Say You'll Be There Say You'll Be There "Say You'll Be There" is a song by English girl group the Spice Girls from their debut studio album, "Spice" (1996). It was co-written by the Spice Girls with Jonathan Buck and Eliot Kennedy. Production duo Absolute incorporated a mix of pop and R&B into the song, which includes a harmonica solo, played by Judd Lander. The lyrics—which describe the things the group went through together and how they were always there for each other—received mixed reviews from critics, who described them as "confusing" and felt that the R&B-infused production was a "bid for street cred".
Say You'll Be There There" became the focus of a controversy when Israeli soldier Idit Shechtman accused the group of copying her song "Bo Elai" (בוא אלי, "Come to Me"), a highly similar song released two years earlier in Israel. Shechtman hired lawyers and threatened to sue. A spokesman of the group later declared: "Where there's a hit, there's a writ. There's always someone who crawls out of the woodwork claiming to have written a hit song. We look forward to seeing her in court." "Say You'll Be There" is a midtempo dance-pop song, with influences from G-funk and R&B. It is written in