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Demi Lovato's Overdose and Disney's Child Star Pipeline
from Not A Legal Expert · #106
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9 minRay reacts to news of Demi Lovato's hospitalization, pulling up her music and pictures on screen, and builds an extended riff on how Disney grooms child stars like Lovato, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake into sexualized pop stars, calling the whole system a 'virtual whorehouse.'
- 19:41Tim expresses upset about Demi Lovato's overdose and questions whether the audience knows who she is.
- 21:39When did America start getting moralistic about pop stars getting fucked up?
- 22:06Disney pimped these kids to the public, then got mad at James Gunn for making jokes about bringing them James.
- 22:54There's something gross about having a young star and watching her sexually bloom as she grows up on camera.
- 23:28Disney picks objectively pretty kids and incubates them in front of audiences through sketch shows and variety programs.
- 24:10Without fail, child stars go from cute and bubbly to throwing their sexuality at the audience the moment they turn eighteen.
- 26:01James Gunn's tweet about children's books is compared to what Disney actually does—sexualizing kids in the system.
- 27:00It's like a virtual whorehouse: Disney shows people a young girl and invites them to imagine her sexuality.
- 27:55Disney spent years working on Britney Spears's appearance, bleaching her blonde, then released her sexuality when she turned eighteen.
- 28:30Tim argues they shouldn't get their stars out of the Disney pipeline—people should work harder to become celebrities instead.
- 28:58Tim feels bad for Demi Lovato; she's a victim in this system.
Demi LovatoDisneyBritney SpearsJustin TimberlakeJames GunnDan Harmon