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- BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesMARKETINGHurricane Of Hype
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- America has perpetrated countless pop fads on Europe, so now
- the Continent is getting its revenge. They call it lambada, the
- trendiest dance since the hustle. A torrid thigh-to-thigh
- two-step that swept across Europe last year after being
- imported from Brazil by French music promoter Jean Karakos,
- lambada and its Afro-Latin sound have hit America in a
- hurricane of hype. World Beat, an album by the lambada band
- Kaoma, has sold 600,000 copies. Two hurriedly produced lambada
- movies opened this month; five more such flicks are on the
- way. The commercialization has just begun. Retailers, including
- Bullock's in Los Angeles and Macy's in New York City, are
- peddling skimpy lambada skirts and tops. Still to come: videos,
- books, towels, bandannas and T-shirts -- not to mention lambada
- cocktails. Dance aficionados question lambada's staying power,
- but promoters are dancing all the way to the bank.
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