The History Of Pop Part 48 aka Pure and simple, I'll be there for you

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

2001: A Pop Odyssey! As the Now series gets ever closer to today, a significant first - the first (modern) reality TV pop hit in the form of "Pure And Simple". Also debuting: Gorillaz, Bob The Builder, unlikely Poptimist icons Feeder, and nu-metal in the apologetic shape of Papa Roach.

All Saints' "Pure Shores" won Now 47 - hatas can reflect that it got one of the lowest winning %ages ever, with only 2/3 approval. Modjo second, Nelly third, and EVERYTHING got at least one vote - will we be able to say the same after this poll?


[Poll #738675]


TICKY TO RIDE.

Comments

And you told me that she turned trick when y'all broke up in '96

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Best lyric EVAH! The use of the word "y'all" to denote two people is immensely satisfying.

Also I think 'Whole Again' is really momentous - I was expecting to tick it but Mya popped up at the last minute. Because it's by a group who were on the whole dire, who REALLY can't sing very well, there's not even any clever production (the beat is the most basic of Casio presets), and yet somehow it transcends all of this to become completely heartbreaking and true and soul-searing. I love ballads! (A further example - this is the first Sclub song I've ticked.)

Re 'Stronger' - for ages I thought Our Brit was singing "I'm not your property, I swing both ways".

Re: And you told me that she turned trick when y'all broke up in '96

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Whole Again, yes! Heard it for the first time in ages on Saturday and was v.impressed. Pity it was on telly and I was therefore subjected to their horrible faces as well.

Re: And you told me that she turned trick when y'all broke up in '96

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Whole Again" is great, but I was saddened on previous Nows by the total lack of love for the 'Kerry Years', when AK were actually a pretty good, if naff and un-modernist, pop band. This was the peak and end of that period - after this they replace Kerry with Karry-oke (see what I did there), and their legacy is all woe.

Re: And you told me that she turned trick when y'all broke up in '96

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i like the 'Big Country' one better (not Big Country the band obv.)

SEE YA! WOULDN'T WANNA BE YA!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

as I remember they started off amazingly with 'See Ya' but by the time 'Whole Again' came round they'd very much settled into the really dull, cheap-sounding direness which would follow them to their pop graves with the sole exception of this strange and beautiful MASTERPIECE.

One of the things I really love about 'Whole Again' is how direct it is - there's no attempt at "good" lyrics, or any metaphors whatsoever, it's entirely composed of lines you've heard a thousand times, and it makes you realise that the reason they're clichés is because they're true.

Re: SEE YA! WOULDN'T WANNA BE YA!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

6 Atomic Kitten See Ya Apr 2000 - CLASSIC, as you say
10 Atomic Kitten I Want Your Love Jul 2000 - awesome fizzy pop with Western sample ("Big Country" as Stevem says)
20 Atomic Kitten Follow Me Oct 2000 (don't remember at all)
1 Atomic Kitten Whole Again Feb 2001 (masterpiece)
1 Atomic Kitten Eternal Flame Aug 2001 (AROO AROO ABORT MISSION)

Re: SEE YA! WOULDN'T WANNA BE YA!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hmm it seems my impressions were wrong. 'Whole Again' did have that masterpiece-out-of-nowhere feel to it, maybe because everyone had assumed AK had imploded following Kerry's departure.

Re: SEE YA! WOULDN'T WANNA BE YA!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think it was out of nowhere because it was hit-or-drop time for them.

Re: SEE YA! WOULDN'T WANNA BE YA!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

RIGHT NOW IS THE BEST

Re: SEE YA! WOULDN'T WANNA BE YA!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

and if i forgot to ticky it, i'll add it in now. i didn't like whole again cos it was like everything else - pre that they were this unapologetic jumpy round top shop without grace band, and it seemed lije they were trying to "grow up" :-(