Listening Station: Hayden Panettiere's Perfunctory Pop Single

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Hayden Panettiere's Perfunctory Pop Single

Even if you're a big fan of Heroes and/or the type of person who is waaaaay into staring at photos of young girls, is it at all possible to be enthusiastic about Hayden Panettiere's debut as a recording artist? There's something depressingly fatalistic about it, as if poor Hayden never really had a choice but to sing a third-rate knock-off of Paris HIlton's "Stars Are Blind" and put it in some lame Candies television ad. It makes me wonder if there's actually some contract that young actresses must sign that obligates them to record some half-assed pop songs in order to, you know, have a TV show and get on magazine covers. It's all so joyless, and it's hard to imagine that any of this music has been written with human pleasure in mind—if anything, it seems to have been designed to be ignored, then forgotten as quickly as possible. [E!]

12:00 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By matthew perpetua
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by GeorgeLang at 12:34 PM on 07/17/08
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That's both depressing and predictable, but the worst part is the pounds of makeup. She looks like a stand-in for Donna Mills on "Knots Landing."
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by Al Shipley at 01:16 PM on 07/17/08
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Darn, I thought this was going to be one of my new influences.
by cassidy2099 at 02:45 PM on 07/17/08
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I liked her wave at the end, sorta like a "Sorry you had to see that" kind of thing.
by blackmailismylife at 03:32 PM on 07/17/08
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@Al Shipley: I see what you did there.
by tankboy at 03:45 PM on 07/17/08
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Save us from the cheerleader, save the world!
by dabug at 04:29 PM on 07/17/08
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For the record, Hayden Planeteer does have one OK song --
">Your New Girlfriend. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were pop music clauses in a few contracts!
by dabug at 04:29 PM on 07/17/08
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Woops:

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by spcoon at 08:34 PM on 07/17/08
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I'LL TELL YOU ANYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MAKE HER STOP... BREATHING!
by DJorn at 12:36 AM on 07/22/08
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Wow, that was horrible. Not a particularly insightful comment, I know, but this is speaking as someone who really likes the music of Ashlee Simpson.

One thing intrigues me about this little promo spot: she's lip-synching like a half-dozen or so different songs. Is she shooting all of the album's videos in one session? Can anyone with an industry job tell me if this is standard for a new artist?