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Year-End Poll #49: 1998

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: Next, Brandy and Monica, Shania Twain, Savage Garden, LeAnn Rimes, Janet, K-Ci & JoJo, Elton John, Usher, Paula Cole. End description]

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R&B is continuing to cement itself as the dominating genre of the decade. In addition to previously featured artists like Janet Jackson and Monica, we're also seeing the chart debut of future heavy-hitters like Usher. Brandy and Monica, who have both been incredibly successful throughout the 90's, were often pit against each other in the media. Brandy hoped that their duet, The Boy Is Mine, would help to end the rumors that the two women were rivals. But a lot of media coverage of the song seemed to focus on this perceived conflict.

1998 also marks the debut of MTV's Total Request Live. With fans being able to call in and request specific music videos this became an incredibly effective promotional tool for musicians to promote their work and gather a loyal fanbase. Plenty of artists would be featured, but to this day the program is most associated with the way it was able to market to teenagers. The boy band wars and teen idol craze of the late 90's and early 2000s probably wouldn't have existed as it had without the implementation of TRL. However, the anti-fandom wouldn't have existed either. Especially as nu metal began to grow out of obscurity and into the mainstream, but it will be a while before we cover the effects of that moment.

Charmed | Same Clothes, Different Character | Brown Suede Dress Prue & Paula Cole 2x14 | 2x21

Such a random one that I spotted! But I do love this dress. They both look amaze-balls. Taglist: @holyhalliwells, @phoebehalliwell, @dailycharmedgifs, @wearethecharmedones, @charmedxfanforum, @prudencemelinda, @raith-way,  @this-is-my-bisexuality

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? - Paula Cole - 1996

Feeling like Britney Spears when I listen to this

It has arrived!

thank you paula cole for selling these

HAIM’s Dawson’s Creek tribute at Pitchfork (2019)

Group Stage: Pool 8 - Group G (1990s)

Vote now in Pool 8 of the group stage of America’s Greatest Rock Stars Tournament.  Today is the last day of new polls for the Group Stage! Remember:

The artist does not have to finish first in the group to advance.

Consider the artists’ full careers when voting.

Be kind to everyone, even the artists you don’t like and the people who vote for them.

Read the America’s Greatest Rock Star Tournament Masterpost for full details on how this works.

Episode 36 Old Fellas New Music

Episode 36 Old Fellas New Music

This week’s episode And our Spotify playlist! Episode 36 here are our songs for this week:   1. Benjamin Clementine – Difference 2.Alvvays – Belinda Says 3. Bria – Where have all the Cowboys Gone 4. Alex G – Runner 5. Tierra Whack – Dora 6. Bad Bunny, ‘Titi Me Preguntó 7. The Sarandons – Letting On, 8. Steve Lacy -Bad Habit 9. Busty and the Bass – all the Things I Couldn’t Say to…

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It’s Paula cole! #paulacole #fun #life #love #concert #music

Derek Klena's Instagram Story (July 11, 2022)

A lot of female singer-songwriters of the 90's achieved their biggest triumphs in the period and that eventually became that. Paula Cole, for instance, had a successful period during the 90's that petered out after that time. True, she wasn't the only one of her peers with this fate – check the introductory statement to this post –, yet the reasons why differ from one to another. Paula Cole – this is my personal view – intended to have a different career than the one she actually got. I mean, her records do not lack in prowess, they're fine, they struggle to find an identity for her. While she did locate the latter recently, I keep asking myself – would she have been more accepted, had she had that during the 90's?