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That’s how business owners Kim Moore and Paul Conforti describe their sugar-focused restaurant Finale, which is set to open a new branch this fall in the former location of Ma Soba...
...ties because they're "strong, distinctive and sexy," in the words of one fashion marketer--and because other famous women are wearing them. The accessory has come a long way from Diane Keaton's tomboy outfit in Woody Allen's 1977 film, Annie Hall. Young pop singers from Michelle Branch to Alicia Keys have adopted an '80s new-wave look that juxtaposes ties with dark punk garb or ultra-casual white tank tops. And fashion designers like Alexander McQueen have been slipping them on models since last summer. Now if they could just learn how to tie a proper Windsor...
Lavigne's first single, Complicated, features lyrics like "You're makin' me/ Laugh out loud when you strike your pose/ Take off all your preppy clothes/ You know you're not fooling/ Anyone when you become/ Somebody else, 'round everyone else." Holden, get her number. The same goes for Branch, who kicks off her single All You Wanted with the lines "I wanted to be like you/ I wanted everything/ So I tried to be like you/ And I got swept away." Carlton's very album title--Be Not Nobody--is self-esteem-workshop poetry...
...have taken the middle path between ordering the artists to submit to the will of a 50-year-old songwriting coach and locking them up to write melodies in solitary confinement. "I sit down with a guitar player usually, and I come up with melody and lyrics," explains Lavigne. Branch accepted help from other songwriters on about half the songs on The Spirit Room. Carlton wrote all the originals on her album solo and worked with Fair on arrangements. Whether or not their choruses ever bore into the public's brain like that of Oops!...I Did It Again...
Teen pop seems prepared to adapt to the more earnest climate: Aguilera has brought in the sincere rock singer Linda Perry to help write and produce her new album. Branch speculates that post-9/11 seriousness might have given her subgenre a boost but doesn't pretend that she and her Authentic colleagues are revolting against something bigger than stale music: "We aren't too scary. I'm not here cussing every other word and talking about politics." You don't have to be a rebel to join this movement--which means that soon every 105-lb. diva with glitter...