best run of 3 or more Hot 100 #1 singles from one album

Teenage Dream is a beautiful song, fuck the haters

Yeah, that's my favorite straight up pop song in the last handful of years.

Tho, yeah, anyone probably could've sung it and it would've been just as good.

anybody probably could've sung it and it would've been even better

There might be cell phone video of me during a karaoke session that would disprove that.

tbh I can't differentiate between superproduced female pop vocals, like, at all
My only distinction between this girl and that girl is the subject matter and production

"ain't no other man" is a good song but i'm not sure why people think it's awesome or whatever. i do really love her singles from her debut, though -- everything really clicked at that time with the songs and her image (though of course she probably hated the way she was presented). of all the great teen pop singles that came out that year, "genie in a bottle" seems to me the quintessential representation of what the genre was at that time: conflicting desire and hesitation, sexuality as a mysterious and magical thing. "what a girl wants" was definitely a more conventional song, but it too struck me as a breath of fresh air and actually a bit euphoric. i still remember being at some family gathering and seeing the video play for the first time on their tv, thinking "oh wow, this girl is still around and i think i'm happy about that."

and "teenage dream" is a great song

tbh I can't differentiate between superproduced female pop vocals, like, at all
My only distinction between this girl and that girl is the subject matter and production

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, November 2, 2012 9:30 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah doesn't really take a microscope to figure out the difference between Katy and Pink (which is huge, vocally, despite often interchangeable subject matter and production)

teledyldonix otm about early xtina, those songs are so good, with that fidget-y post-Timbaland late '90s thing that didn't really creep into any of her contemporaries hits at the time

'genie' and esp 'what a girl wants' are the only two xina i love really, i like some others ('ain't no other man' probably most) well enough and enjoy others on sheer principle (hello 'beautiful') but she's never been anywhere near as big a fave as britney for me even during the time when it seems xina was gonna be the one to actually have a career. do feel somewhat bad about biodome or whatever flopping, it was a genuine if hamfisted attempt to be ahead of the curve and do something new that unfortunately took so long that by the time it came out it looked like desperate attempt at copping gaga style; do appreciate at least one of madonna's heirs attempting to also bring some club subculture onto radio, even if by that point electroclash needed to stay dead and buried.

lol biodome

My damn boss still defends Aguilera -- "at least she can sing; Britney can't."

yeah that's true enough but` irrelevant, it's not like her ability to sing has really raised a single to another level like w/ beyonce or george michael or michael jackson etc

Still my favorite xtina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RQDIJ2CvbA

yeah doesn't really take a microscope to figure out the difference between Katy and Pink

Not reallly my point-- though ten years on I still couldn't tell you which lead is which on "Lady Marmelade" aside from Christina. More that the "Katy's voice is annoying" thing is foreign to me unless someone is offering a more general crit regarding a common style of vocal production.

Hmm I'm just listening to that "Thinking of you" song and her voice is pretty amazingly annoying, forget it

you really can't tell lil kim and mya apart??? hmm

Ha no! When they do their comps over the outro, Missy could switch round the introductions and I wouldn't notice.

Lil Kim is the one that doesn't sing btw

Uh I didn't mean Lil Kim, I meant Mya and Pink

not being able to tell Mya and Pink apart is pretty crazy

Uhhh well I can't tell if you're just baiting me now. I'm talking about the timbre of voice and consistency of vocal performance in 00s pop production. I'm not saying I can't tell the diff between a Mya song and a Pink song or couldn't Pepsi Challenge them-- anybody could. But the standards of pop performance are so uniform at this point that unless you were to tell me "this is Katy Perry" I'd just be guessing who the singer was. And when somebody says "Katy's voice is annoying" I think, sure, I saw a taped live show and she weren't good, but-- aside from an R&B powerhouse with not a lot of digital processing (Adele, Alicia, Amy W)-- I have no facility at differentiation and/or the formation of a critical opinion re: singers A B and C, compared to say, 1999, Aaliyah and Brandy and Monica and so on. I brought up Lady Marmalade b/c it was the first single where I couldn't tell the difference, and later I would confuse Ciara and Kelis, and then I started to wonder if I had a tin ear for female pop vox. I don't think I do? Maybe I do?

More likely I don't listen to pop except at the gym or dancing.

Kelis always sounds like she needs a lozenge and Ciara always sounds like she isn't quite sure how the song goes when it changes notes, which may happen in the chorus

I'd pay money for a complete guidebook

I do remember wondering, circa S Club 7's "Never Had a Dream Come True," why all of the women on pop radio had the exact same voice.

