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With hip hop currently in a state of decline, just get ready for the next big thing in music! It's coming....
Oh, and if you think the uptempo hits of this year were great, just wait until 2009. That's all I'm going to say. If you think the euro freestyle tracks on Akon's new album or the remix of sensual seduction with Snoop Dogg F/ Robyn are hot, don't get too excited yet because this is just a brief preview of what is coming in 2009. I just had a long talk with Stevie B and he knows more about what's going to happen in the music industry than I do and he confirmed that 2009 will be a huge year for dance, booty bass, and new freestyle. Too bad, radio is only going to pick up less than half of all the rhythmic dance/pop hits that are about to be released in the near future.
No one has been playing any of Collage's latest hits and no one seems to notice Collage continuing to drop albums, but there are some other artists out there that are planning to make their come back now that dance beats are once again being used and accepted. Angelina is working on some new material. Stevie B's new material is about to hit, and you'll hear the modernized sound of freestyle, slightly similar to what Akon is doing now. Inoj has some new stuff coming. Judy Torres already released a new single, and all these things I'm mentioning is just a breif summary of what's going to happen. I haven't even began to touch on what the mainstream artists and upcoming artists are coming with.... but you'll see. Hopefully, if all this doesn't just turn out to be another phase, everything that is going on now will eventually lead to a full return of dance music, but in a new, modernized fashion.
I remember back in 2006 when I introduced my "dance music is making a come back" theory and told people that things were going to sound exactly the way it does today. Many couldn't believe what I was saying, but now they hear Chris Brown, Ne-yo, and Rihanna today, successfully doing EXACTLY what I said should be done/tried back in 2006 and my theory has now become fact. To read more on this, go here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?f...n=F992FC98-1C97-4C39-A6C227AD60D5EBA210923070
For all of you looking forward and wanting new dance music, 2009 is going to be BIG for you, but you just have to know where to look. I've already got some new Stevie B, Akon, Inoj, Rockell, Sunship, AnnaGrace, T2, Craig David, and much more in mixshow rotation on some internet radio stations. Much more of the latest in the form of Breakbeat, House, U.K. Garage, Freestyle, Electro-Bass and Booty Bass on the way, and much to come in 2009 if you're looking forward to other dance tracks from more mainstream artists that are coming to radio.
We have once again evolved to a time when uptempo beats are once again the norm on top 40/rhythmic radio. Maybe (in radio) it will never be how it was in the past, but at least we're headed in the right direction even if it's a new, modernized sound.
I'm not sure if leaving links to online record stores is frowned upon as advertisement here, but without posting links, I'll just say those of you looking to find out or hear the new sound of Stevie B. and other exclusive new school rhythm r&b/dance-electro-pop freestyle just let me know. T. Pain is not the only one who can use the voice encoder over a fast beat..... As Stevie B explained to me as a producer/artist who sees what's happening behind the scenes, better economy = more hits being released. People are holding back a bit now, but word still gets around. This is the reason I know what's about to hit soon. Radio only knows to some extent what to expect, but with all the other things radio and PD's must focus on and the extreme limitations radio has today, they usually only have time to focus on things that have already been released, or the things that have already reached hit status. I have an unmixed new school r&b/dance-freestyle music sampler here: www.myspace.com/steviebmusic - look for the music player on the left hand side under my name and find the track labelled f.f. future flavaz. I'm currently looking for more new school freestyle and booty bass with spanish lyrics. I've heard very little, but it's out there.
Oh, and if you think the uptempo hits of this year were great, just wait until 2009. That's all I'm going to say. If you think the euro freestyle tracks on Akon's new album or the remix of sensual seduction with Snoop Dogg F/ Robyn are hot, don't get too excited yet because this is just a brief preview of what is coming in 2009. I just had a long talk with Stevie B and he knows more about what's going to happen in the music industry than I do and he confirmed that 2009 will be a huge year for dance, booty bass, and new freestyle. Too bad, radio is only going to pick up less than half of all the rhythmic dance/pop hits that are about to be released in the near future.
