Say You'll Be There Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon". The lyrics, according to Brown are about relationships, and to be there for each other. That it does not matter to say merely that you love them, the only thing that they care is that their lover give his promise that he will be there for them whenever they need him. In "Say You'll Be There", the group exuded a brash confidence that was attractive to their teenage and young adult fans. The Spice Girls decide to be friends, not lovers, the clear message is that the relationship can be channelled and controlled by the girl,
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