12/10/2023 0 Comments Color me badd![]() It was also huge in the U.K and New Zealand, marking an international breakthrough for the band as well. In time, the song became an astonishing hit, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and staying there for four weeks. The band debuted in 1991 with the release of their debut single “I Wanna Sex You Up”, which came out on the soundtrack of a crime film called New Jack City and made a name for the group immediately. This manager relocated the group to New York City, New York but found that in the big city, they were one of many, many acts trying to make a name for themselves.Īfter a year and a half’s worth of concerts and label showcases, the band signed to Giant Records in 1990. One of their early champions was Robert Bell of Kool and the Gang, who saw the groups potential and signed them up with a manager that he knew personally. They formed a band together just before high school after discovering their similar tastes in music and spent their high school years singing together, building a reputation with their doo-wop style harmonies. ![]() The original line-up of Bryan Abrams, Sam Watters, Mark Calderon and Kevin “K.T” Thornton met while singing in the same church choir in Oklahoma. The characteristic they shared with both their predecessors and followers, however, is that they were essentially image-based, a bunch of reasonably attractive, modestly talented young men more important for their pin-up value than their musical accomplishments, and so they remain on this compilation.It might surprise you to know that even Color Me Badd, an outfit that on the surface seem utterly tailor made, actually formed naturally. They were also more overtly sexual ("I Wanna Sex You Up"), even if "Sexual Capacity," one of the album tracks included here, proves to be a confession of limited capacity when you examine the lyrics. But unlike the so-called boy bands that came after them (how can they be bands if they don't play instruments?), they were R&B-influenced rather than Eurocentric, even to the point of being an integrated group, and they incorporated a broader range of musical styles into their sound. It is no coincidence that, just as they themselves were slipping below the radar, descendants like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC were just coming on. Picking up from New Edition and especially New Kids on the Block, who were subsiding just as they emerged, Color Me Badd, along with Boyz II Men, were the teen-oriented male vocal group of their day, complete with hype, videos, silly haircuts, and four interweaving mediocre tenor voices. ![]() "We're not a fad," they sang on "Color Me Badd," but they were, breaking five Top 20 hits off their 1991 debut album, the triple-platinum C.M.B., and going straight downhill from there. The result is a reasonable sampler of Color Me Badd's work. In fact, of their nine Top 40 pop hits, six are included, among them the major hits "I Wanna Sex You Up," "I Adore Mi Amor," and "All 4 Love." (The missing titles are "Slow Motion," "Forever Love," and "Time and Chance.") The other half of the disc consists of B-sides (the R&B chart entry "Color Me Badd"), album tracks (among them a cover of the 1973 Skylark hit "Wildflower" produced and arranged by David Foster, who was in Skylark), and rarities ("Got 2 Have U" from the Beverly Hills 90210 TV soundtrack, and "Where Lovers Go," previously available only as a Japanese bonus track). The title The Best of Color Me Badd instead of greatest hits, signals that it is not a simple collection of the group's chart singles. ![]() Two years after Color Me Badd broke up in the wake of the commercial failure of Awakening, Giant Records assembled this compilation. ![]()
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