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{{quote|'''Bart''': We're in Branson, Missouri. My dad says that it's what [[Las Vegas]] would look like if it were run by Ned Flanders.}}

* The Darkness: huge in 2004, won loads of awards, album sold over a million copies in the UK alone. Then the follow-up album arrived in 2005, sold less well and the band subsequently split. Now, despite probably still having a copy of ''Permission To Land'' kicking-around, most people pretend they never liked them in the first place.

* The [[Spice Girls]] were one of the few British pop groups, especially after [[The Eighties]], to successfully cross [[The Pond]] and make it big in the United States. At their peak from 1996–98, they were ''everywhere''. "Wannabe" and "Spice Up Your Life" were inescapable, "Girl Power" was the slogan of a whole generation of tween girls, and the movie ''[[Spice World]]'' was an inexplicable blockbuster hit. [[Wikipedia|Dr. Wiki's]] article on them refers to that period of time, unironically, as [[The Beatles (band)|"Spicemania"]]. They remain the highest-selling [[Girl Group]] of all time even after their backlash... and oh, what a backlash. By the year 2000, Geri Halliwell was long gone from the group, their album ''Forever'' was shaping up to be nothing short of a disappointment, and all of the remaining members were pursuing solo careers. Today, the band is chiefly remembered for its campiness and flamboyance, and its members are better known for their work and lives after the Spice Girls.

* The [[Orchestra Hit Techno Battle|orchestra hit]]. A recording of same was included with the Fairlight CMI digital sampling workstation of the early 1980s, and was quickly exploited by producer Trevor Horn for Yes' ''Owner of a Lonely Heart'' and anything else Horn produced over the next few years. It became a cliche of 80s synth pop, appearing on records by Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys and New Order. The sound was resurrected in cartoon form by the rave and acid house crowd in the early 1990s - notably by Altern-8 and The Immortals for their ''Mortal Kombat'' theme - but was killed stone dead forever by its association with 2 Unlimited. It hasn't come back since, not even ironically.