A group of third-grade girls grab their jump ropes and head out to the school playground for recess. If you're the parent of a young adolescent or pre-teen, you need to know the answers to these questions. Armed with attitude, good looks, lots of energy, singing ability, contagious dance beats, and an incredible marketing plan that's propelled them from obscurity to stardom in just a few short months, this quintet from the United Kingdom has taken the pop music world by storm. Young listeners, particularly elementary and pre-teen girls, are attracted to the Spice Girls' magnetism. It's during the mid and late elementary years that today's kids begin to develop an attraction to popular music.
Younger kids cite two reasons for their attraction to certain bands and artists.
With catchy rhythms and infectious beats combining the sounds of dance, rap, and Rhythm and Blues music dangling from the hook, today's kids are taking the Spice Girls' bait. The short Spice Girls history began in 1994, when young girls with stars in their eyes answered an ad placed by a talent manager who was looking to put together an all-female musical act. He handpicked five girls with looks, voices, and dancing ability. None of them played an instrument. Like the Monkees, New Edition, and The New Kids on the Block before them, this is a group designed to sell records, product, image and attitude to young kids.