Songoftheday 9/1/22 - Yeah I was right there like a little wife, I was everything that you need always in line...
"Get Over Yourself" - Eden's Crush
from the album Popstars (2001)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (three weeks)
Weeks in the top-40: 7
Today's song comes from the female vocal group Eden's Crush, who were assembled during the course of the musical "reality" show Popstars. Appearing on the WB television network, the American version of the show had singers compete for a place in the act that would get a record contract. The first season, with 13 episodes ending in April of 2001, uber-producer David Foster led the show to chose five women in the end - Ana Maria Lombo, Maile Misajon, Nicole Scherzinger, Ivette Sosa, and Rosanna Tavarez. Foster produced only three songs on the group's musical debut but that included the first single "Get Over Yourself" which was co-produced and written by Canadian newcomer Matthew Gerraud with John Keller and Michele Vice-Maslin. The result was a product that used the "breaking up with a bad lover" trope that had been done so much in the last year and much better (see yesterday's SOTD). The five women take turns singing lead, but it just seems like karaoke night at the bar, and the sassiness seems quite a bit forced over the rehash of the "No Scrubs" beat. The music video has some strange predecessor of Omegle having the group, who periodically have each of their named shown like we'd remember, performing and viewing back an equal amount of horndog frat boys. The final result is slick, and polished, but definitely a product, but it worked, and both the single and the following album containing songs performed during the course of the show sold like hotcakes for at least a little while...
"Get Over Yourself" made it into Billboard magazine's Hot 100 top ten in March of 2001. While it stayed on the chart for a rather modest 14 weeks, three weeks in the top ten is pretty hefty, enough to make the top 100 for the year. On the radio, the song reached #31 on the Pop Airplay chart. Internationally, the single hit #1 on the Canadian singles sales chart (a radio/sales chart wasn't around during the years following the closing of RPM magazine). The group's first and only album, Popstars, which came out in May of that year, hit #6 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, going on to sell over a half-million copies.
Despite the group's touring with pop powerhouses NSYNC and Jessica Simpson, by the time a follow-up single came in the form of "Love This Way", their distributor London-Sire Records was tanking, and without any promotion or production it stiffed. By the next year, the label was done as well as Eden's Crush. Out of the members, the only person who would ring a bell is Scherzinger, who we will see in the series in the future in the Pussycat Dolls as well as a solo act. Another singer who didn't make the final cut on Popstars, Nikki McKibbin, went on to be in the first season of the much bigger show American Idol, finishing third behind Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini.
The American version of the show had one more season in the fall of 2001, but winners Scene 23 (which included actor Josh Henderson) didn't even get a proper album release. However the series, which started in New Zealand in 1999, was wildly successful for a short time, expanding to 50 countries, the most successful being Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as having #1 hit singles all over the world. Germany's debut season winners No Angels had four chart-toppers there, but the biggest success that ever came from the franchise was the British group Girls Aloud, who went on to have twenty-one top ten hits, with four that went to #1, and a very respectable body of work.
We never saw Eden's Crush again, but as I mentioned Nicole Scherzinger will eventually be back to the series multiple times.
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Here's the group getting interview and singing on The View...
and lastly, at a Sam Goody, yes a Sam Goody..
Up tomorrow: Another manufactured group is imported from the UK into the American top ten, unbelievably to them.
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