spongebag7890 said:
CHRles said:
Blech, Paula Deanda is one of my least favorite girly Pop singers. If anything, they should add Cassie's "Long Way To Go".
Cassie of all people? Disgusting...at least Paula's got a voice and vibe to her. Plus "Long Way 2 Go" was a single last year and it flopped
hard.
And girly pop singers is what need to come back--Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears need to go back to that formula because rap is getting boring, yes that's what needs to happen. Too bad it ain't 1999 anymore.
We're not in 1999 anymore, nor in 1987 when Debbie Gibson and Tiffany were hot on the charts (or New Kids on the Block 2 years later).
There's always a backlash when a station goes overboard on pre-teen Pop. What I mean by pre-teen is that while these Pop artists are teenagers, their biggest fanbase is the under 12 year old demo. The CHR audience may find a couple of these songs in rotation cute as was the case with Hanson, but too much of it and the station suffers in the longrun. Kiss 92.5 Toronto came and went so quickly even though they had big ratings and a huge cume b/c they played too much of it. KIIS-FM Los Angeles has had to adjust its format b/c back in 99 every other record on the station was by Britney, Backstreet Boys, N Sync, or Christina. That's not Pop, that's teen pop geared at the pre-teen crowd. When you think about it teen pop, meaning records that are big with 12-17 year olds, are the big Hip Hop hits and edgier Rock songs (hard rock in the late 80s, Grunge in the 90s, and EMO at the moment). As a general rule, the records that test well with women 18-34 will be picked up by CHRs, and the hits that test well with women over 25 will play all day.
So whats pure Pop? Maroon 5's "Makes Me wonder", Rhianna, Fergie, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake, Pink, Avril, are mass appeal, female friendly pure Pop. You're also seeing more and more Hot A/Cs play Rhythmic hits by the likes of Akon, Beyonce, Pussycat Dolls, and Sean kingston. Why? the Rhythmic A/C format influence. While Rhythmic A/C stations aren't setting the world on fire, it's telling Hot A/Cs that they can play some of Rhythmic records again instead of leaning on Modern A/C.
) definitely made a difference. So I guess that was every song Paris ever recorded so far?