what's your favourite cheesy 90s hit
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germaphobian
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the exact moment when the Swedes embarked on their mission to take over the sphere of American popular music
Corpsey
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Hard to believe this came out in 1994. In my personal universe this song has always existed, like the sun and my fingernails.
This was a 90s genre of sorts, quite bland uplifting RNB/Soul adjacent anthems that could be used in adverts for Persil and the closing credits for heartwarming family comedies.
sufi
lala
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
they're the nazi band aren't they?
Corpsey
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germaphobian
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yeah, the Sign is probably meant to be swastika
germaphobian
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although the same swedish production/writing team brought us dr. albarn so who knows
shakahislop
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one of the bleakest tunes to be played on the radio. the social mores and sexual politics of (probably a subset of, idk) black america jutting into the UK. it's an awkward fit sometimes.
shakahislop
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speaking of bleak. that sort of rock/grunge-influenced pop thing of the late 90s qualifies as cheese i think. i mean natalie imbruglia was in neighbours. and the vocal production and strings are on the cheesy end. 'bleeding is breathing', a song about child abuse (from the perspective of a child) on the radio. production totally changed between the early 90s and the late 90s, really striking
shakahislop
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all the rap snares on everything by the late 90s.
shawn mullins is a cheesy character - the hobo emotionally in touch acoustic guitarist. basically the end point of the kerouac lineage. so much of US 90s pop culture was about breaking out of the grid. standing outside of the everyday office cubicle life that people for whatever reason thought was so bad. doing something else. maybe the peak of commodified rebellion.
loads of 90s pop was sunbaked. california exporting to the world
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terrible thread
I just don't believe that En Vogue are cheesy, or am I just simping?
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The BV tune is peerless, but us it cheese? It's off an album of quite knowing Beck-like eclecticism.
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That song's natural bedfellow for me us Steal my Sunshine by Len, which I think is more cheese adjacent.
shakahislop
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wasn't all of this called adult contemporary or something? sounds like rnb and grunge smudged into the mainstream. acoustic guitars as a signifier of authenticity and the real. late 90s was all about a faux authenticity come to think of it.
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