I've always maintained that I hate pop nainly because of the kind of singers who have entered the arena in the mid nineties: when Britney Spears and Christina Aguilerra belted out numbers as fast as they shed clothes and music was anything but what they made. When 'boy bands' sang kiddy stuff like 'your lipstick is so sweet' and the sight of Ronan Keating and N Sync singing copies of copies of a song which shouldn't have been there in the first place made me wrench.

But things were always not this bad. There was a time when pop (honestly this was not what the genre was always called - it was just plain good music) was interesting, when Beatles, Presley (personally not a huge fan), Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Modern Talking (now thats one helluva band), Bono, Johnny Cash, Abba, even Samantha Fox had more interesting stuff to make then the crap they make these days. There's one such song made in the year 1994 by a singer I'm otherwise not a great fan of. The name is Mariah Carey (I can never forgive 'glitter'. What the hell was that?) and the song rocks. I like the lyrics a lot, and always listen to it whenever I'm a little low. This song lost out the Grammy to Sheryl Crowe that year, but was otherwise a runaway hit. And the sound of her voice when she sings this song if pure magic.

"There´s a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don’t have to be afraid
Of what you are
There´s an answer
If you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away

And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you’ll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you

It’s a long road
When you face the world alone
No one reaches out a hand
For you to hold
You can find love
If you search within yourself
And the emptiness you felt
Will disappear

Lord knows
Dreams are hard to follow
But don’t let anyone
Tear them away
Hold on
There will be tomorrow
In time
You’ll find the way"