Destiny's Child - The Platinum's on the Wall
With their sleek, cyber R&B; sounds and lyrical/video world of cars, money, shopping, boys, and sex, Texas's Destiny's Child have hardly broken any  new ground. However,The Platinum's on the Wallcaptures them at their  career height and proves no one is doing this stuff with more grandeur, sass,  and ice-cool efficiency. To paraphrase one commentator in 2001: This is  Destiny's Child's world, the rest of us are just living in it. Beginning with their first, 1997 hit, the slow-burning, teasing "No, No, No  (Part 1)" and including the foxy trot of "Bills, Bills, Bills" (an attack on  backsliding homeboys as withering as TLC's "No Scrubs"), these videos, which  feature costume changes on an almost frame-by-frame basis, are certainly lavish.  The group, however, is seen to best advantage on the likes of "Say My Name," in  which Beyonce Knowles, the group's leader and true star, gets to show off her  persona a little. Disappointingly, the extra "biography" feature here is not a  steamy account of their rapid rise and frequent personnel changes but a dreary,  text-only account of their numerous TV appearances and platinum sales figures.--David Stubbs