Its fatalistic tone contrasted vividly with the sugary pop ballads and rock & roll just starting to dominate the charts at the time:

Her current sound, the mixture of club beats and the sugary sweet pop, will probably hit well with the younger end of her audience.

And the third, "Break My Heart," is rousing, Day-Glo emo: our heartbroken protagonist drowns herself in sugary pop.

Another in a garage where a radio plays sugary pop to muffle the yelps.

Gone is the sugary pop of Moore's early career, replaced instead by thoughtful musings on love and life...an album full of subtle, but undeniable hooks.

Radio has largely abandoned sweet arias for sugary pop, and the country's home-grown opera stars often go unnoticed.

K. Ross Hoffman of AllMusic described it as "sugary synth pop".

Hoffman described it as "sugary synth pop".

So what was I doing high-tailing down the M1 to see the king and queen of nauseous, sentimental, sugary pop?