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...chances are that somewhere, sometime, you've heard most of it before. But isn't that true for most music these days? What makes Brand New such buoyant, brassy fun is that Salt 'N' Pepa are savvy enough to market their own dues-paying and past success as an uptown version of street cred: call it Workhorse Chic...
...back again (requiring split-second makeup applications) or dream up odd location scenes. Coe's own script, This Time Next Year, called for the ghost of Ulysses S. Grant to materialize at Grant's Tomb. The actor playing Grant was to jump into an NBC limo and get uptown in time for the "remote." But there was no limo. So the actor hailed a cab and, in full Grant regalia, ordered, "Take me to Grant's Tomb...
Blige is ready to step out. Over the past year, she's split from her original producer and mentor, Sean ("Puffy") Combs; left her old record label, Uptown; and re-dedicated herself to spirituality. Her third album, Share My World (MCA), comes out this week, and it's a winner. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter's groundbreaking first album sold 2 million copies; her second, the spottily brilliant My Life, sold 3 million; both spawned countless sound-alikes. The bold but ultimately mercenary ghetto-sex-bomb posturing of rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim, the emotionally blunt crooning...
...specializes in the performing arts. When Blige was 17, she recorded a karaoke-style version of Anita Baker's Caught Up in the Rapture in a mall one day, and after the tape was passed among family and friends, it found its way to Andre Harrell, then head of Uptown Records. Blige was signed, paired with hot young hip-hop producer Combs, and her career was launched...
...esque cut (I Do), the Grace of My Heart songs aren't primarily parodies; they're just good music. The pearl is God Give Me Strength, by Bacharach and Elvis Costello. Broody and complex, it suggests a tune Bacharach might have given Dionne Warwick to sing in an uptown nightclub at 3 a.m. "Burt consciously breaks rules with bar lines," says Costello. "He's breaking the meter, but it still feels natural. And he expresses feeling so much better than the trumped-up romantic ballads of today, where the emotions seem to have come off a shopping cart at Woolworth...