Uproxx

NewJeans Have A Summer Hit On Their Hands With The Light And Warm ‘Bubble Gum’

NewJeans is coming off a pretty terrific 2023, as the group’s six-track project Get Up became their first No. 1 release on the Billboard 200 chart (and it made it onto the 2023 Uproxx Music Critics ...
The Economist

Brian Wilson and the bliss of bubble-gum pop

CLEAN-CUT, SMILING, wholesome—the Beach Boys ruled the American airwaves in the early 1960s. Their music was as sunny as a Southern California morning: easy to sing along to, but underlaid by complex ...
Penn Live

Hit-making ‘bubblegum pop’ producer dies at 82

Record producer Jerry Kasenetz, who, along with his partner Jeff Katz, produced some of the most popular pop songs of the 1960s, has died. He was 82. Kasenetz died on Dec. 6 in a Florida hospital. The ...
Rolling Stone

Remember All That Silly Bubblegum Pop from the Sixties? A New Box Set Does

There’s a moment on Pour a Little Sugar on It: The Chewy Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 1966-1971, a new box set, that pretty much captures everything wonderfully inane about one of pop’s most ...
The New York Times

Jerry Kasenetz, a King of Bubblegum Pop Music, Dies at 82

With his producing partner, Jeffry Katz, he made lightweight ditties like “Yummy Yummy Yummy” that soared up the charts in the late 1960s. By Alex Williams Jerry Kasenetz, a hitmaking record producer ...