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McCartney knows that he didn't rise to his place in the pop firmament by pushing the envelope. "I'm not a rebel," he says. "In actual fact, I'm pretty straight, and I don't mind at all that people see me that way." Still, he seems to have turned a musical corner. When he thinks about the U.S. tour he will launch Sept. 16 in Miami, he says, "It'll be great not to be out there with a crap album, singing songs I don't care much about." And if audiences still mostly pine for another roundelay...
...Tamio Okuda Comp As the Svengali behind J-pop girl duo Puffy, Tamio Okuda wrote and produced some of the freshest-sounding pop tunes heard anywhere on the planet in the late '90s. But Okuda, as a purveyor of old-fashioned guitar rock, has always been more comfortable just outside the mainstream. His tenth solo album, Comp, shows that he's still in fine form as he approaches 40. Baby Star is classic Okuda: cranked-up, driving, unembellished. The gentle final track, Fune ni Noru (On a Boat), helps takes the edge off an otherwise boisterous musical ride?one with...
...Eason Chan U87 Always restless, Eason Chan is looking to shed his boyish appeal and usher in the next generation of Canto-pop. His latest album, U87, is a bridge between past and future, showing off a rawness rarely found in Chinese pop and laced with the catchy, if corny, love songs that Hong Kongers have waved their glowsticks to since the '80s. He marks his rebellion with the track Bad Habit as he sings of refusing to give up his beloved cigarettes. Having finally won his musical independence after 10 years on the circuit, it doesn't look like...
VARIOUS ARTISTS WHATEVER: THE 90S POP AND CULTURE...
...horrible presentiment that a literary disaster is in the making. Rushdie is trying to describe a woman speaking in her sleep: she is "like Sigourney Weaver channeling a demon in Ghostbusters." This is the kind of bathos?the desperation to prove his hipness by making asinine references to pop culture?that helped sink Rushdie's last novel, Fury, generally acknowledged to be the worst he has written. After a first-page blunder like this, it requires a leap of faith simply to turn to page 2. But it's a leap worth making, because even though Shalimar is a flawed...