Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mainstream VF has undertaken a savvy comeback, revitalizing its fashion line with a gritty $150 million ad campaign and a hip new line, Lee Riveted. Riveted now accounts for about 40% of Lee's $1 billion jeans business...
...newcomers, King has had the most mainstream success. Her clubland cover of I Say a Little Prayer was featured on the sound track to the Julia Roberts film My Best Friend's Wedding and made its way into the Top 40 on the pop charts. The song also appears on King's new album, an effusive collection of upbeat, danceable reggae. The best song here, the aggressively catchy L-L-Lies, works because the accusatory tone of the lyrics allows King to show some verve and edge. Some of the other songs on the album are a bit too sugary...
...passably diverting in spite of their incredibly repetitive lyrics. Take these two songs, reduce their lengths by a third, add some meaningful lyrics, and "Big City" and "Tear it Up" will be lively enough to be worth listening to. But then, the songs will also be closer to the mainstream of ska than the rest of the album...
...melded with decisively art-rock aesthetic, not to mention their most recent foray in appropriating a selection of jazz styles, have garnered them a strong cult following both here and across the Atlantic. Moreover, with these guys darlings of the pop music industry, it's not uncommon for more mainstream bands to drop the names of Gane and Sadier as what they're listening...
...night, the group reveled in its introspection; their performance was both accessible and challenging. Stereolab are modern troubadours who transform familiar melodies into a lush landscape of experimentation. Like many of its English counterparts, Stereolab provides a welcome injection of pop sensibility to the often uninspired noisy sea of mainstream American music...