You know, even in my ripe age, I try to be good about keeping up with These Kids Today -- but I just have not been able to tell apart Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato. They're both Disney-type starlets, they both sing, they're both (presumably) chomping at the bit to be the next Miley Cyrus. In fact, in my head, I remembered the following photo as being Demi Lovato, and had a whole rant planned about how I finally learned to pick her out of a crowd because I watched her butcher the national anthem at the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game with a bunch of off-key shouty runs and melismas -- seriously, people, it cannot be said enough: the national anthem is NOT ABOUT YOU -- and how she has a perfectly good voice on its own merits and didn't need to wail all those adornments and GET OFF MY LAWN, YOU WHIPPERSNAPPERS.
Then, of course, I rechecked, and this is NOT Demi Lovato. It's Selena Gomez. So I am back to square one, ironing my cranky pants in the hope of getting to wear them for real soon. Behold:
[Photo: Splash News]
The good news for Selena is that she has NOT, to my knowledge, stepped all over "The Star-Spangled Banner" on national television. So in the battle between indistinguishable brunette Disney starlets, she wins on that front. The bad news for her is, she will now be in my memory as The One Who Looks Like A Pot-Pourri Sachet. I want to think it's cute and whimsical, but with the sequins AND the fake flowers AND the giant belt, it's all a bit overdone. She comes off less like a coolly hip young actress than as something that should be attached to a place card at an evening wedding.
Then, of course, I rechecked, and this is NOT Demi Lovato. It's Selena Gomez. So I am back to square one, ironing my cranky pants in the hope of getting to wear them for real soon. Behold:
[Photo: Splash News]
The good news for Selena is that she has NOT, to my knowledge, stepped all over "The Star-Spangled Banner" on national television. So in the battle between indistinguishable brunette Disney starlets, she wins on that front. The bad news for her is, she will now be in my memory as The One Who Looks Like A Pot-Pourri Sachet. I want to think it's cute and whimsical, but with the sequins AND the fake flowers AND the giant belt, it's all a bit overdone. She comes off less like a coolly hip young actress than as something that should be attached to a place card at an evening wedding.
