History Music / NewEdition

* BreakupBreakout: Music/BobbyBrown

* FollowTheLeader: After Maurice Starr was fired by New Edition, he created New Kids On The Block as [[RaceLift basically a white version]] of New Edition. Starr would go on to use the New Edition formula with multiple groups, including Perfect Gentlemen, Classic Example, and The Superiors.

Returning from their first major concert tour, the boys were dropped back off to their homes in the projects and were given a check in the amount of $1.87 a piece for their efforts. Tour budget and expenses were given as the explanation as to why they were not paid more. Due to financial reasons, New Edition parted company with Starr in 1984 (Starr responded by promptly creating the group New Kids on the Block; essentially formatted after New Edition, but with [[ButNotTooBlack white teenagers]].) The group, meanwhile, hired the law-firm of Steven and Martin Machat and sued Streetwise for relief from a contract that was unenforceable as well as materially breached by Streetwise. The Machat's won the legal game and then secured the group a huge recording deal with Creator/{{MCA}} after holding a bidding war among all the major recording labels. The band, in need of management, signed with Steven Machat and his two management partners Rick Smith and Bill Dern. The management company was called AMI and AMI proceeds to break the group both in the urban and pop world. MCA, through the production affiliate of AMI, Jump and Shoot, released the groups self titled second album the same year. Eclipsing their debut album, New Edition spun off the top five hit "Cool It Now" and the top twenty "Mr. Telephone Man," and went on to be certified double platinum in the United States.

* DreamTeam: The 2021 American Music Awards saw them team up with New Kids On The Block for a medley of their greatest hits, culminating in a group performance of "If It Isn't Love", with Donnie Wahlberg essentially stating that New Kids owed everything to New Edition.

In December 1985, under pressure from MCA and their management, the group voted Bobby Brown out, due to behavioral problems (a move they regretted years later according to Michael Bivins). Brown left in late 1985 to embark on a successful solo career in 1986, while New Edition continued to promote All for Love as a quartet. In spite of their financial and internal conflicts, New Edition continued to peak. During this era of the group's evolution, the group appeared in the episode of Knight Rider titled "Knight Song", performing "Count Me Out." As 1986 wound to a close, they recorded a cover of The Penguins 1954 hit "Earth Angel" for the soundtrack to The Karate Kid, Part II. The song peaked at #21 and inspired the group to record Under the Blue Moon, an album of doo-wop covers. The group continued for a time with four members, but eventually recruited singer Johnny Gill to record their 1988 album Heart Break. The group went on hiatus in 1990, while its various members worked on side projects, such as the group Bell Biv [=DeVoe=]. Gill and Tresvant also recorded successful solo albums.

* TheCameo: New Edition briefly appears in ''Krush Groove'', a RomanAClef about the founding of Def Jam Records.

* {{Expy}}: New Kids On The Block were [[RaceLift basically a white version]] of New Edition, also created by Maurice Starr. Starr would go on to use the New Edition formula with multiple groups, including Perfect Gentlemen, Classic Example, and The Superiors.
* FairWeatherFriend: “Can You Stand the Rain” explicitly rejects this trope.
-->''On a perfect day I know that I can count on you''
-->''When that’s not possible tell me can you weather the storm?''
-->''Cuz I need somebody who will stand by me''
-->''Through the good times and times you always be''
-->''Always be right there''

All six members of the group reunited in 1996-1997 for the album Home Again, but during the ill-fated follow-up tour both Brown and Bivins quit the group, and the tour had to be canceled. Various reunions have occurred since, usually with the 1987-1990 lineup, though occasionally also including Bobby Brown. Their last studio release was 2004's One Love. As of 2010, two New Edition descendants are recording and touring: Bell Biv [=DeVoe=], and ''Heads of State'' (featuring Brown, Tresvant, and Gill). Rumors of a new studio album have been floating around.

* [[ManInWhite Men In White]]: The ''Home Again'' album cover

-->''[[DoubleStandard Me and the crew used to do her]]''

* SlutShaming: “Poison” by Bell Biv Devoe
-->''I’m saying she’s a loser''
-->''How do you know?''

Returning from their first major concert tour, the boys were dropped back off to their homes in the projects and were given a check in the amount of $1.87 a piece for their efforts. Tour budget and expenses were given as the explanation as to why they were not paid more. Due to financial reasons, New Edition parted company with Starr in 1984 (Starr responded by promptly creating the group New Kids on the Block; essentially formatted after New Edition, but with [[ButNotTooBlack white teenagers]].) The group, meanwhile, hired the law-firm of Steven and Martin Machat and sued Streetwise for relief from a contract that was unenforceable as well as materially breached by Streetwise. The Machat's won the legal game and then secured the group a huge recording deal with MCA after holding a bidding war among all the major recording labels. The band, in need of management, signed with Steven Machat and his two management partners Rick Smith and Bill Dern. The management company was called AMI and AMI proceeds to break the group both in the urban and pop world. MCA, through the production affiliate of AMI, Jump and Shoot, released the groups self titled second album the same year. Eclipsing their debut album, New Edition spun off the top five hit "Cool It Now" and the top twenty "Mr. Telephone Man," and went on to be certified double platinum in the United States.

New Edition is an American R&B male music group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1978, that was most popular during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock and Boyz II Men. At the height of their early popularity in 1983, the group consisted of Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Music/BobbyBrown, Ronnie [=DeVoe=], and Ralph Tresvant. Early hits included songs like 1983's "Candy Girl" and 1984's "Cool It Now".

* SpiritualSuccessor: Many R&B and pop boy bands have modeled themselves after New Edition at one point or another, but Boyz II Men is considered their direct successor, [[InvokedTrope even naming themselves]] after a New Edition song. It doesn't hurt that Mike Bivins helped groom them into superstars.

* TimePassesMontage: ''The New Edition Story'' uses their touring performance of “Is This the End?” to transition the group [[TimeShiftedActor from pre-teens to young adults]].

In 2017, Creator/{{BET}} produced a {{Biopic}} MiniSeries about the group, ''The New Edition Story'', that [[MusicStories chronicles many of the above events]].

!!These Tropes cover both the group New Edition and the BET miniseries, ''The New Edition Story''

* DisappearedDad: None of the fathers of band members appear in the mini-series. Their mothers are the primary caregivers and the ones who negotiate their contracts.

* GilliganCut: During an interview in ''The New Edition Story,'' the group claims they are working on an album that will drop next year. The next scene begins with a TitleCard that says, “Six Years Later”.

* ShotForShotRemake: The third episode of ''The New Edition Story'' opens with a full remake of the first verse and chorus of the “If It Isn’t Love” video, including their choreographer’s monologue and the bottom-corner video credits. The episode also features short shot-for-shot remakes of [=BBD=]'s "Poison", Ralph's "Sensitivity", Bobby's "Every Little Step", and Johnny's "My, My, My".

** The music video for "N.E. Heart Break" has a few celebrity cameos, including [[Series/TheCosbyShow Malcolm-Jamal Warner]] (who directed the video), {{Music/Heavy D Heavy D & The Boyz}}, Robert Townsend, Shanice Wilson, etc., all while taking place at [[Creator/EddieMurphy Eddie Murphy's]] mansion.

** The music video for "N.E. Heart Break" has a few celebrity cameos, including [[Series/TheCosbyShow Malcolm-Jamal Warner]] (who directed the video), {{Music/Heavy D}}, Robert Townsend, Shanice Wilson, etc., all while taking place at [[Creator/EddieMurphy Eddie Murphy's]] mansion.