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...upcoming album, Visions, will be different. "If I heard a basketball player rhyming, I'd be suspicious too," says Bryant. "But I think I'll get people's respect as time goes on." Bryant's first single, K.O.B.E.--a duet with fellow musical novice Tyra Banks--is receiving radio airplay and is heard during Laker home games, though it has yet to gain favor with coach Phil Jackson. "If it doesn't have any head banging in it," says Kobe, "Phil's not interested...
...these different directions show that dance music isn't just a fad, and that the future does hold promise; the question for me is how much any of this will catch on in the mainstream in the U.S. That Fatboy Slim is finally getting the airplay he deserves this late in his career seems to be a good sign. But it's hard to learn what quality club music is when the drinking age is so high that college students can't go clubbing on a regular basis and when places like Boston still have 2 a.m club closings...
...aforementioned "Hope" and "Walk Unafraid" will undoubtedly become favorites within the cult of R.E.M. fanatics, but the true test will come with radio airplay. "Hope" has the most "hope," because its upbeat style gets the legs moving with the beat, but the lyrics are actually supposedly about an AIDS patient. The somber topics raised in the song seem to clash with the actual tune, but this proves to be one of Stipe's lasting characteristics which surfaced on the group's first hit "The One I Love...
...acoustic intro with a spacey background, setting the scene for the eventual rocking climax. "Lead Pipe Cinch" eerily resembles a Soul Asylum acoustic number, but this aura is broken by "Cool Magnet," a pulsating anthem that could become the album's dark horse hit. Though not yet receiving radio airplay, it conveys the raw, hardcore emotion that is great for blasting out the car window while cruising down the highway at 80 miles per hour...
...false impression of the Flip Records/Interscope band Limp Bizkit. Although in the spring of 1998 Flip/Interscope did have a pay-for-play contract with radio station KUFO of Portland, Ore., the arrangement didn't really have any long-term impact on Limp Bizkit's success. Before there was significant airplay from any radio station, including KUFO, Limp Bizkit's debut record, upon release in July 1997, landed on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and stayed there for more than 40 weeks; it will be gold by September. The writer noted that after an initial boost from pay-for-play, Limp Bizkit...