Pop's Golden Era: Success & Scandal | Betwixt The Sheets

[@WhizWoz]

Absolutely loving these conversations, genuinely very surprised these videos don’t have more views!

[@ThePanda5001]

thank you for bringing up childhood memories for me. I was born in the 90s!!

[@Angel100475]

Yes, so many memories from that decade. I am about the same age as the Spice Girls and for me, they represented my early 20s, having just left home and being a young adult. MTV was great for the groups and artists of the decade between 1996 - 2006. And not only the Spice Girls. There were loads of them; different genres, clothing, styles, etc, both in the UK and the influences from the USA. If you had MTV, you were part of it. Unless you lived under a rock, you couldn't help but notice them.

[@alextaber124]

I just found this, and I love it.

[@gingerspice1788]

I love thinking about all those music videos back then with the buff guys as the love interest or background dancers where most likely not straight

[@AstroAllStarz]

I’d say a forerunner was Britpop band Shampoo who debuted a single in 1993. They were fab, find them and give them a listen. Distinctly British. ❤

[@BanglesAU]

dammit, now I have S Club stuck in my head! The 90's had the best pop musice, but maybe only because that is when I was a teenager, so these artists were all I wanted to listen to! 80's had some good stuff too, but 90's was peak!

[@liminal_spice1712]

I loved the Spice World movie unironicly lol

[@dukedijon-ks4qt]

ice blue see-though plastic EVERYTHING

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Was I there?

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Yes, but I was a grown-up, so I didn't listen to kiddie music.

[@operationgoldfish8331]

Well, this is surprising. Someone identifying Pop's least enthralling decade as a 'golden age'. I suppose it has something to do with when you were born and what enthralled you in your formative years, but there's a sort of convention that has the 'Golden Age' at the start of a genre, not at the end. I was hoping for something juicy about the 50s and 60s, which really were interesting and innovative and a massive social change, not the Spice Girls, who were far from innovative. There were girl bands for decades before them. Even the 80s was more pop-powered than 1996-2006, _nothing_ memorable came from that period with regards to main-stream music.