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Not only is It's The Girls! the title of Bette Midler's fantastic new album. It's also representative of what today's Throwback Thursday. Girl groups. The doo wop and the rock n roll and the shimmying and sashaying of women all around the world.
What really started this was Fifth Harmony. You should know about them. They've been gaining a steady little fanbase. They had that one song “Boss” people really got into. They performed it on the New Year's Eve ball. Is was so funny. They were all lip syncing. It was beautiful. |
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It's there newest song “Sledgehammer” that's been gaining some traction. I think it's bland and completely basic, but I love it. If you could feel my pulse it would hit you like a sledgehammer. I would completely understand the inability to remain calm around your crush if I wasn't soooo cool and collected.
Buy "Sledgehammer"
Needless to say I've been jamming out to it. It got me thinking about whether girl groups were coming back. We shall see. Fifth Harmony hasn't been the success story of One Direction as of yet. And, even with the success of One Direction we've only had that 5 Seconds of Summer group make any real headway.
Girl groups were huge way back when in the fifties and sixties. I'm just going to be lazy and use Bette Midler as my jumping off point on this. You've got The Ronettes, The Chiffons, The Andrews Sisters, The Chordettes, The Crystals, The Angels. Basically if you start a girl group you have to start it out with 'the'. Of course I casually forgot to mention The Supremes. You know only one of the most successful girl groups of all times.
The Ronettes
The Andrews Sisters
The Crystals
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The Chiffons
The Chordettes
The Angels
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I would tell you the songs all these groups sing, but I just don't know how well up you are on your fifties culture. It was songs like “Mr. Sandman”, “Stop! In The Name of Love” and “My Boyfriends Back” that defined a generation. Or more accurately defined the aging patriarchs of my family's childhood.
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Buy "Mr. Sandman"
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After the sixties. Girl groups died. I'm sure they had some, I'm just not sure what they are. The nineties were when they really picked back up. However, if we skip two decades, I wouldn't be able to mention how Joan Jett (singer of “I Love Rock n Roll”) was part of this very well received all girl rock band called The Runaways. The most successful song they had was called “Cherry Bomb”. That being said, most people don't know it.
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Buy "Cherry Bomb"
Left Eye
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There were two girl groups who defined the 90's. TLC and The Spice Girls. More then likely we would be hardcore fan girling over TLC if rapper Left Eye hadn't died tragically all those years ago.
Speaking of this new TLC project. I honestly don't want to hear it. I love TLC. I don't want new TLC music without Left Eye. I won't be buying it. I hope it does well for them, but I have no interest. When it comes to The Spice Girls, this is age appropriate at this point. If all there remembered for is “Wannabe” that's all they need. That song is so iconic it hurts. And we still know who Victoria Beckham is. They may have only had three albums, but Lord knows that they are icons. |
Buy "Wannabe"
You may be saying to yourself how could you forget about Destiny's Child. Because, if we're all being honest Destiny's Child is really just another name for Beyonce. Love them and all, but it's about Beyonce.
Destiny's Child
I suppose that's the question with the new girl group of Fifth Harmony. Which, one is the Beyonce? That I don't know. Time will tell. There all kind of boring. Sure their pretty, but not anything amazing. I don't know. I like that one Fifth Harmony song, but as a group they're dull. They don't have half of what The Spice Girls did.
That said wishing them luck in 2015 right along with TLC. Dominate the world. Shut it down.
That said wishing them luck in 2015 right along with TLC. Dominate the world. Shut it down.
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