#1990s pop

[90s-2000s-barbie]

Christina Aguilera - What A Girl Wants (1999)

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Sunkist Can

1994

Found on Ebay, seller globalexchange3

[bitter69uk]

Released thirty years ago today (25 October 1994): Bedtime Stories, Madonna’s sixth - and most alluring - studio album. Heralded by the slinky, downbeat lead single “Secret” (issued 20 September 1994), Bedtime Stories’ cover image depicts Madonna as a platinum blonde tough cookie – Jean Harlow with a pierced nose. The sounds within are predominantly lush urban R&B make out music. Still stung from the backlash over the book Sex and the album Erotica in ’92, lyrically Madonna alternates between defiant bravado and vulnerability. “I’ll never be an angel / I’ll never be a saint, it’s true …” she shrugs on the opening tune, then lashes out at her detractors on “Human Nature” (“Oops, I didn’t know I couldn’t talk about sex / I musta been crazy … I’m not your bitch, don’t hang your shit on me”). As Bedtime Stories progresses, intriguing glimpses of doubt and sensitive hurt feelings emerge. The best songs are about unrequited love.  “This heartache isn’t going anywhere / In the public eye I act like I don’t care / When there’s no one watching me, I’m crying”, Madonna yearns in a pained falsetto on “Inside of Me” (reportedly about her late mother). Things reach a crescendo of melancholy on “Love Tried to Welcome Me” with Madonna huskily exhaling “These are my lips / But they whisper sorrow / This is my voice / But it's telling lies / I know how to laugh / But I don't know happiness / And I must confess / Instead of spring, it's always winter …” and “Sanctuary” (“Who needs the sun, when the rain's so full of life? / Who needs the sky, when the ground's open wide?”), which is as ethereal as anything by Julee Cruise. Now sing along with me: “Let’s get unconscious, honey / Let’s get unconscious …” Pictured: portrait of Madonna by Patrick Demarchelier taken at the Eden Roc Miami Beach Hotel.

[baddawg94]

Mariah Carey

[theditchlillies]

The Artist Formerly Known as Prince // Ebony // Jan 1997

"Emancipation is defined as freedom from restraint, control or power of another, freedom from bondage. For The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, emancipation is freedom, and much, much more... "

from the Jan 1997 issue of Ebony // article by Lynn Norment

[akonoadham]

[ohyeahpop]

Seal photographed by Chris Carroll, 1991

[ryosukedaigakuya96]