Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Review: The Cheetah Girls' TCG

The Cheetah Girls, TCG
Destiny's Kid

Since their first Disney Channel movie came out four years ago, these three Cheetahs have prospered to the point where they can fill arenas with 8- to 14-year-old girls. TCG begins the effort to distinguish Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams from their characters. Irrepressibly poppy R&B tracks borrow from Lionel Richie’s All Night Long and Beethoven’s Ninth, and the songs address romantic relationships in addition to the standard Disney themes of friendship and self-empowerment. But it’s likely the Cheetahs’ target audience will completely miss the irony of Who We Are, in which a made-for-TV pop group with its own clothing line sings the lyrics “It doesn’t really matter what you wear” and “Tell me why my television’s filling me with lies.” (**)

>>Sample: So Bring It On
>>Skip: Do No Wrong

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