I agree with braisedbywolves and indeed think you are all mad, since "Everytime We Touch" is totally pop and went top 10 in America too and what it sounds like is straight up Europop/Eurodisco not that different from "Blue Da Bee" eight years ago or "What Is Love?" 14 years ago or innumerable hi-NRG or German or Italodisco songs from the '80s, the difference being that "Everytime We Touch" takes in some of the dance beats from the last decade and a half (but then the beats of Europop/Eurodisco have evolved to take in techno and house as those musics have evolved). I hear nothing remotely difficult of experimental or aggressively noisy about this. This is kind of what I thought Eurodisco of the '00s tends to sound like. I mean this beat, that beat, here a beat, there a beat, big deal. I was surprised at this hitting so big in America since hip-hop/r&b have such a hold on the charts that electronic dance and Eurodisco only score a hit every two years or so and there's no good way to predict what it will be or explain why this one hit rather than the other 74 just like it. I do react negatively to the misspelling of "every time," but that's the only thing I found difficult about the track. Not to say that all the social nuances of who listens and why that you and Moggy are talking about are irrelevant, but when something hits pop like this it's also getting a range that includes skaters and soccer moms and teenyboppers. I don't remember if it got any Radio Disney play (I kind of think it got either a little or none, but Disney is open to dance stuff from Europe: "The Cha Cha Slide" and 2Unlimited and "Blue Da Bee" are continually replayed as oldies).
Re: My Happy Hardcore Theory
Date: 2007-05-08 06:11 am (UTC)