No one has been playing any of Collage's latest hits and no one seems to notice Collage continuing to drop albums, but there are some other artists out there that are planning to make their come back now that dance beats are once again being used and accepted. Angelina is working on some new material. Stevie B's new material is about to hit, and you'll hear the modernized sound of freestyle, slightly similar to what Akon is doing now. Inoj has some new stuff coming. Judy Torres already released a new single, and all these things I'm mentioning is just a breif summary of what's going to happen. I haven't even began to touch on what the mainstream artists and upcoming artists are coming with.... but you'll see. Hopefully, if all this doesn't just turn out to be another phase, everything that is going on now will eventually lead to a full return of dance music, but in a new, modernized fashion.
I remember back in 2006 when I introduced my "dance music is making a come back" theory and told people that things were going to sound exactly the way it does today. Many couldn't believe what I was saying, but now they hear Chris Brown, Ne-yo, and Rihanna today, successfully doing EXACTLY what I said should be done/tried back in 2006 and my theory has now become fact. To read more on this, go here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?f...n=F992FC98-1C97-4C39-A6C227AD60D5EBA210923070
For all of you looking forward and wanting new dance music, 2009 is going to be BIG for you, but you just have to know where to look. I've already got some new Stevie B, Akon, Inoj, Rockell, Sunship, AnnaGrace, T2, Craig David, and much more in mixshow rotation on some internet radio stations. Much more of the latest in the form of Breakbeat, House, U.K. Garage, Freestyle, Electro-Bass and Booty Bass on the way, and much to come in 2009 if you're looking forward to other dance tracks from more mainstream artists that are coming to radio.
We have once again evolved to a time when uptempo beats are once again the norm on top 40/rhythmic radio. Maybe (in radio) it will never be how it was in the past, but at least we're headed in the right direction even if it's a new, modernized sound.
I'm not sure if leaving links to online record stores is frowned upon as advertisement here, but without posting links, I'll just say those of you looking to find out or hear the new sound of Stevie B. and other exclusive new school rhythm r&b/dance-electro-pop freestyle just let me know. T. Pain is not the only one who can use the voice encoder over a fast beat..... As Stevie B explained to me as a producer/artist who sees what's happening behind the scenes, better economy = more hits being released. People are holding back a bit now, but word still gets around. This is the reason I know what's about to hit soon. Radio only knows to some extent what to expect, but with all the other things radio and PD's must focus on and the extreme limitations radio has today, they usually only have time to focus on things that have already been released, or the things that have already reached hit status. I have an unmixed new school r&b/dance-freestyle music sampler here: www.myspace.com/steviebmusic - look for the music player on the left hand side under my name and find the track labelled f.f. future flavaz. I'm currently looking for more new school freestyle and booty bass with spanish lyrics. I've heard very little, but it's out there.
Just a heads up KDM, Planet Soul were not part of the Bay Area nu-Freestyle sound. They weren't even a Freestyle act. They were a Miami-based act that combined typical Florida Breaks with Progressive House. Another Florida record that was pretty big a couple of years later was Orlando-based K5 with "Passion":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sKllX-6QWs
Anyways, Planet Soul's record "Set U Free" was released in 95 around the same time as another Big Beat record that came out from Philadelphia's Josh Wink "Higher State of Conciousness", which combined Techno-Trance with Breaks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mAu5CgdZs&feature=related
"Higher State of Conxiousness" was largely influenced by early 90s Progressive-Trance like Hardfloor "Accperiance":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kV4Nw0PtNs
Also in 95 you had the brilliant Todd Terry remix to Everything But The Girl's "Missing", Crescendo's "Are You Out There", and other Progressive/Dream House anthems like Libra "Calling Your Name", Faithless "Salva Me", and Robert Miles "Children" come out, which were a lot more futuristic sounding then Bay Area Freestyle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BD8jZDoB3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkoefVf25Os
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=599DiOMFTqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRCkAumK5b4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7cY0YT3G8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sKllX-6QWs
Anyways, Planet Soul's record "Set U Free" was released in 95 around the same time as another Big Beat record that came out from Philadelphia's Josh Wink "Higher State of Conciousness", which combined Techno-Trance with Breaks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mAu5CgdZs&feature=related
"Higher State of Conxiousness" was largely influenced by early 90s Progressive-Trance like Hardfloor "Accperiance":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kV4Nw0PtNs
Also in 95 you had the brilliant Todd Terry remix to Everything But The Girl's "Missing", Crescendo's "Are You Out There", and other Progressive/Dream House anthems like Libra "Calling Your Name", Faithless "Salva Me", and Robert Miles "Children" come out, which were a lot more futuristic sounding then Bay Area Freestyle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BD8jZDoB3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkoefVf25Os
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=599DiOMFTqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRCkAumK5b4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7cY0YT3G8A
CHRles said:Just a heads up KDM, Planet Soul were not part of the Bay Area nu-Freestyle sound. They weren't even a Freestyle act. They were a Miami-based act that combined typical Florida Breaks with Progressive House. Another Florida record that was pretty big a couple of years later was Orlando-based K5 with "Passion":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sKllX-6QWs
I know, but I usually always include it to make a description of the Bay Area sound because that's a song more people are familiar with and it makes it easier to describe to people who don't really know dance music. I do it out of habit. As much as I liked Planet Soul's "set u free", I kind of think that the cibola mix of "music is my life" by Planet Soul had a better beat. I think the idea for the original version of "music is my life" was a bit of an imitation from the Mon A Q "stay in love" formula.
