Album
Candy Girl
1983Pop · Music · R&B/Soul · Contemporary R&B · Rock · Hip-Hop/Rap · Hip-Hop · Teen Pop
Prime ‘80s electro-funk from the Boston kids who became icons.
Tracks
- 14:12
- 24:02
- 34:10
- 44:43
- 54:53
- 63:57
- 73:58
- 83:54
- 95:01
- 105:06
About this album
This is prime ‘80s synth-funk and hip-hop from five Boston kids who’d soon become icons. Falsetto-voiced lead singer Ralph Tresvant shines, especially on electrofied video-arcade jams like “Popcorn Love” and the title track, while Ronnie DeVoe, Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell and Michael Bivins rock the hip-hop cipher of “Pass the Beat”. Bell’s heartbreak underlines the teenage ballad “Is This the End”, and Bivins’ spoken-word performance adds a doo-wop touch to “Jealous Girl”. Future boy bands like New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys took notes.