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[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

Following the Jesse McCartney discussion a few posts back, I happened upon this article over at PopMatters. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but it's an interesting take on the early days of Disney pop.

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[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The above is why I posted it here, because I have nothing approaching your knowledge on this, Dave. Plus, the article seems heavily influenced by the author's personal experience of Dream Street (who I had no idea existed).

Did Dream Street ever cross over into the mainstream? Canada lacks Radio Disney or an equivalent, so while we got exposure to a lot of random British pop like S Club and B*witched and All Saints and 5ive and so forth through children's television like YTV (whose music programs oddly resembled a tamer Pop World), I can't recall having heard much of the rest as a kid unless it crossed-over to frequent radio play. Although, this seems to have changed at some point since, as my youngest sister and her friends are all about Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, etc.

Tangentially, at some point I keep meaning to scroll back through old music charts and try to figure out what ostensibly ubiquitous pop music from the 90s was actually specific to Canada, because there seems to have been a fair bit of that as well.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I wish she was more personal about it -- I think she brings in too much half-assed "evidence" after her intro, and she never returns to the fact that she started a fansite and presumably interacted with actual fans. Did she want to sleep with them, or dig their "virginality"? If not, why would she assume that so many of their fans did? (Her allusions to other fansites are too vague -- is "sexxxxxy" about sex, or about jokingly posing on your personal page/message board? How old were the people at the fansites -- most of the teenpop message boards are usually moderated by people in their teens, not tweens, I think -- that is, the older section of the demographic -- which is who would be captioning the pics.)