Excerpt from Stewart Brodian’s new E Book
“Here’s The Future You Asked For”
42
Why weren't The Spice Girls billed as an interracial group?
Because they were a novelty of an all-girl vocal group - the
female equivalent of The Back Street Boys/NSYNC or New Kids On
The Block.
When you're a novelty, you can get away with certain things that
a mainstream act cannot.
On my cable TV show, I've played plenty of interracial acts -
some of them rap - but, I'm not on any major networks.
If I were, I'd probably have restrictions.
It's funny,...
In 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an interracial group.
But, eventually, the powers that be slowly influenced his
management and one by one the white members of his group were
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