It was the original crime against pop music. Let’s all travel back to a time when the Spice Girls were on top and all was right in the world. “Stop” was your favorite song to sing and dance to, but “Mama” was the ballad you turned on when you just needed a friend. But at the height of it all, Geri Halliwell, AKA Ginger Spice, shattered our hearts and dreams when she decided to leave the British girl group, ushering in the Dark Ages for fans everywhere.
The world experienced a similar trauma when Zayn Malik announced that he would be leaving One Direction permanently. But in the ultimate example of George Costanza’s “worlds colliding,” Geri posted a cryptic tweet after Zayn’s news broke, which seemingly seems directed at the 22-year-old who also broke our hearts.
“Hello, thinking of you. Hope whatever is going on in your life it’s going well. X,” she wrote. Of course, we wish only the best for Zayn, but we have to know if Geri and Zayn did more than just tweet! Is she giving him life lessons on how to deal with the sound of millions of hearts breaking? He said he wanted to live life as a normal twentysomething, but is all music off the table? We’re not totally against a Geri-Zayn collaboration. Just give us answers, pop music gods!
