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'Spice Up Your Life' was released in the UK on 13 October 1997 and went straight to Number One on the UK Singles Chart, making the Spice Girls the first group to reach Number One with their first five singles. According to Emma Bunton, it was inspired by a trip to Mexico. It was recorded while the group were being filmed by MTV crew, and label executives kept interrupting the session, even throwing things through the window. The producers eventually had to kick the film crew out and the group finished recording the song, with all five members singing the chorus together.

'Spice Up Your Life' urgently needed a B-side, but all the available tracks had been used for the upcoming album 'Spiceworld'. Paul Wilson and Andy Watkins, aka Absolute, were booked for a recording session and essentially told to use anything they liked. They ended up creating a rather scrappy B-side called 'Spice Invaders', where they told the Spice Girls to talk about anything they wanted and recorded the conversation, adding a backing track that Wilson called 'hideous'.

'Spice Up Your Life' was co-written with Richard Stannard and Matt Rowe, who had also co-written 'Wannabe', amongst other things. Some critics have condemned the line 'yellow men in Timbuktu' as racist. On a similar note, the Spice Girls mention the Haka as one of the dance styles in the song; they got into trouble in New Zealand for performing it, as traditionally, only men are allowed to perform the Haka (though the New Zealand women's rugby team perform it before matches).

The video for 'Spice Up Your Life', conceived and directed by Marcus Nispel, was set in a 'Matrix'-esque dystopia where the Spice Girls had effectively conquered the world, with the group flying a spaceship and hoverboards through a grey city filled with billboards and screens showing Melanie Brown DJ-ing, Bunton dancing, Victoria Adams on a catwalk, Geri Halliwell giving a speech and Melanie Chisholm winning a boxing match. According to Brown, this was not what the group had wanted originally; they wanted a more exotic setting to go with the tropical feel of the song, but were too tired to protest.