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...first issue of Crimson Arts this semester featured a trio of messianic Backstreet Boys descending from the rafters on space-age surfboards. The surfboards may have been props, but they recalled a more innocent time when surfboards were real and America's first great boy band, the Beach Boys, rode them...
...hand, the legacy of '66 lives on in '99 with the Backstreet Boys. When in the interim has a white quintet been so crucial to pop music? Some critics have optimistically observed that the Backstreet Boys might take their music in hand and morph from tools of industry to pop-craft artists, just as the Beach Boys went from the straight-up teen fun of "Surfin' USA" to the angst of Pet Sounds and the mastery of "Good Vibrations." Then again, Brian Littrell is no Brian Wilson, and such a turnaround seems unlikely...
...Beach Boys, seemingly mere proto-Fonzes, have in fact done as much for America's sound as Elvis, as long as you listen around. The cool kids in middle school have their Backstreet Boys, the keen kids at Harvard have their Belle and Sebastian. And everyone has the Beach Boys...
...crack the countdown, chances are youll show up on the Billboard Hot 100 the next Thursday. Want proof? Remember, TRL was the show that first flaunted Britney Spears assets (all two of them) with the schoolgirl-themed Baby One More Time last December. But TRL once known for having Backstreet Boys at #1, NSync at #2, 98 Degrees at #3 every single dayisnt just bubblegum pop anymore. On Fridays show, Backstreet held #1, but Korn was close behind at #2, and several R&B groups including Destinys Child were close on their heels. The young girls who dominate TRLs audience...
...Fentrice Driskell: I'm a big Tupac fan. One of the greatest ones ever. I'd love to see Outkast, Wyclef, Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys...