Word: midriffs
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...primary colors magenta, blue, and cyan. None of the photos are appealing to any degree; cheesecake fans will be sorely disappointed. Spears doesn’t even look happy to be at her photo shoot—her once youthful exuberance has metamorphosed into a tired repetition of midriff shots. The album’s music itself is less than forty minutes long over twelve tracks, and none of the songs has the strength to sustain itself for even four minutes. She may just be playing to short adolescent attention spans, but simultaneously throws out any semblance of real effort...
...that same calculus, then, the beginning of the new century unquestionably belongs to Jive Records, the colossally successful independent label that has almost singlehandedly brought the teen-pop revolution--you know, the army of dimpled boy bands and midriff-baring teen queens--into homes across North America, Europe and Asia. Home to three of the world's highest-grossing acts--Britney Spears, 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys--as well as a significant roster of rap, rock and R.-and-B. performers, Jive has climbed to the top of the industry ladder by understanding, reflecting and influencing mass-market tastes...
This back-to-school season, teenagers are pining for racy duds. And why not? It's all they see in the media. A JC PENNEY AD, in which a mom helps her daughter yank down her jeans to show more midriff, was itself yanked after parental complaints. Other fronts in the dress-code...
...gadgets get you off the couch and on the floor, that's progress. But don't expect a few minutes' exercise to transform your midriff. Alicia Calaway, 33, the personal trainer from Manhattan whose textbook anatomy wowed millions of viewers of Survivor: The Australian Outback, tries to work out 1 1/2 hours a day, five days a week, to maintain her physique. Strangers still ask her to lift her shirt for an ab peep show, she says. "My abs are so popular at this point, I'm thinking about putting out a video to teach people what I know...
...sweaty dancing. American servicemen are on the prowl for liquor and a good time. The local girls, Okinawans and Japanese, come out too, looking for some fun with the buff, dollar-rich and female-deprived American boys. Tattooed guys in muscle shirts and cargo pants rub against women in midriff-baring Tshirts and tight jeans, and as the crowd spills from bars onto sidewalks, the night shifts into hormonal overdrive. "Hey, we're 19-year-old guys, we're away from home, we're pumped up and we're horny," says a young Marine from California. "Of course...