Word: backstreets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...least disparaged his tunes. "Max is the melody king," says Spears of the man who wrote her biggest hits, including '... Baby, One More Time'. Last year alone, the 30-year-old Swede wrote or co-wrote four Euro No. 1s: Spears' 'Oops! ... I Did It Again' and 'Lucky'; the Backstreet Boys' 'Shape of My Heart' and Bon Jovi's 'It's My Life'. In each of the past two years, according to ASCAP - the American composers' society that keeps track of such things - Martin's songs were performed and broadcast more often than those of any other writer...
...make things worse, pop music is otherwise going through one of those moments when the general run of things is so toddling--Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys--that skinny white boys who talk a little tough, meaning Eminem, get to seem like a big deal. So if you happen to be a parent in, say, your 40s or 50s, nobody would blame you if you just turned away from pop music altogether. And if you happen to be a teenager, of course, you might not mind if they did. But the funny thing is, at the same time that the hard...
Amid the unrelenting hype generated by such bubblegum-and-pimples-set acts as Destiny's Child and the Backstreet Boys, the record business has been slow to notice that the year's most dramatic run up the charts belongs not to a girl group or boy band but to a solitary reggae singer and Gulf War veteran named Shaggy...
...even the Beatles. Finally, this week he passed Jennifer Lopez, making him the first reggae artist ever to top the pop charts since Shabba Ranks in 1991. His accomplishment is all the more remarkable because it's the sort of breakout that has attracted buyers from 12-year-old Backstreet fans to 35-year-old Madonna diehards...
...American artists. Other countries, of course, have great artists, but in the U.S., we have an ongoing series of slam-dunking, trash-talking, high-scoring Dream Teams: We just keep pumping out dominating bands that are popular worldwide and demand space in record stores. Clear the lane - here comes Backstreet Boys! Watch out - Christina Aguilera raining threes from the corner! Lojas Americanos wasn't having that. There were very few American or international artists on display - no Britney, no 'N Sync, no Limp Bizkit, no Eminem. Instead there was a huge section of MPB that featured such younger artists...