Volume 7, Issue 2
Editor’s Note
Each and every year, a previously unknown music artist will come out of obscurity and strike gold with a new hit song. Week after week, this song will get stuck in listeners’ heads and continually climb the music charts, only to quickly fall off the face of the earth, never to be heard from again. These songs are best known as one-hit wonders. Songs like “Macarena” by Los Del Rio, “Who Let The Dogs Out” by Baha Men or my personal favorite, “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred, were at one time the hottest things since sliced bread. But sadly the artist was never able to repeat their short-lived success.
As crazy as this might sound, I feel their pain. I too could be tagged as a one-hit wonder. In the summer of 2002 I had a short stint in a boy-band call N’PYNK. Granted my 15-minutes of fame only encompassed several thousand teenagers at a youth conference in San Antonio. Dressed in the hippest pink outfits, we rocked the stage with our most popular song, “Quit Playing Games With My Phone.”
It was a spoof of the Backstreet Boys’ hit song, “Quit Playing Games With My Heart.” Even talking about it now seems embarrassing, but at the time, I had a brief glimpse into the everyday life of a boy band star, including screaming girls, flashing cameras and countless autograph sessions!
Who am I kidding? I realize I don’t even fit the criteria of being considered a one-hit wonder, much less a star. But that couldn’t be farther from the truth when it comes to the real life stars we are excited to feature in this current edition of Saline County Lifestyles. People like MLB All-Stars Cliff Lee and Travis Wood, previous American Idol contestant Spencer Lloyd, and movie producer Daniel Campbell have all earned their right of star power and are shinning bright on some of the biggest venues.
Although we were only able to focus on a handful of standouts, Saline County is filled with talented people deserving of attention. In the words of another one-hit wonder, Sinead O’Connor, “Nothing Compares 2 U”. It is the combined efforts of our residents and businesses that make Saline County the 5-Star community that it is today! Your town. Your life. Your magazine.
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