Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song2001

Neil Tennant:
In the 1990s the pop song was under threat in a way it had never been before because dance music became so prominent. And it wasn't about songs, a lyric would just get in the way. (... ) And then suddenly at the end of the 90s one strenght of the boyband thing, you know, is that it kept songwriters going, I suppose.