Spice Girls “Wannabe” gets make over to support “Girl Power”

It’s been 20 years since the Spice Girls’ hit “Wannabe” blasted to the top of the radio charts and made Posh, Sporty, Ginger, Baby, and Scary Spice household names. Now, the song is getting a feminist reboot. Singers from India, South Africa, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States remade the song to highlight gender inequality, education, child marriage, and violence against women.

“I think this film is a wonderful idea,” said former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham. “How fabulous it is that after 20 years the legacy of the Spice Girls’ girl power is being used to encourage and empower a whole new generation?”

In 2015 world leaders promised to put girls and women first when they signed up to the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, fix climate change and tackle inequalities.
Girls and women are disproportionately affected by these challenges and are key to building resilient communities to withstand them.

The remake of this video was created to ensure World Leaders and the Secretary General of the United Nations listen to the voices of girls and women and put them first in policies and plans.

The new music video shows women in different cultures around the world singing and dancing in classrooms, at marketplaces, and in cities while signs hang in the background with phrases like “equal pay for equal work.” Viewers are then encouraged to submit their own ideas about what they “really really want” to be passed to the United Nations later this year. The video, which was created by Project Everyone, will also be screened in movie theaters this summer.

The forces behind this video are using the #WhatIReallyReallyWant hashtag, share a photo of yourself holding up what YOU really, really want for girls and women