Avril Lavigne first appeared in summer 2002, touting an addictive debut
single (the spunky pop/rock gem "Complicated") and a skatepunk image
that purposely clashed with the polished glamour of mainstream pop.
Lavigne, who was 17 at the time, quickly rose to teen idol status,
selling several million copies of her debut album, Let Go (the
best-selling album by a female artist in 2002), while inspiring a
genuine fashion craze with her penchant for tank tops and neckties. As
the decade progressed, so did Lavigne's marketable sound, which took a
contemplative turn on the sophomore effort Under My Skin before
reaching an aggressively upbeat tone for 2007's The Best Damn Thing.
Homogenic, her most experimental studio effort to date, followed later
that same year and spawned many remix releases in the next few years to
follow. In the spring of 2000, she was named Best Actress by jurors at
the Cannes Film Festival for her work in Lars von Trier's Palme
d'Or-winning Dancer in the Dark. Selmasongs, her score for the film,
reunited Björk with her Homogenic collaborator Mark Bell and arrived in
the fall of 2000, just in time for Dancer in the Dark's U.S. release.
The full-length follow-up, Vespertine, was released one year later. She
released a Greatest Hits collection and the Family Tree box set late in
2002. After performing a few dates in 2003, Björk geared up for a busy
2004, which included the release of her all-vocals and vocal
samples-based album Medúlla and a performance of one of its songs,
"Oceania," at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The
soundtrack to Drawing Restraint 9, a film by multimedia artist Matthew
Barney, arrived in 2005 and also featured contributions from Will
Oldham. 2007's Volta returned to the more playful, percussive side of
Björk's music and included collaborations with Timbaland, Toumani
Diabaté, Antony Hegarty, and an all-female Icelandic choir. ~ Stephen
Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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1998 didn't see a new studio album by the band, BF5's former label
issued a 16-track rarities collection (Naked Baby Photos), as Folds
released his first solo album, Volume 1, under the pseudonym Fear of
Pop. Although the album went largely unnoticed, it included the song
"In Love," which included overly dramatic vocals from none other than
Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner (comparable in approach to
Shatner's must-hear 1968 album, The Transformed Man) and which was
performed on The Conan O'Brien Show shortly after the album's release.
Ben Folds Five regrouped with 1999's The Unauthorized Biography of
Reinhold Messner, which was a more mature work than its predecessors,
although the energetic lead-off single, "Army," showed that Folds'
humorous approach hadn't dulled at all. Folds officially went solo
again in 2001 with Rockin' the Suburbs. A series of EPs followed, with
the new long-player Songs for Silverman dropping in 2005. He released
Supersunnyspeedgraphic: The LP in 2006, followed by the full-length Way
to Normal in 2008. In 2009 Folds contributed two songs to University A
Cappella, a collection of covers of some of Folds' best tracks by
various university groups. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
By
the time ...Baby One More Time finally started to lose steam on the
singles and album charts, Spears was ready to release her follow-up.
Oops!...I Did It Again appeared in the spring of 2000, and the title
track was an instant smash, racing into the Top Ten. The album itself
entered the charts at number one and sold over a million copies in its
first week of release, setting a new record for single-week sales by a
female artist. Follow-up singles included "Lucky," the gold-selling
"Stronger," and "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know," which was
co-written by country diva Shania Twain and her producer Mutt Lange. A
year after its release, Oops!...I Did It Again had sold over nine
million copies. Rumors that Spears was dating *N Sync heartthrob (and
fellow ex-Mouseketeer) Justin Timberlake were eventually confirmed,
which only added to the media attention lavished on her.
