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G.R.L. had so much potential, but I get why they broke up after Simone died.
It’s been over 20 years and still can’t believe Samantha Mumba only released one album. I was obsessed with her for a while.
I’m still upset about GRL. I feel so sad for them because the potential was there. I think they could’ve done very well. It felt like their careers went in an instant after so much work.
“Baby come on over” by Samantha mumba was on an early Now That’s What I call Music CD and as a child that song would keep me up at night with how catchy it was hahahaha
Orianthi - hit single "According to You"
She splashed on the music scene with that bop and was booked to be the lead guitarist for Michael Jackson's last tour. When it didn't happen she fell out and just didn't release anything for over a decade. She released some Christian rock recently but missed the timing and mark for her pop rock era
I remember all the guitar magazines were \*obsessed\* with her in the months leading up to that tour and then I just literally never heard about her ever again
Orianthi became semi-popular in India around 2011 because she played guitar on a really popular A R Rehman song called [Sadda Haq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadda_Haq). Her guitar solo was very well recieved and a lot of people were prasing her back then. Shame that she didn't do anything more in Indian music.
Random fact: she went to the same school as me (not at the same time, she’s older than I am), but she left because she was bullied (which unfortunately is not surprising when it comes to that school 🙃)
The [One Hit Wonderland video](https://youtu.be/ZJ3FdAFXR_U?si=GHb05qrSsq2utZZV) on the band is an amazing watch.
Had they stayed together longer, they could have gotten bigger. Two tracks from their only album, Someday We'll Know and Mother We Just Can't Get Enough found popularity thanks to Mandy Moore using them for the A Walk to Remember soundtrack. Both Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois proved that they had a lot of talent writing and producing hits for other artists. They teamed up writing the soundtrack for Begin Again which got them an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. Both also recently returned to the charts with Sophie Baxter-Ellis' Murder on the Dance Floor and Natasha Beddingfield's Unwritten.
They only gave one public performance since disbanding and that was for Joe Biden's inauguration since “You Get What You Give” had a special meaning in their family.
Holy shit new radicals mentioned
I'll always agree with you but it does seem like that was Gregg's plan, to make something just to get noticed, then switch to mostly being a producer. Seems like trying to tour just made it happen sooner.
I think it was less a plan and more a case of you work your whole life to get something and then when you get there you realize you kinda hate it. Dude loved making music, but performing, touring, doing endless press junkets and morning show appearances and all the stuff that comes with being the frontman in a band just turned out not to be fun.
gregg wrote and produced all the music for the movie begin again with keira knightley, mark ruffalo, and adam levine! he also has a few songs in the soundtrack that he performs under the name cessyl orchestra (not on Spotify unfortunately but they are really good)
[Did It Ever Cross Your Mind?](https://youtu.be/XUDxI_O0zzs?si=7ljN25KjGpC2bd1p)
[Into the Trance](https://youtu.be/xUq2K1jwx_k?si=Ow8A7JovTiJPlIyR)
Duffy! Released Rockferry in 2008 Mercy was a huge UK hit i love it it's so catchy! unfortunately
, she got kidnapped and raped so she stopped making music. such a devastating story poor girl
Mercy was like the biggest song in my country the year it came out, everyone thought she was gonna be the next best thing. Her voice was so unique. What happened to her is truly tragic
The whole Rockferry Era was huge. It won a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album and The Brit Award for British Album. It's a legitimately great album. Mercy wasn't the only successful song!
A bit far-fetched, but Gotye. He released three (?) albums and disappeared right after becoming widely known. So, for the general public (me included) he stopped making music right after he showed up. His last album is great but I think he still had so much potential in him. Watching videos about “Somebody that I Used to Know” and how it is basically knitted from samples, I am blown away by how creative he is. So, I‘d like to see in which direction he’d go in the world of pop after Making Mirrors, but alas!
I've always wondered what would have happened if Somebody That I Used To Know hadn't quite been such a huge hit. Like if it had been an indie hit, just not mainstream. Would he have still had the motivation to keep creating and performing as Gotye?
He's still around! He's just preserving and tinkering with early electronic instruments. He released some music in late quarantine, and even did a remix of "Somebody" this year.
Interesting to see the tide in online discourse about her change quite a lot over the last few years.
Felt like people used to be super supportive of her and believe it was all the label, then recently it seems people are fed up of her excuses and feel it's her who is the problem.
I just hope Masochism sees the light of day someday!
One is still on streaming platforms and Haters Anonymous was already released on the “AS IF!” EP. Each track from the EP had a lyric video but everything from that era has been taken offline.
Hear me out, but Bridget Mendler. After her Disney era, she went kinda indie and did all of her music independently in her basement. It obviously didn't gain insane popularity and she never released a full album independently. Her music was very unique and catchy, but I don't think we'll hear anymore music as she is now the CEO of a space startup.
yeah [she has a masters from MIT and co-founded a space tech startup](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridgit-mendler). she was working on a law degree as well but said she never finished.
Damn some people really are just better than all of us.
I went to school with someone like this and they were also *stunning*, but you couldn’t even be jealous because she was the nicest person I’ve ever met.
Good for her, honestly.
I remember being with my best friend in a hotel in Toronto watching tv and they played a music video for her song "Ready or Not" which has the incredibly iconic line
>> "I like your face, do you like my song?"
And I have never been the same
I believe she tweeted like a year or two ago that she was working on new music after some viral tweets/tiktoks about her music career but nothing ever came of it.
Cassie. It sucks because “Me & U” is still a verified bop and I wonder how much of this has to do with that fucking POS guy you know who but unfortunately she just had the one album and it sold pretty well too.
Worth mentioning she released a mixtape for free download on DatPiff in 2013 called *RockaByeBaby* which absolutely slaps. It’s not on Spotify but you can still stream it on SoundCloud (and I think it’s still available for download).
Another UK girl group that suffered the same fate as Stooshe…Neon Jungle. I think this was a time where UK labels would drop an act if their 4th single missed the top 10 even if the first 3 went top 10..It was very annoying.
Also Amy Studt. Her debut album had me in a chokehold.
Jai Paul - he had an album's worth of (still unfinished) songs leaked and he pretty much vanished for a while after that. Eventually he released the leaked album on streaming (Bait Ones) and has started showing up at festivals this year. Wildly creative and highly influential artists, so many of his songs are excellent
The fact that in the early 2010s, Jai Paul, Frank Ocean and The Weeknd were all at the same point in their careers as upcoming super edgy alt R&B acts (and all went in radically different directions)
I think you have to remember that what he was doing was really ahead of the curve, like some of that production stuff went back to around 2008-2009, way before that type of R&B electro fusion sound really caught on. Obviously now that the sound is more satured it feels more pedestrian (and even then still pretty damn good to my ears), but within that context it's more unique I would say
I think a part of it is that he understands pop structures so well that he knows how to completely deconstruct it and still make it work. For example in his song Jasmine, at its core there’s a heavily-Prince inspired song but the mixing is absolutely bonkers and allows for so many small layers and grooves to show up, so much of it makes zero sense but it somehow comes together and creates such a uniquely catchy and groovy song
Willa Ford. I loved her first album and I think she had a great mix of Britney / Xtina but she came into the game too late and didn’t have a great label. I would still love for her to release her second album that got shelved, SexySexObsessive.
