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BOSTON--Chill out, Madonna and Janet Jackson. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is catching heavy play on rock 'n' roll radio these days...
...rock 'n' roll, pop, blues, toe tappin', whatever it is. We went out and sold 5 million albums in four months. Twelve weeks at No. 1 on the R.-and-B. charts, nine weeks at No. 1 on the pop side -- ahead of New Kids on the Block and Madonna...
Heard that bouncy Wilson Phillips sound on the radio? Remember the way cool sound track from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? How about the fresh funk of Technotronic, the band that opened for Madonna on her recent concert tour? As it happens, all this music is on the SBK label. How's that...
...Madonna can get away with this because she knows how to draw on her reserves of mystery without tapping them out. Other performers have no mystery at all, but that -- at least in the short term -- seems to be no problem. An all- female group called En Vogue looks to have lifted its name from the same putative dance craze from which Madonna borrowed the title of her most recent hit single. They also sing a kind of wax-slick dance music that seems less written than cloned. Nevertheless, they have a No. 5 hit of their own, Hold...
...Like Madonna and Milli Vanilli, like Paula Abdul and, yes, even like Bart Simpson, the New Kids are a phenomenon whose unapologetic commerciality is part of their appeal. They are good movers and slick singers, and they drive their mostly preteen female fans into genteel frenzies. But their success can't be separated from their impact; it's part of the pop machine's new mystique. Is it real, or is it marketing...