A Decade Of Poptastic No.1s!

Madison Avenue – Don’t Call Me Baby

20th May 2000

Although Australia has produced some excellent pop stars, including one of the best ever in the form of Darren Hayes, their rate of producing ace pop music is not very high. This surprises me considering how jolly they seem to be as a race, but maybe I’ve just watched too much Neighbours and read too much CFB Goes Pop. However, they did spurn this, one of my favourite dance tracks ever. It’s one of the songs I never tire of and like many of the songs I have posted about in this series, I still remember it word for word, due mostly to me having much more time to learn the lyrics as this was in my pre-Internet days. A very strange thought indeed, being unable to look things up immediately or hear almost any song you want to with a few clicks of your mouse, if you know where to look.

Although most of the songs I have written about so far would have difficulty gaining success in the current charts, I don’t think this would have any trouble. It’s timeless. Despite dance music being probably the most futuristic genre, it doesn’t seem to age very quickly – aren’t songs that were popular a few years ago always getting released again? Jacques Your Body and Basement Jaxx’s Do Your Thing are two recent examples. If it makes you dance there’s nothing you can do about it, and this one has added girl power too!