2 Become 1 by Spice Girls

Overview

Key: E♭ minor · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 18

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Part 1 (0:02)

• E♭madd9 – D♭/F – G♭ – A♭7sus4 (×2)
  iadd9 – bVII⁶ – bIII – IV7sus4

Part 2 (0:15)

• E♭madd9 – D♭/F – G♭ – A♭7sus4 – E♭madd9 – D♭/F – D♭ – A♭7sus4
  iadd9 – bVII⁶ – bIII – IV7sus4 – iadd9 – bVII⁶ – bVII – IV7sus4

Part 3 (0:28)

• E♭madd9 – D♭ – G♭ – A♭7sus4 – E♭madd9 – D♭/F – D♭ – A♭7sus4
  iadd9 – bVII – bIII – IV7sus4 – iadd9 – bVII⁶ – bVII – IV7sus4

Part 4 (0:42)

• C♭ – B♭m – A♭m – D♭11 – C♭ – B♭m7 – A♭m7 – D♭11 – G♭
  bVI – v – iv – bVII11 – bVI – v7 – iv7 – bVII11 – bIII

Part 5 (0:56)

• D♭ – C♭ – D♭ – G♭ – D♭ – C♭ – D♭7 – F♭
  bVII – bVI – bVII – bIII – bVII – bVI – bVII7 – bII

Part 6 (1:09)

• G♭ – A – C♭ – G♭ – E♭madd9 – D♭/F – G♭ – A♭7sus4
  bIII – #IV – bVI – bIII – iadd9 – bVII⁶ – bIII – IV7sus4

Part 7 (1:22)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:02).

Part 8 (1:35)

• E♭madd9 – D♭/F – G♭ – A♭7sus4 – C♭ – B♭m – A♭m – D♭11
  iadd9 – bVII⁶ – bIII – IV7sus4 – bVI – v – iv – bVII11

Part 9 (1:48)

• C♭ – B♭m7 – A♭m7 – D♭11 – G♭ – D♭ – C♭ – D♭
  bVI – v7 – iv7 – bVII11 – bIII – bVII – bVI – bVII

Part 10 (2:02)

• G♭ – D♭ – C♭ – D♭7 – F♭ – G♭ – A – C♭ – G♭
  bIII – bVII – bVI – bVII7 – bII – bIII – #IV – bVI – bIII

Part 11 (2:15)

• E♭m – D♭ – C♭ (×2)
  i – bVII – bVI

Part 12 (2:28)

• B♭m – A♭m – D♭11 – C♭ – B♭m7 – A♭m7 – D♭11
  v – iv – bVII11 – bVI – v7 – iv7 – bVII11

Part 13 (2:42)

• G♭ – D♭ – C♭ – D♭ – G♭ – D♭ – C♭ – D♭7
  bIII – bVII – bVI – bVII – bIII – bVII – bVI – bVII7

Part 14 (2:55)

Same chords as Part 13 (2:42).

Part 15 (3:08)

• F♭
  bII
• G♭ – A – C♭ (×3)
  bIII – #IV – bVI
• G♭
  bIII

Part 16 (3:20)

• A – C♭ – G♭ (×3)
  #IV – bVI – bIII
• A – C♭
  #IV – bVI

Part 17 (3:33)

• G♭ – A – C♭ (×3)
  bIII – #IV – bVI
• G♭
  bIII

Part 18 (3:45)

• A – C♭ – G♭ (×2)
  #IV – bVI – bIII
• A – C♭
  #IV – bVI

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Spice), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Spice), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.