![]() ![]() Best known for their singles ' I Wanna Sex You Up ', ' I Ador, Mi Amor ' and ' All 4. The group is now owned and fronted by Mark Calderon, an original founding member, and Color Me Badd continues to bring their hit songs as well as new music to the entire world. 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. Legendary R&B group Color Me Badd was formed in 1985 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 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. The group re-emerged in 2010 and has continued performing with different lineups.Two years after Color Me Badd broke up in the wake of the commercial failure of Awakening, Giant Records assembled this compilation. After dropping their fourth studio album, 1998’s Awakening, Color Me Badd officially parted ways.The singles “Time and Chance” and “Choose” missed the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. The group’s more ambitious sophomore album, 1993’s Time And Chance, failed to match the success of its predecessor.The LP’s third single, “All 4 Love”, also reached No. The follow-up single, “I Adore Mi Amor”, went No. As for the tour, the I Love the ’90s Bowl stop could not be tastier: Vanilla Ice he of Ice Ice Baby and reality shows such as The Surreal Life headlines a bill that includes Salt-N-Pepa (Push It, Shoop), Tone Loc (Wild Thing, Funky Cold Medina), and Young MC (Bust a Move), and, of course, Color Me Badd. ![]() The lead single, “I Wanna Sex You Up”, topped Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and reached No.
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