When the Spice Girls stormed America’s shores in 1996 with their pop confection “Wannabe” and chants of “Girl power!” no one could have predicted how big their careers would get or how sturdy their roles in popular culture would be more than a decade later.

When the Spice Girls stormed America’s shores in 1996 with their pop confection “Wannabe” and chants of “Girl power!” no one could have predicted how big their careers would get or how sturdy their roles in popular culture would be more than a decade later.