Time is running out for the Jonas Brothers.

[Liberal_in_LA]

Do these guys have ANY actual talent?

Time is running out for the Jonas Brothers.

You could see it on their faces at San Jose's HP Pavilion on Monday. The room may have been packed with thousands of shrieking second-graders (and a few hundred of their earplug-wearing parents) but for the young men onstage who are growing up much faster than their fans, it felt like another glum day at the office.

There were T-shirts to sell, a television show to plug and a fledgling new album that needs a little extra push. Smile? They could barely hide their scowls.

Having been on the road pretty much nonstop for the past five years, it's little wonder things are feeling a bit routine for Nick, Joe and Kevin. Many elements of the concert were simply carried over from previous outings, from Nick's somber piano ballad about his struggle with diabetes to the brazen midshow commercial for aspirin.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/04/DDPO193MIU.DTL&type=entertainment#ixzz0NHtbUuHr

[gatorboy]

1. Eh. They're basically the Monkees. .

I do have to feel for these guys though. Disney seems to have a way of sucking the childhood out of young actors that work for them (I'm going out on a limb here, they are on Disney, ya?)

[NashVegas]

20. Ain't Nothing Wrong With That

Regardless how prefab they were, The Monkees had some fantastic material to work with, courtesy of Boyce/Hart and others.

[Rex]

2. Walt's head is sucking the lifeforce out of them.

Soon they will be empty husks.

[heliarc]

3. Aspirin???

Aspirin is no longer recommended for Children under the age of 18... Reye's syndrome.

Why are they advertising Aspirin at a kid's concert???

If they are trying to counter the findings, that is sick.

[lurky]

5. For the parents, I'm sure.

:rofl:

[heliarc]

17. Hehe... yeah... left that wide open for ya! nt

[lurky]

4. An old product being phased out.

The next generation of male-teenage-bubblegum-group is already being assembled at the secret factory in Yokohama. Soon the Jonas Brothers will be dismantled and scrapped for parts, like their predecessors N-Sync, The Backstreet Boys, The New Kids on the Block, New Edition and the Monkees.

[Journeyman]

6. Art in America -- it's oftentimes the art of bullshit. . .

In America, anyone can be an artist. All you have to do is convince enough people and -- presto -- you're an artist. Convince people to pay you for your bullshit, you're a successful artist. Get enough people to pay, you'll be acclaimed a great artist.

Art in America. I once put together a program for an art museum exhibit where the "artist" took a carpet knife and cut a large hole out of the rug in the museum's foyer -- patrons were forced to walk around it and "admire" his genius. Another "artist" put wood planks atop cinder blocks from one end of a room to the other. Patrons had to step over these small hurdles and work their way to the other end where they paused to contemplate a cuckoo clock. It was presented as commentary on contemporary US-Soviet relations (pre-Berlin Wall destruction).

Art in America. Oftentimes, it's the art of bullshit.

[tomreedtoon]

13. C'mon, Journeyman. ALL art is bullshit.

Picasso said, "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand."

And some liars are more mean-spirited and self-centered than others. Artists are often egotistical bastards who beat and slash their wives, and disown and kick their children, who have adoring syncophants shouting hosannas for their "humanity" and "insight."

Besides, the Jonas Brothers are not artists. They are entertainers. Unlike "fine artists," they have to CARE about how other people perceive their work. They can't say "F*** you, I'm a f***ing artist," and make a living. Most of the people hung in museums DO say that.

[heliarc]

18. Duh... Art is short for artifice... nt

[saigon68]

14. Maplethorpe

Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio series sparked national attention in the early 1990s when it was included in The Perfect Moment, a traveling exhibition funded by National Endowment for the Arts. The portfolio includes some of Mapplethorpe's most explicit imagery, including a self-portrait with a bullwhip inserted in his anus.

Though his work had been regularly displayed in publicly funded exhibitions, conservative and religious organizations, such as the American Family Association seized on this exhibition to vocally oppose government support for what they called "nothing more than the sensational presentation of potentially obscene material."

As a result, Mapplethorpe became something of a cause celebre for both sides of the American Culture war. The installation of The Perfect Moment in Cincinnati resulted in the unsuccessful prosecution of the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati and its director, Dennis Barrie, on charges of "pandering obscenity".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe

[misanthrope]

15. Warhol said, "Art is what you can get away with."**nm

**

[heliarc]

19. And there is real discipline and genius at getting away with shit too...

I think the Yes men are artists... and they are effing brilliant... but not all art is agit prop or intellectual. Nor should it be IMHO.

[Skittles]

7. not familiar with their music but they are handsome boys

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. They are handsome and have good hair.

[smalll]

9. "Time is running out?!?" You make them sound like polar bears in global warming! They have time!

Sure, they're not talented, but they're hot! They've got at least another half a decade or more where their hotness-based celebrity won't fall below sea level, even by the exacting standards of teenage girls. Plus, what great hair.

[Ex Lurker]

10. several years ago when one of my cousins was in college

she took her much younger sister to a New Kids on the Block concert. They were eying her during the concert and sent a flunky out to invite her backstage. She just laughed at him.

[tridim]

11. They should form a super-group with Hansen

[tomreedtoon]

12. It's the history of exploited young performers, all over again.

Young performers, even before the day of Jackie Coogan, were exploited. It was especially true of teenage music stars, many of whom were "one-hit wonders" who sang their one song all over the country, then disappeared.

Talent agents and studios treat child performers like mules; they beat them to death to make money while they're hot, then leave them on the side of the road to die when they've gotten all the good out of them.

A caring person would help these little teen clotheshorses develop some talent, get them to work in projects as supporting actors, let them learn acting or music or wherever their talents lead them, so they'd have something after their initial fame wore off. Disney doesn't work like that, as the sad careers of Annette Funicello and the other Mouskateers shows. (Yeah, the exception, Britney Spears. You think Disney ever let her exercise her main talent of shaking her implants?)

Miley Cyrus may be the only person in the current Disney prison to survive her Disney stardom. Possibly because her father is a show business veteran, he's letting her do things - yes, including discreet flashes of non-sexual nudity - that will help establish her post-Disney career. She'll still have to overcome all that crappy Wal-Mart "Hannah Montana" merchandise, but she has a better chance than these poor, dunderheaded, soulless Jonas kids.

[Selatius]

16. The Walt Disney Company is responsible for this abomination.

It takes little kids, puts them through entertainment school, packages them up, and sells them to a public that remembers Walt Disney but could care less or don't remember Disney's original vision. Then, this company does not let these individuals be who they truly are. They are just puppets for the corporation.

Megan Fox was correct to condemn this company for the way it treats these people. "Fuck Disney," she said.

[lovecanada56035]

21. who cares about these hacks?

I say good riddance.