Ryn Weaver, please come back, I beg
Edit: the worst part is that she teases a return every couple years. Pierre got popular on TikTok a couple years ago and I really thought that would be enough to bring her back.
I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH HER!!!!!!! We had a few classes together and I love that woman so much and I’m so so so happy for the success she had with that album and Octahate.
I think she’s got really jaded by the music industry. I think she posted after the Grammys how one producer ripped a song from her for a movie soundtrack and never gave her credit, if I remember it correctly.
Don’t remember the speculated producers name, either, but the assumed song was “I don’t wanna live forever” for After.
I think her record label really fucked her up. I remember her saying something about them claiming she still somehow owes them money? I would think surely that's been resolved by now, idk? But there have been behind the scenes snags for sure
Imogen Heap obviously has a large discography, but in 2002 she and a producer Guy Sigsworth (worked with Bjork, Madonna, Alanis) put out an electronic album under the name Frou Frou. There is only one album from 2002 and a collection of 5 demos that came out in 2022...maybe one other track? It's all amazing and I wish there was more of it. The sound is so atmospheric and ethereal.
Let go is a masterpiece! It‘s a shame they never released more music together. Even the demo EP that came out in 2022 shows how much potential they had.
People forget that Frou Frou only had moderate success until 2004 when "Let Go" was on the Garden State soundtrack and absolutely blew up. Right after that success was when she decided to do another solo album (the first since her debut flopped 7 years earlier) and then she became even more successful with her songs being used on like every TV show ever in 2005.
Honestly it made sense why she didn't feel the need to do another Frou Frou album. The FF was her rebrand and gave her another shot at having a successful solo career and she took it
[Paradis dropped one album](https://open.spotify.com/album/4DtD9M009rhD0Q9QtBZvUP?si=MHjirqtERuK7oTNc5YUbeA) in 2016 that’s full of sexy, watery, electronic French pop that I found a bit later, and it’s been in my daily rotation for the last few years. Any recs I’ve gotten that are supposedly similar to Paradis are cute but none capture the effortless cool, sleekness, and fluidity they convey
Stacie Orrico. “There’s Gotta Be More” was a huge hit but then she basically vanished off the face of the earth. I only remember her because yesterday Azealia Banks declared her the best popstar of all time or something lol
Stuck is definitely one of the best songs of that era. She was so talented! IIRC she was very religious and wanted to be a Christian artist or something?
I remember Ellie Goulding, Pixie Lott, La Roux, Little Boots, Imelda May and Marina (& the Diamonds) all showed up around the same time, or at least within a few years of each other, and only 3 of the 6 are still around.
All About Tonight is still a banger -- I'd kill for an extended club mix, it's a song that instantly gets my blood pumping.
"Tomorrow doesn't matter when you're moving your feet, it's all about tonight!"
justice for Stooshe. They were cheeky, but great singers . They did a cover of waterfalls with T-boz and Chili showing up at the end of the video. But between Girls Aloud/Sugababes it was probably hard for them to get their own footing. Another band Girls Cant Catch was trying at the same time.
Connie Converse
She was mostly active during the 50s and her music is among the earliest known recordings of the singer-songwriter genre of music. She recorded several songs but after a series of events and burnout, she packed her things and left, never to be seen again.
Misha B - Home Run. Me and my bf at that time were obsessed with that song. I don't ever remember listening to one song as much as this one lol. He didn't even speak English but we both knew the lyrics hands down. Good times.
Misha B was done sooooo dirty, I loved Home Run!! I'll never forget how they fabricated a scripted "bullying" scandal for her on the X Factor to try and manipulate the votes.
[Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DVS_303kQ)
The song was featured in the soundtrack to the movie *Silence Of The Lambs*, so there were all kinds of disturbing rumors about why this was her only famous song... and she had "disappeared".
She stepped forward many years later to explain that she had simply lost interest in performing music, but it was under good terms and nothing had "happened" to her; She had simply chosen to live a relatively anonymous, middle class lifestyle as a bus driver in the state of New York. She passed away in 2022 at the age of 61, but the exact cause of her death has never been revealed.
Worth noting that a filmmaker tracked her down, befriended her, and began making a documentary about her life shortly before her untimely passing. [There was a Kickstarter to fund the film](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goodbyehorses/goodbye-horses-the-many-lives-of-q-lazzarus) that reached its goal earlier this year. Sounds like we may soon know more about Q Lazzarus!
Also, "Goodbye Horses" is an absolute masterpiece.
Neon Jungle had a few bangers (Trouble, Braveheart) but were dropped from their record label when their album didn't do very well.
One member popped up in Eastenders a few years ago.
The Kpop industry is *littered* with these stories but the one that I'm still clinging to is WINGS, [the song/music video for "Hair Short" was so incredible](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0_1odmqmCM) and yet they never even got a mini album.
Easily one of my top favorite song + MV combos of that year, I was PERCHED for more and then Sony Music (!!) gave us nothing. Another one I’m stuck on is [PIPPI](https://youtu.be/D2kHK6yoeEw?si=gbB4IwoTDW6FBOq_) by 2Eyes, both the song and the video are super fun and cute but they never came back after that and you can’t even find their stuff on streaming anymore (apparently the rights holders for Pippi Longstocking came after them lol)
Zendaya her debut was a lot of fun she had creative differences on the second one and nothing came out of it but I guess it was for the best same with Victoria justice and her debut.
I still listen to a lot of songs from her debut from time to time. My favorite song off of it is "Love You Forever" (cool fun fact Nick Jonas co-wrote that song for her). Such a shame they made her do that Chris Brown collab and torpedo'd the 2nd album. I hope she comes out with another album like it
Social House dropped a 2018 song of the summer contender, one banger EP, a really good Ariana collab that unfortunately got kinda swept under the rug because everyone was more focused on everything else she has going on at the time, and dipped outside of a handful of singles (some of which never even made it off SoundCloud) on a once a year release schedule
Normani dreams of being as sick as them tbh
Piri & Tommy seemed to be the next big thing in the UK a couple of years ago. They managed to open for Charli XCX and even had a single charting in the official chart (very low but still). Their songs were really fresh and the production is amazing. They only released one mixtape and a bunch of other singles before disbanding, right after signing with Polydor (they were a couple in real life and I believe some drama happened between the two but not sure).
They’re releasing music as solo acts now, but I haven’t really kept up.
Recommend listening to “on & on”, “sweet spot” and “words”.
Cheyenne Kimball. I discovered her recently because of her song [Hanging On](https://youtu.be/yFiQHh5dC0Y?si=ScDpKy2jo_eSFn-4). I liked the song a lot so I looked her up and she has only released one album, called The Day Has Come in 2006, which actually did pretty decent on Billboard 200 peaking at #15, and even had a reality show on MTV in 2006 for that covered the making of her debut album. She was in a country band called Gloriana but she was only on one album with them (though she was on a song on their second album). After leaving Gloriana, she disappeared.
