Year-End Poll #48: 1997
[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: Elton John, Jewel, Puff Daddy and Faith Evans, Toni Braxton, Puff Daddy, R. Kelly, En Vogue, Mark Morrison, LeAnn Rimes, Spice Girls. End description]
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A lot of loss and longing this year. Elton John and Bernie Taupin rewrote their 1973 single, Candle in the Wind to honor the memory of Princess Diana. Additionally, Puff Daddy's I'll Be Missing You was written in memory of The Notorious B.I.G., using a sample from The Police's Every Breath You Take.
Puff Daddy, and Bad Boy Records in general, would have a lot of influence over the sound of pop rap. Especially when it comes to sampling. The other song by him on this poll, Can't Nobody Hold Me Down, uses a sample from another 80's song, The Message by one of the original pioneering groups in hip-hop, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. The Message is considered to be one of the earlier hip-hop songs to center around social commentary. By 1997, hip-hop was barely older than two decades, but it's artists are still able to call back to and reference the previous generations.
Looking at the bottom of the top 10, we can start to catch a glimpse at the direction pop music is about to go. By the late 90's, more teenagers than ever were purchasing music. While boy bands and girl groups were certainly not invented this decade, their images were starting to shift in order to market more easily to this wider demographic. But the true power of teenagers over the music landscape won't be seen in full until after next year, with the introduction of MTV's Total Request Live.
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494. Seventeen Magazine, March 1997 - part 2
(Part 1)
Woah, this was the best LeAnn looked when she was a teenager. The staff did an amazing job on her. I feel like she kinda adopted this look after this shoot, right?
Maybe with the exception with the black and white dress on the right, JCPenney really dropped the ball. None of the prom looks in the actual issue matches the prom looks we see int the ads.
There's that green again! This time on Jordana Brewster.
Moisturizer and translucent powder seems like a patchy mess? y/n?
OH HERE WE GO BBY OLD NAIL POLISH FROM THE BEST ERA OF NAIL POLISH: THE MID 90s.
There's a great TikTok/instagram account called Vintage Dusties that showcases the most amazing 90s polish. I wonder what ever happened to Ripe brand polish? I saw it a few times in Seventeen, but I can't find a bottle on eBay or a mention online anywhere.
Pastel was an icon, it was a legend, it was the moment.
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These potpourris from the Gap look redic. You know they lost their scent almost immediately. I found one on eBay.
Man, back when Urban decay was grunge. Miss those days.
Ok, why couldn't Billy go to the prom with Michelle? Was he over 18?
I remember reading this as a thirteen year old, and thinking "yeah, nobody's mom is gonna allow that." I remember the doggy too!
It took me a few seconds to understand the cutting the straps off of life jackets and making belts out of them. Let's hope that L.W. is using top coat to seal those letters. Thea R. discovered prison makeup!
Here's the ketchup mustard and lettuce dresses we saw in last year's issue, but longer this time.
Baby Spice Girls!
Baby King of the Hill! The show had only been on at a couple of months at this point.
We were all still living in 1997, but Chaweon was living in 1999 with that amazing makeup.
This was part of the School Zone section they ran every month. Everybody always messed up their $50 JanSport with patches.
This looks almost like the dress Jordana was holding up a few pages earlier.
As someone who wears tights several days a week, I would invest in those $34 ones.
I remember the Chris O'Donnell story! Just because I didn't know what crew was back then. I thought a "crew meet" was Chris and his teammates setting up a stage set in record time. I was a very uncultured child.
(part 3)
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