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| Writer(s) | Spice Girls, Richard Stannard, Matt Rowe | |
Feed Your Love was an unreleased song by Spice Girls.
Background[]
In the following months after they first met with Eliot Kennedy and had done their first writing sessions with him, the Spice Girls continued to meet with producers, write new songs, prepare demos and search for a new manager. They met again with the writers Stannard and Rowe; they had previously worked with the girls in January 1995 before their departure from Heart Management. That had been the group's first professional songwriting session, held at the Strongroom in Curtain Road, East London.
In May 1995, the group was introduced to Paul Wilson and Andy Watkins, the songwriters and production duo known as Absolute, and they were really satisfied and impressed by their song Feed Your Love calling it "dark and cool". This lead to the Spice Girls writing songs with the duo. The group's first professional songwriting session with them was also held at the Strongroom in Curtain Road, East London.
Feed Your Love leaked onto the Internet via Youtube as a 40 second snippet on 4th November 2016, 20 years after Spice the album was released.
Feed Your Love demo was included as part of Wannabe 25, celebrating 25 years of their first single Wannabe released in 1996.
Development[]
Writing[]
In a session with Richard Stannard and Matt Rowe they wrote Feed Your Love, a slow, soulful song which was eventually recorded and mastered for the album but not released because it was consider "too rude" and racy for their target audience.
Having completed that one, the girls wanted to write something more uptempo, so they started to write the song that would be the lead of the album: Wannabe.
YouTube Video[]
Lyrics[]
Ooh
Promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you
Promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you
I get a rush when I look at you
There's a burning inside of me
I know just what I wanna do
For the rest of my life
Seems like the situation's
Stretching in front of me
It's tempt of a kind
It feels so right
Feed your love to me (Promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you)
(Promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you)
'Cause I need to know that you care
(I need to know that you care)
Feed your love to me
(To me, baby)
'Cause I really, really, really wanna share my secrets with you
I think I found what I'm looking for
And I made my discovery (Made my discovery) (Victoria & Emma)
I'm not afraid of it anymore
'Cause you hold me so tight (Hold me so tight) (Victoria & Emma)
And I've got the man I love
He's gracious and good to me
Do just what you wanna do
(Victoria & Emma) (Oh-oh-oh) For the rest of the night
Feed your love to me
(Victoria & Emma) (Feed it to me, boy)
'Cause I need to know that you care
(I need to know that you care) (Baby)
Feed your love to me
(To me, baby)
'Cause I really, really, really wanna share my secrets with you
(I really wanna share my secrets with you)
(Feed that) Wanna share my secret, promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you
Baby, do anything you want me to (I'm hungry)
More than that
(Feed that) I'm trying to be the peace and a cheery mind and discovery
Never dreaming, I'm kinda cheery but I'm hanging inside of me
Always yearning for desire, now you take me higher
Feed your love to me
(Victoria & Emma) (Feed it to me, boy)
'Cause I need to know that you care
(I need to know that you care)
Feed your love to me
(To me, baby)
'Cause I really, really, really wanna share my secrets with you
(I really wanna share my secrets with you)
Feed your love to me
(Promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you) (Victoria & Emma) (Feed it to me, boy)
'Cause I need to know that you care
(I need to know that you care) (Promise you can keep it) (Baby)
Feed your love to me
(To me, baby)
'Cause I really, really, really wanna share my secrets with you
(I really wanna share my secrets with you)
Feed your love to me
(Promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you)
'Cause I need to know that you care
(I need to know that you care) (Promise you can keep it) (Baby)
Feed your love to me
(To me, baby)
'Cause I really, really, really wanna share my secrets with you
(I said I really wanna share my secrets with you)
Feed your love to me
(Promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you)
'Cause I need to know that you care
(I need to know that you care) (Baby)
Feed your love to me
(Promise you can keep it, I'll be good to you)
'Cause I really, really, really wanna share my secrets with you
(I really wanna share my secrets with you)
Key
Spice Girls
Geri
Emma
Victoria
Melanie C
Melanie B
References[]
- Wannabe: How the Spice Girls Reinvented Pop Fame. David Sinclair (2004).