Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a piece of wood," Morris told Penn. "I keep pushing you to the bottom of the lake, but you pop right back...
...some fundamental dimension of the G.O.P. message? And if it was the message, which part? Did Dole move too far to the center or not far enough? Should he have stuck to tax cutting, as Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes kept insisting, or run against abortion and vulgar pop culture, as William Bennett and the Christian right were hoping? At one time or another, Dole tried to run all those ways, so his loss cast a shadow over every label and lets every wing of the party read the returns in the way that suits it best. But when...
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the musically self-taught Edmonds met the man who would become his longtime business associate and songwriting partner, Antonio ("L.A.") Reid while both were members of the late pop band the Deele in 1982. It was a match made in pop-music heaven (or B-school fantasies). Reid cites Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the producers who helped put Janet Jackson on the pop map, as an early influence. Says Reid: "They were the first present-day producing duo to become stars. Before them, producing was a very behind-the-scenes function. Jimmy and Terry made...
...sentimental, but over the years, his songcraft has grown stronger. The Day's lyrics have a solid moral core: the family unit is revered, love comes with respect, and men do a lot of crying. "Done 'bout run out of tears," he coos on Talk to Me, a pop-soul-blues number featuring Clapton on guitar. "The thing that makes Babyface special is the way he talks about love," says Andre Harrell, president of Motown Records. "He says everything a woman wants to hear. He's the best male interpreter of romance there...
They soldier on, making their sweet piercing music, enjoying decent careers and, every couple of years, releasing a CD that enriches the pop-music vocabulary. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin are close to the best there is in today's bounty of singer-songwriters. But hovering above them, like a gargantuan nightmare kid sister, is the brutal fact of Alanis Morissette, whose primal whining has moved 15 million copies of her first album. It must be a perplexity for Carpenter, whose songs have cannier pop hooks, and for Colvin, whose angst-filled anthems predated and surpassed Morissette's--though...