Wannabe by Spice Girls is featured in Guilty Pleasures, the seventeenth episode of Season Four. It is sung by the New Directions Girls, with solos from each of them.
After Kitty whispers her guilty pleasure into Brittany's ear in a Fondue For Two segment, Marley, Tina, and Unique, who are proud fans of the internet show, beg to hear the guilty pleasure. Although Kitty tells them it's none of their business, Brittany reveals it's the Spice Girls to which the others freak out, and the New Directions Girls prepare their performance for Glee Club by deciding which spice girl they will be.
In the Choir Room, the girls come in dressed as the Spice Girls they chose to be, as the girls discussed in the auditorium earlier in the episode. Marley and Unique start off, with Marley dressed as Posh Spice and Unique dressed as Baby Spice. Kitty then enters as Ginger Spice, along with Tina as Scary Spice and Brittany as Sporty Spice. The five then dance and sing together as the boys, mainly Ryder, cheer them on. One of the band members is seen with a wig, while the other seems slightly annoyed as he plays the drums. Towards the end of the song, Brittany performs many impressive one-handed cartwheels while Marley glides across the room on a spinning chair.
Lyrics
Unique:
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Yo, I'll tell you what I want
What I really really want
Marley:
So tell me what you want
What you really really want
Unique:
I'll tell you what I want
What I really really want
Marley:
So tell me what you want
What you really really want
Unique (Marley with New Directions Girls):
I wanna (Huh!), I wanna (Huh!), I wanna (Huh!), I wanna (Huh!)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah
Kitty:
If you want my future
Forget my past
Tina:
If you wanna get with me
Better make it fast
Brittany:
Now don't go wasting
My precious time
Marley:
Get your act together
We could be just fine
Unique:
I'll tell you what I want
What I really really want
Kitty:
So tell me what you want
What you really really want
Unique (Kitty with New Directions Girls):
I wanna (Huh!), I wanna (Huh!), I wanna (Huh!), I wanna (Huh!)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah
Brittany with New Directions Girls (and Unique with New Directions Girls):
(If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends)
(Unique: Gotta get with my friends)
Make it last forever
Friendship never ends
Brittany and Unique with New Directions Girls:
If you wanna be my lover
You have got to give
Taking is too easy
But that's the way it is
Kitty:
Oh, whatcha you think about that
Kitty with New Directions Girls:
Now you know how I feel
Tina:
Say you can handle my love
Are you for real? (New Directions Girls: Are you for real?)
Brittany:
I won't be hasty
I'll give you a try
Marley:
If you really bug me
Then I'll say goodbye
Unique:
Yo, I'll tell you what I want
What I really really want
Marley:
So tell me what you want
What you really really want
Unique (Marley with New Directions Girls):
I wanna (Huh!), I wanna (Huh!), I wanna (Huh!), I wanna (Huh!)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah
Brittany with New Directions Girls (and Unique with New Directions Girls):
(If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends)
(Unique: Gotta get with my friends)
Make it last forever
Friendship never ends
Brittany and Unique with New Directions Girls:
If you wanna be my lover
You have got to give
Taking is too easy
But that's the way it is
Unique:
So! here's a story from A to Z
You wanna get with me
You gotta listen carefully
We got Em in the place who likes it in your face
You got G like MC who likes it on an
Easy V doesn't come for free
She's a real lady
Kitty:
And as for me, haha, you'll see
Brittany with New Directions Girls:
Slam your body down and wind it all around
Slam your body down and wind it all around
Brittany with New Directions Girls (and Unique with New Directions Girls):
(If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends)
(Unique: Gotta get with my friends)
Make it last forever
Friendship never ends
Brittany and Unique with New Directions Girls:
If you wanna be my lover
You have got to give (Unique: You've got to give)
Taking is too easy
But that's the way it is (Unique: Oooooh!)
Brittany with New Directions Girls:
If you wanna be my lover
Unique with New Directions Girls:
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta
You gotta slam!
Brittany with New Directions Girls (Unique with New Directions Girls):
Make it last forever (Unique: Oh!)
Slam your body down and wind it all around
Slam your body down and wind it all around (Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!)
Slam your body down and wind it all around (Slam your body down and zigazig ah)
Marley and Tina with New Directions Girls:
Ah ah-ah ah-ah, ah-ah ah ah (Unique: Oh, woah, oh!)
Ah ah-ah ah-ah, ah-ah ah ah (Unique Oh, woah, oh!)
Brittany with New Directions Girls:
If you wanna be my lover
Trivia
- Each of the Spice Girls members are portrayed by one of the New Directions Girls:
- Baby Spice - Unique
- Posh Spice - Marley
- Ginger Spice - Kitty
- Scary Spice - Tina
- Sporty Spice - Brittany
- Heather Morris danced to this song on the second season of The Masked Dancer UK.
Mistakes
- In the first line where Unique is heard singing "Gotta get with my friends," she is seen singing "Make it last forever."
- In the first line of the entire group "If you wanna be my lover," Kitty is shown next to Brittany, but in the next shot she's shown next to Unique, and Marley is between Tina and Brittany.
- When Marley comes in to the right, in the next scene she is shown going to the left.
- When the girls make the hand sign, with Ryder, eventually Sam raises his hand, but right in the next shot, his hand isn't up.
- When Ryder and the girls are making the hand sign, Ryder is seen jumping up and down, the camera then shows the girls from behind, and Ryder is sitting down, however, when the camera returns back to the original angle, Ryder is jumping again.
- In the Official YouTube account of GleeOnFox, the song was titled Wannabee.