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Showing posts with label Michael Jackson. Show all posts
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I had 46th live broadcast of “Pops
Lounge” yesterday in TBN Ulsan Traffic Broadcasting Network’s “Studio1041”. The
greatest popular musician in music history I introduced yesterday was “Michael
Jackson”.
I uploaded content of yesterday's
broadcast on YouTube.
Studio 1041 “Pops Lounge” of TBN
Ulsan Traffic Broadcasting Network will be continued at 10:30 am every Tuesday.
I had 20th live broadcast of “Pops
Lounge” yesterday in TBN Ulsan Traffic Broadcasting Network’s “Studio1041”. The
topic of yesterday's broadcast was “Pop", one of the genres of
popular music which were popular in America in the 1980s.
I uploaded content of yesterday's
broadcast on YouTube, and please enjoy the below link.
Following
the last week, I am going to start my 60th lecture.
The
lecture topic for this week is “Pop Music in 1990s”. It is a summary of the
contents of “60th ACJ Music Academy, History of Pop Music: 5. 1990s”, which was
introduced on September 3, 2016.
In the 1990s, the popularity of teen pop and dance pop, appeared in the
1970s, continued. Rock music was still popular in the 1990s following the 1980s
but unlike the 1980s, when glam metal gained great popularity, punk rock and
the newly appeared Grunge and Industrial Rock gained popularity. During this
period, Contemporary Country music, which began in the 1980s, also gained great
popularity.
First of all, for rock music, in the 1990s, with the advent of the band
Nirvana, Alternative Rock entered the major music charts, and many alternative
rock bands were commercially successful.
Nirvana
Grunge, a subgenre of alternative rock, was born in the 1980s in the
Northwestern United States of Washington and Oregon. Grunge bands began to gain
popularity from the early 1990s, and Nirvana and Pearl Jam made great
contributions to the development of grunge. However, many grunge bands were
disbanded in the mid-1990s, and the death of Nirvana’s vocalist and guitarist
Kurt Cobain in 1994 led to a decline in this genre.
Pearl Jam
Punk rock in the United States revived with the advent of Green Day in
1994 and entered the mainstream of the music industry in the mid-1990s.
Green Day
Many subgenres of metal were outsiders for the commercial aspect in the
1980s, but as the Thrash Metal genre emerged in the early 1990s, it made a
breakthrough for success. This breakthrough was especially a major success of
the fifth album with the same title as the band name released by Metallica in
1991, and as a result, Thrash Metal was firstly able to enter the mainstream.
Metallica
In the late 1990s, Industrial Metal gained popularity, including Nine Inch
Nails and Marilyn Manson, the best American industrial metal bands of the time.
Nine Inch Nails
Marilyn Manson
Michael Jackson released the album “Dangerous” in 1991 and sold 35 million
copies, continuing popularity and commercial success in the 1990s.
Album "Dangerous", Michael Jackson
The British girls’ group, The Spice Girls, targeted the US market and
became the most commercially successful British group in North America after
the Beatles, and their influence expanded the entry opportunity of teen pop
genre to the American charts that were dominated by grunge and hip-hop.
The Spice Girls
In the late 1990s, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera gained great
popularity by releasing the hit singles "…Baby One More Time" and
"Genie in a Bottle", and Céline Dion gained a worldwide success with
the soundtrack of film Titanic“My Heart Will Go On”.
Britney Spears
Christina Aguilera
Céline Dion
Film "Titanic"
For Contemporary R&B, Whitney Houston's hit song "I Will Always
Love You", which was the soundtrack for the film The Bodyguard in 1992,
made number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 14 weeks, and it was sold
over 40 million albums worldwide, recorded as the most sold single of female
singers of all time.
Whitney Houston
Film "The Bodyguard"
In 1990, Mariah Carey began to gain popularity with hit songs such as
"Vision of Love" and "Love Takes Time."
Mariah Carey
In 1993, Janet Jackson signed a contract with Virgin Records, and released
her fifth studio album, "Janet", which was sold over 20 million copies
worldwide.
Album "Janet", Janet Jackson
The popularity of country music peaked in the early 1990s, and the most
notable musician was Garth Brooks.
Garth Brooks
In addition, new singers continued to appear
between the mid- and late 1990s, among which the most successful new singers
include LeAnn Rimes, Martina McBride and Faith Hill.
LeAnn Rimes
Martina McBride
Faith Hill
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Following the last week, I am going to
start my 59th lecture.
The lecture topic for this week is “Pop
Music in 1980s”. It is a summary of the contents of “59th ACJ Music Academy,
History of Pop Music: 4. 1980s”, which was introduced on August 27, 2016.
The 1980s was a time when dance
music and new wave appeared, and the popularity of disco gradually disappeared,
and post-disco, Euro discoand dance-pop became popular.
In the 1980s, Michael
Jackson and Diana Ross reappeared in their new styles, and Michael Jackson
released the album "Thriller" in 1982, which was sold over 100
million records worldwide.
Album "Thriller", Michael Jackson
Also at this time, the group Princebecame a big
star, and Madonna, Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson appeared and succeeded.
Madonna, who was the most successful female artist at the time, released her
third studio album “True Blue” in 1986, and she was recorded as the female
singer who sold the most albums in the 1980s. Her song “Like a Prayer”,
released in 1989 was also praised by Rolling Stone magazine as "a song
close to art that pop music can express."
True Blue, Madonna
Another female artist who sold
many albums in the 1980s was Whitney Houston, and she was the female singer who
sold the most albums after Madonna at the time.
Whitney Houston
In the late 1980s, the genre of
'teen pop'became popular, and in this genre, teen idol stars such as New Kids
on the Block, Debbie Gibson and Tiffany were born.
New Kids on the Block
In the mid-1980s, Cyndi
Lauper was described as the “Voice of the MTV Generation in the 80s” and made a
big hit with a different visual style among teenagers around the world.
Cyndi Lauper
In the
1980s, hard rock also revived, and the bands such as AC/DC, Def Leppard, Mötley
Crüe, Twisted Sister, Poison and Cinderella were popular. Also at this time,
the wild hard rock band Guns N' Roses appeared.
Def Leppard
Some female musicians also
gained popularity in the hard rock field in the 1980s, especially Pat Benatar
was a representative example of the female musicians who has been successful in
the hard rock field since the late 1970s.
Pat Benatar
Arena Rock, which began in the 1970s,
has continued its popularity with the bands including Styx, Rush, Journey,
Foreigner and REO Speedwagon.
REO Speedwagon
For country music, pop-influenced
country music was the most popular in the genre in the 1980s with leading
singers such as Kenny Rogers, Eddie Rabbitt, Crystal Gayle, Anne Murray and
Dolly Parton.
Kenny Rogers
The film “Urban Cowboy”, released in 1980, starred John Travolta
and Debra Winger. The soundtrack of the film includes many pop-influenced
country music including "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by The
Charlie Daniels Band, "Could I Have This Dance" by Anne Murray and
"Love the World Away" by Kenny Rogers. The soundtrack made a great
success, resulting in the boom of pop-influenced country music in the early
1980s.
Urban Cowboy Soundtrack
The Charlie Daniels Band
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