Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Battle Of The Bad Girls: Danity Kane vs Total

I don't know what's gotten into me, but writing this post was quite the laborious task. I was thinking about 90s girl groups, which led me to think about Total--Bad Boy--Danity Kane. (that's exactly how the chain of thought process panned out) Back in the day I was a huge Total fan. I still listen to Kima, Keisha,& Pam on Saturdays when I'm cleaning my messy apartment. In my opinion its the ultimate girl power cd. But what the hell happened to them and where did they go? They completely fell off the radar. Well I guess that's not uncharacteristic of Bad Boy artists. (Diddy somehow manages to run all of his artists away)Moving along to 2005 (Making the Band 3) Diddy choses five of eleven girls to form Bad Boy's next girl group, Danity Kane.
Three years and two albums later I'm still not conviced Danity Kane has reached the same level of success as Total. So this calls for a quick session of compare and contrast.
Who has the most hit singles? Total, looking back total has had more Billboard Top 100 singles as a group as well as collaborative efforts
Who has the larger audience? Danity Kane, mostly due to the fact the group is Multi-racial and they've had two seasons of cable network exposure.
Who is more marketable? Danity Kane(but who knows, Bad Boy hasn't been marketing their groups too well lately)
Who is considered one of the best R&B girl groups? Total (See chart below)
Who has had better albums? Hands down I can listen to both Total albums from beginning to end. I can't say the same for Danity Kane

Regardless I hope Danity Kane doesn't fall victim to the Bad Boy curse like poor Total. In conclusion I'm going to go with Total on this one yall!

Here are a few DK & Total tracks-Take that Take that(In my best Diddy voice)

DK vs Total

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