“Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days, everybody knows what – what I’m talking about, everybody gets that way” (Hannah Montana, Nobody’s Perfect, 2008). These lyrics have been taken from Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana’s hit song ‘Nobody’s Perfect’, a song that was once popular amongst young adults. Miley Cyrus, like many young stars of her time, appeared on Disney Channel in a hit TV Show designed specifically for her known as Hannah Montana, which may have been a mistake. Cyrus is only one of many stars who began their career in the Disney machine, as actors and then later (with the help of Disney) becoming singers. Miley Cyrus had an unusual career with Disney though, as she was already a singer; relatively few of the stars
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According to an essay penned by Joe Jonas himself, pressures from Disney caused many young stars to have some sort of corruption – stating that he himself smoked weed with both Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus and that he became sexually active when he was 20, which would have been 2009. Though, with the Jonas Brothers, Disney was not the first record label that they had been signed to (officially the three brothers signed to Columbia Records for the first time as a band). Joe stated that some of the corruptions that the stars turned to were sex and drugs. Joe’s younger brother Nick (the youngest of the band) was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2007 as a 15 year old; the condition inspired him to turn to writing and he produced one of the most popular songs from their second album A Little Bit Longer – also the name of the song. Disney made it seem as if they weren’t the ones putting the pressure on the stars, but it was the stars putting pressure on themselves; “We didn’t want to disappoint anyone—our parents, our fans, our employers—so we put incredible pressure on ourselves, the kind of pressure that no teenager should be under”
According to an essay penned by Joe Jonas himself, pressures from Disney caused many young stars to have some sort of corruption – stating that he himself smoked weed with both Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus and that he became sexually active when he was 20, which would have been 2009. Though, with the Jonas Brothers, Disney was not the first record label that they had been signed to (officially the three brothers signed to Columbia Records for the first time as a band). Joe stated that some of the corruptions that the stars turned to were sex and drugs. Joe’s younger brother Nick (the youngest of the band) was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2007 as a 15 year old; the condition inspired him to turn to writing and he produced one of the most popular songs from their second album A Little Bit Longer – also the name of the song. Disney made it seem as if they weren’t the ones putting the pressure on the stars, but it was the stars putting pressure on themselves; “We didn’t want to disappoint anyone—our parents, our fans, our employers—so we put incredible pressure on ourselves, the kind of pressure that no teenager should be under”