Teen Emo Pop

[koganbot]

FYI. Don't know what this portends.

Listen to Radio Disney on Saturday, October 28th @ 2pm ET to let us know if we should pick or kick Fall Out Boy's new song, "What's This?" ! Only from the station that let's you choose your music your way... Radio Disney!

Comments

[skyecaptain]

Well, I bet it's more about Nightmare Before Christmas than Fall Out Boy. I don't think the sea change to teenmo is ready yet, the demographics skew a little too high ...I mean once you let in the FIFTEEN year olds... Or maybe when FOB or MCR or P!AD are ready, they'll come to RD, but it seems unlikely RD will come to them on their own terms. Meaning they'll write their "Radio Disney song" (like Yellowcard or All American Rejects or Good Charlotte or Simple Plan...hm, "Shut Up" is kinda risque, musta been those pesky 14 y/o's...) and leave the cultural baggage outside.

[skyecaptain]

Anyway, in terms of a general shift in sound, it's only going to happen on Disney's terms, i.e. with a Disney-produced artist. So I'll start worrying when they try to foist Breaking Benjamin on Hannah Montana's audience. (Aly and AJ are darker than any of these emo kids, anyway.)

[carsmilesteve]

hehe, can you spell busted? if only they hadn't split up, matt was even growing an emo fringe and everything...

[koganbot]

America's Busted are the Jonas Brothers, who were just dropped by Columbia but are all over Radio Disney. Their best song, "Mandy," starts with the guitar intro to "Anarchy in the U.K." and then ends up sounding like the Bay City Rollers (if I remember what the Bay City Rollers sound like; Xhuxk once told me that Poison came on like the Dolls and sounded like the Bay City Rollers, so I'm kinda going by that).