2 Become 1
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"2 Become 1" is a song by the British girl group the Spice Girls. Written by the group members, together with Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard during the group's first professional songwriting session, it was produced by Rowe and Stannard for the group's debut album, Spice (1996). "2 Become 1" is an R&B-influenced pop ballad that features instrumentation from a guitar, an electronic keyboard and string instruments.[1] The lyrics focus on the bonding of two lovers, and also address the importance of contraception. Its Big TV!-directed music video, which features the group performing against time-lapse footage of Times Square in New York City, was completely shot against a blue screen at a studio in London. The backdrop was later superimposed.
Released as the group's third single on 16 December 1996 by
In 2019, Emma Bunton covered the song, as a duet, with Robbie Williams on her fourth solo album, My Happy Place.
Background
In December 1994, the Spice Girls persuaded their former managers—father-and-son team
More than anything, they just made me laugh. I couldn't believe I'd walked into this situation. You didn't care if they were in time with the dance steps or whether one was overweight or one wasn't as good as the others. It was something more. It just made you feel happy. Like great pop records.
Stannard stayed after everyone had left the showcase to talk to the group. He then reported back to his songwriter partner Matt Rowe that he had found the pop group of their dreams. In January 1995, Chris Herbert booked the group's first professional songwriting session with the producers at the Strongroom in Curtain Road, East London.[5] Rowe remember feeling similarly to Stannard when he first met the group, "I love them. Immediately. [...] They were like no one I'd met before, really." The session was productive as the duo seemed to get along with the group; together they discussed the songwriting process and what they wanted to do with the record.[5] In her autobiography, Brown recalled that the duo instinctively understood their point of view and knew how to incorporate "the spirit of five loud girls into great pop music".[6]
Writing and inspiration
It's basically a love song, but it's got a message—make sure you put a condom on if you're going to have sex. We all think that's very important!
—Melanie Brown talking about the song's theme.[7]
"2 Become 1" was co-written by the Spice Girls along with partners Richard Stannard and Matthew Rowe. Stannard and Rowe also co-produced the track. After writing more
The song was inspired by the "special relationship" that was developing between Geri Halliwell and Rowe.[8] Brown hinted at this development in her autobiography, commenting: "When [Rowe] and Geri started making eyes at each other I knew what was going on, even though they denied it. I knew them both too well for it to be a secret for me."[9] Stannard commented about the fondness between Halliwell and Rowe: "I don't want to get into the side of things. They were very close. They clicked. And I think the lyrics in '2 Become 1' came from that, especially the first verse, which they wrote together."[8]
Spanish version
The group recorded a European Spanish version of the song, written by them, Rowe, Stannard, and N. Maño.[10] The title was "2 Become 1" (Spanish Version), although the title is loosely translated in one line of the song, "Seremos Uno Los Dos". It was released as the eleventh track of their debut album, Spice, in Latin America and South Africa, in a special re-edition of the album in Spain, and as one of the tracks of the "2 Become 1" maxi-single in the US.[10][11] A Spanglish edit that traded verses between the English and Spanish versions was created by DJ Mike Rizzo and production director Bill Schultz for New York-based radio WKTU.[12]
Composition
"2 Become 1" is a
The lyrics focus on how the bonding of two lovers can become so strong that they practically become one entity, through the act of sexual intercourse.[16] Apart from the sexual connotations, there is an aspirational undercurrent to the lyrics, and like many of their subsequent songs, desire is explicitly linked to ambition: "Free your mind of doubt and danger/Be for real don't be a stranger/We can achieve it/We can achieve it".[8]
Two different versions of the song, each with different lyrics, were recorded: in the album version, the two first verses are sung by
The single version appears in the music video and is available on the group's Greatest Hits album, and on stage the girls always performed the single version before and after Halliwell's departure.
