Too Much

Album: Spiceworld (1997)
Charted: 1 9
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, Spice Girls play around with the saying "too much of a good thing" as it relates to love. They turn the koan into a bit of a brain teaser:

    Too much of something is bad enough
    ...
    Too much of nothing is just as tough


    The Girls wrote it with the song's producers, Andy Watkins and Paul Wilson.
  • "Too Much" was released on the second Spice Girls album, Spiceworld, in November 1997, but it wasn't released as a single until December 1998. By this time, Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) had left the group (in the middle of their tour!) so they were a foursome. Spicemania was abating, but like their first five singles, the song went to #1 in the UK, making the Spice Girls the first artist to have their first six singles all reach #1 in Britain.

    The song was on top of the UK chart over Christmas, marking the second consecutive Christmas #1 for the group, following "2 Become 1." They made it three in a row in 1998 with "Goodbye."
  • This song opens the Spice Girls' 1997 film Spice World. In the very first scene, they sing this song on Top Of The Pops for a huge number of fans, photographers and media of all sorts.
  • Throughout the video, the members never appear together in a scene. They all live certain fantasies: Geri Halliwell is a sultry lounge singer; Victoria Beckham is a bond girl; Emma Bunton lives through a scene from the Steven Spielberg movie Poltergeist; Melanie Chisholm is a street fighter; and Melanie Brown is a combat warrior. The video contains some references to movies. Bits and pieces of scenes from their film Spice World are featured, and the aforementioned scenes with Bunton and the reference to Poltergeist.

Comments: 2

  • David from MichiganThere are actually two versions of this video- one features scenes from Spiceworld:The Movie whereas the other does not.
  • Shawn from Green Bay, WiThe Spice Girls' best song, it has that lyrical ambiguity that most great songs have and features probably their best vocals. Though all the girls get turns at verses, it is their first hit to largely feature Mel C, with Emma getting the strongest part of the chorus. Perhaps due to being featured, Mel C often took to dropping her "Sporty" image during live performances of this song for a more womanly appearance.
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