Spice Up Your Life - Composition

Composition

"Spice Up Your Life" is an uptempo dance-pop song, with influences of Latin rhythms such as salsa and samba. It is written in the key of F minor, with a time signature set on common time (4/4), and moves at a fast tempo of 126 beats per minute.

The song is constructed in a verse-pre-chorus-chorus form, with a bridge before the third and fourth chorus, and uses a simple chord progression of Fm–C₇. It opens with an introduction, which consists of the repeated use of the word la. The first verse follows, the lyrics are an international rally cry, targeted to a global market, as Melanie Chisholm described it: "We always wanted to do a carnival tune and write a song for the world." After the first verse, the group sings the pre-chorus and the chorus. The same pattern occurs, leading to the second chorus. A spoken bridge, in which the girls mention different dance styles,—flamenco, lambada, hip-hop, foxtrot, polka and salsa—precedes the third chorus. The group closes the song repeating the chorus for a fourth time.