5 Things That Didn’t Last The Decade
1. Sugababes
Ok so technically there still is a girlband going by the title of Sugababes. But the best incarnation of the Sugababes,(Heidi, Keisha and Mutya) that gave the world pop gems like Freak Like Me, Stronger, Round Round, Hole In The Head, Push The Button and Too Lost In You, are no more. Sonically no girlband before or after have been able to touch them and if there was any justice in the world they would have sold more albums than Destiny’s Child.
2. J.Lo aka Jennifer ‘Don’t Call Me JLo’ Lopez.
At the start of this decade, J.Lo was the golden girl. She had number one movies and number one albums, fragrances and clothing lines everywhere and she was dating people who looks like human beings. Fast forward 9 years and I honestly can’t tell you the name of the latest single or her most recent film. And she’s married to a corpse. Jennifer Lopez has become so blase, so totally boring that it’s hard to fathom why we bothered in the first place. Except for ‘Play‘. That was a hot song!
3. Gay Television
In the early 2000′s we had Queer As Folk, The L-Word, Will And Grace, and Queer Eye for The Straight Guy. I can’t think of one comedy or drama on TV right now that is mainly gay orientated. Even the amount of gay characters in TV shows seem to be at a low point. We need a good gay show again people. And I’m not talking about The Style Network or Glam Guru dammit!!!
4. Cool music chart shows.
America had TRL on MTV. We had The Fanta World Chart Show on 5fm. Yes these chart shows kept the intrepid pop watcher like myself informed of what was hot and who ruled the charts. But with the popularity of the internet exploding this decade, these sources of information seemed to shrink in popularity and are no more. Which is sad because Saturdays mornings don’t feel the same without Brown Sugar’s voice lighting up the airwaves from 10:00 to 14:00. RIP World Chart Show!
5. Boybands
Yes at the start of the millennium boybands were still very much the craze. Backstreet Boys and N’Sync were still at the height of their powers and selling millions of albums. But at the end of this decade the conventional boyband formula seems all but dead, with no more N’Sync and Backstreet Boys sans a member and not really relevant in the pop stratosphere. Yes we have the Jonas Brothers, but without crazy choreography and immense key-changes for the last chorus of their songs, can we really call them a proper boyband..?? Do they have anything in their discography that can match the sheer pop-mastery (and cheesiness) of ‘I Want It That Way’…? I don’t think so.
Sorry, just to let you know, the backstreet boys are still around so you may wanna check that.. They just finished their euro tour and i went to one of their shows.. They hit europe really hard and the new album is siiick! Research things before posting
Yes you are right, they are still around. So is J.Lo. But nobody cares about them anymore, and in the POP world thats a fate even worse than death
The Backstreet Boys haven’t had a Top 20 hit in the US or UK from their LAST 2 albums, not for lack of trying, but because their time is just over.