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11 Singles from the 90s Era of Dance-Pop

 

When the disco ball was set to roll in 80s, the era that followed had no choice but to take from it and improvise, thus popularizing and familiarizing audiences with new sounds that had a post-disco vibe. Actually not so much of post- rather than pop-disco; and pop coupled with other varieties like jazz, hip hop, funk, et al. While each musician had his/her own style, there was a sound of commonality that most of them adhered to. Go ahead, all you kids of the 90s, shed a tear or two for growing old. Don’t lie to yourself. If you grew up then, you’re definitely old now.

 

Informer – Snow

 

When Aneela and Arash came out with a remix called “Chori Chori” in mid 2000s, Indians went crazy, begging DJs to play it multiple times whenever it did play at clubs. Little did they know that this was ripped off from the original reggae song “Informer” produced by Canadian musician Snow.

 

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Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice

 

While growing up, if you were a guy and if you by any chance happened to hum this song in your neighbourhood (you heard it thanks to your older sister), you would easily be the laughing stock for an entire week. But “Ice Ice Baby”, created by American rapper Vanilla Ice and DJ Earthquake, was the hip hop track to go to in any mood. Quietly. From Under The Blanket.

 

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Kiss from a Rose – Seal

 

What does the name even mean? Yes, yes, when you allow the king of metaphors to rule your life you will start making sense of even chocolate and cheese in the same context. But whatever be the message, the song caught on so strong that even the Shahrukh Khan-starrer RA. One used a rendition (read plagiarised) of the song which came to be known as “Dildara”.

 

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I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing – Aerosmith

 

One of the karaoke favourites, “I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing” is a song that, when sung by an amateur, ensures the right intensity and stomach-vocals, if not for the right pitch and tune. Besides being used in the 1998 film Armageddon, the song stayed as number one on the U.S Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks straight. Oh Aerosmith, you make the 90s so proud!

 

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Truly Madly Deeply – Savage Garden

 

Australian pop rock band Savage Garden were truly, madly and deeply savages in a sense, when it came to ripping out broken hearts and shredding them into grain-like particles. “Truly Madly Deeply”, was a heart crusher and thus was used aptly as the soundtrack for the Jude Law starrer Music From Another Room. Love Puke!

 

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Livin’ la Vida Loca – Ricky Martin

 

Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin introduced us to the world of latino-pop with “Livin’ la Vida Loca”, following which the world knew Martin as the guy behind “Livin’ la Vida Loca” and “Un dos Tres”.

 

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Genie in a Bottle – Christina Aguilera

 

It’s as though Christina Aguilera fulfilled her childhood dream through “Genie in a bottle”. And, if you were growing up as a girl and didn’t know the song, the gender-opposite of “Ice Ice Baby” would happen. The other silly girls would screech, “OMG, she is not getting to play with our gender-correct toys and no free nail-paint for her. Katti!”

 

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Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine

 

American rap metal was not a new genre in the 90s but RATM set a fresh trend when they released “Killing in the Name”, which was part of their debut album. The song speaks about institutional racism and police brutality. Well, we’d like to say that RATM added variety to the popular stream of songs that barraged the 90s.

 

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Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely – Backstreet Boys

 

Lonely. Check. Happy. Check. Angry. Check. Bored. Check. Fidgety. Check – “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely” was the perfect song that fit every mood – it left you feeling SAD and yearning for a love that you knew you were never going to get unless you looked like one of the Backstreet boys with the blonde hair. Our estimate would be, if you translated the song to Hindi, it would read as – “Sunn Raha hai na tu, Ro raha hoon hun main”.

 

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Bye Bye Bye – ‘N Sync

 

‘N Sync, the boy band of the 90s that ran parallel to Backstreet Boys in terms of popularity among girls and boys alike, delivered one of their greatest tracks in the dance-pop category “Bye Bye Bye” in early 2000, after completing their recording in 1999. The album, which contained this song, sold over one million copies on the day it came out.

 

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Jump – Kris Kross

 

Jump Jump Jump (accompanied by visuals of cars and people jumping). *Insert Rap* Wiggity wiggity wiggity wack. Jump Jump Jump (accompanied by visuals of cars and people jumping). That’s pretty much how most of the world understood the song but that never stopped anyone from jumping every time the song played. As for the cars jumping, only a few lucky ones could make that happen.

 

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To know what happened during the 90s in the Indian indie pop scene, read here.

 

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