Almost a year to the date after their first album, It's About Time, hit stores, the Jonas Brothers delivered their eponymous sophomore record. In that year, the trio departed Daylight/Columbia and set up camp at Hollywood Records (thereby making the debut a bit of a collector's item), and they also matured a bit too. If It's About Time was overtly kiddie in its mentality in certain stretches -- for confirmation, listen to "Year 3000, " their first hit and tacked onto the end of this album as a bonus -- Jonas Brothers veers toward the teenybopper market, as its songs aren't quite as cutesy and the sound is just a little bit more muscular than before. The group still sounds quite a bit like Hanson -- not the latter-day journeyman incarnation, but the earlier, fizzier trio that had hits in the late '90s -- and they admit as much in "That's Just the Way We Roll, " where they battle and lose to Hanson. That kind of good humor goes a long way here, since it helps give the Jonas Brothers an identity beyond being just Junior Hansons -- although that alone would serve them well, since they're cheerful, good-natured, and, best of all, tuneful. They're best when the tempo is a bit sprightly -- it brings out the snap in their bubblegum, as the sugary, addictive "Hold On, " "Goodnight and Goodbye, " and "Still in Love with You" prove -- but they're still quite charming when they ease into numbers designed for middle school slow dances, like "Hello Beautiful." It all adds up an album that's tighter and better than their debut, and one that suggests that they not only deserve their popularity on Radio Disney, but they might have the writing and performing skills to last beyond that as well.
The Jonas Brothers star in this Disney Channel Original Movie about a working class girl determined to refine her musical talent at an acclaimed summer workshop, and the newfound sense of confidence she gains after meeting the singer of a popular musical act. Camp Rock is the place where young musicians go to grow into talented musicians. Mitchie Torres has always dreamt of spending a summer at Camp Rock, but her family can't afford the tuition costs. When Mitchie's mother announces that she got her daughter a discount on tuition by agreeing to work as the camp cook, the young musician is overjoyed at the prospect of actually attending Camp Rock. Though at first intimidated by the more privileged campers, Mitchie soon strikes up a friendship with the decidedly down-to-earth Caitlyn, who dreams of some day becoming a music producer. Later, Mitchie tries to impress popular girls Tess, Peggy, and Ella by claiming that her mother is a powerful executive at Hot Tunes TV, a tall tale that ultimately gets her invited to sing back up for the catty clique. Meanwhile, Connect 3's summer tour has been cancelled, and lead singer Shane Gray seems to have lost his passion for music. His bandmates Jason and Nate think that a stint in Camp Rock would be the perfect thing to help the singer get his ego back in check, and soon after arriving Shane is captivated by Mitchie's voice. Unlike the other campers, Mitchie seems to genuinely appreciate Shane's creativity rather than simply fawning over his stardom, and it before long the pair has become fast friends. But Tess is jealous of Mitchie and Shane's budding friendship, and upon discovering the truth about the humble singer's mother, the scheming mean girl makes it her mission to get ensure that neither Mitchie nor Caitlyn perform at the upcoming Final Jam competition. Later, as Shane, Nate, and Jason take their seats on the judge's panel for the Final Jam, Mitchie attempts to overcome her fear, step into the spotlight, and show everyone her true talent.
Camp Rock, the Walt Disney Company's deliberately crafted follow-up to its successful television movie High School Musical, the soundtrack for which sold four million albums after the film's premiere on the Disney Channel, is another musical tale about young teens made for pre-teens, this time with a theme that might best be described as Fame goes to summer camp. How one judges the resulting soundtrack album may depend on the context in which the disc is considered. As an album of music for the middle-school set, it is full of catchy pop/rock songs with occasional slight dance and hip-hop elements containing, as the Disney press release puts it, lyrical themes of "believe in yourself, " "express yourself, " and "be proud of who you are, " which may be indicated by such song titles as "Who Will I Be?, " "This Is Me, " "Here I Am, " and "My Time Is Now." The songs are sung by a few Britney Spears wannabes, as well as the Disney-promoted teen group the Jonas Brothers, and they are unfailingly earnest as they sing the empowering, high-self-esteem words. That's all well and good, of course. But even as tween entertainment, one might hope for more. All those "This Is Me" songs, intended to sound so positive, come off as a group like paeans to selfishness and self-aggrandizement.
