It might be that you don't know what I'm talking about. It's this kind of thing...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1sHTejav6Wk

(With apologies to The McGuire Sisters.) Saccharine and what was considered suitable for the teenagers of the day.

I've just checked out your Baskov though, and I assume this is who you mean...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xrRIjcSi5G4

? To me it just sounds like European Pop, and the kind of thing you might see in the Eurovision Song Contest, just not as weird. Annoying if it's what you get every time you turn the TV on I guess...

But enough of crap! Here's some proper music vids from NZ in the 80s, when stuff was good...

First, probably our most popular song ever - now get's sung very badly at rugby matches and the like. Was the theme to our one and only feature cartoon...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dju_WrVLCME

Followed by this, which is just good pop...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0kf2CpsTbV0

and the most infectious protest song you've ever heard...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UZ2A3z3WUzM

and, (glory be!), this...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4DfJc0Une5g

which is the one to watch V, if you've only time for one. Then get back to your animation!

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