Uhhh well I can't tell if you're just baiting me now. I'm talking about the timbre of voice and consistency of vocal performance in 00s pop production. I'm not saying I can't tell the diff between a Mya song and a Pink song or couldn't Pepsi Challenge them-- anybody could. But the standards of pop performance are so uniform at this point that unless you were to tell me "this is Katy Perry" I'd just be guessing who the singer was. And when somebody says "Katy's voice is annoying" I think, sure, I saw a taped live show and she weren't good, but-- aside from an R&B powerhouse with not a lot of digital processing (Adele, Alicia, Amy W)-- I have no facility at differentiation and/or the formation of a critical opinion re: singers A B and C, compared to say, 1999, Aaliyah and Brandy and Monica and so on. I brought up Lady Marmalade b/c it was the first single where I couldn't tell the difference, and later I would confuse Ciara and Kelis, and then I started to wonder if I had a tin ear for female pop vox. I don't think I do? Maybe I do?

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, November 2, 2012 8:27 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw i meant not being able to tell Mya from Pink on "Lady Marmalade" was crazy

mya's voice is really really distinctive

i know!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I'll give a vote to Spirits Having Flown, mostly because I'm so surprised at how high it places on my list here (fighting it out with Supremes and Saturday Night Fever, accepting that Help! is DQ'd on the technicality), and because I want to make sure it gets at least one vote.

Tragedy, man.

I have absolutely no memory of Wilson Phillips' "You're In Love". I had no idea they had a 3rd hit, let alone a number one. It's pretty awfull too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7gYii2unkg

That's my favorite of their #1's but it's no "Impulsive."

'final' top 10 that i will completely change my mind about as soon as i post: Supremes > Janet > Wham > Monica > Xtina > Paula Abdul > Bee Gees > Michael > Adele > George Michael

this poll has convinced me that I really should pick up a copy of Forever Your Girl

voting Janet here with confidence

kinda surprised at the paula support i'm seeing here tbh - 'straight up' is a straight up classic obv and 'forever yr girl' is solid but 'opposite attract' was always garbage and 'cold hearted' is really really thin, i think ppl might be letting the great video (fincher) sway them there (actually 'the way that you love me' was pretty great also, great second tier fake jam-lewis plus she looked pretty cute in yet another fincher video)(actually now that i think of it 'knocked out', another single that didn't go #1, was also pretty great, total pebbles knockoff). kinda amazing the extent to which spellbound has been forgotten - it was a huge hit: 2 #1's, another single made it to #6, and two others made the top 20. 'rush rush' i adore and though it doesn't sound as great to me now i remember really liking 'vibeology' at the time, the vma performance of which kinda cruelly killed her career -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8dgayf2f2M
and which, combine w/ rumours about the promise of the new day video, led to this nail in the coffin on in living color -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQ-XDKKRcA

occurs to me that spellbound is similar to too legit too legit to quit in that both were followups to mega successful bush era albums by jackson proxies that were big hits, they'd both qualify as 'new jersey's or whatever, but that ended up regarded as flops in the long run due to diminished returns and the relative ends to both careers.

I think I'm the only Paula vote here, so if youre surprised by the perversity of my opinions well then hi, my name is Drugs ("and thx for taking the bait")

anyways, video to "cold hearted" hit me probably at the beginning of my awareness of pop music, so yeah that was personally crucial to my fondness, but listening to it again the thinness works kind of in its favor, it kind of gives it a bit of rawness that becomes the stacatto arrangments, and obv it makes no bones about being all about the chorus hook--which I think works really well--so the twists and turns in the breakdown don't really come across as bloated or clunky but more like clever and playful ways to defer payoff. of course perhaps that just comes across as cheap and calculated padding to some, in my case there ARE extramusical elements affecting my preferences...

but yeah rmde at Opposites Attract but I def felt at least at first blush that I would take the first three songs over any of the other three song groupings

and yeah Vibeology sounds better than I remember it, and I've always been down with Rush Rush and Promise of a New Day

yeah haha at first i was like 'man forever yr girl isn't even as good as the xina nevermind janet and madonna' but by the time i finished remembering the non-#1s i'd ended up selling myself on it. that in living color thing is really crazy mean, the sort of piling on that makes me think there is something behind the scenes, like maybe she jilted a wayans or something. by the time this came out (only 3 years later!) she felt like ancient history, there was this implied 'is PAULA ABDUL really gonna make a comeback?' in the air -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jfmB5kR84

i'll take it over 'pumps and a bump'. probably the closest anyone associated w/ american idol has come to making a massive attack track.

I think Spellbound made the New Jersey list.

I'm sure I've splattered my love for Spellbound over Forever Your Girl on a few threads already. If it had been on the New Jersey poll, I would've voted for it.

I had dumbfounded that Wilson Phillips had 3 #1s, I guess history has boiled their career down to "Hold On". I did recognize "You're in Love", but not "Release Me".

otm on "Knocked Out" sounding like Pebbles.

I'm surprised the third Wilson Phillips #1 is "You're In Love" and not "Impulsive"

not that I like either song mind you

Alfred otm about Impulsive being their best single

that is super OffTM

that is their drippiest song with the worst singer in the group on lead

The guitars and chorus bring it.

I admit to being irrationally angry with this song because I always thought Wendy was the most attractive member and it really pissed me off that she was the worst singer