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Word: breze (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Dryer wants to be a pop star. Growing up in a music industry that has no qualms about the ethics of exploiting the very young, Phylicia's dreams of becoming the next Britney Spears may only be a hop, skip and breast implant away. As the youngest member of BreZe, a pre-teen pop-music foursome dubbed the Spice 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...

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 »

Aaron and BreZe, however, are only the headliners of pre-teen pop; a great many other agent-dependent, pre-pubescent boys and girls are being recruited and transformed into pop stars by record companies around the world. In Bangkok, 12-year-old half-Scottish, half-Indonesian Anan Anwar is shooting to the top of the charts with hits "Go To School" and "Simon Says." Triple Shake and Best Frenz are two more pop creations whose members are too young to see PG-13 movies but old enough to suggestively sway their underdeveloped hips...

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

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