{"id":353151,"date":"2025-08-18T02:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353151\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T02:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:53:10","slug":"blackpink-cover-spice-girls-wannabe-in-london-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353151\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpink Cover Spice Girls\u2019 \u2018Wannabe\u2019 in London: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the first K-pop girl group to headline Wembley Stadium, they gave fans what they really, really want<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/blackpink\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blackpink\" data-tag=\"blackpink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackpink<\/a> performed at Wembley Stadium in London on Friday and Saturday, and as the first K-pop girl group to headline the venue, they made sure to give fans what they really, really want.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn Saturday, they paid tribute to a fellow girl group sensation who preceded them, performing Spice Girls\u2019 1996 smash debut single, \u201cWannabe.\u201d Fan clips show Blackpink dancing and singing along to the hit, having fun, and enjoying their final moments headlining the venue for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIt appears to be one of Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo, and Ros\u00e9\u2019s favorites to perform, as they have previously covered the track. In 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/blackpink-carpool-karaoke-james-corden-1234717615\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackpink were guests<\/a> on The Late Late Show\u2019s \u201cCarpool Karaoke\u201d with James Corden. During their car voyage where they sang the song, Lisa divulged her obsession with the girl group while she was growing up, and Jennie added that the Blackpink members \u201creally like how [the Spice Girls] have their own individual characters and that was something we were aiming for, and it was such an iconic girl group that we grew up listening to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn Friday, Ros\u00e9 surprised Blinks with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rose-fka-twigs-take-shots-apt-blackpink-london-show-1235409962\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appearance from FKA Twigs<\/a>. During Ros\u00e9\u2019s solo segment, screens in the venue showed the two playing the Korean drinking game that inspired her single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruno-mars-rose-apt-video-1235136892\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APT.<\/a>\u201d Ros\u00e9 and FKA Twigs drank shots and indulged in snacks backstage before Ros\u00e9 performed \u201cAPT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe group are in the midst of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/blackpink-deadline-world-tour-los-angeles-review-1235384519\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline World Tour<\/a>, with their second London date wrapping a European leg of the tour. Blackpink next head to Taiwan and Thailand in October, before they continue through Asia in November, with shows in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the first K-pop girl group to headline Wembley Stadium, they gave fans what they really, really want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[31764,748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-353151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-blackpink","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115047511139040712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}