I loved it! *forgets the fact that he was only 8 and a half at the time of release...* :P (21 now and still do...)

 

same, it was my earliest musical memory , I was 6 and I still love it to this day :wub: :wub:

I loved it! *forgets the fact that he was only 8 and a half at the time of release...* :P (21 now and still do...)

I had an 'embarrassed of liking pop music' phase!

The 'On this Day' in this weeks music week is a decent chart fact - on this day saturday 3rd Feb 1990 the uk singles chart top 3 was free of British and UK acts for the first time ever with Irelands Sinead O'Connor gtaking the top spot with Nothing compares, Australian Kylie Minogue at no2 and Belgian Technotronic at 3....interesting! :)

 

The charts must have been INCREDIBLY xenophobic (US excluded) before the 90s in that case :lol:

 

Although as this matter was brought up last week, it hasn't happened since 2002 (well, up until last week (excluding Jump Smokers) anyway) and the last time before that was also in 1999, so I'd imagine it can't have happened many times at all!

 

I did love Blue (Da Ba Dee) when I was really young although I'd imagine it was several years old by the time I first heard it, I don't have any memories at all of being 3 years old let alone musical memories. I do still like it now but it is a bit 'guilty pleasure territory'.

Edited February 7, 201213 yr by Bré

The charts must have been INCREDIBLY xenophobic (US excluded) before the 90s in that case :lol:

 

Although as this matter was brought up last week, it hasn't happened since 2002 (well, up until last week (excluding Jump Smokers) anyway) and the last time before that was also in 1999, so I'd imagine it can't have happened many times at all!

 

I did love Blue (Da Ba Dee) when I was really young although I'd imagine it was several years old by the time I first heard it, I don't have any memories at all of being 3 years old let alone musical memories. I do still like it now but it is a bit 'guilty pleasure territory'.

It is a more globalised world now though so easier for the home grown acts perhaps?

I remember I used to watch Top Of The Pops religiously for about half a year, ending around the time when t.A.T.u., Evanescence etc were #1's. What brilliant #1's were chucked out around then. :wub: Lately, I'm hearing very few 'classic sounding' songs. :( I think alot of the hits right now, will be forgotten in years gone by. :( (sorry pedants, in years to come!)

 

Apparently, I used to watch Top of the Pops every week for a few years (I guess late 90's), although I honestly can't remember very much of it at all, apart from the occasional instance like the I'm Blue video. :lol:

 

I agree with the last bit. I don't think the music is very good the past few years (Titanium and Somebody That I Used to Know aren't the top 2 every week). I have hopes it can get better soon though. And a lot of the "classic sounding" songs, such as Forget You, I find I absolutely hate. I'd say it was around 2008/2009 when it started going downhill for me, and everything started sounding the same (making most of the songs not very memorable to me, as opposed to the years before that).

 

I did love Blue (Da Ba Dee) when I was really young although I'd imagine it was several years old by the time I first heard it, I don't have any memories at all of being 3 years old let alone musical memories. I do still like it now but it is a bit 'guilty pleasure territory'.

 

I find it's the same. I have a sister who's around your age I think, and she "remembers" all these songs like Believe, Barbie Girl, Trahedy, Ooh Aah Just a Little Bit, etc. even though she was just a baby then. :lol: But then I guess the songs don't exactly disappear straight after they get released, and she lived in a house with siblings who played those songs regularly for years, so I guess it is feasible that she remembers them from her childhood too. Like a kid would still hear I Gotta Feeling a lot at the moment, so he'd still end up knowing the song well, even if he can't actually remember 2009.

Edited February 7, 201213 yr by Eric_Blob

Got deleted and then re-added. Album pre-order deal thingy ended.

 

it was such a wrong time for them to delete it , instead of doing it before SuperBowl.... it was at number 2 already!!!!

a lot of sales will be lost due to this deletion....

Edited February 7, 201213 yr by Big Mistake

Blue (Da Ba Dee) is honestly one of the worst songs I've ever heard :puke: I'd rather listen to Sexy And I Know It or Gotta Be You - and that's saying something!

 

On the subject of Sexy & I Know It, Ricky Martin is singing it in the next episode of Glee, so that'll be an odd edition to iTunes (even though he won't be credited) :lol: It's quite good actually, MUCH more appealing than the original (maybe be he actually IS sexy so pulls off? :P). The episode airs 8th March in the UK though, tomorrow in the US.

Apparently, I used to watch Top of the Pops every week for a few years (I guess late 90's), although I honestly can't remember very much of it at all, apart from the occasional instance like the I'm Blue video. :lol:

 

I agree with the last bit. I don't think the music is very good the past few years (Titanium and Somebody That I Used to Know aren't the top 2 every week). I have hopes it can get better soon though. And a lot of the "classic sounding" songs, such as Forget You, I find I absolutely hate. I'd say it was around 2008/2009 when it started going downhill for me, and everything started sounding the same (making most of the songs not very memorable to me, as opposed to the years before that).

 

It always gets like this when a genre that dominates comes to the end of its popularity..we are on the turn from electro-rap dominating the top 40 to the next era. A bit like 2007/08 when new wave brit-pop was being over exposed with bands likem Scouting for Girls and it all sounded very stale all of a sudden!

