more general pop shifts and so on, within british music. british music isn't very exciting in any areas at the moment (though i do like winehouse), or at least it's consistently being trumped by foreign acts, so it stands to reason that the brit awards aren't going to be particularly exciting. i don't see this as a problem, at all.
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
xp
― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
crosspost
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link
destiny's child.
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost: that list of impactful American bands is... stunning.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link
srsly though, none of them were that impactful, especially not n*sync.
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6364089.stm
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/ritalin/gfx/ritalin_large.jpg
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link
backstreet boys gave the world the max martin sound which basically ruled pop for a few years, you may have heard of this singer called britney spears for example
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link
N'Sync never went top 10 in the UK until 1999 as well.
xxxxp
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link
gets more wtf every time i read it.
― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Blink 182 didn't break in the uk until 2000! thats only a year before sum 41!
QED
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
backstreet boys were just not a big noise in pop music!
wrong
― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link
but we are now on 'impactful US bands of the late '90s'. i'm not merely being snarky, i just never drank the kool-aid wrt backstreet boys. i feel no enthusiasm for them!
or the max martin sound. which other than britney's early stuff, seems to consist in the aforementioned BSBs, some n*sync, and fucking 5ive. oh and the odd bryan adams track. kudos to max.
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
xp to lex
― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
interesting point about 1999 cos the brits of that years are really odd. des'ree, belle and sebastian, manics all winning ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_Awards#1999 . i think the thing about this years is that for all the snark and so forth uk pop at the moment really has it sewn up, commercially at least. this current fecundity has been going on for what 3 or 4 years british acts are starting to really make it in the US. the weird thing is that the brits can't actually be triumphant about it. well they can but it rings hollow. you have all these acts making serious money but for some reason it all needs to be wrapped up in this mythos, all this baggage from punk and britpop. things can’t just be a collection of good songs or whatever they have to at once dangerous and prove the collective musical / moral worth of the nation.
There is this bit in the middle of What’s My Age Again that is almost unspeakably beautiful. It's like 74-75 moving but in the middle of this upbeat tune. Wow.
― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
There wasn't any swearing during the lead break in "Don't look back in anger" was there?
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
i guess sneakingly i want it to be shit, and for someone to show it to be shit. but the modern MO is 'get your retaliation in first' ie have a presenter who hates it and bands no-one could possibly care about either way. what would be the point of 'upstaging' something so desperate to shock.
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link