Good points there KDM. By the way, one of the best 90s Freestyle tracks in my opinion was Rockell's "In A Dream", which had that classic Freestyle feel to it yet still sounded musically fine for the mid 90s.
Oh, and let's not forget another trend that emerged from the circuit parties. The Hex Hector and Thunderpuss sound popularized on Whitney Houston and Deborah Cox remixes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VFzJLK51cs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGWDdRTCl9Q
In general I think the two leading groups that have usually helped push Dance into the American mainstream were blacks and gays. Hispanics, Italians, and those of East European descent were usually the mainstream it trickled down to first before making its way to the rest of Anglo-America.
In the 90s many in the gay community turned to underground Dance, alongside young straight white and Latino club goers, whereas blacks and the general Hispanics population heavily favored Rhythmic/Hip Hop on the radio. By the end of the 90s suburban white America was also moving in that direction. Remember, back in the 80s it was common for blacks to make Dance records, including Euro-sounding ones. They were the ones after all who invented Disco.
I think the reason nowadays that Hip Hop isn't as strong as it was is because a lot of the new generation of kids are growing up in households where their parents also listen to and enjoy Hip Hop. It's not seen as anti-establishment anymore, even though it still retains its youthful character.
Finally, Top 40/Dance radio stations back in the 80s and 90s were different then today's pure Dance stations (and I love the pure Dance ones!). They weren't all Dance or all Churban Dance at first. They might play some ballads, some teen pop, even some crossover Rock hits. So again, let's not blame the superstar DJs nor the Dance fans for polarizing the music. It was a lot of things that combined over this past decade that made Dance music appear to be standing on the fringes.
Oh, and let's not forget another trend that emerged from the circuit parties. The Hex Hector and Thunderpuss sound popularized on Whitney Houston and Deborah Cox remixes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VFzJLK51cs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGWDdRTCl9Q
In general I think the two leading groups that have usually helped push Dance into the American mainstream were blacks and gays. Hispanics, Italians, and those of East European descent were usually the mainstream it trickled down to first before making its way to the rest of Anglo-America.
In the 90s many in the gay community turned to underground Dance, alongside young straight white and Latino club goers, whereas blacks and the general Hispanics population heavily favored Rhythmic/Hip Hop on the radio. By the end of the 90s suburban white America was also moving in that direction. Remember, back in the 80s it was common for blacks to make Dance records, including Euro-sounding ones. They were the ones after all who invented Disco.
I think the reason nowadays that Hip Hop isn't as strong as it was is because a lot of the new generation of kids are growing up in households where their parents also listen to and enjoy Hip Hop. It's not seen as anti-establishment anymore, even though it still retains its youthful character.
Finally, Top 40/Dance radio stations back in the 80s and 90s were different then today's pure Dance stations (and I love the pure Dance ones!). They weren't all Dance or all Churban Dance at first. They might play some ballads, some teen pop, even some crossover Rock hits. So again, let's not blame the superstar DJs nor the Dance fans for polarizing the music. It was a lot of things that combined over this past decade that made Dance music appear to be standing on the fringes.
