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There is a silent plague that kills more music careers than drug overdoses, plane crashes and guest appearances on American Dreams combined. It's called second-album syndrome, and it is a cruel and unpredictable assassin. Paula Cole, the promising pop-folk bohemian of the late '90s, got seven Grammy nominations for her major-label debut, then inexplicably decided to go disco. Search parties have all but given up hope of finding her. Second-album syndrome usually works quickly, but it can also behave like a slow, dignity-robbing virus. Britney Spears had a choice when putting together her second...
...album. Most of the excitement was over one song, Fallin', a little miracle of a soul ballad that merged the grooves of Mary J. Blige with the grieving of Carole King. Fallin' is one of the best love songs of the past decade. To dislike it is to dislike pop music. But the strength of Fallin', combined with the compelling and oft repeated details of Keys' bio--she was raised by a single mom in one of Manhattan's rougher neighborhoods and received "classical training" on the piano--obscured the fact that most of A Minor was pretty average...
...Prissy pop acts like Britney Spears and 98º are on today's syllabus. Dash wants his people to know that although Roc-A-Fella will move beyond hip-hop, the company won't lose any edge. "This pop-music thing, it's starting to bother me," he begins. "Everything that's hot, it's going pop. What sells now is this bulls___." His cell phone interrupts. Dash spends 10 minutes jousting with a colleague. "It's not my fault that your company owes me $85,000," he says. Dash flicks the phone shut and continues. "We have to come...
...Films network. Several dozen employees will be relocated from company headquarters in Mount Laurel, N.J. Call one of them at her New Jersey phone number, and she will pick up a phone in the Houston trailer. Leave her a voice mail, and it will pop up in her e-mail account. And she can still use intracompany four-digit dialing to reach colleagues back home or in the Los Angeles office. "We did the same thing at the Super Bowls in New Orleans and San Diego, and it still blows the users away," says Steve Eager of NFL Films. Your...
...garlic passion as a guest dubbed the World's Fastest Pizzamaker sauces a pie. The show's last seconds wind down, and Shapiro, eyes widening, suddenly stops pacing. Cold Pizza is ending to the sound of a shrieking microphone. Shapiro lowers his head; his kid just dropped a pop...