Pop Music Activism

OMG I remember that!

Bless, it was clearly just you and me constantly refreshing Internet Explorer from 3.15 to 4.25 that whole summer :D
 
My completely unfounded theory about Kerri-Ann is that her father is Paul Keogh, Polygram director at the time, who previously signed Boyzone and funded their first album.

He possibly asked Louis Walsh to make his daughter the “Irish Louise” (which she eventually was marketed as) and thew some money for her to record a number of tracks with Mike Stock including the prototype of Scooch’s “For Sure” amongst other anaemic offerings.

By the time she got a UK deal, the company realised a bargain bin Louise with dead on arrival nox was unnecessary and dropped her after one single. The Irreplaceable #163 chart smash was purely based on import sales.

There was also a mild “Mammeh, whur’s may paishpurd?” scandal where 20 year old Kerri-Ann shaved a whole two years off her age to pass as a teen pop star.

By then Louis had moved on to Westsidelife and S.Mum and Kerri-Ann became a legal secretary.
 
Oh yes I remember “Irish teen sensation” but she was born in 1977 so would have been 21.

I thought she was the Irish version of Billie Piper rather than Louise.

She then went on to be a stylist for Katie price :disco:

Part of me thinks Do You Love Me Boy was a track written for Gina G (same writer as Ooh Aah) which our Gina realised was beneath her (the bridge sounds like Gina to me).

She knew her market though. Remixes by Almighty, Wand and Amen UK. There was also a remix by Love To Infinity.

Oh for the days when labels would through money at fluff like this and Ellie Campbell.

Oh also, this track (which didn’t cause any housewives or gays to become pregnant in 1998) has been popped out along with his sappy Leo Sayer cover.

 
To be fair the Almighty remixes of both her singles are amazing, particularly Irreplaceable.

Do You Love Me Boy? is not far off the stuff Lolly was releasing not long after, and would easily have fitted on her second album.

There was definitely a shift between Kerri-Ann’s first and second single to be a little more mature. I guess when the UK record company bailed on her by not even releasing Irreplaceable then the game was up for her. The Irish music industry is so small that no act can contain a career with only national success. Six were another classic example of that.
 


@aquaplex is this your good doing? Now on Spotify. It’s still a bit average but glad to have it.

Also if you have any idea who to go to get Milian’s Us Against The World on streaming that would be a treat. Especially the Jason Nevins. The original is still on iTunes but not proper streaming randomly.
 
ManicKangaroo said:
De La Soul is famously not on streaming due to years of legal wrangling but there was an announcement in June that their catalogue had been.bought and will finally be made available.
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At long last, De La Soul's back catalogue, including classic albums like 1989's 3 Feet High and Rising, is to be made available for streaming.

The hip-hop trio's first six records will be released on digital streaming services for the first time on 3 March.

The landmark shift has been in the works since Reservoir Media bought the group's master recordings in 2021.

Complex licensing issues around De La Soul's use of hundreds of samples have held back the move until now.

"We can't believe this day is finally here," the band said in a statement, "and we are excited to be able to share our music with fans, old and new".

De La Soul's first six albums
3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
De La Soul Is Dead (1991)
Buhloone Mindstate (1993)
Stakes Is High (1996)
Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (2000)
AOI: Bionix (2001)

www.bbc.co.uk

De La Soul: Classic back catalogue finally available for streaming

All of the hip hop trio's early hits will be released on digital streaming services from 3 March.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
ManicKangaroo said:
At long last, De La Soul's back catalogue, including classic albums like 1989's 3 Feet High and Rising, is to be made available for streaming.

The hip-hop trio's first six records will be released on digital streaming services for the first time on 3 March.

The landmark shift has been in the works since Reservoir Media bought the group's master recordings in 2021.

Complex licensing issues around De La Soul's use of hundreds of samples have held back the move until now.

"We can't believe this day is finally here," the band said in a statement, "and we are excited to be able to share our music with fans, old and new".

De La Soul's first six albums
3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
De La Soul Is Dead (1991)
Buhloone Mindstate (1993)
Stakes Is High (1996)
Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (2000)
AOI: Bionix (2001)

www.bbc.co.uk

De La Soul: Classic back catalogue finally available for streaming

All of the hip hop trio's early hits will be released on digital streaming services from 3 March.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Amazing news about De La Soul. I was SHOCKED when I saw them pop up on my Spotify radar this week.
 
LONG TIME GONE SINCE I’VE BEEN YOUR BABY
 
Can a young person make this big on tikity tok please ?
 
oh my FUCKING GOD, talk about true POPJUSTICE ACTIVISM

Sugababes´BEST and WORST albums are now available in Spotify America, I ain't specifying which is which though.

Now POP and RJN Can bop along :disco:





as well as individual single packages for About A Girl and Wear My Kiss + a bunch of b-sides. What a time to be alive.
 
And they still haven't added fucking Change. How am I supposed to continue to live without "Never Gonna Dance Again" on streaming?
 
The only Sugababes song I can’t get in Australia is “Easy”, which I find bizarre but OK because I’m constantly recreating the video anyway.
 
I've neglected SWEET 7 for so many years and now I've been revisiting it since yesterday and it's a bit of a clusterfuck. It basically sounds like a PussycatDolls/G.I.R.L./Paradiso Girls leftovers compilation, how the hell was this approved? I can't at the processed as fuck vocals and cheap synth production :disco: The nerve of having live gigs and performing About A Girl followed by Overload and Round round must have been a mindfuck for the poor girls.

Also proving to have a bit of Mandela Effect on me, I forgot how messy the vocals are: Jade is the only singing in the About A Girl chorus and Wear My Kiss has Bruno Mars on BV's!
 
Don’t try and defend that album. It’s an absolute shambles on every level :D

(There’s a couple of potentially decent mid tempo pop tracks towards the end but they’re drowned in production like the rest of the album and the lyrics are DREADFUL)
 
I listened to Sweet 7 for the first time a few weeks ago.

It was one of the worst albums I've ever indulged.
 
It's astonishingly awful alright but the way ABout A Girl has got a hold of me is shocking.
 
Fab. Now we just need Love Comes Back (and Deeper Shade but can’t imagine they’ll put that on).
 
Nicola Holt did porn. I quite like the South African struggling not to throw up in the threesome she has with him in the gym. What an ass he has. Anyway, I do enjoy the song.
 
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