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British Pop at the turn of the century was in a state. Spice Girls had been and gone, All Saints were still on top, but for the most part the focus was on personalities being used to sell the songs rather than the actual music. There was an overreliance on covers and trying to cash in on what was popular. Compared to the slinky American R&B of Destiny’s Child, TLC and Aaliyah or the Max Martin-backed confections of Britney Spears, N*Sync and The Backstreet Boys, Britain's crop sounded undeniably cheesy. But in 2002 Richard X appeared. A producer with a thing for synergising classic synth-pop with 90s R&B, and he, along with the Sugababes, a teen-girl group on the edge of collapse, revitalised British Pop with his ice-cool underground sounds. This is New British Canon and this is the story of Sugababes “Freak Like Me.”
#Sugababes #GirlGroups #MusicDocumentary
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Soundtrack:
Luar - Oblivion (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
Jesse Gallagher - Spirit of Fire
Luar - Clouds (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
B-Side - Pen Unubis
Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
0:00 Introduction
01:06 Richard X & Girls on Top
05:25 How to Save the Sugababes
12:01 What Richard X Did Next
15:33 The Unstoppable Rise of Xenomania
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British Pop at the turn of the century was in a state. Spice Girls had been and gone, All Saints were still on top, but for the most part the focus was on personalities being used to sell the songs rather than the actual music. There was an overreliance on covers and trying to cash in on what was popular. Compared to the slinky American R&B of Destiny’s Child, TLC and Aaliyah or the Max Martin-backed confections of Britney Spears, N*Sync and The Backstreet Boys, Britain's crop sounded undeniably cheesy. But in 2002 Richard X appeared. A producer with a thing for synergising classic synth-pop with 90s R&B, and he, along with the Sugababes, a teen-girl group on the edge of collapse, revitalised British Pop with his ice-cool underground sounds. This is New British Canon and this is the story of Sugababes “Freak Like Me.”
#Sugababes #GirlGroups #MusicDocumentary
This video was sponsored by Skillshare.
Soundtrack:
Luar - Oblivion (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
Jesse Gallagher - Spirit of Fire
Luar - Clouds (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
B-Side - Pen Unubis
Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
0:00 Introduction
01:06 Richard X & Girls on Top
05:25 How to Save the Sugababes
12:01 What Richard X Did Next
15:33 The Unstoppable Rise of Xenomania
You can also follow me here:
Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheory
Facebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYT
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![Beauty and The Beast - Dealing with Adolescence 101 [Lessons Animation Taught Us]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r-8a7CuUORs/mqdefault.jpg "Beauty and The Beast - Dealing with Adolescence 101 [Lessons Animation Taught Us]
This video will be a slightly different format than usual. Blame Movies with Mikey and his Lessons Animation Taught Us series for that.
Animation teaches a lot. For many animation is a childs first introduction to cinema and teaches them key concepts that they will encounter throughout life. You learn a lot from the media you consume as a small child, and whether your lessons are beneficial or ruinous is based on what you are watching and what you can take from them. As such today, I will be talking about Beauty and the Beast and what my tiny self took from this film.
A lot of pre-Beast Disney perpetuates this idea that for every girl, one day their prince will come to save them. Whether they are Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or The Little Mermaid, theres very little in the way of agency from the protagonists point of view. Beauty and the Beast flips this idea, so that Belle is saving the Beast. “Shes the one to break the spell”. But heres the thing, I was about five when I first watched this. I didnt get the fairytale script flipping because I had no previous frame of reference, I just absorbed the “love will triumph over all” concept and kept that as a standard to live by for way too long.
Soundtrack:
The Prologue Piano Instrumental Cover - Jason Frisk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4NgiSCu7XY
Beauty and the Beast Piano Instrumental Cover - Jason Frisk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHqbP4F3jA
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