The Jonas Brothers star in this Disney Channel Original Movie about a working class girl determined to refine her musical talent at an acclaimed summer workshop, and the newfound sense of confidence she gains after meeting the singer of a popular musical act. Camp Rock is the place where young musicians go to grow into talented musicians. Mitchie Torres has always dreamt of spending a summer at Camp Rock, but her family can't afford the tuition costs. When Mitchie's mother announces that she got her daughter a discount on tuition by agreeing to work as the camp cook, the young musician is overjoyed at the prospect of actually attending Camp Rock. Though at first intimidated by the more privileged campers, Mitchie soon strikes up a friendship with the decidedly down-to-earth Caitlyn, who dreams of some day becoming a music producer. Later, Mitchie tries to impress popular girls Tess, Peggy, and Ella by claiming that her mother is a powerful executive at Hot Tunes TV, a tall tale that ultimately gets her invited to sing back up for the catty clique. Meanwhile, Connect 3's summer tour has been cancelled, and lead singer Shane Gray seems to have lost his passion for music. His bandmates Jason and Nate think that a stint in Camp Rock would be the perfect thing to help the singer get his ego back in check, and soon after arriving Shane is captivated by Mitchie's voice. Unlike the other campers, Mitchie seems to genuinely appreciate Shane's creativity rather than simply fawning over his stardom, and it before long the pair has become fast friends. But Tess is jealous of Mitchie and Shane's budding friendship, and upon discovering the truth about the humble singer's mother, the scheming mean girl makes it her mission to get ensure that neither Mitchie nor Caitlyn perform at the upcoming Final Jam competition. Later, as Shane, Nate, and Jason take their seats on the judge's panel for the Final Jam, Mitchie attempts to overcome her fear, step into the spotlight, and show everyone her true talent.
Relive the hottest moments from Disney Channels newest Original Movie, Camp Rock, with these full-color posters and postcards. Featuring fourteen year old Mitchie stepping into the spotlight, diva-in-training Tess strutting her stuff, and of course, the camp hottie Shane.
Burning Up On Tour with the Jonas Brothers is your backstage pass to life with Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It includes never-before-seen photos of the Jonas Brothers' Look Me ...
Our matching folio to the 2007 sophomore release from this New Jersey trio of teen siblings features all 14 songs from the album Australia * Games * Goodnight and Goodbye * Hello Beautiful * Hold On * Hollywood * Inseparable * Just Friends * Kids of the Future * S.O.S. * Still in Love with You * That's Just the Way We Roll * When You Look Me in the Eyes * Year 3000.
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Mitchie, a stage shy fourteen year old, loves to sing. So when her mom takes a job as a cook at a summer camp for aspiring rock stars, Mitchie is thrilled. But to get in with ...
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The Jonas Brothers phenomenon reaches from iTunes to concert stadiums to the Disney Channel to movie theaters and beyond. With millions of records and concert seats sold throughout the world, these guys have staked their claim to superstar status over and over again. This matching folio to their latest blockbuster features easy arrangements of all 12 songs along with full-color photos of the guys. Songs include Burnin' Up * A Little Bit Longer * Lovebug * Sorry * Tonight * Video Girl * and more.
Whenever a teen phenomenon hits a peak the cash-in product arrives, and so it is with the Jonas Brothers in 2009. Just three years and three albums after their 2006 debut, It's About Time, the trio has its first top-lined cinematic release, The Jonas Brothers in 3D, a big-screen spectacle in the vein of Miley Cyrus' 2008 Best of Both Worlds Concert, which featured a small set from the brothers. As an album, Music from the 3D Concert Experience isn't as pure a piece of product as Best of Both Worlds Concert, largely because the brothers sometimes get to act like the band they are, occasionally departing from the script, working in some covers and supporting other singers. Whenever they're singing their biggest hits or Radio Disney staples, the music is almost indistinguishable from the studio albums -- well, apart from the rougher, flatter vocals -- but this soundtrack is best when things get opened up a bit: when the brothers give "BB Good" a breakdown out of Billy Joel's 52nd Street, have Taylor Swift on-stage to duet on her hit "Should've Said No, " sing with Demi Lovato on the Camp Rock tune "This Is Me, " even when they steamroll over Shania Twain's "I'm Gonna Get You Good, " which is perhaps a bit flat-footed but still fun. These are the moments that show the Jonas Brothers at their best, while the rest -- including the new studio cut "Love Is on Its Way" -- shows the group as professionals, re-creating recordings on the spot. It's enough to please the fans, if not quite enough to turn into something more than a souvenir for them.
Now tweens can get closer than ever to their favorite musical heartthrobs The Jonas Brothers! Here s the lowdown on their likes and dislikes, their pets, their hobbies, and ...