Jay Sean, Taio Cruz, Calvin Harris and lol Lauren Bennett have also had #1s there recently. The US charts are good, as songs like Hey, Soul Sister and Pumped Up Kicks are able to be massive hits over there.

 

Everybody I've spoken to (in real life) about Madonna's new song HATES it. :cry: I don't think it's bad at all.

 

 

i'm talking mostly about album success, since it's what matters the most to record labels.... Adele & Coldplay are successful on both fields in the US....

Jay sean & Taio Cruz' albums have flopped there , besides Calvin Harris & Lauren Bennett were featured artists, and i don't think they could've gotten to number 1 on their own merit....

Edited February 7, 201213 yr by Big Mistake

Blue (Da Ba Dee) is honestly one of the worst songs I've ever heard :puke: I'd rather listen to Sexy And I Know It or Gotta Be You - and that's saying something!

 

On the subject of Sexy & I Know It, Ricky Martin is singing it in the next episode of Glee, so that'll be an odd edition to iTunes (even though he won't be credited) :lol: It's quite good actually, MUCH more appealing than the original (maybe be he actually IS sexy so pulls off? :P). The episode airs 8th March in the UK though, tomorrow in the US.

 

I'm sure he will be, guest stars are always credited aren't they? (2CELLOS who are featured on 'Smooth Criminal' were initially uncredited on US iTunes but they fixed it a few days later).

 

On the topic of British artists doing well in America recently, I'd say Mumford & Sons are probably the second biggest British act there besides Adele - they haven't had massive singles success (Little Lion Man and The Cave were both low-peaking but long-running hits as they were here) but their album has sold a ton.

Edited February 7, 201213 yr by Bré

I'm sure he will be, guest stars are always credited aren't they? (2CELLOS who are featured on 'Smooth Criminal' were initially uncredited on US iTunes but they fixed it a few days later).

Ah yes, just checked US iTunes - he is credited! And it's the most downloaded (it airs tonight too, not tomorrow as I said) track of the upcoming episode, in front of Ricky's cover of La Isla Bonita. Either way, Ricky Martin should return to the top 100 with an odd cover and/or perhaps a slightly more believable one :P

Edited February 7, 201213 yr by Liаm

It always gets like this when a genre that dominates comes to the end of its popularity..we are on the turn from electro-rap dominating the top 40 to the next era. A bit like 2007/08 when new wave brit-pop was being over exposed with bands likem Scouting for Girls and it all sounded very stale all of a sudden!

 

I certainly hope this electro-rap thing is coming to an end. I hate it. When songs like The Way I Are, Stronger, Promiscuous Girl, etc. came out, they were honestly like the best songs I've ever heard, but it's gone waaaaaaay too far when songs like Sexy and I Know It get to #1 in the Hot 100 imo. Sexy and I Know It, is at least memorable though, but I can't say the same for Give Me Everything, as it's just a standard party song that happened to be a bit more popular than all the other ones.

What's going on with Glee in the UK anyway? We still haven't even had the 'Without You' episode aired have we? Has it been cancelled :kink:?

It was deleted and re-added.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Got deleted and then re-added. Album pre-order deal thingy ended.

 

EDIT: Beaten to it! But I added in a second sentence so my explanation is clearly superior.

Agreed lol

ooft. 'blue (da ba dee)' was epic. :wub: I think I was about 4 when it came out. I can totally see why it's classed as a novelty song but I still think it's just epic.

and seen as everyone else is doing a madonna top 10:

 

01: get together

02: hung up

03: sorry

04: like a prayer

05: holiday

06: die another day

07: jump

08: 4 minutes

09: music

10: give it 2 me

 

I'm not a massive fan of her early work.

I had an 'embarrassed of liking pop music' phase!

 

Me too, basically 2004-2007, I literally have no memory of half the chart during that period :/

top 5 Madonna

 

1. True Blue

2. Like A Prayer

3. Vogue

4. La Isla Bonita

5. Into The Groove

 

As you can see, I'm much more of an 80's Madonna fan.

What's going on with Glee in the UK anyway? We still haven't even had the 'Without You' episode aired have we? Has it been cancelled :kink:?

Sky got in a hissy fit because of all the delays Fox have in the US (there was a 4 week break after Christmas, then we had Yes/No, then another week break and then Michael, the MJ tribute ep), and they refuse to air until they can show an uninterrupted run of the remaining episodes. So by delaying it so long (Yes/No aka 'the Without You episode' airs 1st March, so even with the 5 week hiatus (:manson:) in the US after the next 3 episodes, Sky can show it uninterrupted because they are so far behind).

Sky got in a hissy fit because of all the delays Fox have in the US (there was a 4 week break after Christmas, then we had Yes/No, then another week break and then Michael, the MJ tribute ep), and they refuse to air until they can show an uninterrupted run of the remaining episodes. So by delaying it so long (Yes/No aka 'the Without You episode' airs 1st March, so even with the 5 week hiatus (:manson:) in the US after the next 3 episodes, Sky can show it uninterrupted because they are so far behind).

 

lol. That sounds a bit of a mess. :lol: They do that with a lot of other US TV shows aswell, they wait a couple of months so they can show it all in one go, and then it's only the last few weeks of whatever season that the episodes air the same week as in the US. They should just show re-runs in the weeks when the US are on hiatus or something. Although maybe the UK TV channels lose viewers when they do that, I don't know.

Edited February 7, 201213 yr by Eric_Blob