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Word: desmondish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1996-1996
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...pretentious quirkiness without the platinum popularity to back it up can begin to feel a little Norma Desmondish, and the Artist has been suffering from dwindling sales for almost a decade. Purple Rain (1984) sold 13 million copies; his last album, Chaos and Disorder (1996), didn't even sell 100,000. But this week the performer who defined '80s glam-pop and helped pioneer rock-funk fusion is attempting a comeback. Having extricated himself from his contract with Warner Bros. Records (a pact he so despised he started writing slave on his cheek), the Artist is releasing a triple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS HOT | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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