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Article: COMMENTARY: Spice Girls reunion tour falters

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Rebecca Wall
University Wire
02-19-2008
(The Dartmouth) (UWIRE) HANOVER, N.H. -- It seems that today's preteen set is smitten with a certain Hannah Montana. The affluent portion of the prepubescent crowd go to great lengths to see her live in sold-out concerts, while countless millions feverishly follow her on the popular, eponymous Disney Channel show. She even has her own video game; way to go, H-Money!

However, we oh-so-much older and positively wiser college students know that Ms. Montana is more passing tumbleweed (read: shrub or scrub) than pop star revelation. After all, we've seen this type of infatuation before. Remember the dominant pop figures of our youth, the Spice Girls? Of ...

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