Hanson article
The Times November 09, 2006
An MMMbop on the nose for the pop biz
A new documentary charts how, when the former heart-throbs Hanson got mad with their record company, they got even. Stephen Dalton reports
We are living in a golden era for dysfunctional rock documentaries. Metallica, the Dandy Warhols and Daniel Johnston have all committed their psychic traumas and career meltdowns to celluloid in recent years. Reality TV has transformed confessional group therapy into a spectator sport.
Now even those wholesome pop puppies Hanson have joined this trend with Strong Enough to Break, a backstage documentary that follows the marathon struggle by the trio, whose biggest hit was MMMbop, to record their third album, Underneath, for a label whose reaction veered from indifference to hostility.
An MMMbop on the nose for the pop biz
A new documentary charts how, when the former heart-throbs Hanson got mad with their record company, they got even. Stephen Dalton reports
We are living in a golden era for dysfunctional rock documentaries. Metallica, the Dandy Warhols and Daniel Johnston have all committed their psychic traumas and career meltdowns to celluloid in recent years. Reality TV has transformed confessional group therapy into a spectator sport.
Now even those wholesome pop puppies Hanson have joined this trend with Strong Enough to Break, a backstage documentary that follows the marathon struggle by the trio, whose biggest hit was MMMbop, to record their third album, Underneath, for a label whose reaction veered from indifference to hostility.