StargateGirl
04-07-04, 05:37 PM
Posted on Sun, Apr. 04, 2004
Marrying kind
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A few singers have discovered that the best escape from the boy-band ghetto is to marry well. Nick Lachey, formerly of 98 Degrees, has gotten far more attention as Mr. Jessica Simpson on MTV's Newlyweds than he did for his recent CD SoulO. And Bryan McFadden just left Westlife, the United Kingdom's most popular boy band, to pursue TV projects with his wife, Kerry, the former Atomic Kitten singer who sprang to fame as winner of the British version of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!
Yes, things may be ugly in the shallow end of the pop music pool - the work is grueling, the chance of success slim, the management usually rapacious. But there's never a lack of talented kids clamoring to dive in.
That's why it may be premature to trumpet the end of the boy-band era.
"I'll tell you exactly when it'll be over," Pearlman says. "When God stops making little girls. Until then, we'll keep going."</span>
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/search/...ll+be+boy+bands (http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/search/search_results.htm?pubName=inquirer&orderBy=date&pageStart=1&sitesToSearch=inquirer&pageSize=10&fieldsToSearch=HEADLINE%2CFORSEARCH%2CLEAD%2CBYLIN E&queryType=all&searchSelect=article&query=Boys+will+be+boy+bands)
Marrying kind
<span style="font-family:Times">
A few singers have discovered that the best escape from the boy-band ghetto is to marry well. Nick Lachey, formerly of 98 Degrees, has gotten far more attention as Mr. Jessica Simpson on MTV's Newlyweds than he did for his recent CD SoulO. And Bryan McFadden just left Westlife, the United Kingdom's most popular boy band, to pursue TV projects with his wife, Kerry, the former Atomic Kitten singer who sprang to fame as winner of the British version of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!
Yes, things may be ugly in the shallow end of the pop music pool - the work is grueling, the chance of success slim, the management usually rapacious. But there's never a lack of talented kids clamoring to dive in.
That's why it may be premature to trumpet the end of the boy-band era.
"I'll tell you exactly when it'll be over," Pearlman says. "When God stops making little girls. Until then, we'll keep going."</span>
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/search/...ll+be+boy+bands (http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/search/search_results.htm?pubName=inquirer&orderBy=date&pageStart=1&sitesToSearch=inquirer&pageSize=10&fieldsToSearch=HEADLINE%2CFORSEARCH%2CLEAD%2CBYLIN E&queryType=all&searchSelect=article&query=Boys+will+be+boy+bands)