Songfacts®:

• In this song, Spice Girls play around with the saying "too much of a good thing" as it relates to love. They turn the koan into a bit of a brain teaser:
  
  Too much of something is bad enough
  ...
  Too much of nothing is just as tough
  
  The Girls wrote it with the song's producers, Andy Watkins and Paul Wilson.
• "Too Much" was released on the second Spice Girls album, Spiceworld, in November 1997, but it wasn't released as a single until December 1998. By this time, Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) had left the group (in the middle of their tour!) so they were a foursome. Spicemania was abating, but like their first five singles, the song went to #1 in the UK, making the Spice Girls the first artist to have their first six singles all reach #1 in Britain.
  
  The song was on top of the UK chart over Christmas, marking the second consecutive Christmas #1 for the group, following "2 Become 1." They made it three in a row in 1998 with "Goodbye."
• This song opens the Spice Girls' 1997 film Spice World. In the very first scene, they sing this song on Top Of The Pops for a huge number of fans, photographers and media of all sorts.
• Throughout the video, the members never appear together in a scene. They all live certain fantasies: Geri Halliwell is a sultry lounge singer; Victoria Beckham is a bond girl; Emma Bunton lives through a scene from the Steven Spielberg movie Poltergeist; Melanie Chisholm is a street fighter; and Melanie Brown is a combat warrior. The video contains some references to movies. Bits and pieces of scenes from their film Spice World are featured, and the aforementioned scenes with Bunton and the reference to Poltergeist.