Music....Rewind

Once Upon A Time....music was my life blood. Life line. Life, period. As young as maybe ten, I can remember wasting all my time in the record stores. All my money too. There was a time when my expenses were literally music related only: tape decks, tapes, head phones...new headphones, batteries for tape deck, then I elevated and got a Walkman, so then it was cds, batteries for the super cool Walkman. New headphones. You get the drift.

At one time I had cases full of cassettes. Hundreds of CDs. Countless mix tapes that I spent literally days making. They usually had themes. Yeah, I was that kid. Then Lime wire and Napster came along. Mp3's....man I was a kid in a candy store. I can still remember making an MP3 cd with hundreds of songs and being blown away. I had everything from Elvis to Madonna, to N.W.A. on those bad boys.

For the most part, I am a tried and true pop tart. I think I coined that phrase, musically speaking, when I was in the throes of boy band/pop princess hysteria. My first true love, musically, was New Kids On The Block. I was 7 or 8 when Hangin' Tough came out. I remember sitting on my front porch with my best friend, playing that thing on repeat. In the late 90's, something magical happened. A boy band came out. No, not who you think. Hanson came out. Now...I was not a fan, at first. Something worked for them and they got huge; which ushered in the previous hysteria I mentioned.

Within a year or two, pop was ruling the radio. Spice Girls. Backstreet Boys. Then, another five piece changed my life. Literally. *NSync, for whatever reason, was the group that resonated with me. It felt like New Kids all over again. My best friend and I found something in them that now, as teens and into our 20's, we could identify with more. I was a Justin Girl. She Jockeyed between JC and Chris. After their massive success, the pop scene ERUPTED.

There was seemingly a new boy band every few months. Five. LFO. O-Town. 98 Degrees. The list literally goes on for days. Then Britney Spears took court and more magic happened. After her success, the same thing happened. Christina. Jessica. Mandy. Pink. Then Destiny's Child and girl groups were the next hot thing. For a big chunk of the 2000's, there was plenty of pop to spread around. Now, of course not all of it was good music. Some bands put out one or two hits then vanished, much like the new wave scene in the 80'S. Even some of the bad music was great though. It didn't need to have substance, didn't have to. It was fun, it made you want to dance and really what more do you need from music? Sure it's great when its deep and movies you, but there's room for it all.

I started this music blog awhile back I posted a few reviews then the music landscape changed. There is so little good to talk about. The music now is so bad. Not the good kinda bad, either. So I figured for fun. I'd revamp some of my original posts from those first few years, but also I plan to take it back. Go over some of that music that I loved. Review an album one song at a time as a I reminisce on the best decade of my life, musically. I will do new reviews too, but this is really just for me, so who cares?

My first post will be and updated review of the album that spurned me into action.