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...History is filled with white people who have tried to become blacker. Take Elvis Presley... even today, groups like N'Sync and the Backstreet Boys. Culture is for everybody, but there is a difference between appreciating a culture and appropriating a culture...

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: About Face: An Interview with Spike Lee | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...Babies (their combined age is 41), Phylicia already has Bill Kimber (who discovered Eurythmics) as her manager, as well as a share of a $1.5 million contract with Warner Brothers. She's tipped to be the biggest thing in pre-teen pop since Aaron Carter, little brother of the Backstreet Boy Nick Carter...

Author: By Yan Fang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Boys (and Girls) Are Back in Town | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...movement of tweenie pop music that has begun to creep up through the ranks of singles charts across the world. Comfortably situated in the competitive world of late-'90s pop music, pre-teen pop seeks to satisfy the multitudes of braces wearing, Pokmon card-hoarding kiddies for whom the Backstreet Boys and Britney are just not enough...

Author: By Yan Fang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Boys (and Girls) Are Back in Town | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...miniatures of their love ballad singing adult counterparts, pre-teen acts such as BreZe and Aaron Carter offer its listeners cheese-fried pop music that is thoroughly ridden with the fingerprints of a teen marketing-machine. Highly fabricated and mechanically produced with a pervasive blend of Backstreet Bop and Color Me Badd hip-hop doo-wop, pre-teen pop follows closely the recipes for commercialized music and suceeds marvelously at achieving lyrical triviality...

Author: By Yan Fang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Boys (and Girls) Are Back in Town | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

They play elevator music on the radio in South Africa. Lionel Richie is still big in Poland. And the Backstreet Boys have hit the airwaves in Bulgaria. The reason I know all this, even though it's been years since I've been overseas, is that I've spent the past week tuning in to radio stations around the world on my home PC. I've tapped my toes to Celtic rhythms on LiveIreland.com caught the latest Euro-pop from Eldoradio in Luxembourg, and discovered my new favorite station: Radio Slovenia. I wasn't even sure where Slovenia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Wide Radio | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

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