I like SWV’s one #1 hit just fine, but not as much as I like that kind of fairytale story.Ĭheryl “Coko” Gamble, SWV’s lead singer, grew up between Brooklyn and the Bronx. For a couple of weeks, those three young women had the most popular song in America. When SWV were at their best, you could tell that they were all real-life friends, though their friendships eventually frayed in the old, expected show-business ways. They were all ferociously gifted singers, but they were also approachable young around-the-way everywomen, known primarily by their nicknames. Their name stood for “Sisters With Voices,” and that was also their sales pitch. Like so many of their peers, those three singers came up singing gospel. The three members of SWV all came from New York. En Vogue, sadly, never quite got to #1, though they made it up to #2 three different times, enough to make them the ’90s answer to perpetual runners-up Creedence Clearwater Revival.) In the summer of 1993, though, a more unassuming girl group beat both En Vogue and TLC to #1. (TLC will appear in this column a bunch of times. TLC, from Atlanta, were colorful and cartoonish. En Vogue, from Oakland, were regal and glamorous. The biggest of those girl groups had their own defined personas. At the same time, the old institution of the girl group had its own renaissance.
Other male vocal groups proliferated: Silk, Shai, H-Town, Jodeci, Public Announcement. The biggest of them was Boyz II Men, the Philly group who sang in elaborately layered harmonies and who had no real lead singer. In that post-“Vision Of Love” moment, a whole new generation of vocal groups rose up. In the years before rap cemented itself as the most popular genre of music on the planet, that combination was powerful enough to dominate the charts. These young singers were in the pop-music sweet spot between the new and the familiar - traditional song structures and romantic lyrics combined with updated singing styles and updated production. (Whitney Houston had done some of that before Mariah, too, but I consider “ Vision Of Love” to be the big-bang moment for what followed.) Quickly, other singers rose up and went crazy on that theatrical style. Mariah Carey had broken through with this extravagantly virtuosic vocal style, bringing all these gospel-style vocal bends and twirls to straight-up pop music. Mostly, though, I think it’s the fact that this wave of R&B was its own kind of new. While rap made radio programmers nervous, this rap-adjacent wave of R&B let those programmers dip their toes in those sounds. Part of it was that rap was ascendant but hadn’t quite taken over yet. Part of it, I think, was the advent of the SoundScan era - the new technology that showed what people were actually buying, rather than just what record-store owners claimed that people were buying. I didn’t really get it when it was happening, and I don’t really get it now. I’ve never totally understood why R&B dominated the pop charts as thoroughly as it did for much of the ’90s. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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