{"id":156823,"date":"2025-11-27T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156823\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:50:08","slug":"richard-obrien-calls-spice-girls-lovely-but-says-they-dont-qualify-as-great-singers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/156823\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard O\u2019Brien calls Spice Girls \u2018lovely\u2019 but says they \u2018don\u2019t qualify\u2019 as great singers"},"content":{"rendered":"
But despite not liking their music, the star enjoyed spending time with Melanie C, Mel B, Victoria, Geri and Emma on the set of Spice World.<\/p>\n
Rocky Horror creator said he had fun on Spice World set \u2013 even if he\u2019s not a fan. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe Spice Girls were put together and became a very successful pop group. No shame in that. As great singers, they don\u2019t qualify. But lovely girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spice World saw the band members zip around London on tour in their plush double-decker tour bus, but their experience turns into a real adventure.<\/p>\n
And O\u2019Brien took a liking to Emma \u2013 nicknamed Baby Spice.<\/p>\n
Asked in what order O\u2019Brien would like to photograph the Spice Girls \u2013 referencing his role of a photographer in the comedy-musical film \u2013 he replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know, really. I know, um \u2013 what\u2019s her lovely name? Baby Spice.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in his interview with the publication, O\u2019Brien said he is kept alive by music.<\/p>\n
He explained: \u201cSinging is the purest art form. The first song ever sung was a mother cooing to her baby. What a delightful origin to something so delicious.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen a great, unaffected singer like Billie Holiday is singing, without any kind of showing off, it\u2019s just delightful. I love good singing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But despite not liking their music, the star enjoyed spending time with Melanie C, Mel B, Victoria, Geri…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3378,806,3013,115,127,307,156,13838,16773,1360,45501,435,111,139,69,96136,66755,15160,312,43655,24870,165,8229],"class_list":["post-156823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-appeared","tag-as","tag-but","tag-calls","tag-despite","tag-dont","tag-entertainment","tag-girls","tag-great","tag-having","tag-lovely","tag-movie","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-obrien","tag-qualify","tag-richard","tag-says","tag-singers","tag-spice","tag-their","tag-they"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}