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Well Power 98.3 has decided to do something different for the holidays called the 12 days of Mixmas, where they'll be mixing all throughout the twelve days proceeding Christmas Day. They are going from 1997-present, where each day they'll be playing music from a certain year. They started off Saturday with 1997, Sunday with 1998, and so far today it will be all 1999. Listening to this is interesting because it reminds me of when I talk about how Timbaland and Missy introduced a new sound and changed the sound of music starting in the late 90's with the use of "futuristic" sounding beats and how it all died in the mid 2000's. If you listen, you'll notice what is going on. Maybe you've missed 1997 and 1998, but today (Monday) is all 1999, and you'll notice how different much of the r&b and hip hop sounded just 9 years ago today. 1997 was when this sound was still brand new, so it took a while before it started catching on and more people started jumping on that trend, and I noticed how more songs with futuristic timbaland beats started popping up as they climbed up another year. You'll start hearing music with complicated style "futuristic" beats from Timbaland (and the Neptunes sound), such as "no na'an" by Trick Daddy, "silly ho" by TLC, "shut up" by Trick Daddy, "Jigga what" by Jay-Z, "Anywhere" by 112, "Are you that somebody" by Aaliyah, "there you go" by PINK, "case of the x" by Mya, "try again" by Aaliyah, "wait a minute" - Ray J, "get ur freak on" remix - Missy & Nelly Furtado, "This is my party" - Fabolous, "turn off the lights" remix - Nelly Furtado, "girls all pause" - Kurupt "snoop dogg" - Snoop Dogg, "I wonder if heaven got a ghetto" - Tupac "s-s-stutter" - Joe "what's so different" - Ginuwine....etc. As you listen through 1999 - 2001, you'll be within and notice the time period when this style of beats being used were at it's peak and notice how after you pass 2003 things started to decline with the old Timbaland and Missy sound as the Lil Jon beats started popping up and taking over, with some reggaeton hits popping up as well. This will be when all those songs like "freek-a-leek" and "goodies" and "yeah" will pop up, and you'll notice how there will be no uptempo hip hop hits outside of "Culo" and "move your body" and possibly "just lose it" by Eminem or "my band" by D12, as the era of "swing my way" by KP&NV and the bass remix of "nice & slow" by Usher and other hits like "808 remix" or "it's all good" by MoThug's Family has already passed along with Dj Taz, Inoj, and Freak Nasty in 1997-1998. Then beginning 2004 and shortly after, you'll notice how Missy and Ciara pops back with "Lose Control" (after 1,2 step) and LL Cool J with "control myself" and then Timbaland pops back with Justin's "Sexy back" and from 2005 and up you'll notice how people started jumping on faster beats once again (now that Timbaland and missy have come back to change the sound of music for the second time by successfully starting back an uptempo trend) and songs like "get up" by Ciara and "Fergalicious" start popping up on the scene.
It's very interesting that Power would do this shortly after I talk about how music has evolved since the late 90's. Now a live demonstration of all that I've been talking about is taking place. As the older "futuristic" sound of the Missy and Timbaland beats start fading in the early to mid 2000's, where you'll be hearing traces of it with Twista and Ludacris and sometimes Murphy Lee and Nelly, but it will be slowly fading away as those "snap" beats, such as "snap yo fingas", "lean with it rock with it" and "oh I think they like me"...etc start up. This will also be around the time when people calm down and stop screaming on the track and there'll be more calm and melodic rapping rather than shouting going on. Then as you wrap up with the sounds of 2007-2008, you'll notice a lot more uptempo hits, and the only thing left with the late 90's timbaland sound will be "Kiss Kiss" by Chris Brown, while everything else has moved on back to the simple, basic, boring, easy for anyone to make beats. You'll see how everyone from Ludacris to Nelly to Missy to Timbaland and Jay-Z and Destiny's Child...etc have really "simplified their beats" or have gone back to simple beats, while at the same time, noticing how the sound of hip hop and r&b is beginning it's early stages of another transformation as more and more people start using upempo beats or electro-pop and start taking things up a notch with this new creative style.
Just listening to this and hearing it unfold live is fascinating to me, and you can be sure I'll be listening to a lot of Power over the next couple of days, while ignoring their silly slogan for a station that doesn't play Britney, Katy Perry, Lady GaGa...etc. They call it the "best years in hip hop" which is another sign that hip hop has already reached/passed it's peak in being the "next big thing", as all the kids who grew up in that generation now become parents.... Things are CURRENTLY IN A STATE OF TRANSITION. Only time will tell what's to come next.