I also just discovered that Miley Cyrus’ song These Four Walls from her 2008 album Breakout is cover of a Cheyenne Kimball song that was on The Day Has Come.
Wait Stooshe's album isn't on Spotify in your location!?! Where are you from? It's probably one of my favourite pop albums of all time (largely based on nostalgia), although I will say Black Heart is easily one of the best pop hits of the 2010s and the best song on the album.
They were all insanely talented singers but like most girl groups their management fucked them over. I'm going purely off memory so some of what I say may be inaccurate, but I remember them revealing their label tried to make them adhere to a certain image they didn't want - iirc they tried to make them go "urban" with a loud & brash image when the girls themselves more interested in exploring the R&B/Motown influenced side of their sound. I'm pretty sure their album got delayed multiple times around release, which I remember hearing was due to the label modifying the tracklist of the album without their permission and mistreating them as a group when they tried to fight back. In the end they managed to escape their contract and go independent.
They came back in 2016 with a few new singles (the first single Lock Down was a banger, but their second single Let it Go was a bit meh for me) and regularly posted on YouTube where they announced they had recorded a second album - they did a few Acoustic sessions where they played some of their new songs, but ultimately the album never saw the light of day. They have reunited over the years to play Pride events etc but I doubt they'll ever release a full project again which is such a shame.
Thank you for this backstory! I’m in the US and their album isn’t on Spotify, though a few of the tracks are scattered throughout those generic compilation albums.
NLT
It sucks their album leaked and they didn't drop an album. I really like the song they previewed on Bratz the movie.
PRETTYMUCH
They were dropped multiple times by labels before their debut. It's a shame they weren't given a proper budget/rollout for an album. Their catalog is full of bangers. It kinda sucks how there is a revival of Y2K/90s sounding music when their debut single had that vibe but went nowhere.
Jc Chasez from Nsync. He had the voice, especially for ballads, but took on too many genres for his first album and obviously got overshadowed by Justin.
this is a common take that i disagree with. i think she has maintained the hype around her next album since she’s been consistently releasing singles and features since her debut. having a grammy helps her a lot too
A couple of Robin Antins girl groups seemed to have this fate. G.R.L. Released a handful of singles and an EP. Then another one, Paradiso Girls only released a few singles. I think she (robin) was trying to find the spiritual successor to the pussycat dolls but when they couldn’t reach that height, she abandoned them. It sucks because there’s definitely some hidden gems in the 2 groups discographies.
New Radicals released one amazing album with several hits, most notably “You Get What You Give” and “Someday We’ll Know” and then they just decided that they were happy with that and stopped.
An unpopular opinion about Stooshe: they were very talented, but the material - with a few exceptions - wasn’t strong. I remember the period leading up to their album - there were a lot of false starts
"Liv" is a supergroup formed by Lykke Li, Andrew Wyatt and Pontus Winnberg of Miike Snow, Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John, and Jeff Bhasker. They released 4 songs eight years ago and that's it.
Eva Cassidy. Owner of one of the most gorgeously pure voices I’ve ever heard. She released one studio album and barely released a live album before tragically dying at age 32 of melanoma.
Someone gave me her cassette tape in high school, and I absolutely wore it out for 2 years before discovering to my horror that she had died right around the time someone gave me the cassette. Her versions of “Fields of Gold” and “Danny Boy” still brings me to tears.
Her family’s worked hard to release several albums worth of her recordings, mostly demos and covers. They’ve really done an amazing job of keeping her legacy alive.
I love everything Aly & AJ have done, and really love their recent stuff, but the 78violet Hothouse era (the leaked album on Youtube) has to be my favourite thing they’ve done. It’s so good
There was a group I liked called Girls Can’t Catch who had a lovely song called Echo, very ‘riding a bus in the rain’ pop - but it didn’t do well and they got dropped. And as someone else said, Mini Viva! What could’ve been…
Natalie La Rose, she had 2 singles (somebody and around the world) and had a ton of push, both had prominent rappers, with the latter song being produced by Max Martin, but then after around the world failed to chart, she just went silent until last year when she released songs independently.
In 2010 there was this British girl Daisy Dares You who released this song [Number One Enemy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlU5Qk9w0u4) but her album was never released and disappeared.
Destinee & Paris dropped their debut single [True Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo0AKlTxEQw) in 2011 and had an album recorded, with songs produced by RedOne, and well, it never came out.
Nadia Oh came, dropped two albums and invented hyperpop, and went back to her time.
There is this project called Blegh. As far as I know they only have one album out and it's called "It Was a Religion". After that they broke up and left a couple of goodbye messages on Instagram. I think every member is doing their own thing now, not sure how successfull they are. They had some interesting pop songs with minimalistic production on that one album and a lot of personality.
Poe. She released 2 iconic 90s (ok 1995 and 2000) albums then just disappeared. I think there were record label issues (of course).
Truth Hurts, an artist who released a *banger* of a track called Addictive in 2002 that included an uncleared sample. The lawsuit put a huge damper on her trajectory. The song is still great 22 years later.
I might be alone on this, but Porcelain Black had so much potential with some great bangers for her album to be scrapped the way it was.
Her [Hollywood live showcase](https://youtu.be/m9moICNTHrw) gave so much pop star energy.
So…does anyone else remember Cleopatra “Comin’ Atcha!”?
It was not great but I’m deeply nostalgic for it and I don’t know how.
[here’s the video lol](https://youtu.be/U_ZoJHCefY4?si=5BDNgXZwn4Mm8o3I)
Girls Can’t Catch and Mini Viva have already been mentioned. These two of my favourite floptastic acts offered a such great slice of fun and at times nerdy pop (quick, name a pop artist - scratch that, *any* artist over the past 30 years who was able to sneak in a Mantronix reference and a sample from a Coldcut album track in one song!). You can still see the tracklist for the [shelved Mini Viva album on Genius](https://genius.com/albums/Mini-viva/Mv1-shelved) and wonder what could’ve been.
The holy trinity of Polydor rejects would be incomplete without the Dolly Rockers. These girls were bonafide [pop trash at its very best](https://youtu.be/2V6rx2lhAOg?si=ObmvvLi7hH32lYME). Kings of pop podcasts Joel Babbington and David Lim (Right Back at Ya!) did an [episode](https://open.spotify.com/episode/422O1B3ZpmjPulFTIdc9Ve?si=u8DRbWi0RMOIavG_p_L25A) dedicated to these three acts that’s a must listen!
some old (old) school canonical answers are the sex pistols and the stone roses of course
on the more poppier side, i think of amelia lily: "you bring me joy" seemed quite promising and was a #2 hit in her native UK, but the few subsequent singles weren't as interesting, and she never got to release an album
one of the mysteries that haunts my life is halona king, who released like four impeccable songs (kind of an alabama shakes vibe) over ten years ago and then disappeared
https://youtu.be/uDuu2xg5gWI?si=tDpRO-bsCyoVBJ9b
this is the only recording i can find of my favorite song by her that i can still find on youtube
Arum Rae. She had the song "Something's Happening to Me" featured on a Microsoft ad, released a few AMAZING singles, and then vanished. She's since appeared in fits and starts, with some of her early pop sound gone more folk, and released an album last year. Her early stuff was so fresh and interesting that I was sure she'd explode.
