Music: Big Poppa's Bubble Gum Machine

Boys who can sing and dance and look supercute! It's an old formula, and it still drives girls crazy--just ask Svengali Louis (Big Poppa) Pearlman

Advice for the modern teen idol: there's more to it than just cashing royalty checks and autographing training bras. There are difficult issues that must be faced. For instance, some toy company may want to measure your face so that it can manufacture dolls with your likeness. You could make a lot of money selling them to your youngest fans, but then your older fans--the 12- and 13-year-olds--would think you're babyish and move on to Hanson. And then there's all the choreography you have to remember while you're trying to look as yummy as possible. And the whole goatee-or-non-goatee dilemma. And...

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