Contemporary pop music thru the filter of a gentler, more segregated age: Postmodern Jukebox etc

who are you arguing with here

― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne

myself, mostly

Having just seen it on TotP83, is "Only You" by the Flying Pickets tge first example of this?

not quite 'contemporary pop music' but fucking hell a slowed-down sensitive singer-songwriter take on 'heads, shoulders knees and toes' is a new low

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTdp7jSRDqk

The best part of that song is when it gets going so fast that it barely hangs together like a Bad Brains song for 2 year olds or something.

Oh God, there is an advert with a horrible version of "I Will Survive" doing the rounds at the moment, which almost has me throwing my shoe at the telly, Baghdad style, every time it comes on.

I tried to persuade a group of nursery staff one time that toddlers love Melt-Banana but they wouldn't listen

(xp) Turns out it's by Cake, so somebody here probably likes it.

I have complex moral qualms about KFC using DMX on that new advert

XP The Cake "IWS" cover was a big radio song in the states for them around 20 years ago.

I like the Cake cover. (I'm probably a representative of the people this thread is railing against tbh.)

cake's "i will survive" cover is truly the antecedent of this execrable lineage

I'm trying desperately to remember what it was not, but I saw yet another movie trailer using yet another slow, piano-y, "emotional" version of an up-tempo rock song for what seems like the zillionth time and I wanted to burn down the theater with myself and everyone else trapped inside.

the cake i will survive cover was on the same album as the distance, which was popular in the uk, but i can't remember if i will survive charted

i thought this was funny in 1983.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaufhdtVCJ8