Viva Forever.
Yes, this is in fact a post that draws inspiration from a Spice Girls music video. And if you did a bit of research you might be a little appalled to learn that the video was hugely applauded by the critics.
I remember watching this video a lot around the fourth or fifth grade. It was, at the time, greatly disturbing. It was simply horrifying to watch the impish looking kid (who was at least 14, a lot older than 10!) be so easily hoodwinked by those very non celestial looking spice girl ‘angel’ figures.
That there was a paper/plastic hen that laid several balloons(!) never helped. I never understood the boy’s fascination. I would cringe from the inside as the freak, all naive and smiling, was lead into the large rubrics square by the pixie-angel-evil things.
I don’t think I fully understood the video at all. But I recollect it making me feel then, the profound melancholy that nine year olds commonly feel. (I’m thinking now that it had something to do with the tune, and the fact that this was supposed to be the last Spice Girl song ever.)
I watched the video again some hours ago – and strangely, it still had me all stirred.
When his friend with the glasses foolishly jumps into the giant balloon egg he is gone forever – to another realm – to a place the shorter kid does not understand. All that was clear to him was the fact his friend would not return. There were going to be no answers – and that very fact was in tandem with the natural order of things. It was an answer in itself.
