Back to the Future with Duran Duran, Mariah and the Backstreet Boys

Of course Britney Spears was going to be hard to watch and perversely compelling at her live, MTV-orchestrated comedown dance number a few weeks back. It’s just that the powers that be expected embarrassment of the left-field, unhinged, ketamine sort—think Ron Paul at a Republican debate. Instead, Brit bravely delivered Bill Richardson on Benadryl: “Sure, Read More

Backstreet Boys Play Coy, Robbie Williams Is a Joy

Just as publications everywhere are doing their damnedest to grasp the suddenly galloping sensibility of America’s teenagers, massive quantities of a CD titled Millennium (Jive) are plastering the walls of record stores. It’s the follow-up to an infrequently analyzed, freely sobbed-about music release from 1997 entitled Backstreet Boys , an album by five Lexington, Ky.-via-Florida Read More