Spice Up Your Life

"Spice Up Your Life" was a song by the Spice Girls which, by 2023, the Toymaker had claimed to be "hiding in" for decades, going so far as to claim that he actually created the song. In this year, he "burst out" of it when he played it throughout UNIT HQ. (PROSE: )
The Fourteenth Doctor, Donna Noble and the UNIT personnel were distracted from their preparations for the Toymaker's arrival when the song suddenly started playing from an unknown source, leading the Doctor to realise the Toymaker had already arrived. Sure enough, the Toymaker burst onto the scene and terrorised everyone whilst dancing and lip-syncing to the song's lyrics. (TV: )
When the Toymaker recounted this event in The Toymaker and the Giggle, he was prevented from using the song's lyrics by Ms Pockleton, due to having no secured the rights to do so, only being allowed to quote the "la-la-la..." parts. (PROSE: )
== Lyrics ==
:La-la-la...
:When you're feeling sad and low
:We will take you where you gotta go
:Smiling, dancing, everything is free
:All you need is positivity
:Colours of the world (Spice up your life)
:Every boy and every girl (Spice up your life)
:People of the world (Spice up your life)
:Aaaah
:Slam it to the left (If you're having a good time)
:Shake it to the right (If you know that you feel fine)
:Chicas to the front (Ha, ha)
:And go 'round
:Slam it to the left (If you're having a good time)
:Shake it to the right (If you know that you feel fine)
:Chicas to the front (Ha, ha)
:Hai, sì, ja! Hold tight!
:La-la-la...
:[inaudible] ...Timbuktu
:Colour for both me and you
:Kung Fu Fighting, Dancing Queen
:Tribal Spaceman, and all that's in between
:Colours of the world (Spice up your life)
:Every boy and every girl (Spice up your life)
:People of the world (Spice up your life)
:Aaaah
:...
:Hai, sì, ja! Hold tight!
== Behind the scenes ==
The full version of the verse that ends with "...Timbuktu" is "Yellow man in Timbuktu", a lyric that has since garnered criticism for its racial connotations, to the point that the Spice Girls considered changing the lyric for their 2019 reunion tour.https://genius.com/a/the-spice-girls-are-reportedly-changing-some-of-their-lyrics-for-their-reunion-tour It is perhaps for this reason why, in the episode, the first half of the lyric is all but completely drowned out by dialogue.
== References ==
Category:Songs from the real world