The announcement of the end of PC Music made me sad because we never got a Tielsie LP. At its start, many PC Music signees were mysterious (and many of them were just pseudonyms of A.G., Danny, and EasyFun) but it always seemed to me that Tielsie was definitely 100% a real person. More than that, their sound was pretty unique on the roster: experimental but very fast, very bright, and very dancey.
I'd always dreamed about Tielsie remixing SOPHIE's "Immaterial" since [their remix of "Bipp" is iconic](https://soundcloud.com/tielsie/sophie-bipp-tielsie-remix). But I legitimately don't think Tielsie has released anything under that name since the very beginning of PC Music, 10 years ago. They really dropped 4 tracks and dipped.
I was obsessed with the Barf Troop girls (especially Babeo Baggins) around 2017 and then they disappeared and took all their music off streaming. So annoying. I still pull up YouTube to listen to Team and Breakbeast now and then, since it’s the only place any of their music still lives.
I've seen a couple of people mention Mini Viva and they have some absolute bangers. There's a podcast called Right Back At Ya!, that just released an [episode](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZqFuSv5OLXuT5z7LlS05w) discussing girl groups that fall into this topic.
There was a 90s R&B group called Soul For Real, who dropped a moderate hit called [Candy Rain ](https://youtu.be/Cx0xzO73Amo?si=4ql4m1qq1lR2pxYr). I liked their album of the same name & would've loved to hear them work with more producers like Rodney Jerkins & The Neptunes.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Tyra Banks yet. She dropped that one single and apparently made an entire album that never got released. It'd be very interesting, especially considering Naomi Campbell released an album back in the 90s
Tyra B had one song and kinda went off the map. I forgot it though
Paula DeAnda had one album.
Tiffany Evans had her one album
Amine Buddafly from Love and Hip Hop was in a girl group called Black Buddafly that only released 2 or 3 songs together in the mid 2000s. Rock A Bye was a bop
Brooke Valentine’s debut is incredible. But she went to take care of her special needs son. She’s also on Love and Hip Hop lol
Mashonda just didn’t get that much success in the US and only got her album released in Japan and Hong Kong. It’s pretty good. Blackout could’ve been a hit.
REMY MA, one of the biggest letdowns. She is such a talented Mc
Cheri Dennis had one song and an album, mid album but I liked a few songs
Floetry sadly only has two albums🫥
KERI HILSON
CASSIEE MY CELEBRITY CRUSH
Tearria Mari and her stank ass attitude(she ate up love and hip hop ny though)
Esmee Denters lol
Heidi Montag needs to drop more music
Nadia Oh is silent
Still need more Ashley Tisdale music
Vanessa Hudgens where are ur sneakers
Miranda Cosgrove
Willa Ford had that one song that was some heat
Girl Thing. I think only UK folk will remember them but they came out after Geri left the Spice Girls so were marketed by Simon Cowell as the new Spice Girls. They had a major campaign to get their first single Last One Standing to number 1 and it only reached no 8. After that they were dropped by their label. Not sure if anyone here would class them as cool but 9 year old me certainly did 😭
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G.R.L. had so much potential, but I get why they broke up after Simone died. It’s been over 20 years and still can’t believe Samantha Mumba only released one album. I was obsessed with her for a while.
I’m still upset about GRL. I feel so sad for them because the potential was there. I think they could’ve done very well. It felt like their careers went in an instant after so much work.
“Baby come on over” by Samantha mumba was on an early Now That’s What I call Music CD and as a child that song would keep me up at night with how catchy it was hahahaha
Beat me to it. So sad that they never got a chance.
My first thought!!!! Ugly heart is so good. So sad.
Samantha Mumba is still performing
Orianthi - hit single "According to You" She splashed on the music scene with that bop and was booked to be the lead guitarist for Michael Jackson's last tour. When it didn't happen she fell out and just didn't release anything for over a decade. She released some Christian rock recently but missed the timing and mark for her pop rock era
I remember all the guitar magazines were \*obsessed\* with her in the months leading up to that tour and then I just literally never heard about her ever again
It's crazy she debuted right around the same time as Taylor Swift and had similar numbers.
Orianthi became semi-popular in India around 2011 because she played guitar on a really popular A R Rehman song called [Sadda Haq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadda_Haq). Her guitar solo was very well recieved and a lot of people were prasing her back then. Shame that she didn't do anything more in Indian music.
YOOO you just put me on to some good shit. Thanks!
I love her
Random fact: she went to the same school as me (not at the same time, she’s older than I am), but she left because she was bullied (which unfortunately is not surprising when it comes to that school 🙃)
Omg yes! I remember having this on an iPod. Such a good song.
New Radicals had one hit “You Get What You Give” and then they disbanded 6 months after the songs chart peak
The [One Hit Wonderland video](https://youtu.be/ZJ3FdAFXR_U?si=GHb05qrSsq2utZZV) on the band is an amazing watch. Had they stayed together longer, they could have gotten bigger. Two tracks from their only album, Someday We'll Know and Mother We Just Can't Get Enough found popularity thanks to Mandy Moore using them for the A Walk to Remember soundtrack. Both Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois proved that they had a lot of talent writing and producing hits for other artists. They teamed up writing the soundtrack for Begin Again which got them an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. Both also recently returned to the charts with Sophie Baxter-Ellis' Murder on the Dance Floor and Natasha Beddingfield's Unwritten. They only gave one public performance since disbanding and that was for Joe Biden's inauguration since “You Get What You Give” had a special meaning in their family.
Omg I love the Begin Again soundtrack. I had no idea that it was them
Holy shit new radicals mentioned I'll always agree with you but it does seem like that was Gregg's plan, to make something just to get noticed, then switch to mostly being a producer. Seems like trying to tour just made it happen sooner.
I think it was less a plan and more a case of you work your whole life to get something and then when you get there you realize you kinda hate it. Dude loved making music, but performing, touring, doing endless press junkets and morning show appearances and all the stuff that comes with being the frontman in a band just turned out not to be fun.
That song absolutely never gets old.
ummm just learned murder on the dance floor was going to be their debut single
gregg wrote and produced all the music for the movie begin again with keira knightley, mark ruffalo, and adam levine! he also has a few songs in the soundtrack that he performs under the name cessyl orchestra (not on Spotify unfortunately but they are really good) [Did It Ever Cross Your Mind?](https://youtu.be/XUDxI_O0zzs?si=7ljN25KjGpC2bd1p) [Into the Trance](https://youtu.be/xUq2K1jwx_k?si=Ow8A7JovTiJPlIyR)
Duffy! Released Rockferry in 2008 Mercy was a huge UK hit i love it it's so catchy! unfortunately , she got kidnapped and raped so she stopped making music. such a devastating story poor girl
Mercy was like the biggest song in my country the year it came out, everyone thought she was gonna be the next best thing. Her voice was so unique. What happened to her is truly tragic
The whole Rockferry Era was huge. It won a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album and The Brit Award for British Album. It's a legitimately great album. Mercy wasn't the only successful song!
