Former Disney queen Demi Lovato—whose grandpa was gay and who has dated at least one gay dude—has a new break-up song called “Really Don't Care,” but she's used its music video to make a statement about LGBT rights. Lots of bubbly fun...
Having worked with the Jonas Brothers for years (we're not besties, but they know me and I would hope think positively of me, as I do of them), perhaps I am more interested in Joe Jonas's extremely candid mini-memoir he narrated to Jennifer Vineyard at New York's Vulture.
Among his revelations: He's "not religious in any way" (which stands in stark contrast to the boys' very public religious image from those years) following disenchantment with the strict church he grew up in, he did engage in sexual activity as a teenager but says he lost his virginity at 20 and is glad he didn't "go there" with any "bathshit crazy" girls from his past, and yes, the whole Disney machine really did do a number on his head.
Apparently, Glee isn't out of Madonna songs to cover after all...now it's "Into the Groove," by Chris Colfer (with an assist by Demi Lovato and Adam Lambert).
From here: I've worked with every one of these girls and have interviewed them and watched their careers from Day One. I was the first magazine editor to put Hilary Duff on a magazine cover, which directly led to quite a string of those. So I know whereof I speak when I say that as fascinating as this is (it can also be read as darkly slut-shaming, a #ruinedchildhood meme), it's really no different from what happens to most girls—they go from total innocence to not so much. (Granted, these images are exaggerated as they're all actresses and singers.)
But what's even more interesting to me about this clever image is the implied expectation that they would have stayed total innocents forever in the first place.
The Disney/performing aspect is probably responsible for making them old beyond their years—Miley and Hilary were having adult conversations, very adult, at 15, 16, and making business decisions you or I would feel torn about.
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