New Inside

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New Inside

Studio album by Tiffany
Released	October 2, 1990
Recorded	1990
Genre	Pop / R&B
Length	50:41
Label	MCA Records
Producer(s)	Phillip Damien, Maurice Starr
All Music Guide (1.5/5) link
Tiffany chronology
Hold an Old Friend's Hand (1988)	New Inside (1990)	Dreams Never Die (1993)

New Inside is the third regular studio album by Tiffany, released on October 2, 1990 (see 1990 in music). Tiffany had broken with manager/producer George Tobin soon after her 18th birthday, and signed with manager Dick Scott and producer Maurice Starr. Starr was the producer responsible for putting together the group New Kids On The Block, who had risen to teen popularity by opening for Tiffany in 1988, and who had since eclipsed Tiffany in degree of pop success (she even opened for them in 1989). This album came out on Tiffany's 19th birthday, and she hoped it would revive her faltering career, which had not been helped by the release earlier in the year of Jetsons: The Movie, which featured three of her songs (produced by Tobin) along with her vocal acting as Judy Jetson, but was critically panned.

Unfortunately for Tiffany, New Inside was not a commercial success, and neither the album nor any single released from it made it onto the pop charts, though the title track got a little bit of airplay in some areas and reached some local radio stations' request-based countdowns thanks to the efforts of fans, who were starting to get organized on bulletin board systems and online services. Billboard magazine reviewed the album in a somewhat favorable vein, saying "Teen diva gratefully shrugs off the dated sound of former svengali George Tobin and strikes a harder-edged, pop/funk pose on third album. While her matured, raspy vocals would be better served with less formulaic material than she has here, set offers several sterling moments."^[1]

An attempt was made to take advantage of current events by rededicating the song "Here in My Heart", written by superstar songwriter Diane Warren (who is responsible for many pop hits for other artists), to the troops serving in the Gulf War. Previously, the song had been dedicated to AIDS victim Ryan White.

Ultimately, Tiffany broke with Scott and Starr, and returned to George Tobin for her following album (released three years later).

"Dennis Cheese", credited with the rap in the title track, is Donnie Wahlberg of the New Kids.

The CD booklet and back cover show "A Moment to Rest" as track number 3, but this brief instrumental interlude is actually on the CD as part of the following track, "Tenderly", shown as track 4 on the cover but actually track 3; all subsequent tracks are confusingly shown with numbers one higher than actually displayed by a CD player.

This was one of the last CDs to be packaged in a longbox, a packaging size used in the United States for the first few years of the existence of the CD in order to fit better in racks designed for vinyl LPs, as well as to deter theft. Other countries used smaller packaging from the beginning, and after some resistance (and a few proposals for alternative packaging) the U.S. record industry followed suit right after New Inside was released.