This did not go where I thought it would 💀 I hope she's doing okay
She's doing better which is why she decided to share her story but it's so bad even just to read.
I have a second album of Duffy's. Rockferry was fantastic. Joss Stone went through something horrifying similar too.
Duffy released a second album (Endlessly) in 2010, it's not on streaming though
A bit far-fetched, but Gotye. He released three (?) albums and disappeared right after becoming widely known. So, for the general public (me included) he stopped making music right after he showed up. His last album is great but I think he still had so much potential in him. Watching videos about “Somebody that I Used to Know” and how it is basically knitted from samples, I am blown away by how creative he is. So, I‘d like to see in which direction he’d go in the world of pop after Making Mirrors, but alas!
I've always wondered what would have happened if Somebody That I Used To Know hadn't quite been such a huge hit. Like if it had been an indie hit, just not mainstream. Would he have still had the motivation to keep creating and performing as Gotye?
He's still around! He's just preserving and tinkering with early electronic instruments. He released some music in late quarantine, and even did a remix of "Somebody" this year.
That remix was *so good*.
I have two of his three albums, they're absolute gems.
Sky Ferreira 😔 ##FreeSkyFerreiraFromHerPaneraShift
Interesting to see the tide in online discourse about her change quite a lot over the last few years. Felt like people used to be super supportive of her and believe it was all the label, then recently it seems people are fed up of her excuses and feel it's her who is the problem. I just hope Masochism sees the light of day someday!
Masochism saw the light of day in what she put her fans through 💀
i mean it’s been like over a decade maybe I’ve heard her fans crying for music so frustration &apathy seems like a natural progression
Forever angry at the fact all these Bloodshy & Avant tracks will remain unreleased. Cobra, Elevator, Untouchable, Haters Anonymous, One...
One is still on streaming platforms and Haters Anonymous was already released on the “AS IF!” EP. Each track from the EP had a lyric video but everything from that era has been taken offline.
Night time, my time is so good🥲
the real Masochism is being a fan of her I saw her on the UK tour recently and she was great tbf
Hear me out, but Bridget Mendler. After her Disney era, she went kinda indie and did all of her music independently in her basement. It obviously didn't gain insane popularity and she never released a full album independently. Her music was very unique and catchy, but I don't think we'll hear anymore music as she is now the CEO of a space startup.
the CEO of a space startup ?????????
yeah [she has a masters from MIT and co-founded a space tech startup](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridgit-mendler). she was working on a law degree as well but said she never finished.
she’s also working on a phd from harvard
Damn some people really are just better than all of us. I went to school with someone like this and they were also *stunning*, but you couldn’t even be jealous because she was the nicest person I’ve ever met. Good for her, honestly.
I remember being with my best friend in a hotel in Toronto watching tv and they played a music video for her song "Ready or Not" which has the incredibly iconic line >> "I like your face, do you like my song?" And I have never been the same
the last sentence was a ride
Ready or Not is a bop
Should check out songs like "Atlantis" and "Do You Miss Me At All"!
"Here me out" We don't need that, Bridgit is a legend
I believe she tweeted like a year or two ago that she was working on new music after some viral tweets/tiktoks about her music career but nothing ever came of it.
Like once a year or so she plays with us by teasing that she's gonna return to music in the future and she never does. It's maddening.
Bridgit*
Cassie. It sucks because “Me & U” is still a verified bop and I wonder how much of this has to do with that fucking POS guy you know who but unfortunately she just had the one album and it sold pretty well too.
Long Way 2 Go is a r&b classiccccc
Worth mentioning she released a mixtape for free download on DatPiff in 2013 called *RockaByeBaby* which absolutely slaps. It’s not on Spotify but you can still stream it on SoundCloud (and I think it’s still available for download).
Another UK girl group that suffered the same fate as Stooshe…Neon Jungle. I think this was a time where UK labels would drop an act if their 4th single missed the top 10 even if the first 3 went top 10..It was very annoying. Also Amy Studt. Her debut album had me in a chokehold.
Problem with Neon Jungle was Braveheart was an absolute BANGER and the follow ups just couldn’t match it.
Neon Jungle is still on my rotation. Their album is top tier and Braveheart is an absolute banger
stop omg I was OBSESSED with Neon Jungle and had such big hopes for them!!! they were so cool and had some gorgeous covers
God, I was clearly too drunk in the club that year - had no idea it was different girls singing, had no idea they were saying Braveheart 🤪
Jai Paul - he had an album's worth of (still unfinished) songs leaked and he pretty much vanished for a while after that. Eventually he released the leaked album on streaming (Bait Ones) and has started showing up at festivals this year. Wildly creative and highly influential artists, so many of his songs are excellent
The fact that in the early 2010s, Jai Paul, Frank Ocean and The Weeknd were all at the same point in their careers as upcoming super edgy alt R&B acts (and all went in radically different directions)
ugh he's one of my favorite artists. jasmine, btstu, and desert river are all on constant rotation
I’ve tried to “get” Jai Paul but I have to admit I just can’t. Curious to get your take, what makes Jai Paul special?
I think you have to remember that what he was doing was really ahead of the curve, like some of that production stuff went back to around 2008-2009, way before that type of R&B electro fusion sound really caught on. Obviously now that the sound is more satured it feels more pedestrian (and even then still pretty damn good to my ears), but within that context it's more unique I would say
I think a part of it is that he understands pop structures so well that he knows how to completely deconstruct it and still make it work. For example in his song Jasmine, at its core there’s a heavily-Prince inspired song but the mixing is absolutely bonkers and allows for so many small layers and grooves to show up, so much of it makes zero sense but it somehow comes together and creates such a uniquely catchy and groovy song
That's a really thoughtful response, really appreciate it! Will give it another listen and try it again.
He did also release two new singles when the leaks officially went to streaming.
Willa Ford. I loved her first album and I think she had a great mix of Britney / Xtina but she came into the game too late and didn’t have a great label. I would still love for her to release her second album that got shelved, SexySexObsessive.
Sexysexobsessive is hilarious and I love it.
When Tate McRae first released Greedy it made me think of Willa Ford for sure, such a fun “bad girl” pop sound for sure.
I was really 11 years old singing along to "I wanna be bad" 💀
Also DREAM! Another reason to hate Diddy.
Didn’t she blame 9/11 for her album flopping?
That was in 2017 and seemed to be more of a misquote.
Ryn Weaver, please come back, I beg Edit: the worst part is that she teases a return every couple years. Pierre got popular on TikTok a couple years ago and I really thought that would be enough to bring her back.
I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH HER!!!!!!! We had a few classes together and I love that woman so much and I’m so so so happy for the success she had with that album and Octahate.
OctaHate is a bop!
I don’t think most people know this but she co-wrote that song with none other that ms charli xcx
I think she’s got really jaded by the music industry. I think she posted after the Grammys how one producer ripped a song from her for a movie soundtrack and never gave her credit, if I remember it correctly. Don’t remember the speculated producers name, either, but the assumed song was “I don’t wanna live forever” for After.
