Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Attention, bland rock bands of today: pay close attention to R.E.M. and their 20 years of experience. No, you can only look at them, don't touch; their career is something precious and out of reach for you musicians. Enjoy your platinum albums and adoring fans while you can. When you're cashing in on your one hit with a reunion package tour with your fellow one-hit wonders in twenty years, you'll finally understand the importance of creating good music...
...with women. Men's home hair-color sales reached $113.5 million last year, a 50% increase in just five years. Rock stars (Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath), actors (George Clooney) and athletes (nearly the entire Anaheim Angels baseball team) are tipping their hair blond or going completely Chrissy Snow platinum. In February L'Oreal launched a line of its Feria home dye for men, with colors ranging from goth black to platinum blond (the most popular shade). "Most of us still want to watch baseball and drink beer, but we do wear Armani suits," says Joseph Campinell, president...
...goal of coloring your hair was to make sure nobody could tell, the new wave grows out of a peacock-like desire to make sure everyone within a 10-mile radius notices. Chris Landry, 25, sits on a chair at Urban Renewal in Denver while Yvonne tips his platinum hair blue with a mascara wand. Landry, who has had his hair tipped for 14 years and may in fact be in a fashion rut, is here after making a mess with store-bought blue dye. "Yvonne told me she could fix this," he says, "and I was pretty much, 'Whatever...
...hits from Mase, the Notorious B.I.G. and Puffy himself has tapered off, and the label's new releases have yet to pick up the slack. Albums by Faith Evans, Total and 112 were all expected to be strong hits, but so far only 112's Room 112 is approaching platinum. "By Puffy standards, a gold record is considered a flop," says an observer. And last month Mase announced that he is retiring from recording to join a ministry. All of which increases pressure on Combs to make his August solo album, Forever...
...talking young, if you're talking sexy, spunky and--how cool is this?--married, McGraw, 32, and Hill, 31, are it. They are the Tom and Nicole of today's country music (fully clothed, of course). Hill's sunny third CD, Faith (Warner Bros.), has gone double platinum and spawned the hit single This Kiss. McGraw's new album, the amiable A Place in the Sun, debuted at No. 1 on the pop chart, and is still going strong. On July 1, in Reno, Nev., McGraw will launch a new solo tour...