I admit it: I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly. It’s not cheap nor is it easy on the planet; it is a weekly after all. But it keeps me relatively up to date with pop culture. As one of my official duties at home is Minister of Culture (skip the cat eating spaghetti search on YouTube…trust me), it’s important to know what’s hot, what’s not, and what’s worthy of spending time on. Sometimes the way those three groups join is surprising.
This week EW put out yet another list issue: top 25 entertainers of the year. Typical of these types of lists, they also included a list of five entertainers to watch. Said list included Demi Lovato who at 16 is a apparently a huge star with the Disney channel set. She’s the star of Camp Rock and she has an album coming out most of which was written and produced by those other Disney Channel products The Jonas Brothers. And just by continuing to breathe she proves that all pop culture is now derivative.
Go ahead, plug “demi” into Google. I dare you.
You’ll get Lovato’s fansite, some YouTube video links, a link to wiktionary for a definition of the word demi (origin: latin; meaning: half) but right there in slot number two you’ll get the IMDB link for the original celebrity Demi. That’s Moore, Demi Moore.
Lovato: born in 1992 while Moore’s popularity as an actress was still high; also named Demetria. I may be stretching given that her mom was a Dallas Cowboy’s cheerleader, she was was born in Dallas, and has an older sister named Dallas which kinda says that maybe mom didn’t reach too far when it came to names, but when we’ve got the second wave of starlets with the same funny name that showed up on the scene 25 years earlier…yeah, I’m going with derivative.
I have seen BOTH Can’t Buy Me Love AND Love Don’t Cost a Thing. For my money, the original’s better.
And Original Spaghetti Cat is nothing. The Soup’s Spaghetti Cat is the real zeitgeist. It needs filtered through the medium of Joel McHale to appreciate its finer points, I think.