Olivia Rodrigo’s latest single, “Good 4 U,” comes from a long lineage of teen girl pop rock that 2007 Radio Disney sound, as fellow young rocker Willow Smith put it. The 18-year-old Rodrigo’s trio of singles have garnered praise for paying homage to her female Disney Channel predecessors, who similarly explored the emotional spectrum of girlhood through their music, chronicling its cheesy jubilance, frustration, pettiness, adventurousness, and confusion. For young girls in the 2000s, Disney-produced pop rock provided an outlet for those budding teenage feelings of rage against various “machines,” defined as anything from annoying boys to the restrictions of youth “they just don’t understand me” is perhaps the catchphrase of ages 12 to 19. At almost 21 years old, barely two years removed from this demographic,
What Are Disney Knees?
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What Are Disney Knees?
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Zip-a-KNEE-do-dah? On the heels of Olivia Rodrigo s newest music video, Good 4 U, a new phenomenon seems to have sprung up. Well, it s more like fans have finally put a name to something in the Disney canon that s a tale as old as time: the pop star stance known as Disney knees. Someone said Disney Knees so I had to do my research, one fan wrote on Twitter, sharing screenshots of the likes of Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Hilary Duff all using a similar pose: collapsed in at the knees as they dramatically belt out their respective tracks.
Other Disney stars who ve definitely adopted the stance at one time or another during their days at Hollywood Records? Think Ashley Tisdale, Aly & AJ and Selena Gomez, back when the latter was fronting Selena Gomez and the Scene.