patricia (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} leviicorpus) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} ohnotheydidnt,@ 2008-05-15 20:05:00 |
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| Entry tags: | american idol, ashley tisdale, disney / nick, hilary duff, jonas brothers, miley cyrus, vanessa hudgens, zac efron |
Meet the New Goody-Goodies
It is a dearly held belief among many young, city-dwelling adults that the threshold to adolescence is paved with gangsta rap, slasher flicks, and hard-core pornography. Like most adults, these people have no clue what’s happening with kids today. The great tradition of clean-cut teenage entertainment — long elbowed to the pop-culture margins by the likes of James Dean, Cheech and Chong, and Kurt Cobain — has roared back to life in the digital age, fueled by tweens with disposable allowances and high-speed Internet connections. And fascinatingly, it has spawned a new breed of young stars: the Goody-Goodies. This slideshow presents the top ten churchgoing, non-drinking, promise-ring-wearing singer-actors from inside and outside the Disney universe — along with their great shames and potential for corruption. You probably know Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old Hannah Montana star with so wholesome an image that Vanity Fair created an uproar merely by publishing a picture of her (um) bare back. Before you start pooh-poohing the goody-goody lifestyle, just remember: You’re old, and no one cares what you think anyhow. —Nick Catucci
Who: Vanessa Hudgens, 19
Disney Affiliation: High School Musical; new Hollywood Records album out June 24.
Religious Affiliation: Born Catholic
Goody-Goody Bona Fides: Homeschooled
Great Shame: Photo of her naked surfaced online in 2007. She failed to invoke a higher power in her apology.
Potential for Corruption: High. "If you have paparazzi," she told GQ, "you know you've gotten somewhere."
Who: The Jonas Brothers: Kevin, 20; Joe, 18; Nick, 15
Disney Affiliation: Albums on Disney’s Hollywood Records; guest-starred in Hannah Montana; appeared in the movie Camp Rock.
Religious Affiliation: Christian
Goody-Goody Bona Fides: Purity rings symbolize commitment to virginity until marriage; donate 10 percent of earnings to Nick's charity.
Great Shame: Joe was photographed holding hands with Chelsea Staub in March, forcing him to deny romantic involvement.
Potential for Corruption: Low. These boys will likely lead us into a brave new tomorrow!
Who: Ashley Tisdale, 22
Disney Affiliation: High School Musical; Disney Channel shows The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Phineas and Ferb.
Religious Affiliation: Considers herself, like her mother, Jewish, though she did not have a bat mitzvah.
Goody-Goody Bona Fides: “I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I don't really go to clubs,” she told People last year.
Great Shame: Plays bad girl Sharpay Evans on High School Musical. (This role will forever define her.)
Potential for Corruption: Medium. Presumably wants to act out, in real life, the basest impulses of Sharpay Evans.
Who: Miley Cyrus, 15
Disney Affiliation: Hannah Montana; memoir planned.
Religious Affiliation: Devout Christian.
Goody-Goody Bona Fides: Donated part of the proceeds from last year’s tour to a cancer nonprofit; parents have taken away her credit card.
Great Shame: The “topless” Vanity Fair photo showing her back and shoulders.
Potential for Corruption: Low. Vanity Fair thing totally Annie Leibovitz's fault.
Who: Zac Efron, 20
Disney Affiliation: High School Musical
Religious Affiliation: Raised agnostic.
Goody-Goody Bona Fides: Boyish good looks, boyish good looks … was once seen driving a beat-up Oldsmobile … boyish good looks, boyish good looks …
Great Shame: According to Star magazine, he refused to attend a birthday party for the younger sister of girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens until Vanessa offered him concealer to cover a zit on his face.
Potential for Corruption: Medium. Has alluded to feeling up girls; boyish good looks offset by a lush manliness.
Who: Hilary Duff, 21
Disney Affiliation: Lizzie McGuire; albums on Disney’s Buena Vista Music
Religious Affiliation: Unknown (to us).
Goody-Goody Bona Fides: Boasted of her virginity in 2006 Elle—but later denied quote; role model for Miley Cyrus.
Great Shame: Feud, at 13, with Lindsay Lohan over Aaron Carter; dated Joel Madden, who later impregnated Nicole Richie.
Potential for Corruption: High. The Sun reported that last year that she gave boyfriend Mike Comrie a lap dance at a nightclub.
Who: Brendon Urie, 21
Disney Affiliation: None. Lead singer for Panic at the Disco.
Religious Affiliation: Born Mormon, but no longer practicing.
Goody-Goody Bona Fides: Listened to Christian hard-core bands as a teen; resisted drugs and alcohol on 2006 tour.
Great Shame: Lothario reputation. Known to have dated model Audrey Kitching; rumored to have dated Jessica Stam and Ashley Tisdale.
Potential for Corruption: High. Seems to have a weakness for women; band's most recent album inspired by sixties psychedelia.
Who: Amanda Bynes, 22
Disney Affiliation: None. Nickelodeon star; movies She's the Man, Hairspray.
Religious Affiliation: Mother Jewish, father Catholic. Says she is “not that religious.”
Goody-Goody Bona Fides: Has said that she does not enjoy clubbing or drinking very often, citing the latter's effects on one's skin.
Great Shame: Plays girl posing as boy in She's the Man; Laura Ramsey's character falls in love with this “boy.”
Potential for Corruption: Low. Obviously cares too much about her skin to risk any self-destructive behavior.
Who: Haley Williams, 19
Disney Affiliation: None. Lead singer for Paramore.
Religious Affiliation: Christian
Goody-Goody Bona Fides: Rumored to be a virgin; agonized on her blog over taking God's name in vain in the lyrics for “Misery Business.”
Great Shame: Defiling God's name in a hit song.
Potential for Corruption: Medium. Has talked openly about being in love as a teenager; as an emo singer, lacks diffidence and clearly obsesses over romantic relationships.
Who: David Archuleta, 17
Disney Affiliation: None. American Idol phenom.
Religious Affiliation: Mormon
Goody-Goody Bona Fides: He is the Idolbot, the purest essence of the wholesome, beloved competition yet.
Great Shame: His father, Jeff, is (purportedly!) an embarrassingly domineering stage dad.
Potential for Corruption: Very high. There's no telling what will happen when this Idolbot finally short-wires, but it won't be good.
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LOL at Miley's "low" potential for corruption. OKAY.
