Countdown 100: Bands that got megahyped that failed spectacularly...

In dance music, Alex Reece was a big flop but so was every "crossover" drum'n'bass act really. Even Goldie and Reprazent lost momentum very quickly.

Also on Dreamworks: Chicks

53. Credit To The Nation

Hype from "indie mags" means something completely different, and a much much lower level of attention, in the USA.

has ms dynamite ever been seen again?

I see her in the shops buying sweets for her kids sometimes.

And Lady Sovereign's the one selling her the sweets

Lisa Mafia on Sov's days off.

52. One True Voice

51. Jedward

etc

(xxxp) Sign on the door saying "Speech Debelle will not to be served in this shop"

ms dynamite has had a top 40 hit this year, and made two of last year's best singles!!!!! wtf.

hype around dance acts is mostly because of the rapid turnover of dance trends, right?

what ms dynamite is up to these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JLrIMwxpFg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-g-QimJKlc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKB3hJBvAZY

Oh yeah, that Zinc tune is fat. Glad she's back to MCing.

ms dynamite has had a top 40 hit this year, and made two of last year's best singles!!!!! wtf.

I think "failed spectacularly" is being used here to mean "did not take over the world as expected" - and having one single scrape into the top 40 kind of falls into that category. I think the British mainstream pretty much forgot her after buying "Dy-na-mi-tee" and giving her a string of awards.

Who hasn't had a Top 40 hit this year, I know I have

like with most "indie bands" who were hyped.
xp

and that mentality is exactly why this country sucks

50. Kevin Federline

okay in what world was Kevin Federline "megahyped"

I distinctly remember "megamocked"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laynXVsBulg&feature=related

like, no one was excited for this except Kevin Federline

and that mentality is exactly why this country sucks

one of many reasons, but yes :(

there's a sporting parallel - unless you actually WIN WIMBLEDON then you're characterised as a "bottler". there's plenty of room between "taking over the world" (and really was anyone actually ever expecting ms d to actually do this?) and completely flopping, which has a qualitative aspect to it - when you think back to an act that "flops", with all the connotations of the word, it's usually with a frisson of embarrassment, "what were we thinking" - an admission that they were NEVER any good. which especially doesn't apply if the artist is still making critically acclaimed music.

tbf this is not a uniquely British attitude

(haha i just noticed that "wile out" is still the jukebox's no 1 single of the year so far! and "get low" was THE anthem of sónar this year, no contest, heard it about 943834394 times)

We got curt refusals from Gay Dad and Terris.

Dorian, did you ask the drummer?

(the uniquely british attitude is to hate on people even more if they DO take over the world)

Commercial failure is not the same as artistic failure but it's failure nonetheless

Ooh, ooh, I got a USA one!

49. Johnny Cougar.

if the media and public hadn't turned on those nme acts, the country could have been taken over by nme indie acts & ms dynamite and the lex could have been happy.

Lex OTM. And I doubt Ms Dynamite lost the label money, whereas famous flops like Brinsley Schwarz, Moby Grape, Fischerspooner, etc lost a packet. Imo, if someone's had one acclaimed, strong-selling album and a handful of hit singles then they shouldn't be in this thread.

Nicole - no, we asked Cliff and one other member but didn't work through the whole line-up - either we didn't have the contact details or we didn't have enough time, I can't remember exactly.

48 : VV Brown

Oh, god, elephant in the room time:

47. The Woodentops

haha. were they that hyped ?

46 : CHAKK - MCA funded them to build hi-tech studio/FON records etc. Sly and Robbie on production. no-one bought the album.

[but i'd still love a cd copy .. ]

(fwiw when i interviewed ms dynamite earlier this year, she basically said she deliberately took a few years off to be a mother, and now her son's at school she's able to devote herself full-time to music again)

Is that Chakk record any good Mark? Just asking as a Moloko fan...

A lot of money was spent, I believe. (re: The Woodentops)

And great things were expected. So many people I knew were "this is going to be big"

But I'd say, no one liked them enough to go buy.

75% 'wanted' not enough to break the threshold.

(i suspect that's true of many female artists who "disappeared", too; and ms dynamite also said that motherhood didn't just affect the time she could devote to her career but, w/r/t her genuine flop second album, how much she was committed to even making the music - she said she'd go into the studio and wonder how her son was instead of thinking about the music)

re chakk : honestly. no.

the band shot their load with the early 12" records (Out of the Flesh and They Say 12") which were great distorto-funk.
but, as an album of its time, i still play the odd track when in the mood.

she said she'd go into the studio and wonder how her son was instead of thinking about the music

Hmm. Everyone else who has a kid and a job has to get by somehow.

hello "Bosstown Sound"

45. Beacon Street Union
44. Ultimate Spinach
43. Orpheus

42. Robbie Williams (in the USA)
41. Nikka Costa

40. The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band

39. Rosie Vela.

Nikka Costa's a good one. She had a ton of money thrown at her more than once iirc. What was her claim to fame again?

38. O-Positive (1990; Epic) | "Most popular artists aren't interested in doing anything worthwhile. I don't want success on any terms. I don't care about being a guy in leather pants with no underwear. We just play what we like, we don't try to write songs for anyone else. We haven't really worried about how we're going to be received."

Imagine that.

sophie b hawkins got the most hype ive ever seen in the uk, 3 or 4 weeks a row on top of the pops all for getting no higher than #23.

Nikka Costa is the daughter of Don Costa (arranger for Sinatra etc...)