The Spice Girls recorded “Do You Think About Me” early in their career. Now the demo opens the last of 14 CDs in “The Singles Collection,” out Friday, Nov. 6. The band’s track list runs to 160 songs, remixes and alternate takes.
The release marks 30 years since the group’s debut album, “Spice.” The CD box costs £94.99 in the UK, according to Official Charts. In the U.S., uDiscover Music lists it for $149.98.
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‘The Singles Collection’: Which Demos Are New?
Skip to disc 14 for all four previously unreleased demos. After “Do You Think About Me,” look for early versions of “2 Become 1,” “Mama” and “Love Thing.”
Six other demos round out that disc. One is “Wannabe.” You can also hear how far that single traveled on disc one alone, from Junior Vasquez’s club mixes to a karaoke version.
For the dance floor, go straight to disc 12. Thunderpuss and Jonathan Peters each give “Tell Me Why” a club mix. Both mixes used to circulate on promo copies.
All five Spice Girls wrote new messages for the 32-page booklet tucked inside the handbag-shaped CD box.
Vinyl collectors get 14 colored seven-inch records. The singles come with their original lead B-sides, and this edition includes two unreleased demos, including “Do You Think About Me.” Official Charts lists the UK vinyl-and-poster bundle at £182.99.
Croke Park to The Abbey: The Spice Girls’ Gay Fanbase
When the group opened its 2019 reunion tour at Dublin’s Croke Park, the night began with this message: “We welcome all ages, all races, all gender identities, all countries of origin, all sexual orientations, all religions & beliefs, all abilities,” The Line of Best Fit reported.
At Brighton Pride that summer, Melanie C wore the pink, white and blue trans flag to sing “2 Become 1.” Drag performers dressed as the Spice Girls joined her onstage. She told Vice that Margo Marshall, a nonbinary member of drag collective Sink the Pink, had introduced her to the flag.
In May, she made a surprise appearance at The Abbey’s 35th anniversary party, popping up live during a Spice Girls drag tribute with Aquaria and Trinity The Tuck, then spinning at the afterparty, Gayety reported.
No Spice Girls Reunion Tour Yet for the 30th Anniversary
“An offer for The Sphere hasn’t arrived in my email inbox, but I think all of us feel it would be an amazing place to do it,” Melanie C told Euphoria, responding to rumors of a Las Vegas residency, Entertainment Daily reported.
She’d told Australia’s 2Day FM in 2025 that the band was discussing plans and hoped to tour the world, Gayety reported.
On Louis Theroux’s podcast, she called this year “a big anniversary” but wouldn’t promise anything. “We’ll see. There’s nothing in the works, so it’s obviously not going to be anything in time for the anniversary,” she said, BANG Showbiz reported in July.
She said on the podcast that she’s “really offended” when people introduce her as a former Spice Girl. “Because once a Spice Girl, always a Spice Girl. I think we all feel like that,” she said.
On July 8, as “Wannabe” turned 30, the group’s Instagram account posted, “Happy birthday to the song that changed our lives forever. Thank you for making it part of your lives for the past three decades.”
What the group announced on Sept. 10 was the box set, after a teaser built around an ad in The Stage, the trade paper that ran the band’s 1994 audition call, PA’s Laura Harding reported.
