Finally, we come to a musical group that tops the list of easy targets to make fun of: The Spice Girls. Sporty, Baby, Scary, Ginger, and Posh were more or less architected into existence by their manager Simon Fuller with the help of Annie Lenox, of all people, per The Guardian. Fuller owned 19 Entertainment, the same management group that signed Amy Winehouse. Fuller is also the person who got Winehouse her initial deal with Island/Universal for her 2003 debut album "Frank."
As Variety reported of the 2015 documentary "Amy," Winehouse wound up leaving 19 Entertainment because she didn't want to have connections with the Spice Girls. While we can't say precisely why Winehouse felt this, it isn't too hard to see why, considering her critiques of other musicians — if the statement is accurate, that is. Discussions on places like Reddit say that Winehouse wound up doing a 180 when it came to the Spice Girls and commending them for their accomplishments, but we aren't able to corroborate the source of this claim.
Feelings might not have run both ways, though, at least when it came to Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice. As The Daily Mail wrote about in 2008, Beckham did a photoshoot that year imitating Winehouse's signature "exposed bra" fashion choice, which it rather brutally described as a "particularly vulgar take on the already decidedly common look." We at least have no doubt that Winehouse would have found this description amusing, indeed.
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