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Considering that none other than teen queen Britney Spears was one of Boomkat’s original supporters, it’s not surprising that some of her style has rubbed off on Boomkat. In the preteen chat-room vein of “I’m A Slave 4 U,” the brother-and-sister duo offer such classics as “B4 It’s 2 Late” and “What U Do 2 Me” on their debut album, Boomkatalog...
Boomkatalog One panders to Southern Californian middle school audiences. Taryn and Kellin cover all the requisite preteen bases—angst, love and screwy relationships. “Do you think I’m pretty or don’t you / Do you wanna get with me or not?” Taryn croons in her raspy drawl on “Wastin’ My Time.” “Now Understand This” boasts a refrain that sounds like a chorus of kindergarteners on uppers, happily la-la-la-ing their way to hyperactive...
David Gordon Green's debut film, George Washington, was a painterly group portrait of preteen anguish. Now that America's most gifted young auteur is 27, he's graduated to kids in their late teens and early 20s but with the same desperate, comic, always human yearning to connect. Among an attractively aimless flock of singles, All the Real Girls focuses on two figures: Paul (Paul Schneider), 22, a Dennis Quaid look-alike with the rep of a ladies' man who "took 'em down and laughed about 'em on the way home," and Noel (Zooey Deschanel), a precocious virgin just...
...Family friendly is the buzz phrase now," says Sandy Franco, co-owner of the 15,000-member Franco's Athletic Club in Mandeville, La., a suburb of New Orleans. "A lot more owners are realizing it's good business. Parents love it. And if you're a teen or preteen, your friends are there or you can be on your own. It's hip. And there are a million things...
Cross-legged on the carpet, Maribel Hernandez ’04 is flipping through photo albums, searching for a picture to run with her FM profile. There’s a preteen Hernandez with her family just after they emigrated from Mexico, and Hernandez smiling beside Madeline Albright. That’s Hernandez grinning wildly, her face painted red and white with high school spirit, and her with Bill Clinton last spring. She says her family in Mexico was the most excited about Clinton. “They still talk about it,” she says, laughing...