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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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[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Y'know, rereading this this morning (and talking to the author about it over at Bedbugs), I think I misread the piece -- still have reservations about where it goes, i.e. the paragraph I quoted initially, but the set-up is pretty good, and it illustrates a blind spot in my own little makeshift history. I like to write off Dream Street and Play etc., the boy/girlgroups that got Disney backing but weren't produced by Disney, as sort of "echos" of the more important boyband explosion to make more room for confessional stuff to come in and dominate. But it was pretty huge, I spose.