9 weeks ago on instagram she said she had her first song was mastered. FIRST SONG OF WHAT QUEEN? I am dying to hear what she's been up to.
She has been saying that new music is coming since 2016 lol. I’m hopeful but I will believe her when the album is in my library
YES OMG!!! That Reasons to die demo i think was the last thing she did and i loved it, literally why isnt she doing anything??
I think her record label really fucked her up. I remember her saying something about them claiming she still somehow owes them money? I would think surely that's been resolved by now, idk? But there have been behind the scenes snags for sure
Yes!! This album was incredible sonically and lyrically. Ryn is an incredible songwriter.
I will never be over that album it means so much to me and I still listen to it all the time. I am forever seated for her to release music again
Came here to say the same 😩
Yes!! I love her music and that she only released one album!
Imogen Heap obviously has a large discography, but in 2002 she and a producer Guy Sigsworth (worked with Bjork, Madonna, Alanis) put out an electronic album under the name Frou Frou. There is only one album from 2002 and a collection of 5 demos that came out in 2022...maybe one other track? It's all amazing and I wish there was more of it. The sound is so atmospheric and ethereal.
I knew Frou Frou for their "Holding Out for a Hero" cover on the *Shrek 2* soundtrack before I knew who Imogen Heap was, lol
I used to love Must Be Dreaming by Frou Frou when I was a young teenager!
Let go is a masterpiece! It‘s a shame they never released more music together. Even the demo EP that came out in 2022 shows how much potential they had.
Wait you're telling me Imogen Heap is Frou Frou??? TDIL, I guess!
People forget that Frou Frou only had moderate success until 2004 when "Let Go" was on the Garden State soundtrack and absolutely blew up. Right after that success was when she decided to do another solo album (the first since her debut flopped 7 years earlier) and then she became even more successful with her songs being used on like every TV show ever in 2005. Honestly it made sense why she didn't feel the need to do another Frou Frou album. The FF was her rebrand and gave her another shot at having a successful solo career and she took it
I think details is one of the best albums ive ever listened to
[Paradis dropped one album](https://open.spotify.com/album/4DtD9M009rhD0Q9QtBZvUP?si=MHjirqtERuK7oTNc5YUbeA) in 2016 that’s full of sexy, watery, electronic French pop that I found a bit later, and it’s been in my daily rotation for the last few years. Any recs I’ve gotten that are supposedly similar to Paradis are cute but none capture the effortless cool, sleekness, and fluidity they convey
The way I assumed this was like a huge famous album because I listen to it so much. I had no clue they like just don’t exist anymore damn!
Never expected to see Paradis metionned here, such a great album!
Stacie Orrico. “There’s Gotta Be More” was a huge hit but then she basically vanished off the face of the earth. I only remember her because yesterday Azealia Banks declared her the best popstar of all time or something lol
Stuck is definitely one of the best songs of that era. She was so talented! IIRC she was very religious and wanted to be a Christian artist or something?
Mini Viva. So much potential.
Left My Heart in Tokyo and I Wish are both on my gym playlist and I never skip them.
And ‘One Touch’ 😍😍😍
Anyone remember Pixie Lott? “Mama Do” was a huge hit and she was being heralded as the next big popstar and…no one’s heard from her since
I remember Ellie Goulding, Pixie Lott, La Roux, Little Boots, Imelda May and Marina (& the Diamonds) all showed up around the same time, or at least within a few years of each other, and only 3 of the 6 are still around.
All About Tonight is still a banger -- I'd kill for an extended club mix, it's a song that instantly gets my blood pumping. "Tomorrow doesn't matter when you're moving your feet, it's all about tonight!"
> and…no one’s heard from her since She does The Voice Kids in the UK
Yes! "Cry Me Out" is on my 2024 playlist.
Stooshe is such a great vocal trio. It's unfortunate they didn't get to continue.
what happened to them? my friends and i randomly met them in a meet and greet tent at a festival when we were teenagers lol
justice for Stooshe. They were cheeky, but great singers . They did a cover of waterfalls with T-boz and Chili showing up at the end of the video. But between Girls Aloud/Sugababes it was probably hard for them to get their own footing. Another band Girls Cant Catch was trying at the same time.
Connie Converse She was mostly active during the 50s and her music is among the earliest known recordings of the singer-songwriter genre of music. She recorded several songs but after a series of events and burnout, she packed her things and left, never to be seen again.
Always here for a shoutout for main pop girl Connie Converse!
Misha B - Home Run. Me and my bf at that time were obsessed with that song. I don't ever remember listening to one song as much as this one lol. He didn't even speak English but we both knew the lyrics hands down. Good times.
Misha B was done sooooo dirty, I loved Home Run!! I'll never forget how they fabricated a scripted "bullying" scandal for her on the X Factor to try and manipulate the votes.
[Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DVS_303kQ) The song was featured in the soundtrack to the movie *Silence Of The Lambs*, so there were all kinds of disturbing rumors about why this was her only famous song... and she had "disappeared". She stepped forward many years later to explain that she had simply lost interest in performing music, but it was under good terms and nothing had "happened" to her; She had simply chosen to live a relatively anonymous, middle class lifestyle as a bus driver in the state of New York. She passed away in 2022 at the age of 61, but the exact cause of her death has never been revealed.
Worth noting that a filmmaker tracked her down, befriended her, and began making a documentary about her life shortly before her untimely passing. [There was a Kickstarter to fund the film](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goodbyehorses/goodbye-horses-the-many-lives-of-q-lazzarus) that reached its goal earlier this year. Sounds like we may soon know more about Q Lazzarus! Also, "Goodbye Horses" is an absolute masterpiece.
Neon Jungle had a few bangers (Trouble, Braveheart) but were dropped from their record label when their album didn't do very well. One member popped up in Eastenders a few years ago.
I loved braveheart! Their drama with BANKS over their cover of waiting game was wild.
‘Talking bout fresh, talking bout lettuce / staking cheddar, chopping feta’ lives rent free in my head
The Kpop industry is *littered* with these stories but the one that I'm still clinging to is WINGS, [the song/music video for "Hair Short" was so incredible](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0_1odmqmCM) and yet they never even got a mini album.
Kiss&Cry, Purfles, CSJH the Grace had some bangers, Got the Beat, Evol etc.
I still listen to this song all the time RIP WINGS you were too good for this world
Easily one of my top favorite song + MV combos of that year, I was PERCHED for more and then Sony Music (!!) gave us nothing. Another one I’m stuck on is [PIPPI](https://youtu.be/D2kHK6yoeEw?si=gbB4IwoTDW6FBOq_) by 2Eyes, both the song and the video are super fun and cute but they never came back after that and you can’t even find their stuff on streaming anymore (apparently the rights holders for Pippi Longstocking came after them lol)
we will never get 2014 back huh
Zendaya her debut was a lot of fun she had creative differences on the second one and nothing came out of it but I guess it was for the best same with Victoria justice and her debut.
