Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short, Stereolab live was very different than Stereolab in the stereo lab. The band's sound is characteristically everywhere: their records run th aural gamut from fuzzy lounge-lizard pop to gritty reverb rock (and most often are a synth-washed mix of both). Through it all, though, they manage to give you the cold shoulder. Morgane Lhote's Moog must have a special dial for "disaffected": a breath of chilling ennui blows through all their music, a vague sense of world-weary aloofness that has its heart somewhere in songwriter Sadier's low-mixed lyrics...
...have done a better job of mixing their set list. The first half left you with that cold Stereolab feeling inside; the first few songs after "Free Design," their most recent single, showcased their new-found rock-out tendency, leaving you reeling with the overwhelming strength of their steroid-pop. But after a while it started to grate on the eardrums and sounding the same, like the never-ending conclusion to a bad U2 song riddled with screeching feedback and twisted bass-lines stretched out to the point of anguish. Who said there was no such thing as too much...
...Remember, TRL was the show that first flaunted Britney Spears' assets (all two of them) with the schoolgirl-themed Baby One More Time last December. But TRL once known for having Backstreet Boys at #1, 'NSync at #2, 98 Degrees at #3 every single day isn't just bubblegum pop anymore. On Friday's show, Backstreet held #1, but Korn was close behind at #2, and several R&B groups including Destiny's Child were close on their heels. The young girls who dominate TRL's audience might even be getting tired of their boybands the countdown is showing encouraging...
...royal treatment at MTV. Besides getting to be in the audience of a show for which kids compete vehemently for spots, we also had a chance to sit down with Daly and an executive producer of the show to find out why TRL has become such a runaway pop culture juggernaut. Want to hear Carson's opinion of Harvard? Or find out what really makes these teenage girls tick? We'll lay out our whole Incredibly True Adventures of A Boy and a Girl in Love...with MTV in a coming issue...
...TREND-O-RAMA: POP MACHINES...