alsoknownas
some bloke
Only tangentially related, my son's first ever sophisticated joke was... as I was struggling to finish doing up his little duffle coat - (tiny voice) "Dad, I think it's the hardest button to button!"
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"Freak like me" by "The Sugababes" is the greatest "Pop" song of the last 20 years
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rekil
to menny cranks
I like that you made the effort to use spoiler tags and correct labels.
IIRC at the time pages full of youtube embeds would take forever to load - doesn't seem to be such an issue now
rekil
to menny cranks
It's the absence of labelling that is most annoying. All those threads with pages and pages of dead links.
yes, yes they are
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
In those early/mid 00s anything goes 2ManyDJs style sets; playing Devo->Sugarbabes->Vitalic->Bizzare Inc->who knows what; dancefloors awash with crystal MDMA.
Hell yeah
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Jay is Frances Lengel isn't he?
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Well, that's one year - but in any case, that just means they were in the charts. Doesn't mean they were pop. There's tons of pop that isn't popular, and tons of popular music that isn't pop.
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no, no he isn’t
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
For the thread, pop is whatever anyone wants it to be. It's good enough for a fun thread on a forum.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Whoever slated you is a buffoon. Max whatsisname's finest
Sorry, not him, Cathy Dennis
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On this forum, nitpicking is always part of the fun. Get with the game, dude.
And I like pop, and other types of music. If someone started a best rap songs of the last 20 years thread and I posted up a track by Kylie or Britney I don't think that would go well.
I'm not onboard with this, sorry - pop does have limits. I think 'a style that dominated the pop charts at a given moment in time, and a song in that style which was at number 1 in the charts for the whole of August' is well within them though.
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
But noone would do that and that isn't what happened here. Your strawperson argument smells.
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Pop has limits yes but I'm not that bothered about defining them on an utterly unimportant thread about people's favourite songs.
don't then - you can leave me and sam to do that.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I kept a lid on my fondness for Sugababes, back in the day.
"Middle-aged-geezer-likes-scantily-clad-teenage-band" was always dangerous territory, but Push The Button is one of the all time greatest pop songs.
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Looby
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Their favourite POP songs.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
ah, the classic two
(I actually had a Napalm Death album on earlier fwiw)
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It's not about people's favourite songs, though, it's about the best pop songs of the last 20 years. And it's not like I'm trying to rule out every song that's sort of pop, just the ones that seem, to me, to really not be pop, like where the writers would be stunned to be told they were writing a pop song.
Back to music. Janelle Monae, Make Me Feel. Close enough to pop to pop to count for me, and wouldn't really fit in any other major music genre thread anyway. It's awesome.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
More recent toe tapper I enjoyed
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