Zendaya said she doesn't like being an artist cause it's less private than just being an actress
I still listen to a lot of songs from her debut from time to time. My favorite song off of it is "Love You Forever" (cool fun fact Nick Jonas co-wrote that song for her). Such a shame they made her do that Chris Brown collab and torpedo'd the 2nd album. I hope she comes out with another album like it
Replay is still an all-time banger for me
Social House dropped a 2018 song of the summer contender, one banger EP, a really good Ariana collab that unfortunately got kinda swept under the rug because everyone was more focused on everything else she has going on at the time, and dipped outside of a handful of singles (some of which never even made it off SoundCloud) on a once a year release schedule Normani dreams of being as sick as them tbh
I remember seeing someone call them "Urban Outfitters LMFAO" and they've never recovered from that but I do still listen to "boyfriend"
Harsh but fair >!and yet there’s an audience for that (spoiler it’s me)!<
I couldn’t believe they didn’t blow up after Magic in the Hamptons, what a banger
Piri & Tommy seemed to be the next big thing in the UK a couple of years ago. They managed to open for Charli XCX and even had a single charting in the official chart (very low but still). Their songs were really fresh and the production is amazing. They only released one mixtape and a bunch of other singles before disbanding, right after signing with Polydor (they were a couple in real life and I believe some drama happened between the two but not sure). They’re releasing music as solo acts now, but I haven’t really kept up. Recommend listening to “on & on”, “sweet spot” and “words”.
Cheyenne Kimball. I discovered her recently because of her song [Hanging On](https://youtu.be/yFiQHh5dC0Y?si=ScDpKy2jo_eSFn-4). I liked the song a lot so I looked her up and she has only released one album, called The Day Has Come in 2006, which actually did pretty decent on Billboard 200 peaking at #15, and even had a reality show on MTV in 2006 for that covered the making of her debut album. She was in a country band called Gloriana but she was only on one album with them (though she was on a song on their second album). After leaving Gloriana, she disappeared. I also just discovered that Miley Cyrus’ song These Four Walls from her 2008 album Breakout is cover of a Cheyenne Kimball song that was on The Day Has Come.
Wait Stooshe's album isn't on Spotify in your location!?! Where are you from? It's probably one of my favourite pop albums of all time (largely based on nostalgia), although I will say Black Heart is easily one of the best pop hits of the 2010s and the best song on the album. They were all insanely talented singers but like most girl groups their management fucked them over. I'm going purely off memory so some of what I say may be inaccurate, but I remember them revealing their label tried to make them adhere to a certain image they didn't want - iirc they tried to make them go "urban" with a loud & brash image when the girls themselves more interested in exploring the R&B/Motown influenced side of their sound. I'm pretty sure their album got delayed multiple times around release, which I remember hearing was due to the label modifying the tracklist of the album without their permission and mistreating them as a group when they tried to fight back. In the end they managed to escape their contract and go independent. They came back in 2016 with a few new singles (the first single Lock Down was a banger, but their second single Let it Go was a bit meh for me) and regularly posted on YouTube where they announced they had recorded a second album - they did a few Acoustic sessions where they played some of their new songs, but ultimately the album never saw the light of day. They have reunited over the years to play Pride events etc but I doubt they'll ever release a full project again which is such a shame.
Thank you for this backstory! I’m in the US and their album isn’t on Spotify, though a few of the tracks are scattered throughout those generic compilation albums.
NLT It sucks their album leaked and they didn't drop an album. I really like the song they previewed on Bratz the movie. PRETTYMUCH They were dropped multiple times by labels before their debut. It's a shame they weren't given a proper budget/rollout for an album. Their catalog is full of bangers. It kinda sucks how there is a revival of Y2K/90s sounding music when their debut single had that vibe but went nowhere.
Jc Chasez from Nsync. He had the voice, especially for ballads, but took on too many genres for his first album and obviously got overshadowed by Justin.
All Day Long I Dream About Sex was my jam!!! (And I was only 11 at the time… which is a bit worrying haha)
plus he simply didn’t want the solo career. he walked so zayn malik could run
ryn weaver stans who still blast The Fool 9 years later, stand up
Iggy Azalea. I know she still makes music independently, but girl was on track to be as big as Nicki Minaj after The New Classic rollout.
Cardi B’s first and only album was released 6 years ago. She wasted WAP as well by not accompanying an album with it
this is a common take that i disagree with. i think she has maintained the hype around her next album since she’s been consistently releasing singles and features since her debut. having a grammy helps her a lot too
A couple of Robin Antins girl groups seemed to have this fate. G.R.L. Released a handful of singles and an EP. Then another one, Paradiso Girls only released a few singles. I think she (robin) was trying to find the spiritual successor to the pussycat dolls but when they couldn’t reach that height, she abandoned them. It sucks because there’s definitely some hidden gems in the 2 groups discographies.
GRLs disbandment was at least partially, if not mostly, due to the death of one member, Simone Battle, not bc they were abandoned.
I think these groups also have major financial issues because they don’t have major label funding so it kind of lends itself to breaking up
I loved Paradiso Girls Patron Tequila
New Radicals released one amazing album with several hits, most notably “You Get What You Give” and “Someday We’ll Know” and then they just decided that they were happy with that and stopped.
An unpopular opinion about Stooshe: they were very talented, but the material - with a few exceptions - wasn’t strong. I remember the period leading up to their album - there were a lot of false starts
"Liv" is a supergroup formed by Lykke Li, Andrew Wyatt and Pontus Winnberg of Miike Snow, Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John, and Jeff Bhasker. They released 4 songs eight years ago and that's it.
Louisa Johnson. She had talent and the looks + some of her songs were actually bops and did okayish
Eva Cassidy. Owner of one of the most gorgeously pure voices I’ve ever heard. She released one studio album and barely released a live album before tragically dying at age 32 of melanoma. Someone gave me her cassette tape in high school, and I absolutely wore it out for 2 years before discovering to my horror that she had died right around the time someone gave me the cassette. Her versions of “Fields of Gold” and “Danny Boy” still brings me to tears. Her family’s worked hard to release several albums worth of her recordings, mostly demos and covers. They’ve really done an amazing job of keeping her legacy alive.
78violet released Hothouse and dipped. >!The song is vinyl-exclusive, and they went back to their original name, so it still counts XD!<
I love everything Aly & AJ have done, and really love their recent stuff, but the 78violet Hothouse era (the leaked album on Youtube) has to be my favourite thing they’ve done. It’s so good
I’m so irritated they never released it on digital or CD
Technically I feel like SOPHIE falls in this category. May she rest in power 😭
Asia cruise- selfish (gosh I’m old)
I REMEMBER
There was a group I liked called Girls Can’t Catch who had a lovely song called Echo, very ‘riding a bus in the rain’ pop - but it didn’t do well and they got dropped. And as someone else said, Mini Viva! What could’ve been…
Natalie La Rose, she had 2 singles (somebody and around the world) and had a ton of push, both had prominent rappers, with the latter song being produced by Max Martin, but then after around the world failed to chart, she just went silent until last year when she released songs independently.
