one-hit wonders - the genesis?

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was the genesis of the pre-manufactured, quick let's make a buck on some music, finds it's genesis in the 1960s psychedelic sunshine pop wonders of yesteryear and time-life compilations? i think that is where the template was being set - i.e. right, let's go down to L.A. and sign anything, mold into into pop genius, throw on a tacky cover and badge and see what happens.

If you look at the Sunshine Company, The Association, The Millennium, it would have direct links to Backstreet Boys and Christine Aguilara. I.E. The Sunshine Company or Eternity's Children's were bands pre-manufactured to find that pop buzz - what do you think?

I mean, at this very moment as Christine Aguilara falls apart (oh no OH NO!) - it is interesting to configure that phenom and it's actual pre-dating.

― doom-e, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Take Skip Spence - it's amazing to think that this album was issued to make a quick buck (!!!!) - in these beautiful failures of Hollywood satori? A void of nothingness pop so beautiful that it's brilliant and hard to see? Or just harmonised dud?

― doom-e, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

or simply put was harmonic Hollywood acid pop responsible for X-tina?

― doom-e, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Doomie, have you ever read Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth? Seek this book out, it will answer all of your questions and more. Bubblegum from Boyce & Hart to Britney, the direct links and chains of relation.

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

it's an article that i'm doing at the moment with the help of joe foster. i could seek out that book but i think i'll fuck up my article!!!! and it's something i've been talking about via email with joe - revola records and hollywood pop sensations.

i was interested if anyone else is going to get my thesis of the piece!!!

― doom-e, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

but I think I'm interested in the freak out of failure....i had christine's pr set to give me an interview but when they found out what i wanted to talk about it was no way NO WAY!!!! should i ambushed her? it took two weeks of email blagging to get that far...

― doom-e, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Tell Joe I said hello - he's a lovely man!

I am way too tired and incoherant to remember much of the book... it's a collection of essays on exactly what you are talking about. The Bubblegum Hit factory of the 60s, carried on through phenomena like the Bay City Rollers, etc. Like the Mickey Mouse Club breeding ground of this new bubblepop doesn't give it away?

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Will do, Kate!

The article has to do more on perfecting failure and the genius of failure rather than the genius of success.

The looking glass - the hollywood looking glass "oh look it's soft like gauze" - i mean, hollywood produces the freakiest failures and I think X-tina is along that tradition of failure - i.e. big hit, fades, become a translucent freak, and is forgotten....but should the music of failure be forgotten.

It's more clear in the article, or becoming clearer, I'm just waiting on joe's responses to fill in my template.

― doom-e, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Interesting take on it. Like the whole idea of prefab pop implies planned obseselence (sp?). The make a fast buck one-bit-wonder plans to fail after the initial success. A short shelf life is part of the plan?

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

yes - sort of like the biff bang pow ... and the one-hit wonders, when the albums are made, are beautiful, a short shelf life is part of the plan, as the acts become divaseque and believe their own hype.

i'm concentrating on the first round of revola releases (obviously to give joe p.r. for revola which is brilliant and does good work) but the albums he reissues are yer one-hit wonders, the sunshine company, meisner, swan and rich, blades of grass, yet, as albums doomed to failure, they are beautiful.

so it's the take that i'm giving for it.....

i'm excited to hear joe's take on it, the ideas....(he is a madman and a genius)

― doom-e, Monday, 11 November 2002 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Even if she never has another hit record, Cristina is a bigger success than 99% of the wannabe's who'll try and fail. Her failures relative, at least she got to eat at the table of fame, most don't even get to wait the table.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Long before, Fabian in the 1950s was the archetype for Milli Vanilli, when it was revealed in the payola investigations that "studio tricks" had supposedly covered up his inability to carry a note. Those late 50s teen idols are a lot closer to today's than Sunshine Pop, because they were selected for their looks (on American Bandstand), not just groovy names on records.

― Curt (cgould), Monday, 11 November 2002 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

but i did say that it's going to be based on the failure of the pre-manufactured pop. fabian was hardly a failure, was he? i can see that, what you are saying, but i'm keeping to one area (hollywood), one decade (1960s) for cohesion and the ability to play with the surreal.

― doom-e, Monday, 11 November 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

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