The 10 Decisions That Doomed Pet Shop Boys in the U.S.

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Not enough bearing in mind their success in Europe at that time.

That's essentially it. They're not nearly *as* successful in the States as in Europe and various other countries, and their big success with singles (at least outside the dance charts) ended after "Domino Dancing." But, yes, they certainly do have a large and loyal American fanbase. It's not just reflected on the mainstream charts anymore or on the radio aside from "oldies."

Electronic music never was as important in U.S. as it was in Europe. In UK, synth pop was amazingly popular in the early and mid 80's but not in America where rock bands were on top, except people like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Janet and a lot of English bands which were on MTV everyday.

But at that time, there was a joyful feeling with a lot of uptempo and catchy tunes with sweet melodies.

Everything changed in US with Nirvana. They changed almost everything and music started to be less creative and sad. Electronic music wasn't cool anymore. Something similar happened in UK with Brit Pop. Even here in Spain but not in the same way.

Apart from that, powerful female voices like Whitney and Mariah used to get the top of the charts before the reign of rap started.

It's fun to see electro-pop is probably the main music style in the world nowadays. Too late for PSB.

Nirvana are massively overrated.
They had a couple of decent songs then disappeared up their own impotence. They had very little to do with the movement towards grunge, they just copied that style and had some hits. A-ha had a grunge tinged album out a year before Nevermind.

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A-ha had a grunge tinged album out a year before Nevermind.

Wait, what?

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That's essentially it. They're not nearly *as* successful in the States as in Europe and various other countries, and their big success with singles (at least outside the dance charts) ended after "Domino Dancing." But, yes, they certainly do have a large and loyal American fanbase. It's not just reflected on the mainstream charts anymore or on the radio aside from "oldies."

Electronic music never was as important in U.S. as it was in Europe. In UK, synth pop was amazingly popular in the early and mid 80's but not in America where rock bands were on top, except people like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Janet and a lot of English bands which were on MTV everyday.

But at that time, there was a joyful feeling with a lot of uptempo and catchy tunes with sweet melodies.

Everything changed in US with Nirvana. They changed almost everything and music started to be less creative and sad. Electronic music wasn't cool anymore. Something similar happened in UK with Brit Pop. Even here in Spain but not in the same way.

Apart from that, powerful female voices like Whitney and Mariah used to get the top of the charts before the reign of rap started.

It's fun to see electro-pop is probably the main music style in the world nowadays. Too late for PSB.

Nirvana are massively overrated.
They had a couple of decent songs then disappeared up their own impotence. They had very little to do with the movement towards grunge, they just copied that style and had some hits. A-ha had a grunge tinged album out a year before Nevermind.

In US, they changed many things. In some way, they were the end of the reign for the electronic, fun and catchy tunes coming from the late 80's. From Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, REM, etc. Then UK was infected by Brit Pop: Oasis, Blur, Pulp, The Verve, Suede, etc.

I don't hate these bands and I like many songs from them but I think the amazingly high profile coming from those 80's artists was relentless.