--- title: Eva Longoria Reads Spice Girls' 'Wannabe' as Soap Opera Star description: Celebrities doing dramatic readings of popular songs seems to be the new big thing right now. canonical: https://time.com/4233683/eva-longoria-reads-spice-girls-wannabe-as-soap-opera-star/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-23T16:48:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:24.633Z og:title: Eva Longoria Recites Spice Girls' 'Wannabe' as a Soap Star og:description: The song has never been this emotional before og:url: https://time.com/4233683/eva-longoria-reads-spice-girls-wannabe-as-soap-opera-star/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Eva Longoria Recites Spice Girls' 'Wannabe' as a Soap Star twitter:description: The song has never been this emotional before twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Eva Longoria Recite Spice Girls' 'Wannabe' as a Soap Opera Star  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 23, 2016 4:48 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 23, 2016 4:48 PM UTC Celebrities doing [dramatic readings of popular songs](http://time.com/4149987/hotline-bling-bryan-cranston-amy-schumer/) seems to be the new big thing right now. [Eva Longoria](http://time.com/4174588/golden-globes-2016-eva-longoria-america-ferrera/) recently teamed up with [Mashable](http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/eva-longoria-spice-girls-wannabe#IDuefkUgGkqh) to bring fans an emotional rendition of the [Spice Girls’ “Wannabe,”](http://time.com/4180307/adele-carpool-karaoke-james-corden/) and it was a surprisingly intense interpretation of the song. In the clip, the 40-year-old _Desperate Housewives_ alum recites the lyrics to the 1996 hit in the style of a soap opera, complete with tears, exaggerated gestures and a theatrical break-down. **Read More:** [Watch Jon Hamm, Nick Jonas and More Do a Dramatic Reading of Justin Bieber’s ‘Sorry’](http://time.com/4217747/justin-bieber-sorry-dramatic-reading-jon-hamm-nick-jonas/) The segment was released on Monday as a part of Longoria’s promotional tour for her NBC sitcom _Telenovela_. Watch the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4233683/eva-longoria-reads-spice-girls-wannabe-as-soap-opera-star/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4233683/eva-longoria-reads-spice-girls-wannabe-as-soap-opera-star/"},"headline":"Watch Eva Longoria Recite Spice Girls' 'Wannabe' as a Soap Opera Star","datePublished":"2016-02-23T16:48:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:24.633Z","description":"The song has never been this emotional before","url":"https://time.com/4233683/eva-longoria-reads-spice-girls-wannabe-as-soap-opera-star/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","Spice Girls"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4233683/eva-longoria-reads-spice-girls-wannabe-as-soap-opera-star/","name":"Watch Eva Longoria Recite Spice Girls' 'Wannabe' as a Soap Opera Star"}}]}] ```