I kind of think they should have just kept the old dj's they had because not only are they better mixers, but they had more experience with that whole time in music, and even more they could have just played back past mixes from those time periods instead of having to re-do it with the current Dj's or dj names they have now. I wonder if in 2018, they'd still have the ability to go back twelve years, or would hip hop (or whatever new sound takes over) have changed so much by then that it would be impossible to do that again? Think about back when rock and roll was the big thing. That generation could have done it with rock. But flash forward to the hip hop generation. It would be difficult to do the rock thing again on a hit music station because although rock is still around, we're now in more of a hip hop generation. Could this be the same thing that happens with hip hop in the near future? Only time will tell.....
It's very interesting that Power would do this shortly after I talk about how music has evolved since the late 90's. Now a live demonstration of all that I've been talking about is taking place. As the older "futuristic" sound of the Missy and Timbaland beats start fading in the early to mid 2000's, where you'll be hearing traces of it with Twista and Ludacris and sometimes Murphy Lee and Nelly, but it will be slowly fading away as those "snap" beats, such as "snap yo fingas", "lean with it rock with it" and "oh I think they like me"...etc start up. This will also be around the time when people calm down and stop screaming on the track and there'll be more calm and melodic rapping rather than shouting going on. Then as you wrap up with the sounds of 2007-2008, you'll notice a lot more uptempo hits, and the only thing left with the late 90's timbaland sound will be "Kiss Kiss" by Chris Brown, while everything else has moved on back to the simple, basic, boring, easy for anyone to make beats. You'll see how everyone from Ludacris to Nelly to Missy to Timbaland and Jay-Z and Destiny's Child...etc have really "simplified their beats" or have gone back to simple beats, while at the same time, noticing how the sound of hip hop and r&b is beginning it's early stages of another transformation as more and more people start using upempo beats or electro-pop and start taking things up a notch with this new creative style.
Just listening to this and hearing it unfold live is fascinating to me, and you can be sure I'll be listening to a lot of Power over the next couple of days, while ignoring their silly slogan for a station that doesn't play Britney, Katy Perry, Lady GaGa...etc. They call it the "best years in hip hop" which is another sign that hip hop has already reached/passed it's peak in being the "next big thing", as all the kids who grew up in that generation now become parents.... Things are CURRENTLY IN A STATE OF TRANSITION. Only time will tell what's to come next.
I kind of think they should have just kept the old dj's they had because not only are they better mixers, but they had more experience with that whole time in music, and even more they could have just played back past mixes from those time periods instead of having to re-do it with the current Dj's or dj names they have now. I wonder if in 2018, they'd still have the ability to go back twelve years, or would hip hop (or whatever new sound takes over) have changed so much by then that it would be impossible to do that again? Think about back when rock and roll was the big thing. That generation could have done it with rock. But flash forward to the hip hop generation. It would be difficult to do the rock thing again on a hit music station because although rock is still around, we're now in more of a hip hop generation. Could this be the same thing that happens with hip hop in the near future? Only time will tell.....
Some of my other favorite "futuristic" sounding creatively done beats were "you are everything" by Dru Hill and "cross the border" by Philly's Most Wanted. I'll be requesting one of those songs today and the other one tomorrow. Just waiting to see what the all 90's slow jams will sound like tonight with the late 90's early r&b sound! Then we hit 2000 tomorrow and "the thong song" by Sisqo along with others from him in addition to "that's what I'm lookin for" by Da Brat and "caught out there" by Kelis... "love is blind" by Eve... I love this stuff! Even Nas with "owe me back" and "it wasn't me" with Ginuwine feat Sole. All these songs with creatively done Timbaland and Missy style beats, and this is only an introduction to what's to come for 2000 - 2003. Tomorrow will also be when they'll begin touching on all those songs with people screaming on the track, but you might not get that until 2001 because many of those 2000 hip hop hits with the Lil Jon style shouting didn't cross over to Phoenix radio airplay. A lot of Tyrese, Nelly, and all that starting 2000-2001 will sound beat interesting as well..
