Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your big campaign platforms was getting cable in dorm rooms. When that laudable goal happens some time down the road, will it come with the Spice Channel...
Imbruglia (the g is silent), 23, is the most efficient pop product to invade these shores since the Spice Girls. Her voice is girlish but with a captivatingly plaintive edge. She is mediagenic in the extreme--resembling a slacker Courtney Cox--with big, imploring eyes and the kind of perfect cheekbones that suggest there may be a career in runway work awaiting if her music ever runs dry. Such looks have made her an instant hit in fashion and music magazines and on TV; Saturday Night Live put her on the air even before her album reached the stores...
...Jamaica Plain resident and a Boston resident report that while standing in line at Rhythm and Spice at 315 Mass. Ave., they were yelled at and pushed out of the way by a store employee...
...this is Madonna '98, at the close of an exhausted millennium, when shock comes hard, when irony is so overdone it can only be used ironically, when everything has come full circle and the Spice Girls can look and sound the way Madonna did 15 years ago and still be hailed as fresh and fun. So you move on. Madonna is the head of the record label--the aptly named Maverick--that released last year's band of the moment, the electronica-charged act the Prodigy (Maverick is part of Time Warner, the company that owns TIME). It makes sense...
Besides, if the American music scene can tolerate the Spice Girls, Billy Ray Cyrus's "Achy-Breaky Heart" and Puff Daddy's cheap rip-offs of Police standards, then I figure the time will soon be ripe for me and my corn-eater to move...