![]() ![]() I don’t think you would go to Hollywood Records for that.” They want to use their music as a platform to reach people and portray a deeper truth. “The re-emergence of the female songwriter is something that young musicians look up to. US music critic Quinn Moreland suggests that the sense that Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus found creative emancipation – and critical acclaim – once they had left Disney likely set a precedent that appealed to Rodrigo: why wait to earn what she could just claim now? “What’s also not lost on me is the Taylor Swift of it all,” Moreland adds, noting that following Swift’s campaign to own her masters, Rodrigo had that ownership written into her contract. At Hollywood, the stars were “seen as talent who were already associated with Disney. One music industry executive who worked on the release of Sour says that “the messaging was very much ‘she’s an artist, she’s a songwriter, she writes the songs herself’”. Rodrigo’s recent comeback single continues in the same vein: Vampire, the first taste of her upcoming second album Guts, is rage-filled and candid, with a chorus where she snaps: “Bloodsucker, fame fucker / Bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire.” They contained swearing and came with edgy music videos shot by Petra Collins. Rodrigo cut out the middlemouse and went straight to adulthood: unlike the sanitised debut offerings by Gomez, Cyrus and Lovato, her debut album, Sour, was filled with bullish, brilliant songs the then 18-year-old had written herself. To keep parents and preteens on side, Disney would supply the sound, the songs and producers, and potentially even dictate what artists wore and how they presented themselves. Soon, a 360-business model was in full operation, and the next generation of Disney Channel stars – the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez all helmed shows and released music through the in-house label. ![]() Hollywood could promote Disney pop stars across the Disney Channel, Radio Disney and ABC, also owned by the corporation. ![]() But with Duff, who played her show’s titular Lizzie McGuire, Disney saw an opportunity: instead of letting one of their biggest names find success elsewhere, they wanted to monetise whatever pop stardom their latest ingenue could deliver, and signed Duff to Disney’s own Hollywood Records, reviving a label that had never really managed to get off the ground. Before her, the corporation’s TV teen talent – Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake – had left Disney behind when they signed with major record labels en route to becoming superstars. When Disney Channel star Hilary Duff released her debut album Metamorphosis in 2003, it marked a key shift in pop. ![]()
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