The Spice Girls held a highly-anticipated press conference to announce their reunion for a world tour. This reunion comes seven years after their split, and now they’re all above age thirty. Further, four of them will have children to either tote along or leave at home, so this tour will likely be a lot more difficult than their previous stints. As Victoria Beckham reckons, there will be a total of “seven Baby Spices the band members will have between them once Baby Spice gives birth.”

Each of the Spice Girls are expected to make $20 million apiece, but I’m rather skeptical of how five girls can recoup that money with a mere eleven concerts. Of course, if the group records a few new songs for a greatest hits album, it could be possible. Beginning on December 7th, the Spice Girls will Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, London, Koin, Madrid, Beijing, Hong Kong, Sydney, Cape Town, and Buenos Aires. Don’t expect the ladies to actually sing during these concerts though:

They are set to go into the studio to pre-record the songs for their tour – in order to mask the failings of their own live voices.

When the girls sing out of tune on stage, the mistakes in their voices are instantaneously corrected – in less than a tenth of a second – by computer to perfect the pitch and tone.

And it is this remastered “virtual voice” which belts out across the arena. The girls’ vocals are altered so quickly that it will appear the resulting perfect voices are live and their own.

The system is not miming as such, because they are not just mouthing music to a backing track.

A Spice Girls spokesman was adamant that detailed touring logistics which would cover the use of live vocal enhancement had not yet been discussed, adding: “They all have great singing voices.”

Yes, considerably. Their voices were primary reason for their rise to fame, right?

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