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...disrespect to the Britneys and whatnot, but there's a backlash to that kind of music," says Beth Halper, the DreamWorks A.-and-R. executive who signed Nelly Furtado. That backlash has taken the form of three solo artists who might be termed the Authentic Girls: Michelle Branch, 19, whose CD The Spirit Room has sold close to a million copies since August, according to SoundScan; Vanessa Carlton, 21, whose first effort, Be Not Nobody, has sold 300,000 copies in its three months of release; and Avril Lavigne, 17, whose first album, Let Go, debuted...
...them up to write melodies in solitary confinement. "I sit down with a guitar player usually, and I come up with melody and lyrics," explains Lavigne. Branch accepted help from other songwriters on about half the songs on The Spirit Room. Carlton wrote all the originals on her album solo and worked with Fair on arrangements. Whether or not their choruses ever bore into the public's brain like that of Oops!...I Did It Again, the Authentics may grow on kids just because teen pop's trademark disrobing has grown tired. "The biggest thing I hear a lot from...
...three-star Harbour Plaza North Point hotel in Hong Kong, every solo guest is greeted this way?a swimmingly successful gimmick launched in March 2000 to generate word of mouth for the newly opened hotel. "We looked at the rooms and thought, 'Let's put some life into them,'" says general manager Dean Schreiber. "We were going to try it with a bird, but that just didn't fly." Even though the hotel doesn't advertise its fish, the in-house quirk has generated waves. Return guests are asking for fish even when they don't check in alone...
...Harbour Plaza, some guests don't go with the flow. Fish fanatics complain the hotel is violating sea-life rights. "One guest faxed us about the cruelty of keeping fish in captivity," says Schreiber. Others take it all too personally. One Hong Kong visitor who checked in solo but was actually staying with his wife called the front desk in a rage. "Does the hotel think I need a fish because I can't talk to my wife?" he barked. "How did you know we were having marital problems...
...current climate of finger-pointing over September 11 that the authorities may be inclined right now to avoid taking any chances by rolling him up early. An alternative explanation might be that they already knew al Muhajir was not the tip of some organizational iceberg, but rather a solo volunteer, like shoe-bomber Reid, sent on a mission al-Qaeda could claim if it succeeded but that would cause minimal organizational damage if he was captured. Indeed, officials quoted in the U.S. media suggested that al Muhajir was on the run following the April arrest, and had believed...