Word: teens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kids on the Block were still teenagers when their 1986 debut album, New Kids on the Block, changed the face of prepubescent pop by putting a teen- idol spin on a black urban beat. Eight years and 60 million albums, singles and videotapes later, the group -- Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Danny Wood and Joe McIntyre -- are no longer new and no longer kids. Now in their mid-20s, they have, in show-biz terms at least, reached that other awkward age, groping for a way to reach an adult audience without alienating the screaming teenyboppers who made them...
...either kill or be killed," says Larvell, 15, in Generation under the Gun, explaining why so many teens today carry arms. The MTV News Special Report (Dec. 9, 9 p.m. EST), which launches the network's antiviolence campaign, addresses an ugly statistic: between 1985 and 1990, teen deaths by gun rose 77%. Host Tabitha Soren interviews gang members and profiles community groups struggling to curtail the slaughter. It's a taut, tough half hour...
Collins once described his band's ambition as "tickling people to death," which pretty much explains why The Orange Juice beat The Morrisey all hollow: tickling beats mourning, and subtlety beats overkill, and gentle youngadult introversion--in general--beats teen self-flagellation. At least in this kind of pop music, "this kind" being the kind with subtle interlocking guitars, witty lyrics and multiple melodies, the kind that descends from Beatles and Byrds and Cole Porter and learned from, but never imitated, punk...
...TEEN COMMANDments, as revealed in Bat Out of Hell...
...Kill "Magnet" 9. Gaunt "No Hope" 10. Fat Day "Knute Rockne" 11. New Bomb Turks "This Place Sucks" 12. Element of Crimes "Delinquent Squint" 13. Universal Order of Armageddon "Flux" 14. Monster Truck 5 "Ain't Never Been" 15. The Lune "Giving Up" 16. Sparkalepsy "Friendly Fire" 17. Skinned Teen "Punk Rockest" 18. Conflict "These Colours" 19. Victims "Television Addict" 20. Thinking Fellers "Undertaker...