The History Of Pop Part 26 aka My life is a cage but onstage I'm free

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now 26 stakes a claim for 1993 as BEST YEAR EVAR - a line-up packed with heavyweights and it's a sad quirk of fate that only one can qualify. Compare if you will Now 25, which "All That She Wants" won at a canter from New Order, and then a chasing pack of relatively low scorers (including though a disgracefully high mark for "Everybody Hurts" of all things!).

But this - this is a different matter! Post-Soviet gay disco! Jacko-tweaked R'n'B! Will Smith! Mr Raider! And a wealth of brilliant bit players like Stakka Bo and Apache Indian too. Which will be the winner? I'm hoping for a play-off frankly. The overall impression here is of a thriving, bustling, multifaceted and multicultural pop landscape, a chart happy to gobble the best from the UK, US and Europe, a rich pop ecosystem which it will be instructive to compare with the soon-coming "Britpop years"...


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Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

At the time we thought a great idea would be to get some incredibly starry diva (being 1993 I think Rupaul was the candidate) to do a huge disco version of it with the pronouns all reversed i.e.

"I'm so fvcking special
You wish you were special
But you're a creep"

This led to a long-time obsession with pronoun-reversed cover versions but I don't know if any actually exist.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

omg amazing idea - TLC should do it!

or Britney!

or Girls Aloud!

or ANYONE!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Someone did do it (http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/radiohead16.shtml).

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

'Creep' kind of does this to 'Brass in Pocket', in reverse.

[tommymack.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's already been done. And I thought I was being massively subeversive by singing thusly in the kitchen, on my own...