mel B responded, “Take it as you want to take it, Jimmy.”
Reflecting on the Spice Girls impromptu reunion at Beckham’s 50th birthday bash last year, Mel B admitted that she would have preferred to have come back together for the fans, rather than party guests. She explained that the singers joined forces to perform their song “Mama” to help one of Beckham’s sons hit the notes.
“We had to make sure he was singing it in the right key,” she recalled. “So then Mel C got up, and I was like, ‘Why we getting up, doing a free concert?’ And I was the last one going up, going, ‘Why are we doing this?’ I want to do it to the fans! That’s the most important thing.”
The five-piece girl group, Mel B, Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Chisholm, and Emma Bunton, then sang their song “Stop,” which was captured by David Beckham and shared on social media. “Clearly we hadn’t rehearsed in a while,” Mel B said after Fallon showed footage of the two songs. She added that she was responsible for the choreography for the 1997 hit.
“We were a bit off key, but, you know, we blend well together,” she admitted. The singer also told Fallon that she wrote rap from “Wannabe” in “in the toilet, on the loo.” “I was like, ‘Girls, give me a second to go and, like, write a rap,’” she remembered. “‘Cause I thought I was a rapper back then. Clearly not. I was in my own world and, you know, I own it. It’s a Leeds rap.”
Last year, the quintet celebrated 30 years as a group by sharing footage from their first Spice Girls auditions back in 1994, soundtracked to their 1996 debut single “Wannabe.” The group had a reunion tour in 2019, but Beckham did not join the outing. The last time they all performed together publicly was at the London Olympics closing ceremony in 2012.
