where's the green spice?

The Spice Girls new single "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" is about how their friendships have endured over the years, in spite of the fights, failures and scandals. In the video, they writhe around in lingerie on fur rugs and dry-hump cold , angular modern furniture. With the exception of one horribly-staged shot designed to imply hot, lesbian action, the girls seem utterly unaware of each other and the very meaning of the song they're singing. The clip is as detatched from the song as America is from David Beckham.



I wonder if the visionary behind this clip is the same brainiac who decided not only to fly them to each of their tour locations in a private jet, but advertise it. In one of the boldest anti-environmentalist displays in recent memory, Virgin Records (once owned by cultural visionary and all-around green guy Richard Branson) is donating one Lear jet for each girl and her respective camp of kids, nannies, stylists, and egos.

According to Alex Lambie, who runs a website that helps consumers compare energy options, the combined flights will create nearly 10,500 tons of carbon dioxide. Granted, many stars have private jets, but you'd think these five girls would have at least been consciencious enough to fly together in one plane. These are Lear Jets afterall- flying palaces basically. If the girls can't get along for a few hours with that many square feet to escape from each other in, they've got problems that run deeper than anything they've sung about on either of their soul-baring, revolutionary folk albums.

Seriously, who's managing these girls? Upon their return to London last week, a plane that Virgin dedicated to them was unveiled. It's called Spice One, a name you might be familiar with if you're a fan of hardcore gangsta rap. The MC released albums in the nineties containing hits with names like "AmeriKKKa's Nightmare," "Dyin' 2 Ball," ""Fucked in the Game," "What in The Fuck" and "I'm the Fucking Murderer."
With all this sensible, well-managed behavior, you gotta wonder why they weren't invited to LiveEarth.