Word: debut
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Boom. Kelly's kneecap popped out of place one minute into her collegiate debut, and her freshman year was finished...
CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY, our pop-music critic, knows the angst of passing judgment on artists like his subject this week, singer Erykah Badu. So he was much relieved when his own debut novel, My Favorite War, won favorable reviews last year. "Fast, funny and furious," is how the Boston Globe described his satirical yarn of a young African-American journalist (not unlike Farley) laboring for a national publication (not unlike USA Today, his previous employer) in Washington during the Gulf War. Now HBO has optioned My Favorite War for a made-for-cable movie, a prospect that can make even...
...Badu goes before an audience, she observes a ritual to clear away any preperformance anxiety. "I light my candle onstage," says Badu. "I create my calm where I am. I close my eyes, open them again, and I'm O.K." Badu's music is a lot like that. Her debut CD, Baduizm (Kedar Entertainment/Universal), draws from soul, jazz, blues and hip-hop--but instead of a chaotic swirl of sound, the result is a slow-burning, serene, meditative work. It will open some eyes...
...group has its sights set on America. Spice will be released in the States on Feb. 4, and a shamelessly bouncy first single, Wannabe, has already debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard chart, tying a record set by Alanis Morissette for the highest debut ever for a single by a new act, and is climbing rapidly. The group's relentless musical onslaught resembles the onrush of the half-humanoid, half-machine Borg in Star Trek. The Spice Girls, with their mix of semifeminist values (motto: "Girl Power!") and robotic dance beats, keep pushing forward, demanding that listeners love them...
...Picador USA; 278 pages; $23) homes in on these four fallen but forgivable souls as they try to find the right way to act in a world where women smoke but never swear, and pregnancy and infidelity can destroy. It's no coincidence that author Robert Clark sets his debut novel at precisely the moment when America's confidence in leading the world and its belief in its higher myths about itself began to crack...