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Post by TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur on Aug 6, 2009 5:53:31 GMT -5
I totally forgot this song existed but saw it when I was browsing an old Pop chart. The chorus is nice, but it's more of the same for them.
The thing is their whole career is image. When they were cool, they did well. When they're uncool, they don't do well. Their music has been of the same quality during period of stardom and flopdom.
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Post by Someone Like You on Aug 6, 2009 15:42:23 GMT -5
Everything they released after their stardom was mediocre.
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Post by The Music Man on Aug 7, 2009 0:34:32 GMT -5
The thing is their whole career is image. When they were cool, they did well. When they're uncool, they don't do well. Their music has been of the same quality during period of stardom and flopdom. I agree about the "cool vs. uncool" factor, but I'm not entirely on board with the quality argument. The material they released in their prime fit and even partially defined the sugary Max Martin sound that dominated Pop radio during the latter portion of the 90s. Edgy might not be the right word, but "hip" definitely applied. On the other hand, the Never Gone material was completely vanilla and could have just as easily been released in any other decade. I'm not saying that dropping a Lil Jon club banger in 2005 would have flown, but there was simply nothing compelling about what they had to offer beyond the "HOLY CRAP NEW BSB" hype, which barely lasted through the chart run of "Incomplete." |
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Post by TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur on Aug 7, 2009 6:30:47 GMT -5
I feel like some of their "post-stardom" songs like "Drowning" and " Inconsolable" are actually better than "Show Me The Meaning..." and "Shape of My Heart," and if the former two and the later two were reversed in terms of when they were released, the former two would have done just as well back then and the later two just as poorly.
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