saw a promo 12-inch for this one in the racks at a record store recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBe1ybJarMo
don't ask me how, but i recognized it as one of a number of tunes pushed to top 40 radio from new/unestablished artists in 2001 that ended up going basically nowhere.
a few others fitting the same description:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLdvMQgltTE
this one i remember hearing, but very little. it might have gotten voted off the new music battle that my local station would air on weekday evenings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAo7TTM81gU
like "hottie," another example of the sort of youthful 'rhythmic'/dance hybrid sound that was being somewhat more successfully taken to airwaves via artists like jessica simpson ("irresistible") and christina milian ("am to pm")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maROJsdJNCA
i definitely heard this, but i'm not sure if it was on the radio or on tv?
― dyl, Thursday, 21 November 2019 07:42 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah, “Miss California”, massive hit in Europe (number 1-ish in these parts) - but true, I had completely forgotten about it, even though I quite liked it at the time.Also in People who have obviously written their own Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Thomas
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 21 November 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
oh i had no idea "miss california" was a big hit internationally. makes sense tho, pretty catchy tune even if the artist is not an especially distinctive presence on it... lol that wiki page is really something
― dyl, Friday, 22 November 2019 04:21 (four years ago) link
listening to the lindsay pagano song again and tbh the chorus melody is kinda great, too bad the verses are horrible/clunky/aimless and sound like they're part of an entirely different song
― dyl, Friday, 22 November 2019 04:32 (four years ago) link
you're good, dyl! these threads inherently involve subjective experience and the vagaries of memory. i mainly just want to shake out things a step or two above "effectively unreleased and unheard," but below stuff that nobody on ILM needs reminding of even if it's faded away a little.
the production on that ashley ballard one is a real time capsule of like, two years before it came out, and amanda's "everybody doesn't" isn't much more a creature of 2001.... or did this stuff hang around longer than my brain is remembering? the hooks just all sounds like rewrites of "sock it 2 me" and "genie in a bottle" to my ears.
huh wow i've definitely heard that Satellite song plenty of times but never knew it was Guster, who i figured must have broken up after their contributions to the late 90s equivalent of this thread. it's from 2008 though - is it time to establish a late-2000s edition?
just updated the spotify playlist with various recent additions. "Miss California" isn't available but that's no mark of shame - to this day, "Land of a Million Drums" languishes off the grid. sigh!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 November 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYSW8swX5I
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 18 July 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link