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

[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%.