I was kid that grew up (age 8-12) when pop was really famous (97-2001 or so) so I guess I'm guilty for knowin most of the pop songs from that era. Infact, some of them are extremely catchy I'll say....I honestly don't care anymore about musical categorization as long as the music appeals to me and regardless of if they wrote thier own songs or not, those songs were still defining peices from my growing up days (defining in terms of music from when I was 8-12). But yeah, whatever...as a kid, all the boys supposedly hated those Backstreet, NSync and 98 degrees songs but in all honestly, there was a sh*t load of guys that used to sing along to them. Nowadays, people start singing Backstreet boys songs and sayin they used to love the stuff as a kid, ironically.
By the way, Nsync owns the Backstreetboys *thread viewers get nervous*
Just playin around.
Anyways, I'd take the pop mainstream scene from then over today's anyday. In fact, since today's mainstream is mostly pop-hop, I would like to say that I would enjoy listening to a record of a pop group from the late 90's then listen to the watered down rap garbage that they have playin now (although you may think pop in itself is watered down, I still find it more enjoyable to listen to then something like...The Whisper Song. Jesus Christ I hate that song). I see no difference except that one group would be
singing (definition of "singing" may vary from person to person) over a beat while the other artist either screams or raps over a beat.
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Also add that I think Justin Timberlake's solo sh*t is nice as hell. I've only heard his first album but I thought it was great. None of the songs were pop...in fact it was all R&B songs. I don't know why I'm even mentioning this in here cause that's an album I would never feel guilty about. Justified was an enjoyable album.
), and also "Fiesta" by Jay-Z and a bunch of other people, LOL.