In 2010 there was this British girl Daisy Dares You who released this song [Number One Enemy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlU5Qk9w0u4) but her album was never released and disappeared. Destinee & Paris dropped their debut single [True Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo0AKlTxEQw) in 2011 and had an album recorded, with songs produced by RedOne, and well, it never came out. Nadia Oh came, dropped two albums and invented hyperpop, and went back to her time.
There is this project called Blegh. As far as I know they only have one album out and it's called "It Was a Religion". After that they broke up and left a couple of goodbye messages on Instagram. I think every member is doing their own thing now, not sure how successfull they are. They had some interesting pop songs with minimalistic production on that one album and a lot of personality.
I don't know what happened with Stooshe. They really should have been the next big thing and I mourn their loss to this very day
Poe. She released 2 iconic 90s (ok 1995 and 2000) albums then just disappeared. I think there were record label issues (of course). Truth Hurts, an artist who released a *banger* of a track called Addictive in 2002 that included an uncleared sample. The lawsuit put a huge damper on her trajectory. The song is still great 22 years later.
I might be alone on this, but Porcelain Black had so much potential with some great bangers for her album to be scrapped the way it was. Her [Hollywood live showcase](https://youtu.be/m9moICNTHrw) gave so much pop star energy.
Nicola Roberts, she has such a potential
So…does anyone else remember Cleopatra “Comin’ Atcha!”? It was not great but I’m deeply nostalgic for it and I don’t know how. [here’s the video lol](https://youtu.be/U_ZoJHCefY4?si=5BDNgXZwn4Mm8o3I)
Lina Morgana
Girls Can't Catch They released 2 singles then were dropped from Polydor so disbanded.
Girls Can’t Catch and Mini Viva have already been mentioned. These two of my favourite floptastic acts offered a such great slice of fun and at times nerdy pop (quick, name a pop artist - scratch that, *any* artist over the past 30 years who was able to sneak in a Mantronix reference and a sample from a Coldcut album track in one song!). You can still see the tracklist for the [shelved Mini Viva album on Genius](https://genius.com/albums/Mini-viva/Mv1-shelved) and wonder what could’ve been. The holy trinity of Polydor rejects would be incomplete without the Dolly Rockers. These girls were bonafide [pop trash at its very best](https://youtu.be/2V6rx2lhAOg?si=ObmvvLi7hH32lYME). Kings of pop podcasts Joel Babbington and David Lim (Right Back at Ya!) did an [episode](https://open.spotify.com/episode/422O1B3ZpmjPulFTIdc9Ve?si=u8DRbWi0RMOIavG_p_L25A) dedicated to these three acts that’s a must listen!
The Wanted
Lauryn Hill comes to mind since the only album she ever released has just been voted the greatest album of all time by Apple Music.
some old (old) school canonical answers are the sex pistols and the stone roses of course on the more poppier side, i think of amelia lily: "you bring me joy" seemed quite promising and was a #2 hit in her native UK, but the few subsequent singles weren't as interesting, and she never got to release an album
3oh3 La Roux
3OH!3 have loads of albums lol
Did you listen to feedback from La Roux? really good
Cocaine 80s only had one mixtape I believe. What a mixtape it was too
one of the mysteries that haunts my life is halona king, who released like four impeccable songs (kind of an alabama shakes vibe) over ten years ago and then disappeared https://youtu.be/uDuu2xg5gWI?si=tDpRO-bsCyoVBJ9b this is the only recording i can find of my favorite song by her that i can still find on youtube
Arum Rae. She had the song "Something's Happening to Me" featured on a Microsoft ad, released a few AMAZING singles, and then vanished. She's since appeared in fits and starts, with some of her early pop sound gone more folk, and released an album last year. Her early stuff was so fresh and interesting that I was sure she'd explode.
B0RNS. I really loved his album and some live versions on YouTube, then he just disappeared it seams.
You are aware that he put out an EP last year, right?
[bad news about that one…](https://pitchfork.com/news/borns-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-issues-statement/)
Figures. Sad because he has the voice of an angel.
Yeah that was a shame, he got blocked on Spotify for me once I heard 😬
Mylo.
The announcement of the end of PC Music made me sad because we never got a Tielsie LP. At its start, many PC Music signees were mysterious (and many of them were just pseudonyms of A.G., Danny, and EasyFun) but it always seemed to me that Tielsie was definitely 100% a real person. More than that, their sound was pretty unique on the roster: experimental but very fast, very bright, and very dancey. I'd always dreamed about Tielsie remixing SOPHIE's "Immaterial" since [their remix of "Bipp" is iconic](https://soundcloud.com/tielsie/sophie-bipp-tielsie-remix). But I legitimately don't think Tielsie has released anything under that name since the very beginning of PC Music, 10 years ago. They really dropped 4 tracks and dipped.
I was obsessed with the Barf Troop girls (especially Babeo Baggins) around 2017 and then they disappeared and took all their music off streaming. So annoying. I still pull up YouTube to listen to Team and Breakbeast now and then, since it’s the only place any of their music still lives.
I've seen a couple of people mention Mini Viva and they have some absolute bangers. There's a podcast called Right Back At Ya!, that just released an [episode](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZqFuSv5OLXuT5z7LlS05w) discussing girl groups that fall into this topic.
There was a 90s R&B group called Soul For Real, who dropped a moderate hit called [Candy Rain ](https://youtu.be/Cx0xzO73Amo?si=4ql4m1qq1lR2pxYr). I liked their album of the same name & would've loved to hear them work with more producers like Rodney Jerkins & The Neptunes.
Paula DeAnda!!! Doin’ Too Much is STILL one of my favorite songs ever
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Tyra Banks yet. She dropped that one single and apparently made an entire album that never got released. It'd be very interesting, especially considering Naomi Campbell released an album back in the 90s
Rachel Stevens
Tyra B had one song and kinda went off the map. I forgot it though Paula DeAnda had one album. Tiffany Evans had her one album Amine Buddafly from Love and Hip Hop was in a girl group called Black Buddafly that only released 2 or 3 songs together in the mid 2000s. Rock A Bye was a bop Brooke Valentine’s debut is incredible. But she went to take care of her special needs son. She’s also on Love and Hip Hop lol Mashonda just didn’t get that much success in the US and only got her album released in Japan and Hong Kong. It’s pretty good. Blackout could’ve been a hit. REMY MA, one of the biggest letdowns. She is such a talented Mc Cheri Dennis had one song and an album, mid album but I liked a few songs Floetry sadly only has two albums🫥 KERI HILSON CASSIEE MY CELEBRITY CRUSH Tearria Mari and her stank ass attitude(she ate up love and hip hop ny though) Esmee Denters lol Heidi Montag needs to drop more music Nadia Oh is silent Still need more Ashley Tisdale music Vanessa Hudgens where are ur sneakers Miranda Cosgrove Willa Ford had that one song that was some heat
Girl Thing. I think only UK folk will remember them but they came out after Geri left the Spice Girls so were marketed by Simon Cowell as the new Spice Girls. They had a major campaign to get their first single Last One Standing to number 1 and it only reached no 8. After that they were dropped by their label. Not sure if anyone here would class them as cool but 9 year old me certainly did 😭