That’s what makes New Edition so special: Each entity has its own identity.” “When we’re Bell Biv DeVoe, we wear $2,000 leather jackets with T-shirts and boots and sneakers. “When we’re New Edition, we do New Edition songs, we wear $2,000 suits,” Bivins says. “He was like, ‘man, y’all shoulda been doing this.'” Tickets for RBRM will go on sale June 6th, with organizers noting that more dates will be added soon.īut don’t think this is a New Edition show by another name. “He gave us a lot of encouragement, said how good it looks,” Brown recalls. When RBRM performed in March at Funk Fest 2018, they earned the admiration of former Gap Band singer Charlie Wilson.
“Our band, oh my God, it’s incredible – we have two drummers, a DJ, a bass player, a keyboardist, a guitarist,” Brown says. On tour, the core lineup of Bell Biv DeVoe and Brown will be augmented by six back-up dancers and two background singers. We’ll keep that same New Edition synergy.” “Bobby was going out, so we said, maybe if we can’t do the whole group, we’ll just go out together. “We still have to keep the calendars going, stay consistent in the touring marketplace – that’s basically our main area of work for the last 10 or 15 years,” Bivins adds. “We decided to put a group together and perform for the people.” “Since Ralph has his radio show and Johnny’s been touring, a New Edition thing wasn’t able to happen,” Brown tells Rolling Stone during a separate phone call. It’s not entirely surprising, then, that a post-BET-series group tour didn’t get off the ground. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules'īut since New Edition contains so many different entities with their own hits – in addition to Brown and Bell Biv DeVoe, Johnny Gill still enjoys success on radio and Ralph Tresvant attempted a solo career in the Nineties – the history of the group is fraught with scheduling complications.
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“We were the Number One trending topic on Twitter three nights in a row.” Though he was frustrated by the lack of acclaim for the series – “I wish it would have gotten a little more acknowledgement as opposed to just the BET awards and the NAACP awards” – the commercial success of The New Edition story served as a launching pad for another New Edition tour. “It introduced us to a younger audience,” Bivins says. The RBRM tour follows the release in 2017 of The New Edition Story, a three-part biopic on BET that drew almost 30 million viewers.
“It’s very explosive for concert goers,” Bivins promises. This fall, Bell Biv DeVoe and Bobby Brown will build on the foundation set at the Amsterdam show by touring the U.S. We were over there mesmerized, saying, ‘That’s the Bobby Brown we know!’ Little did we think we’d ever combine that entity into RBRM.” “It pushed him to another level of entertainment – he went back to pop lockin’. “It was interesting, because he went on after us, and you could tell he felt like there was some smoke on that stage,” Bell Biv DeVoe’s Michael Bivins remembers. Years ago, Bell Biv DeVoe did a one-off show in Amsterdam with Bobby Brown, their former groupmate in New Edition.
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