Word: pop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jerry Falwell stuffs a leather-bound "giant-print" Bible under an arm so he can pop a Rolaids into his mouth. He eats fatty food too often at the Backyard Grill in Lynchburg, Va., and he turned 66 last summer, but friends say he hasn't let up on his schedule. This morning he's speaking to 1,500 cheering students at Liberty University, the college he founded in 1971 that has become the largest evangelical college in the world. "Jesus is awesome!" they shout, many faces contorted with...
From the cover, the name and the fact that he also released his previous album around Halloween, you might wonder whether Glampire might be some rip-off of the original glam scene. Glampire's third full album, The Heraldic Universe, walks the line between dark pop and post-teenage angst. The music is a mixture of goth, synth, perky rock beats, and tinges of NIN tonalities. Unfortunately, you'll have to deal with the cheesy '80s-style electric guitar in the opening tracks. Add in Glampire's androgynous voice to the back-to-back songs "Super Sad" and "Happy Again...
...they're sexy, they're sporty, their enthusiasm may even be a little scary, but don't you dare call them the Spice Girls. First of all, they're women, not girls, and they are anything but bubble-gum pop vixens. Aside from their aforementioned bare-it-all costumes, the flygirls plan on doing the scene where Jesus comes before Herod in dominatrix-chic, complete with fishnet stockings and rhinestone brassieres (the scene was often treated in previous productions as a cross between a vaudeville soft-shoe and soft-core porn as envisioned by the cast of The Rocky Horror...
...take the part because she was so amazed at the audition). In a characteristic move of flygirl solidarity, the dancers all agree that they are each the others' greatest inspirations. The flygirls may not be Spice Girls, but the women who play them sure seem to echo the five pop tarts' girl power sentiments...
...highest circulation of any magazine in the country? And here I thought it was Teen People...Have a great Halloween weekend. A friend and I already have our costumes set. We're gonna be the Puerto Rican Dynamic Duo: Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez. If you love pop culture, you gotta live...