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Nine-year-old Phylicia 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...
...music that has begun to creep up through the ranks of singles charts across the world. Comfortably situated in the competitive world of late-'90s pop music, pre-teen pop seeks to satisfy the multitudes of braces wearing, Pokmon card-hoarding kiddies for whom the Backstreet Boys and Britney are just not enough...
...lyric, in this kind of setting, is what finally convinces me that - like Brian Wilson - "I just wasn't made for these times". I mean, I'm in tears, I'm a grown man and moved to tears by this teeny-bop concoction, this early '60s equivalent of Britney Spears. (Phil called them "little symphonies for the kids.") But it's not Britney Spears - it's better. It gets to me. It defeats the cynic within, dismantles the censoring mechanism, and bypasses the cool-meter. I achieve the actual, never-articulated goal of the obsessionist: the ecstatic experience...
...bane of large-scale success, has been surgically removed from the Corrs in time for their third album, In Blue. Already, the Corrs have begun to construct an international cult of fantastically loyal adolescent males and pre-adolescent girls, who will no doubt flood from such competitors as Britney Spears to send them up the charts. The promo literature on the Corrs still makes much of the Celtic streak in their tunes, but that has been steamrolled over by a synthetic, processed sound. And, believe me, this is pop with two capital Ps, and a capital O thrown...
...familiar struggle to understand the Waterboys' lyrics, you'll be disappointed. Songs such as "Bodhran" (named for a traditional Celtic drum and pronounced "bo-ran") hint at just how amazing and fun a live band the Young Dubs must be. Baby, the Young Dubs ain't no Britney, but, then again, that's a good thing...