Cue the throngs of screaming girls it's the Jonas Brothers live in concert on the big screen! This matching songbook features 14 of the hits the trio performs in the 3D movie ...
Excerpts from the Jonas Brothers' Burning Up concert tour combine with behind-the-scenes footage, unscripted segments, and plenty of good-natured humor as director Bruce Hendricks (Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert) offers an eye-popping look into the lives of the Grammy-nominated hitmakers. Filmed in Disney Digital 3-D, the Walt Disney Pictures rockumentary allows the viewer to experience the thrill of being surrounded by legions of screaming fans, and features the previously unreleased song "Love Is on Its Way."
Excerpts from the Jonas Brothers' Burning Up concert tour combine with behind-the-scenes footage, unscripted segments, and plenty of good-natured humor as director Bruce Hendricks (Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert) offers an eye-popping look into the lives of the Grammy-nominated hitmakers. Filmed in Disney Digital 3-D, the Walt Disney Pictures rockumentary allows the viewer to experience the thrill of being surrounded by legions of screaming fans, and features the previously unreleased song "Love Is on Its Way."
Excerpts from the Jonas Brothers' Burning Up concert tour combine with behind-the-scenes footage, unscripted segments, and plenty of good-natured humor as director Bruce Hendricks (Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert) offers an eye-popping look into the lives of the Grammy-nominated hitmakers. Filmed in Disney Digital 3-D, the Walt Disney Pictures rockumentary allows the viewer to experience the thrill of being surrounded by legions of screaming fans, and features the previously unreleased song "Love Is on Its Way."
It's always been a little bit too easy to compare the Jonas Brothers to their teen pop forefathers Hanson, as they're also an adolescent trio of brothers who play their own instruments and write much of their original material, all rooted in classic guitar pop. Initially, this comparison made sense, as their 2006 debut, It's About Time, bore an unmistakable similarity to Middle of Nowhere, but just two years later when the group delivered its third album, A Little Bit Longer, it was clear that the Jonas Brothers were a pop phenomenon in a way Hanson never were. Of course, the Jonas Brothers were helped immeasurably by the marketing might of Disney, who turned the group's 2006 stiff into the bona fide 2007 hit Jonas Brothers through saturation play on Radio Disney and countless TV appearances, including a guest-starring spot on Hannah Montana. By the time A Little Bit Longer appeared in late summer 2008, the trio's popularity rivaled that of Miley Cyrus, but they were better poised for a cross-generational crossover than the former Ms. Montana, as they had a stronger grounding in classic pop. A Little Bit Longer trades heavily on that foundation, so much so that it seems it was designed to be a teen pop album adults wouldn't be embarrassed to play. All the lingering goofiness of their first two albums has been stripped away -- there are no songs about taking rocket trips to the year 3000 -- along with any ounce of fat, which gives the album a mildly mature vibe, particularly when the power ballads surge toward overly dramatic choruses. Fortunately, this maturity doesn't dominate, as there is plenty of levity here -- most appealingly on the mellow shuffle of "Lovebug" and the good-natured dig at shallow groupies on "Video Girl" -- and as most of the record is devoted to punchy power pop like the addictive opener, "BB Good, " A Little Bit Longer winds up with a nice, skillful blend of bubblegum and ballads, never tipping too far in one direction of another. It's a nifty trick that's much harder to pull off than it seems -- countless other teen pop bands have stumbled as they attempt this balancing act that the Jonas Brothers pull off so effortlessly here -- but the key to its success is that it is pitched perfectly between frivolous, disposable pop and meticulous mature craft, so as the Jonas Brothers continue to grow they might wind up losing that sense of fun that is integral to their music, but with this record they hit all the notes just right.
The Jonas Brothers phenomenon reaches from iTunes to concert stadiums to the Disney Channel to movie theaters and beyond. With millions of records and concert seats sold throughout the world, these guys have staked their claim to superstar status over and over again. This matching folio to their latest blockbuster features easy arrangements of all 12 songs along with full-color photos of the guys. Songs include Burnin' Up * A Little Bit Longer * Lovebug * Sorry * Tonight * Video Girl * and more.
These brothers are already a tween sensation! Girls can't get enough of these adorable boys who have recorded two successful albums, guest starred on Disney's Hannah Montana, ...
This popular, best-selling biography series has been expanded and completely redesigned with new features to draw in reluctant readers. Todays Superstars takes readers behind the headlines for a close-up look at the most popular stars from music, movies, television, and sports. Titles are selected from survey results of more than 1, 000 kids. Each high-interest book in the series details the stars early life and inspirations, rise to stardom, and impact on the world of sports or entertainment.
