All right, stop.
Collaborate and listen. Err...read on.
Yes, that bass riff, intermingled with whispers of 'Ice Ice,'that is now flowing through your mind is none other than thechart-topping white rapper Vanilla Ice. However, white rapper hemay still be, chart-topping he is not.
"Vanilla Ice?" Amy Smith, a senior elementary education major,questioned. "He has probably run away. I remember he did a concertat Emens four years ago, I think, and I know everybody went to theconcert."
Fans of the 1990 hit "Ice Ice Baby," get gangster-styled again.Ice is back on the scene, touring in Pennsylvania in earlyAugust.
"Those little stepping stones in the haircut," junior travel andtourism major Robert Tucker recalls of Ice's style, "I had those.The zigzag lines. But [Ice] is finished. Only if he brought a new'Ice Ice Baby' out could he make a comeback."
Surprisingly, though, many forgotten artists like Ice areattempting to make a return in the music scene. Sarah McLachlan,Oasis, MC Hammer and Goo Goo Dolls are just a few of the performersrumored to be back in the studio, and others, like Sister Hazel,popular with the hit, "All For You," and Boyz II Men, with theirheart-melting rhythms, are releasing CDs August 24.
"Honestly, I've wondered where they've went," Kari Jones, asenior communications major said of Boyz II Men members. "They justseemed to disappear. I used to listen to them. They sang music andharmonies; it was real music that they actually sang."
Even boy bands Hanson and Backstreet Boys are trying to croontheir way back into the hearts of girls everywhere. But DerekManet, a junior business management major, said when he thinks ofHanson, it's not positive.
"To be honest," began Manet, "I think gay...frail...girls. Ihoped that they would fail."
The trio, however, released a CD early this year and is touringaround the country throughout the month of August.
As for the five-member Orlando-based Backstreet Boys, a CD is inthe works to hit shelves later this year. After three thrivingalbums by 2000, the Boys are anything but failures, but theirsuccess has ended, according to Chris Jones, a sophomore marinebiology major.
"They've gone nowhere," Jones said. "They all broke up. I hopethey're not still together. I think I liked one song, but I don'teven know what it was."
Whether the comeback of these artists is anticipated or dreaded,it is still undeniable, bringing back music likeable years ago,much of which has no reasoning as to why. Break out the white suitsand baggy pants...it's going to be a musical fall.
Word to your mother.
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