Potential break-up song becomes actual break-up song

[koganbot]

A+A consorting with execs from non-Disney firm:


HUGE NEWS AND WEBSITE INFO! | 02.19.2010
Hey guys…so we know it's been quiet in the 78violet camp but we want to first off thank you for sticking with us. We have some big news and wanted to make sure you hear it first.

Now that it's official, we can tell you we're no longer a part of Hollywood Records. What does that mean exactly??? Now we have the freedom to take 78violet in the direction we want. We're writing and recording new music and are really excited on what's next.

So…what is next? As for the album we recorded for Hollywood, honestly, we don't foresee it ever being released. But…we are continuing to write and record new songs that we hope you'll love as much as we do.

We're going to be taking the Aly & AJ website down in the meantime which means the current message board will be removed and the accounts you created on the site will be put on hold. Yes…major bummer. But we'll have a new message board and a new temporary site up in a few days that will serve as our main communication with you for the time being.

As always, you can get a hold of us on Twitter or Facebook.

We love you and are excited to share the new 78violet with you. Xoxo.

A+A

We've been talking about this over on justfanoe's lj, though we can talk about it here as well.

In other ex–Hollywood Records news, Hilary Duff announced her engagement to a professional hockey player.

Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the e-mail, Frank.

Not sure what to think about this. Not even convinced it's all that big a deal. It was inevitable that A+A would have to move on from the Disney/Hollywood stable eventually. So long as they find a way to get their songs out in the future - and sure, there may now be a question mark over this - that's all that matters to me.

[koganbot]

And there's the outstanding question of what music they'll make in the future, all the questions I put on my MySpace in 2006 in regard to Ashlee et al. (scroll down the left-hand column until you get to "Heroes"):

Current "teenpop" - or the strain within it that most currently is capturing my attention, the part I'll call "rock confessional" - is actually without precedent, kids in their teens and early twenties working with a handful of music pros in their mid thirties, but the kids all included in the songwriting credits and creating (with the aid of those veteran pros) songs that are smarter and more emotionally complex than most of what you're getting from real grownup pop and rock performers (including the grownup pop and rock performers that the veteran pros also work with). But what this means is that these girls have no good models for how to expand and deepen their music as they grow into their twenties, and no preset market or genre to inhabit once they do, unless they create it for themselves.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

no good models

Well, 'good' is a matter of opinion, but A+A have dipped into their parents' record collection enough times already to indicate that they know how to find role models from pop's history if necessary.

[koganbot]

Here's the MySpace link:

http://www.myspace.com/frankkogan