Word: teens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anime is kids' cartoons: Pokemon, oh, yes, and Sailor Moon, a TV series about intergalactic Spice Girls that airs in a heavily edited version on the Cartoon Network. But it's also post-doomsday teen fantasies (Akira), futuristic fly-boy films (The Wings of Honneamise), schizo-psycho thrill machines (Perfect Blue), sex-and-samurai sagas (Ninja Scroll)--the works. "If you want to see a story told as fast as the most exciting comic book," McCarthy says, "but with amazing movement, music and dialogue, that's what you get from anime...
...craze the Pokemon series, playing cards, merchandise and movie have recently inspired in the States has now been augmented by the newly released Pokemon: The First Movie motion picture soundtrack. Although the album includes songs by popular teen acts like Britney Spears, 'NSync, B*Witched and Christina Aguilera, the tracks are far from the best the artists have released. In fact, the majority of the songs on the soundtrack are little more than bland, unoriginal works whose peppy beats are quickly dulled by the simple and repetitious verses they all employ. To be fair to the album, the target audience...
...Last week I promised info to all of you prospective boy band members who dream of prepubescent fame, photo shoots for Teen People and wardrobe upon wardrobe of matching sweatsuits. Remember how big I said reality TV was going to be? Well, it turns out that ABC is in the midst of preparing "O-Town," a show produced by the same people who made "The Real World." "O-Town" tracks the rise to fame of five 18-24 year old wannabe stars who form a boy band. Episode one begins with the boys' auditioning...
These aren't big-ticket items, and the shoppers are incredibly cost-conscious. (Wouldn't you be if your disposable income came from babysitting twice a week?) But Internet entrepreneurs and marketers are attracted to the potential of the teen consumer: teens control or influence $457.9 billion in consumer spending a year, and 81% of those ages 13 to 18 say they have used the Internet, making teens the most wired generation ever...
...country singer, but Hill has made the kind of crossover album you can imagine being plugged at the end of some teen-oriented WB drama such as Dawson's Creek or Roswell. Like Shania Twain, Hill loves showmanship: one of the up-tempo numbers on this album is called Bringing Out the Elvis. But while Twain often comes across as gimmicky, the songs on Hill's new album--though none aspire to great art--are tastefully rendered. Hill even serves up a romantic cover of a Bruce Springsteen song, If I Should Fall Behind. As you listen, it's hard...