What are words for?
Am I wrong, or is most techno-synth-electronic-new wave-dance music pretty much interchangeable? Because to me, most of what I heard on the season finale of
Hit Me Baby One More Time tonight sounded so much alike that it’s hard to tell one song from the other. Or maybe I just wasn’t tuned in enough in the 1980s. If you have to grow up in that culture to appreciate its musical language, then I definitely missed out. I’m a lyrics and melody guy, which is why Juice Newton was such a breath of fresh air on tonight’s show, amidst all the Missing Persons and Shannon and Animotion. She sang her own “Queen of Hearts,” and then put her indelible country pop spin on that Ashlee Simpson classic, “Pieces of Me.” Somehow the audience chose P.M. Dawn as the winner, despite the fact that they mangled a song called “Blurry,” by Puddle of Mudd. (Or maybe they didn’t mangle it. Maybe it just isn’t a very good song.) At any rate, I think the Hit Me Baby phenomenon has run its course, at least for this year.
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