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Showbiz Today Reports: Deep Blue Something Defies Categorization

Aired May 24, 2001 - 11:25   ET

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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: You were remarking earlier about the police blotter for big celebrities out there.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, yes. Go ahead.

KAGAN: It even includes the world of country music and one of the biggest stars.

O'BRIEN: And it used to be a really serious thing when you stole a horse, didn't it?

KAGAN: Yes. It still might be. Let's check in with Laurin Sydney -- hi, Laurin.

LAURIN SYDNEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It still might, though the word acquitted is coming right up. The cowboy rode off into the sunset Wednesday having been acquitted. Country singer Tim McGraw and fellow singer Kenny Chesney were both found innocent of assault charges stemming from an incident at a Buffalo, New York concert last June.

McGraw intervened when police went to arrest Chesney for riding a police horse he had been given permission to ride. The singers hugged when the verdict was announced, while McGraw's wife Faith Hill cried at the news.

The hot band Deep Blue Something were anything but blue when their single "Breakfast at Tiffany's" became a monster hit. The group is back with their sophomore effort. And our Michael Okwu sat down with the band to talk about their new self-titled album.

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MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the band is called Deep Blue Something. The CD is called "Deep Blue Something." And for rock fans, it's just about something for everyone on this thing. You've got shades of the Beatles. You've got different kind of contemporary sounds on this album. How would you describe it?

TODD PIPES, DEEP BLUE SOMETHING: Diverse. All over the place. Eclectic.

If you like the record, you say it's diverse. If you don't like it, it's all over the place and not sticking to any one genre.

OKWU: Well, you guys, it seems to me like you defy being categorized. Is that right?

TOBY PIPES, DEEP BLUE SOMETHING: Yeah. I mean, it's more fun. If you just get into a rut, into -- if someone just slams you into the category you have to stick with that for the rest of your lives or people are expecting you to be that way. So we like to be as different as we can with every song. We are kind of just make music for ourselves anyway. And that's what we like.

OKWU: Well, who would you say your influences are? Who do you sound like? You sound a little bit like -- there's one particular song, your single -- that sounds very much like The Beatles. And then you also have sort of elements of grunge and alternatives and deep rock.

TODD PIPES: We really lucky in the era in which we were brought up. We are barely old enough to remember some of the '70s. We kind of came of age in the '80s and in the '90s. So it's a really lucky span of music to grow up listening to. You can't pick your influences.

OKWU: You definitely succeeded with that first album. You had a hit song called "Breakfast at Tiffany's." And then we didn't hear from you for a while. You dropped your first record label. Five years went by. And now you're out with your second album. What happened during those years?

TODD PIPES: We toured America for quite a while, let that album kind of run its course. And then we spent a lot of time overseas in Europe and Asia, another year-and-a-half. So that took up some time.

We came back, built a studio in Dallas and started writing songs. We wrote over 100 -- wrote and recorded over 100 songs. Somehow we weeded it all down to 13 or so. And here we are.

OKWU: Well, let's hear that new single called "She Is."

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SYDNEY: Nice sound now. Obviously, Deep Blue Something is working on their musical legacy. But they have a ways to go to have impact that Bob Dylan has had. The rock poet, his generation celebrates its sixtieth birthday today. And later this afternoon in our "Showbiz Today Reports," we will look at the career and his influence both musically and politically.

Until then in New York, I'm Laurin Sydney. And now, as Dylan would say, all I really have to do is throw it back to Miles and Daryn.

KAGAN: Oh, thank you so much.

O'BRIEN: Nicely done.

KAGAN: Happy birthday, Bob Dylan. Thank you.

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