Wannabe

About

As of 2026, it's 30 years old.

Wannabe launched the Spice Girls and 'Girl Power' onto an unsuspecting world in 1996, an irrepressibly chaotic burst of pop energy built around a chorus nobody could understand ('I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want') and a 'zig-a-zig-ah' that meant absolutely nothing and everything. It was a global phenomenon almost instantly.

Loud, fun, and gloriously silly, it topped charts in dozens of countries and made the five-piece the biggest pop act on the planet.

Brash, infectious, and unstoppable, Wannabe is the song that introduced the Spice Girls, defined late-'90s pop, and left everyone forever wondering what 'zig-a-zig-ah' means.