Throughout the '90s the U.K. music scene was filled to the brim with
nerdy cockney types sporting messy threads and even messier hair. Fresh
faced Sophie Ellis-Bextor was amongst the first Brit-pop stars to break
with this trend. She made it onto the stage in 1997 as the teenage
vocalist behind new wave outfit Theaudience. Smartly dressed (often in
black) and boasting a sexy, posh voice, she caused quite a stir on
London's alternative circuit. Theaudience became known the world over
as a groundbreaking pop act and even enjoyed success on the crowded
U.K. singles chart with such imaginatively titled numbers as "I've Got
the Wherewithal." Due to internal conflicts, however, the group split
up and Ellis-Bextor went searching for success on her own. The solo
thing wasn't really working out and it took her a while to re-emerge on
the scene. But when she did, it was in late 2000 as a major star
alongside Italian DJ/producer Spiller. The 6'9" Venetian had just put
together a disco house number, titled "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love),"
and was looking for a female vocalist to add spice to the work. Though
very popular in the clubs as an instrumental, the track started selling
like mad after Ellis-Bextor strutted her stuff over its deep grooves.
It was a number one hit on singles charts around the world. Spiller and
Ellis-Bextor both starred in the now famous film clip to the track, in
which the Londoner's eye-popping set of cheekbones vied for supremacy
with the Venetian's imposing stature. A year on, Ellis-Bextor was again
making waves with the pop single "Take Me Home." Thanks to that effort,
she beat the likes of Five to the number one spot on the U.K. singles
chart. In their ongoing search for controversy, the British press even
touted her as the main competitor to enormously popular Victoria
Beckham, previously known as Posh Spice. That same year, Ellis-Bextor
served up another chart-topper in the ultra-cool disco tune "Murder on
the Dancefloor." ~ David Peter Wesolowski, All Music Guide
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added that working with Pain on the shoot was a nonstop good time. "[We
had] a lot of fun with it. It's no effort in it. It's just all fun and
all charisma and all action."
Action is now becoming second nature for the 19-year-old superstar,
who appears in several forthcoming films. He is currently hard at work
on his film project "Bone Deep," in which the pop star plays a
gangster. "It's a big, big incredible cast. It's an action-packed
movie," he said. "A lot of action going on. A lot of guns. It's a good
movie. I would say you can bring the kids to see it 'cause it'll be
PG-13."
In the film, he plays Jesse, a man who finds that his youthful
effervescence lands him in some hot water. "I'm more of the guy who's
more outgoing, loves the flashiness that kind of gets me into a little
bit of trouble," he said.
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The third generation cassette sounded like crap and the recording
methods were far from professional. However, his unique voice (brooding
pop to primal scream) and keen ear for a jaw-droppingly catchy tune was
evidence enough that this boy was the real deal. >/p>
Nic didn't win the contest but the tape fell into the right hands
and within days, he had gone from scratching a living to picking up a
recording contract with respected British indie, One Little Indian, and
a management contract with Quest (home to Bjork). After years of
accruing an enviable armory of songs and assembling a fabulous band
called 'The Thieves' (Shane Lawlor on bass and Jonny Aitken on drums),
there was no hanging about. They were promptly dispatched to Toe Rag
Studios in London, the analogue bastion of producer Liam Watson (The
White Stripes, The Zutons, The Kills) who immediately understood what
Nic and the band were hoping to achieve. A couple of weeks later, Nic
Armstrong & The Thieves' debut album, The Greatest White Liar was
born. Originally released in the U.K. during the spring of 2004, the
album garnered ecstatic reviews. The Sunday Times wrote "A 14-track
stunner ... a truly exceptional singer." The Guardian raved, "Melodies
so instant they could arrive in a jar."
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By the time ...Baby One More Time finally started to lose steam on the
singles and album charts, Spears was ready to release her follow-up.
Oops!...I Did It Again appeared in the spring of 2000, and the title
track was an instant smash, racing into the Top Ten. The album itself
entered the charts at number one and sold over a million copies in its
first week of release, setting a new record for single-week sales by a
female artist. Follow-up singles included "Lucky," the gold-selling
"Stronger," and "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know," which was
co-written by country diva Shania Twain and her producer Mutt Lange. A
year after its release, Oops!...I Did It Again had sold over nine
million copies. Rumors that Spears was dating *N Sync heartthrob (and
fellow ex-Mouseketeer) Justin Timberlake were eventually confirmed,
which only added to the media attention lavished on her.
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