Scary survived. As a group, though, they were all headed for trouble. In November they were booed in Barcelona; they fired their manager, and the readers of the British teen music bible Smash Hits, having voted the Spice Girls ““Best New Act’’ an eon ago (1996), now pronounced them ““Worst Group.''
Goodness. If I had known, I would have told the Spice Girls the following story: on that warm November night when you lip-synced ““Spice Up Your Life’’ for Charles, Harry and 30,000-odd others, a small group of reporters held cell phones aloft. Over open lines from Johannesburg, a few 10-year-old girls back in London were very happy to hear your voices.
