A question I have only just started trying to answer

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What was the first pop song* to sound fake-Timbaland? Was it THIS?

*erm by which I mean, if you asked people what it was, they'd probably say "pop" not "R&B" or "hip-hop"

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

No Scrubs by TLC. Wait no hang on, was that Timbaland? Probably not. Anyway, that was a pop song.

Also: All Saints back catalogue.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think No Scrubs was a couple of months after Jordan!

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

It is nice that someone has posted this because it was a watershed moment for me on the road to becoming a pop lover. I'm not exactly sure why but the intrusion of hip-hop/r&b production might well have been it.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was a pop lover already but had no great hopes for a New Kids solo track a decade on - it sounded delightfully odd.

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

No Scrubs was produced by She'kspere, who also did Bug A Boo and Bills, Bills, Bills for Destiny's Child and There You Go for Pink – he was a very big player for a couple of years there.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

huh i thought 'No Scrubs' was Rodney Jerkins