Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a week of donning silly outfits and singing the Backstreet Boys' love ballad "I Want it That Way" to gawking crowds in front of the Science Center, the initiates of the Owl final club were ready for their initiation party Saturday night...
...Hits from the later years include all five top five singles from their 1986 album Invisible Touch, including the upbeat and pleasing title track, dominated by synthesizer and pounding studio drums and the somewhat sappy yet touching ballad "In Too Deep," in which Phil Collins' conversational vocals become very intimate. "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight," a song about sexual desire infused with a little '80s electronic music, is a darker single from the same album. Other predictable songs are here, such as "I Can't Dance" and "ABACAB," the latter whose introductory guitar riff is familiar, even if you didn't know...
...fail, and he sometimes does. But while other rock-hoppers adhere to a "keep it real" doctrine, Beck feels free to invent his own playful lyrical reality: "I wanna get with you/ Only you/ And your sister/ I think her name's Debra," he sings in the soul-ballad Debra. This is smart music with a smile...
...cornfield? Or an 'NSync member learning to lose his southern accent with a voice coach? In any case, unless they edit severely, we might be amused by the recurring spice-boy dramas. Boy gets acne (i.e. Nick, May-Dec. 1997). Boy has illness and then recovers and writes triumphant ballad (i.e., Brian, Aug. 1998). Boy quits group, becomes U.N. ambassador (i.e., Ginger Spice, Jan. 1996). Band demands more money (i.e. Backstreet Boys, 'NSync 1999). Boy starts balding (i.e., A.J.) Boy starts dating Britney Spears secretly (i.e. Justin Timberlake, June...
...thing: "this is way too much fun, I can't believe they're actually paying me to do it!" Singer Gene seemed to be having an equally good time. When the rest of the band stepped off stage "to take a leak," leaving him to play a lighter-waving ballad, he barely managed to keep a straight face through the second verse. Though the band's musical mix of grungy alt-rock and bouncy hoe-down country would have made for a decent concert by itself, it was their presence and stage antics that made it a truly great, entertaining...