#soon! Part Un - The 60s-00s Girl Band Debut Breakthrough Rate

berserkboi

berserkboi

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DJHazey said:


@Empty Shoebox, we've had our share of disagreements already in the UK #2's rate but this kind of makes up for it.
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berserkboi said:
Riiiiiiiii (9.5) should really have given this the 10 it deserved!
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EUHMMM I'm not the one scoring this lower than a 9!! This was my number 7 in my top 60 so I can live with it ending in 10th place.
But the Bangles being the last one standing from the 80s... clearly I'm hearing something wrong because that song has 0 personality compared to some of the other 80s songs, iyam.
 
berserkboi

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Riiiiiiiii said:
EUHMMM I'm not the one rating this lower than a 9!! This was my number 7 in my top 60 so I can live with it ending in 10th place.
But the Bangles being the last one standing from the 80s... clearly I'm hearing something wrong because that song has 0 personality compared to some of the other 80s songs, iyam.
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I love The Bangles but Salt-N-Pepa were firmly in my top 5 so I am disappointed with it being the first casualty of the top 10. I wish everyone upped their score!!
 
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But I gave every song a different score, and 6 songs I loved more than Push it.

Showing Out was 4th place!!
 
soratami

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berserkboi said:
ComeOnGloria (7.9) has a personal connection to this that is quite fun to hear! - Giving this decent points if only for the opportunity it has given me to hear a friend perform it on Singstar in the most middle class way possible! Was never really a big Salt-N-Pepa fan, but really liked Gitty Up.
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Ooh I remember doing it on SingStar. Much like any other songs with rap bits it was a damn mess because the scoring always felt completely random.
 
Baby Clyde

Baby Clyde

berserkboi said:

#10
Salt-N-Pepa – Push It
Average Score: 8.215​

Salt-N-Pepa came to be when Cheryl James (Salt) met Sandra Denton (Pepa) at Queensborough Community College where they both studied nursing. One of their co-workers who was studying record production asked them to record for a class project of his, which resulted in the single The Showstoppa (an answer record to Doug E Fresh’s The Show) coming into existence. This track garnered some local airplay for the girls (originally called Super Nature) and when they eventually signed with Next Plateau Records, they adopted the stage name Salt-N-Pepa.

Salt-N-Pepa started their music career at a time hip hop was believed to only be a fad, with major labels reluctant to sign hip hop artists. They stood out by being one of the first all-female rap groups and giving a woman’s perspective in a genre that was rampant with objectifying and overall bad portrayal of women. Many feminists disliked rap music at the time but Salt-N-Pepa showed there was certainly a need for their angle within the genre.

The girls would be candid in their lyric and maintain their street credentials throughout their career, without shying away from real life topics involving men and sex such as in classic ‘Let’s Talk About Sex’. Remember at the time of release, this sort of direct approach to these topics by female artists was incredibly risky and controversial! As I said, without them – who knows whether we would be enjoying the likes of Nicki Minaj, Lil Kim and Rihanna in the same capacity…. Salt-N-Pepa are probably to me one of the bravest girls on our list to have the resilience to make their mark in what used to be a misogynist section of the music industry and paving the way for the music we know today? Bow down to our ladies!
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Not a single mention of Spinderella!!!
 
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Baby Clyde

Baby Clyde

berserkboi said:
I decided to exclude her due to her only being in a band for a year or so? Was that the wrong thing to do?

EDIT - Added some information about her! Any other feedback for me, @Baby Clyde? :)
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She's still in the band. There was another random woman who was their DJ at the very beginning and on the cover of their debut album.

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But she disappeared almost immediately never to be heard from again. Spinderella then joined. Salt-N-Pepa were always a trio.

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Funny this should come up now as I literally only discovered the other DJ last week when I was putting together my amazing 'Before The Bikinis - First Ladies of Rap' Spotify playlist and thought 'That's not Spinderella'!!!

 
MollieSwift21

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Baby Clyde said:
Not a single mention of Spinderella!!!
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One of my shadiest moments was refer to someone as the Spinderella of the group.

During one of their reality shows Spinderella was talking about how her feeling had been hurt because she felt at times she wasn't apart of the group. Only for Pepa to bluntly say something along the lines of its because you weren't in the group.
 
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