Hear Diplo, Herve Pagez, Charli XCX Reimagine Spice Girls on ‘Spicy’
"Wannabe" gets a futuristic new version
Diplo
, Herve Pagez and
Charli XCX
teamed up for a new track, “Spicy,” which reworks
Spice Girls
‘ 1996 classic “Wannabe.” The trio also dropped a futuristic music video for the song, directed by Reed + Rader, which features magical flying dolphins. The buoyant pop song replaces the signature chorus with a synth remix that swaps out vocals for distorted sounds, giving the track a dance-heavy reinterpretation.
Charli XCX’s most recent album,
Pop 2
, came out in 2017 and she’s recently dropped several collaborative tracks, including “1999” with Troye Sivan and “Blame It On Your Love” with Lizzo. The music video for “1999” includes a tribute to the Spice Girls and XCX
told
Rolling Stone
that she’s been a serious fan of the girl group for years. “I don’t even remember the first time [I saw
Spice World
],” she said. “I literally watched that movie over and over and over again for three years solid! My favorite scene is the alien scene [when the Spice Girls] go to pee in the bushes, off the tour bus. They get lost in the woods and … these aliens [get] beamed down from a spaceship and one of them touches Geri [Halliwell]’s boob.”
Diplo’s latest effort is LSD, a
collaborative project
with Sia and Labrinth, which dropped
Welcome to the Wonderful World of LSD
earlier this year.