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."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 uptempo dance-based songs, such as "Wannabe", the group and the two producers decided to write a slow ballad. But as the group was writing the song, they realized that it was a bit too slushy, so it was decided to address the importance of contraception with the lyrics: "Be a little bit wiser baby. Put it on, put it on".
The song was inspired by the special relationship that was delevoping between Geri Halliwell and Rowe. Brown hinted this development in her autobiography commenting: "When he 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." 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."
Read more about this topic: 2 Become 1
Famous quotes containing the words writing and/or inspiration:
“I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only
way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me,
everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of
them that I know can want to know it and so I write
for myself and strangers.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognise the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)