Subscribing to the time-honored practice of striking when the iron is hot, the Jonas Brothers put out Lines, Vines and Trying Times in June of 2009, making it their third album in one year. True, Lines and A Little Bit Longer were separated by a soundtrack to a concert film, but the flood of product is a true reflection of the peak of the group's popularity, just as how the over-produced, stretched-thin Lines is a reflection of their hectic schedule. Where A Little Bit Longer was built on a strong song foundation, Lines, Vines and Trying Times feels constructed from the outside in, with the concepts coming before the tunes, concepts that all take the Brothers Jonas further away from the fizzy, power pop fun. Lines is designed to showcase a mature Jonas Brothers, who wear their maturation in an increased stylistic range, and fussed-over arrangements that lend this a stiffness of a band well beyond their years. Pop classicists that they are, the Jonases are a bit more comfortable with immaculate arrangements than they are with the expansion, as they fumble through a couple of country songs and "Don't Charge Me for the Crime, " a truly bizarre duet with Common where they gamely, lamely affect a hard-boiled pose. Tellingly, most of the forced moments were written in collaboration with outsiders such as Cathy Dennis and Greg Garbowsky, the latter being responsible for co-writing "Poison Ivy, " a power pop tune so labored it reveals just how good A Little Bit Longer was. Overthinking and over-production are the primary flaws on Lines, where every point is hammered home by horns transported from the waning days of the Reagan administration. This oddly yuppified production is more Taylor Hicks than Taylor Swift, but the presence of Joe's former girlfriend is felt elsewhere, whether it's in the lyric's heartbroken love songs (as well as a couple of rocking accusations), or how Miley Cyrus stands in for Taylor on one of those country songs. But Swift also comes to mind because she and the Jonas Brothers are trying to do a similar thing: make teen pop that skews adult in its sound and form. The JoBros did it effortlessly on A Little Bit Longer but on Lines, Vines and Trying Times the seams are showing, which makes it a little bit harder to enjoy, even if there are certainly moments where all their craft and charm click, resulting in some fine pop that points out what's missing from the rest of the record.
The story of the hottest young pop band in America is here in a giftable Little Book size. The Disney Channel made The Jonas Brothers popular and their songwriting and ...
Here's the matching folio to the 11-track debut by the sibling supergroup! Contains I Am What I Am * Mandy * One Day at a Time * Please Be Mine * 7 05 * 6 Minutes * Time for ...
Almost a year to the date after their first album, It's About Time, hit stores, the Jonas Brothers delivered their eponymous sophomore record. In that year, the trio departed Daylight/Columbia and set up camp at Hollywood Records (thereby making the debut a bit of a collector's item), and they also matured a bit too. If It's About Time was overtly kiddie in its mentality in certain stretches -- for confirmation, listen to "Year 3000, " their first hit and tacked onto the end of this album as a bonus -- Jonas Brothers veers toward the teenybopper market, as its songs aren't quite as cutesy and the sound is just a little bit more muscular than before. The group still sounds quite a bit like Hanson -- not the latter-day journeyman incarnation, but the earlier, fizzier trio that had hits in the late '90s -- and they admit as much in "That's Just the Way We Roll, " where they battle and lose to Hanson. That kind of good humor goes a long way here, since it helps give the Jonas Brothers an identity beyond being just Junior Hansons -- although that alone would serve them well, since they're cheerful, good-natured, and, best of all, tuneful. They're best when the tempo is a bit sprightly -- it brings out the snap in their bubblegum, as the sugary, addictive "Hold On, " "Goodnight and Goodbye, " and "Still in Love with You" prove -- but they're still quite charming when they ease into numbers designed for middle school slow dances, like "Hello Beautiful." It all adds up an album that's tighter and better than their debut, and one that suggests that they not only deserve their popularity on Radio Disney, but they might have the writing and performing skills to last beyond that as well.
With hit songs like "S.O.S." and "Burning Up, " the Jonas Brothers have taken the music world by storm. But real-life brothers Kevin, Joe, and Nick didn't stop there. They've ...
These brothers are already a tween sensation! Girls cant get enough of these adorable boys who have recorded two successful albums, guest starred on Disneys Hannah Montana, are special guests on Miley Cyruss Best of Both Worlds Tour, and have just filmed a pilot for a Disney Channel series. Weve got the inside scoop on these crooning cuties from their younger years to their current star statuscomplete with four pages of color photos!
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