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Another hit-making machine to start her pop era off the heel of the Mickey Mouse Club (holla at Brit-Brit and JT!), Christina Aguilera is the next PYT to takeover MTV and excite teen hormones in 1999. She had already gained some attention with her song “Reflection,” featured in Disney’s Mulan, which highlighted her vocal talents [...]
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“Wild Wild West” is the fourth installment of what might be the most commercially successful run of five singles any one artist has ever released. In a little under two years, The Fresh Prince gave us the following gems:
1) “Gettin Jiggy Wit It” (January 1998)
2) “Just The Two Of Us” (July 1998)
3) “Miami” (November 1998)
4) [...]
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Below are the three steps on how to be in a boy band:
1) After signing with a very suspicious middle-aged man, release two or three albums that simply own the charts, captivating the minds of young audiences, while weathering the vitriol of people who claim to really know music. Tour the world with well-choreographed, [...]
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Ten years ago, McDonald’s introduced the McVeggie. An attempt at drawing in the increasingly popular vegetarian clientele, the idea was novel. The appeal was congruous to when McDonald’s retooled their salad menu post-Fast Food Nation. People wanted to try them–No really, they are good. But like new Coke before it, consumer have proven that change [...]
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The Song: I think this song ushered in a whole new genre of music, which I am going to call “Diss Pop.” T-Boz, Left-Eye and Chili spend a tad over 4 minutes creating the blueprint on how to sell records while humiliating the opposite sex. Before Destiny’s Child complained about their bills, before Justin Timberlake [...]
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The Song: It’s hard to ignore how pretty young Ricky Martin is in his debut. The blinding smile, slicked-back hair, chiseled face. The exotic version of the Ken doll had already done the boy band thing (shout out to Menudo!) and was ready to bring the sex factor into American pop music. Okay, so the [...]
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