Word: britney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Britney Spears: Consider yourself warned...
...words "pop music" usually don't bring to mind the most disturbing of images (unless you count Britney Spears). Singsong melodies, plaintive boy-girl vocals, an occasional drum solo and the whine of an organ can't do that much damage. That is, unless they're placed in the hands of two ultra-depressive misfits like the ex-husband and wife duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss, a.k.a. Quasi. The pair opened the evening with a blast of optimism in the form of "Smile," in which Sam and Janet start off with sugary harmonies over a bouncing beat. Then...
...over me. The song has definitely been promoted to pop radio. We have people listening to us that would never have listened to any of the songs off the first album. There is a radio station in Maryland where we were third most requested on their pop charts, behind Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys...
Jimmy: "The scene played out like an aspiring young adult's nightmare. I was going to my first real taste of the band, and the concert seemed to be attended entirely by teeny-boppers of the Britney variety. And it was Halloween, so a majority of the teens were dressed in costumes, adding a surreal flavor to an already strange night.What were probably hired actors stood outside the venue with sandwich boards proclaiming "America Will Burn" and handing out humorous pamphlets declaring that God does not play the bongos. The theme of the concert I was to discover later...
...seemed genuinely shocked at their warm reception--in the encore Marc remarked that they usually don't have to come out again because, "we're running out the back 'cause they're chasing us away." I don't necessarily blame these hostile crowds--what if you went to Britney Spears and got Wu-Tang? But by closing their ears to the beats just because they're unexpected, they're missing some great...