2001, I'm waiting to request "it's over" by Kurupt because that song just brings back memories... Then wait until we hit 2003-2004 when Outkast's "hey ya" and "the way you move" pop up, which I'm sure they'll at some point blend in with a Pitbull or Nina Sky song, or even Missy Elliot's "gossip folks" because there wasn't much choice in uptempo hits around that time period. As you continue listening you'll notice how the female rappers such as Sole, Angie Martinez, Eve, Remy Martin...etc start fading out while Missy remains one of the very few staying around. You'll also notice how Mariah Carey is pretty much the only one who never really changed her tempo in music over the times. It's all slower 70-100 bpm stuff she continuously releases. I wonder if they'll play "sos" by Rihanna and "if I was your girlfriend" by Nicole Wray when the appropriate year comes along? I'll probably start losing interest as we hit the "Soulja Boy" and "Ay bay bay" and "pop lock & drop it" era. This entire 12 days of Mixmas mix show will also show how hip hop and r&b has become dumber as time went on.
I may be in California by Christmas time so it will be very interesting to see what radio stations will be doing in Cali. I will not get my hopes up for anything too special because these days I know better than that, but... it's possible at least one station is doing something "different" from the boring mundane everyday same ol' same ol' stuff.
What would REALLY be interesting is if 104.7 Kiss FM did a 12 days of Mixmas playing hits from 1997 through today starting Saturday all through Christmas! Think about all the pop, rock, latin pop, and dance hits that were released since then! This was also an era when "age discrimination" wasn't around when it came to top 40 music and people like Cher and Whitney Houston were still able to make it top 40 by themselves without having to team up with a younger artist. Now, it's nearly impossible for any of these or similar past older artists to make it to mainstream top 40 radio.
Now they are playing "bills bills bills" by Destiny's Child! (which was proceeded by 808 remix by Blaque). I was wondering when that would pop in! Listen to the beat in that song and compare it with the boring beats of today's slower r&b/hip hop hits. BIG difference in the times. When you really think about it, songs like "touch it" by Monifah and "hey ya" by Outkast would have probably been better off being released today.
2001, I'm waiting to request "it's over" by Kurupt because that song just brings back memories... Then wait until we hit 2003-2004 when Outkast's "hey ya" and "the way you move" pop up, which I'm sure they'll at some point blend in with a Pitbull or Nina Sky song, or even Missy Elliot's "gossip folks" because there wasn't much choice in uptempo hits around that time period. As you continue listening you'll notice how the female rappers such as Sole, Angie Martinez, Eve, Remy Martin...etc start fading out while Missy remains one of the very few staying around. You'll also notice how Mariah Carey is pretty much the only one who never really changed her tempo in music over the times. It's all slower 70-100 bpm stuff she continuously releases. I wonder if they'll play "sos" by Rihanna and "if I was your girlfriend" by Nicole Wray when the appropriate year comes along? I'll probably start losing interest as we hit the "Soulja Boy" and "Ay bay bay" and "pop lock & drop it" era. This entire 12 days of Mixmas mix show will also show how hip hop and r&b has become dumber as time went on.
I may be in California by Christmas time so it will be very interesting to see what radio stations will be doing in Cali. I will not get my hopes up for anything too special because these days I know better than that, but... it's possible at least one station is doing something "different" from the boring mundane everyday same ol' same ol' stuff.
What would REALLY be interesting is if 104.7 Kiss FM did a 12 days of Mixmas playing hits from 1997 through today starting Saturday all through Christmas! Think about all the pop, rock, latin pop, and dance hits that were released since then! This was also an era when "age discrimination" wasn't around when it came to top 40 music and people like Cher and Whitney Houston were still able to make it top 40 by themselves without having to team up with a younger artist. Now, it's nearly impossible for any of these or similar past older artists to make it to mainstream top 40 radio.
Now they are playing "bills bills bills" by Destiny's Child! (which was proceeded by 808 remix by Blaque). I was wondering when that would pop in! Listen to the beat in that song and compare it with the boring beats of today's slower r&b/hip hop hits. BIG difference in the times. When you really think about it, songs like "touch it" by Monifah and "hey ya" by Outkast would have probably been better off being released today.
There was a time just recently when KKFR Power 98.3 did things very similar to Power 106 in LA. Hopefully this continues or starts back soon, especially with certain mixshows going on on Power 106 today.
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