Jonas Brothers
Biography
One of the most popular teen-affiliated groups of the 2000s, the Jonas Brothers craft hook-filled power pop anthems in the vein of McFly, Hanson, and the Modern Lovers. The young New Jersey natives (while readying their 2006 debut, brothers Joseph, Kevin, and Nicholas Jonas topped out at 16, 17, and 13, respectively) were reared in the city of Wyckoff under the tutelage of musical parents. Nicholas showed a particular flair for singing; by the age of seven, he'd already begun a modest career as a Broadway performer. The young vocalist also took an interest in songwriting, even co-writing a Christmas tune in 2002 alongside his father. Several years later, his soulful voice had wowed enough executives at Daylight/Columbia Records to warrant a solo album, and Nicholas began writing original material with help from his two brothers. The siblings' songs impressed the president of Columbia, who ultimately signed the trio in 2005.
The Jonas Brothers' full-length debut, It's About Time, was released in August 2006. Featuring the songwriting talents of Desmond Child and Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger, the album peaked at number 91 on the Billboard charts and earned the siblings a modest audience, particularly among fans of Radio Disney.
Selected Discography
no wait... that was only one movie. so much for moving forward...
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I would bet Disney is sexist with that fact that themes of the damsel in the distress has been overkill. that's a cliche I just down-right LOATHE. I think only one Disney movie, Enchanted, had a MALE damsel in distress and the heroine saved him. that was kinda funny, but the movie was still kinda dumb.
then again, NOW Disney decides to make stronger, smarter, and braver female characters who actually DRVIE the plot rather than be a piece of fancy artwork. |
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I have not noticed it before! when I was little I focused on the lessons of the stories. I still do with anything as well, but I can't help but to notice stuff like that.
well, I remember Aladdin had middle eastern characters, but then again, it's the only one. every other story had white characters (I think Esmerelda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame was another character who wasn't white). |
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Precisely... . . i t came up in my Lit. class today. The fact that they're just now getting around to it. No excuse really. Some enlightened age it is...
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Disney did just come out with a movie (which I haven't seen) that has a black main character.
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Yeah, just think back of the famous Disney cartoons and movies, like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and others. Can you think of ANY black characters in ANY of them?
Going back to the discussion on lasting relationship s , I must say this: The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. |
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That's a valid point, Willis...it was produced a fairly long time ago, but still, it kinda ruins Disney, I think (granted, I've hated Disney, essentially my entire life)...
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That is pretty racist...... . . But when exactly was this movie produced? It used to be what a lot of people were taught. But I definitely agree that that's racist.
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wow slug, you sure know your stuff! I mean...you know what i mean.... :) lol
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That's only one example, by the by...There was actually an entire study done on Beauty and the Beast...it's nearly as bad.
Then there's the delightful sexism that goes on throughout.. . f u n n y how so many people picture Disney as the manifestatio n of innocence... ^^ |
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Easy...just watch the The Jungle Book. You'll notice that the only black characters in that entire movie are the apes (the voice actors, that is)...I don't know about you, but I think that's pretty damn insulting.
Add to that the fact that the original Jungle Book was written by Rudyard Kipling (easily one of the most dispicable of the British imperialists ) who wrote the poem "The White Man's Burden", and you've got one damn racist movie. |
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I'm dying to know how to prove that! :)
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"We live in the flicker" eh? Well, perhaps that's true, but usually, all the good and all the bad are lumped together...g o o d at first, then bad follows.
(Kudos to anyone who knows where that quote is from...it's famous, so you'd better!) I hate the Jonas Brothers. |
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Exactly, Fangirl. That's true with almost everything. I believe that just about every coin has two sides. There are few things that are purely good or bad.
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but then again, not all relationship s aren't "happy" overall. there are the good times, and the sucky days, but not not every relationship is purely bad.
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Lasting doesn't mean happy. And that's also a valid point, bozu...one of my teachers told us about how her family was perfect on the outside when she was growing up, but her father was an alcoholic and her mother was a manic depressive.
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I don't want to push a wrong button, but seeing few "good" relationship s doesn't make them nonexistent. there are all sorts of things that are hidden underneath the facade, what we see.
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False. The divorce rate in this country is 52%. That means the remaining 48% have lasting relationship s .
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No, but it certainly points to the fact that "good" relationship s are virtually nonexistent. The few that do exist are doomed to be short-lived.
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The divorce rate is up....... that doesn't mean nobody can ever have a good relationship that lasts.
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The only thing I'm butter about is human nature.
It's not just me...go look up the divorce rate in this country today and get back to me. |
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Also, Sluggy, what you said was mostly opinion. Just because you've never seen a happy, long-lasting relationship doesn't mean they don't exist.
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Not quite everyone. My parents' 30-year anniversary is coming up next month, and they still do care about each other and love each other. I mean they still have their moments though, but then again, who doesn't? But these days, I would say they are more of an exception than the rule...
I still have yet to discover romantic love, or any real semblance of it. |
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Even everyone's parents (with whom I'm actually acquainted) go bad...even if they're not divorced, they just hate their relationship and only stay together for their kids...if that.
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I can obviously see from middle schoolers to people in their twenties screw up. I think they are too immature and are very childish. I can find some agreement with sempai. the majority of relationship s I see in my life appear to be very short-lived. I think only my parents are the exceptions.
but heck, I'm probably biased since I've never been in a situation with being in love. *shrug* |
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I have seen nothing in my own experience that shows the contrary. Every, and I mean every, relationship I have ever seen has gone down in flames. Middle school to adults.
That doesn't necessarily mean they end. It means they simply turn unhappy. No spark stays lit for long. |
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