It's A Girl Thing: Tween Queens and the Commodification of the Girl's Tween Market

A few years of research, thoughts and adjustments that all led to a completed film which, framed by the structure of a faux interactive website for tween girls, looks closely, and critically, at the tween market's evolution and the role of Disney and Nickelodeon's tween queens (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Miley Cryus, Miranda Cosgrove, Kiki Palmer, Selena Gomez, and more) in the market's explosion.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Fallen Angel


Cover your ears! Miley gets racy
By Courtney Hazlett (The Scoop)
msnbc.com
Mon., March. 1, 2010

Tween music queen Miley Cyrus continues her campaign toward maturity, this time by doing a very un-Disney duet with Poison frontman Bret Michaels.

Michaels, star of “Rock of Love,” penned the song “Nothin’ to Lose,” which includes lyrics such as: “We both know better than this/Still we can't resist/Slowly get undressed.”

The chorus isn’t much less controversial, especially when you consider Cyrus is 17 and Michaels is 46: "Won't you fall down on me/So close I can feel you breathe?”

Michaels told Us Weekly that he has been made aware of the controversy but insists that there’s nothing to be upset about.

“It has no reference to her and I. It’s not even (meant to be) a duet,” Michaels said. (Michaels originally recorded the song on his own.)

Michaels told Us he got “very positive comments” on the finished track, which will appear on his solo album “Custom Built,” out in late May.

“As God is my witness, there is nothing I have to be defensive about," he says. "I'm a good dad. I just thought it was a beautiful song. "