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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay: [QB] Well, certainly the Backstreet Boys represent a growing trend in American pop culture and that is record companies and film studios are trying to reach out to young girls. Rather, that should be record companies and film studios are reaching out to young girls and their [b][i]money[/i][/b]. The Backstreet Boys represent a safe, comparatively unintellectual approach to both music and sex. Afterall, I don't think that anyone can really deny that they are selling more records for sex appeal than for musical talent. I would imagine that they have more personal trainers to their collective credit than lyrics written. Which I think is a travesty of the higest order. Does anyone really "listen" to music anymore? Not with the injection of video culture into the main artery of American pop life. However, the paths to stardom in both the recording and film industries are strewn with pretty boys and girls who had no staying power and lost it all after their 21st birthday (or second Hollywood divorce) and could no longer play a high school nark or appeal to the 10-14 year old crowd of kiddies. Leif Garret anyone? Although he is said to be making a more hard-edged comback. Let's look at some of the actual music shall we? Off of a disc called simply [i]Backstreet Boys[/i] "Let's have a party" [i]But all I wanna know is where to party at Let's have a party, let's have a party But all I wanna know is where to party at Everybody, let's have a party I've been watching you You've been watching me Let's stop playing games girl come and dance with me don't you hear the music don't you feel the groove yeah come on girl get on the floor I wanna dance with you . . . [/i] Heartwrenching. Something tells me that if the Boys were onstage and sang the ingredient list to a Captain Crunch ceral box there would still be girls screaming and saying it was the best song they had ever heard. Which, considering their collective limited experience may be sad but true. And yet, as soon as the Backstreet Boys become Backstreet Men, i.e. that first real wrinkle or perhaps too much middle aged paunch on those washboad abs, the trash heap that is yesterdays news waits with arms spread wide. By that time, we'll have a new, sexxy, dancy groups to compare to bands like U2. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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