The History Of Pop Part 30 aka In this new frame of mind a thousand flowers could bloom

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now 30, like 1995, starts slow but then explodes into full-on dance mania as high street clubbing meets pop and a flood of great, blink-and-you-miss-them hits follow. Handbagmania! In amongst the dance tunes we have dadpop, Britpop, a bit of r'n'b and a sprinkling of trip-hop. It's a big poll with some big questions: have at it.

One of the big questions is - what's going to win Now 29? Kylie and Shampoo were tied on 34 votes each, just ahead of Whigfield and Corona, so there's a straight choice to be made here. Meanwhile Oasis highpoints clustered around Cigs and Boose, Live Forever and Supersonic: Wasis make the first of several reapparances on today's poll.

1995 - what were are we thinking?


[Poll #686986]

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

the other thing is if there's a consensus thing along the lines of 'yes all the pop dance/handbag/ravey stuff is automatically GRATE' that risks undermining the individual qualities of each track in that vein. it would be equally (ok, MORE) annoying if people were doing this with all the Britpop! but my pickiness has always been based on purist/rockist criteria rather than honestly judging them as justified crowd pleasing anthems with ultra-catchy hooks or whatever.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

every time someone votes for a britpop song, somewhere a handbag house diva dies :(

i find that the collective attitude towards the bosh stuff is incredibly severe - there's either MASSIVE CONSENSUS (eg the last corona, the two 2 unlimited songs wot won) or the song gets, like, 5 votes because no one remembers it (eg this corona, the other 2 unlimited songs). there's very little genre consensus anywhere in the now polls actually - except possibly the pre-lilith women like lisa loeb, sophie b hawkins, scarlet, who always get almost exactly the same no of votes each time from prob the exact same people, and inevitably place bang in the middle with 50%.