Cintra Wilson

Never Gone, the new Backstreet Boys album, is the strange waxen fruit of their introspection after a five-year absence: The former Boy Kings of the white-pop landscape have crawled down from their penthouses and reunited after “a healthy breather,” during which the Boys gained “perspective on the whirlwind of fame.”......

(top): Photo by Patrick KeelerThe Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey’s new album, just premiered at number one on the Billboard Top 200. It is ostensibly an “I am finally free to let my freak-flag fly” manifesto. Mimi used to be the name of Carey’s “other” personality, the one she used......