Word: syncing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hip” as it gets—think Kate Hudson in “Almost Famous,” or anyone who has ever appeared on Dawson’s Creek. And the musical preferences of teenyboppers—Britney Spears, N’Sync, Hanson—are given billing as some of the top rock n’ roll songs of all time in Rolling Stone magazine...
Record companies are slow to admit (but painfully aware) that the typical pop album is generally quite disposable. Sorry to tell you, kids, but 'N Sync didn't get on the radio every four minutes because of talent. Record companies buy their way onto airwaves by threatening to ban stations from playing any songs under the label--that is, you can't play our other top 40 hits if song X is not played Y times every day until consumer Z couldn't get it out of his head with an electric chair. To some extent, our music tastes...
...stinted on such green-eyeshade details (we learn little about O-Town's record deal), but the second season promises a closer focus on business issues--in particular, the guys' decision not to sign a management deal with Pearlman (who had famous contract disputes with Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync...
...Kate Hudson appears looking translucent and no older than your average teenage 'N Sync fan. She is accompanied by her new husband, Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson. I realize that this makes her Mrs. Robinson, placing a new, different perspective on that name. I chat with them about the fact that Kate's mother Goldie Hawn had eulogized the Beatles at the Academy Awards exactly 30 years ago, when they were nominated for an Academy Award for their "Let It Be" score. The disbanded Beatles were a no-show, and when they won the Oscar, Goldie Hawn's speech became...
...pretty films set in the rural past; the Sixth Generation makes gritty films set in the urban present. Emperors and concubines have been replaced by the grungy malcontents of Zhang Yuan's Beijing Bastards (1993), the Sixth Generation's first major film; its anomic punksters spit out obscenities in sync sound and groove to hard rock. A night at the Peking Opera gives way to an all-nighter in the Beijing mosh...