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Art Of
Noise
Metaforce
Leilani
Do You Want Me? (both ZTT)
Oh yes, even in 1999 we have time for Art Of Noise's clever-dick journeys into sound via Paul Morley's anal passage - great pop music doesn't have to be all dancing crocodiles, you know. High-minded conceptual pop art we applaud, but dressing up middlebrow studio noodling in the robes of high-minded conceptual pop art is another story altogether.
Taken from AON's semi-biographical tribute album to Claude Debussy, if you please, 'Metaforce' finds old-skool rapper Rakim laying down rhymes about Baudelaire and perfumed French gardens over string-kissed electro beats. In theory, an inspired marriage of classical and pop idioms. In reality, Nigel Kennedy's arse.
Thus it falls to AON's teen-queen labelmate Leilani to show her greying, textbook-addled bosses how great pop works. Because 'Do You Want Me?' is a stupid-fresh, insanely catchy, sugar-coated elasto-pop classic full of barking dogs and helium harmonies. There is even a shimmery remix sounding uncannily like Madonna's 'Ray Of Light' to keep the grown-ups happy.
On this evidence Leilani is the trainer-bra Betty Boo, the anti-Billie. Bring on the dancing crocodiles, we say.
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