Late 90s Motown style pop craze

[Nancy]

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITES OF THIS GENRE?

 

[Nancy]

This is mine.

 

[Ellie]

This is mine.

Isn’t that just what you’d call “sampling The Four Tops”?

 

[Nancy]

On a Eurovision theme....

 

[Sheena]

On a Eurovision theme....

Absolutely not. That rips off Abba rather than Motown.

 

[lolly]

I think it's fair enough to link it back to the 1960s and Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound (rather than Motown), because that influenced early Abba so much. But yes, the direct rip off is Waterloo. And presumably very intentionally, as it was the 25th anniversary of it winning Eurovision.

 

[Nancy]

 

[Vicky the Vole]

Would 3T count?

 

[Nancy]

Would 3T count?

Do they have a song like any of the above?

 

[GinAg (39)]

A tenous appearance in the REAL MUSIC forum.

 

[GinAg (39)]

Would 3T count?

Only up to 3.

 

[Nancy]

It's REAL MUSIC to me

 

[Nancy]

There's this too.

 

[straightorbroken]

Rip-off merchants Texas' When We Are Together would have been a great song for Diana Ross to have covered.



2001 might miss the cut off point, but Billie Ray Martin's Where Fools Rush In also springs to mind:



Space were still doing this in 1998, but this remains a masterpiece:

 

[Slave]

 

[Nancy]

Oh, and there was READY OR NOT by A1 as well