Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nonjudgmental. Unconcerned with matters like artistic credibility that can make rappers and alternative rockers so self-important (Remember how Alanis Morissette ran from her disco-diva past?), teen pop is a universe unto itself, with its own strange laws of gravity. A record that tanks with Generation Xers can rise like helium in the teen market...
Spears' sudden rise to the top of the record charts is proof that she's got what young pop fans hold dearest--energy, cool dance moves, looking good in a bare midriff. In January her debut single and debut album, both titled ...Baby One More Time, hit No. 1 simultaneously, the first time any artist has done so since kiddie rappers Kris Kross...
...conservative views made her so despised by many on campus that her parents pleaded with her to transfer. Shalit, now a writer living in New York City, also is better known to the cognoscenti as the little sister of Ruth, a former New Republic writer whose own quick rise was stalled by accusations of plagiarism...
...accordion and cello-like tones add visions of intrigue, but do not last. Other pieces show signs of potential. "Black Girl" opens with banjo and actually successfully transitions to dance-style bass, and the folksong adapted "Pretty Little Horses" reveals musicality and creativity and may define Snakefarm's rise in the future...
...vocal stylings from "Zombie," that frantic, slightly nasal guttural pitch. Backed by random noise fillers consisting of drums and guitar, each song is a blur of blah and blech. Forgettable lyrics of the usual uber-topic, love, in all its iterations nicely round out this disappointing disc. With the rise of this new crop of artificially-flavored pop bands, the music scene is crying uncle for a new sound that is not some retro-fitted version...