oh dear...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

...it transpires that Aly & AJ didn't just fail to make the top 10, they missed the top 20: 'Potential Breakup Song' languishes at No 22, and that's with physical releases. Sadfaces all round. What doomy conclusions can we draw from this? Personally, I think if that song can't be a big hit, nothing of its ilk can, and the UK can officially be declared a pop wilderness.

On the plus side, that nasty Sex Pistols reissue thing is nowhere to be seen.

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[koganbot]

2001. Teenpop stopped crossing over, so you had to have already been established plus go through an image change like Britney and Justin or you had to be perceived as more serious like second-album Pink and first-album Avril. Hilary never hit big in the U.S.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I guess what I'm really wondering is why, but I kind of feel I've answered this question a few times in the past myself. Funny, I remember the years immediately after 01 as being quite the golden age for pop, because so many of the image changes were in the hip-hop/r&b direction - but in retrospect the price we paid is, well, this.