E.T. is an alien and he is kinda (My)spacey/ Comin' from the universe to party and go crazy!

THE T STANDS FOR TOY-BOX!

Dum dum dee-dee dah-dee dum dum dee (let's party)!



Tata Young

This one's a role player (only two friends + Tom) but at least the music is on there. Found this one googling around Matrix-wise. The Thai Britney! "Sexy Naughty Bitchy" is a hoot, not much to say about the lackluster 'space w/ out of date bio...but the music is great and overlooked (by me at least). Apparently she's Thailand's biggest selling pop star ever [EDIT: swear I saw that but as I said the googling was lazy...can't verify now but that's probably very much not true]. Her official website is now defunct, not finding a lot of great info on her goings-on through lazy googling at the moment. [SIGH, EDIT 2: Hey, here it is, Tata Young's Official Site, it was undergoing particularly weird-looking construction the other day...next time a "Be Right Back, Site Maintenance!" would do the trick to lazy lazy lazy people like myself!] Holy crap, her albums aren't the cheapest things going, but now I MUST have them all.



Katie Neil

How long have I been friends with this person without noticing?! Majorly indebted to Fefe Dobson with vocal phrasing closer to Benatar-derived Skyeisms (oh man that's one of the worst phrases I've ever written, I should keep a running list). Her songs are pretty great, very sharp...I may have to pursue this one further and track down the self-released CD. Be sure to check out her "Stupid Ex-Boyfriend" contest from a recent blog post. [inserts into Stylus column]



The Dollyrots

Proof that Lookout! does teenpop aside from that shitty Ted Leo cover of "Since U Been Gone," which probably doesn't count anyway. Heard and loved these gals (n' guy) randomly on Pandora a few weeks ago (nice reminder to plug Chris Dahlen's Pandora/etc. article) and didn't really pursue much further (except friending them) until they got a mention on the teenpop thread. Garage rock sung by the Rugrats = amazing...I should pick this one up.



Victoria Acosta

Voted the "Best Mariachi Vocalist in America" at age eight (cool!), now Victoria Acosta does low-rent indie R&B and has some affiliation with Radio Disney (if you look carefully, you can just make out the Radio Disney logo in the background there). Tip: using really loud, really fake cricket chirping effects throughout your single is generally not a good idea. Victoria has a friendly link to Yohany, who has been described as "a more street Jessica Simpson" (what?).



The Maynard Triplets

Take THAT, Veronicas!

Shout out to Ashley Wool, who, along with Tiffany Affair, knows how to work the teenpop blogging circuit. She asked me to "please write a totally sarcastic and hilarious review. it would make my year. i'm not even kidding." Sorry, I don't do sarcasm...but I can refer you to an expert.