Jody Watley – Looking For A New Love
The opening of this song is ripe for the sampling. Have our pop girls done it? No, they have not. Have our pop guys done it? What pop guys? Where? Who?
Stacey Q – Two of Hearts
Kelly fucking Osbourne covered it, of all people. Now imagine if someone with talent was able to take it and make it new? K-pop girl group The Wonder Girls sampled it in “Tell Me” all the way back in 2007 and that song still slaps. We could have a genuine pop smash hit on our hands if someone cared enough to try.
Billy Ocean – Loverboy
I say, yeah! Yeah! Yeah yeah!!!! That guitar? Come on! Whatever the fuck is happening at 2:42 and then that guitar solo? YES! Gimme! THAT OUTRO!?!?! FUUUUUCK! There’s so much fun to be had here. Throw in some elements of “Turn Me Loose” by Loverboy and you’ve got a fun fucking pop song.
This video is batshit insane in the best way btw.
Kim Wilde – You Keep Me Hanging On
This. Fucking. SONG! Just take those ooh ooh oohhhs alone and you’d have a #1 song, goddamn! Goldmine here.
The Pointer Sisters – Automatic
And where are the producers and songwriters? Where are they? WHERE? This is BEGGING for a modern re-imagining.
Mary Jane Girls – In My House
oh oh oh oh oh ohhh ohhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
Gwen Guthrie – Outside In The Rain
I DON’T THINK THIS HAS EVER BEEN SAMPLED????? Surely that’s not correct!? Hold me, love me is RIGHT THERE!?
If you feel some rage at how boring pop music has become, go and visit my other post: ONTD Original: Mariah Carey Is One of the Best Music Samplers of ALL TIME!
Thank you for coming to my Boomer energy TED talk.
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