Like the best rock and roll acts, the Spice Girls tweak their pierced noses at stuffy authority. They fake-kickboxed their way into hearts around the world and were not afraid to fire their management twice. Of all the role models young girls can dig up, I think the Spice Girls are fairly benign. Young men and women can play out adult sexual roles through fantasy crushes as they spend their folks' economic-boom bucks. Swiftly turn the years.
Pop bands recapture the happy screams.
Darkness floods our television screens and holds a place in our souls, but pop music from girl bands and boy bands fights the good fight for the light, trivial side of life.