Section B · Page 6
The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, November 8. 2000
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Spice Girls release new album, Forever
NEW YORK — How long does it take before Spices get stale?
Virgin records has shipped 500,000 advance copies of the album to stores — a modest figure for a group with record sales of 38 million copies worldwide. Ray Cooper, co-president of Virgin Records America, said the company plans to build on the record.
The Associated Press
The U.S. recording industry will find out this week when the Spice Girls return with their third album, Forever. One of the best-selling pop acts in the world just two years ago, the group's profile has waned since they went on hiatus.
"I'm happy that it's doing well overseas, but I want it to do well over here to just shut down some of the critics," he said.
"People move on to something new very fast," said producer Rodney Jerkins, who worked on six tracks of the new album. "You can't leave your fans hanging for too long because they will find something new to grab on."
For many of the Spice Girls' core fan base — preteen girls — that something has been teen idols such as Britney Spears, 'N Sync and Destiny's Child.
"Holler" has already reached No.1 in Britain, where the Spice Girls remain popular. But the true test will come in the United States. Jerkins said.
In response to the changing landscape, the Spice Girls have tried to redefine themselves. They've stopped using their Spice nicknames, toned down their outlandish clothes, and attempted to gain credibility by working with superproducers like Jerkins and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who have worked with artists including Toni Braxton and Janet Jackson.
The new album's first single, "Holler," has a mid-tempo groove that could appeal to both adult contemporary and pop radio outlets.
The Spice Girls burst onto the American pop scene in late 1996 with the bouncy dance hit "Wannabe." Although dismissed by some critics as forgettable, their album Spice sold millions of copies. So did the followup, Spice World. The Spice Girls even made a campy movie, Spice World, which poked fun at their massive success.
"They can't stay making records for little kids all of their lives," Jerkins said of the women, all in their mid-20s. "That's what Britney and 'N Sync and Christina (Aguilera) are there for now."
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Wildebeests
2 Until
3 Neutral vowel sound
4 Whip stroke
5 Former Giant
6 Homeric epic
7 Dismantles for repairs
8 Personal preference
9 News services
10 Floral necklace
11 Lightly surfaces
12 Psychic letters
13 Main railway脱掉
14 Former Twins pitcher
15 Pluck
16 One of Frank's exes
17 Sedition
18 Car gear: abbr.
19 Flipper
19 Yells
20 Vigoda or Burrows
21 Service charge
22 Unlawful
23 Big ___ CA
24 Cite as a proof in an argument
25 Must concise
26 Your quantity
27 Inquiry
28 Top grade
29 Immediately
30 Lewis and Mar
31 Lewis and ___
32 Standard
33 "My Cousin Vinny" star
34 Supply of BB's
35 Napoleon his first exile site
36 Back of a boat
37 Scruff
38 Over one's head
DOWN
1 Grab hold of
2 Church section
3 Secondhand
4 Squeal
5 Thurman of
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62
63 64 65 66 67 68 69
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"Batman & Robin"
6 Cezanne or Gauguin
7 "Saint Maybe" novelist
8 Doctor Davis
9 Workers' protest
10 Monet or Debussy
11 Sibilant sound
12 Unit of electricity
13 Lemon drinks
14 Is it easily offered?
15 Monitored ex-con
16 Skyscraper figures
17 Tel Aviv__
18 Like college walls
19 Locked like a mustang?
20 Spill the beans
21 Delete
22 Oxen with humps
23 Turn inside out
24 Muhammad _
Solutions to Tuesday's crossword
38 Religious group
47 Loan shark
49 Captured
51 Of early
Peruvians
52 Bellini opera
54 Play divisions
55 Secret plan
56 Hobble
58 Wuss
60 Agitate
61 Ear part
62 Break suddenly
63 Stocking end
Full competition, benefits coming for Kansans
On October 26, Southwestern Bell Kansas took what we hope will be the final step toward garnering some giant benefits — like more choices and better value - for Kansas telephone customers. That's the day we filed our application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to offer long-distance service here in Kansas.
Approval of our application will mean another, Debbie Vignatelli better long-distance choice for Kansas consumers one with simple, no-gimmicks service plans, competitive rates and top-quality service.
In Texas, where its FCC application was approved last June. Southwestern Bell Texas is offering basic residential long-distance service for 9 cents a minute — one rate for all calls, anytime, in- or out-of-state — with no monthly fee.
With our entrance into the long-distance market here, Southwestern Bell Kansas will have similar, easy-to-understand plans — as well as one-stop shopping for all communications and entertainment services available to customers like you.
The main regulatory requirement for approval is that our local telephone markets must be open to competitors. In Kansas, they are. In fact, we currently have competitors in 100 percent of our wire centers and 100 percent of the counties served by Southwestern Bell.
Add the Kansas Corporation Commission's recent endorsement of our application, and we're hopeful that Southwestern Bell Kansas will be entering our state's long-distance market by early next year.
For now, it's the FCC's call. But soon, we hope the calls are yours through Southwestern Bell Kansas long-distance service.
Get informed. Get involved.
www.connectkansas.org
Debbie Vignatelli Executive Director External Affairs
Southwestern Bell
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