Release
"2 Become 1" was released in the United Kingdom on 16 December 1996, in three single versions.[19] The first one, a maxi single that included the single version of the track, an orchestral take, the Junior Vasquez remix of "Wannabe", and "One of These Girls", a song written by the group with Paul Wilson and Andy Watkins—the songwriters and production duo known as Absolute. The second version was the special Christmas pack, a standard CD single in a cardboard case that included a signed postcard with a Christmas message from the group. This version contained the single version, the Dave Way remix, and their own version of Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride". The third version was a two-track cassette single, featuring the single version and the orchestral take of the song. The same track listing was also used for the release of the European CD single.[20] In the United States, the single was serviced to contemporary hit radio on 1 July 1997.[21] Four weeks later, on 29 July, two CD singles were issued in the US.[22]
Reception
Critical response
The song was generally well received by music critics. Brian Grosz from Albumism described it as "a smooth
Chart performance
"2 Become 1" was originally going to be released in the UK on 9 December 1996, but the release date was delayed to let
In Ireland, "2 Become 1" was the group's second number-one single, and their first to debut at the top of the Irish Singles Chart.[43] It stayed at the top position for six weeks,[44] and became their first Christmas number-one single in the country.[45] "2 Become 1" peaked at No. 3 on the Eurochart Hot 100,[46] and performed similarly across the rest of Europe, topping the singles chart in Spain,[47] peaking inside the top ten in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland,[46][48][49][50] and inside the top fifteen in Belgium and Germany.[51][52] It was also commercially successful in Australia and New Zealand, peaking inside the top three on both countries.[53][54]
In July 1997, "2 Become 1" debuted on the Canadian
Music video
Background
The music video for "2 Become 1" was directed on 5–6 November 1996 by Big TV!, in a two-day shoot located at a studio in Old Compton Street, London. Cinematographer Stephen Keith-Roach, who worked in other music videos such as Jamiroquai's "Virtual Insanity" and U2's "Discothèque", was in charge of the photography.[16] The shoot involved the group dressed in winter coats, wandering around the studio against a green screen, interspersed with close-up camera angles, so that the backdrop could be superimposed later.[66][67] To achieve the effect of the wind rippling through their hair, the group was required to lip synch the song in double time while wind machines were blowing on them.[7]
Synopsis
The music video features the group wandering around Times Square in New York City, with fast moving cars appearing around multi-coloured lights. They appear in various places around the city, either alone, with one other member, or as a quintet. The video is intercut with scenes of lovers experiencing moments of togetherness and closes with a deer wandering the streets. Such a scene, according to the group's first official book Girl Power!, gave them a running gag all throughout the shoot—"Whenever anyone made a mistake it was, 'Oh, deer'."[16] Sometimes, the closing scene would not be shown on television, due to the song fading out to an instrumental, which lasts for 40 seconds.
In the same book, Victoria Beckham wrote about the shoot: "I think '2 Become 1' is my favourite video. [...] It was really different to the other videos–shot entirely in the studio, with high technology and loads of effects. It was really weird having to sing passionately into the camera, I was feeling a right mug in front of all those people singing 'wanna make love to ya baby'."[16]
Live performances
The song was performed many times on television, including the
The Spice Girls have performed the song on their four tours, the
Cover versions
"2 Become 1" has been covered both in albums and live performances. In 1998,
Formats and track listings
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Credits and personnel
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- Published by Windswept Pacific Music Ltd./PolyGram Music Publishing Ltd.[17]
Charts
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Certifications and sales
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[129] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
Belgium (BEA)[130] | Gold | 25,000* |
France ( SNEP)[131]
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Gold | 250,000* |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[132] | Gold | 5,000* |
Norway (IFPI Norway)[133] | Gold | |
United Kingdom (BPI)[135] | 2× Platinum | 1,140,000[134] |
United States (RIAA)[136] | Gold | 700,000[64] |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Release history
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
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France | 16 December 1996 | Maxi CD | EMI | |
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Virgin | [19][138] | |
Japan | 21 December 1996 | Maxi CD | Toshiba EMI | [139] |
France | 7 February 1997 | CD | EMI | |
Australia | 6 April 1997 | Maxi CD | ||
United States | 1 July 1997 | Contemporary hit radio | Virgin | [21] |
29 July 1997 | CD | [22] | ||
12 August 1997 | Maxi CD |
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