[lbo-talk] Walt Disney presents Devo 2.0

[B.]

Now this is really bizarre. Walt Disney has bought
Devo's back catalogue and has assembled 5 kids to be
"Devo 2.0." They perform remakes of Devo songs -- even
the late 70s post punky stuff -- and the singer looks
like a poor man's Avril Lavigne (a gal). 

The band's webpage is here: 

http://disney.go.com/disneyrecords/Song-Albums/devo20/

The Wikipedia entry on the band notes:

Devo 2.0

Devo 2.0 (also known as Dev2.0) is a quintet of child
actors created by Walt Disney Records who sing, dance,
and (in their music videos and photo shoots) pretend
to play instruments along to re-recordings of Devo
songs, performed by Devo's five original members. The
lyrics to the songs they perform are also heavily
edited, to make them more "family friendly" and remove
all of the innuendo typical of Devo songs. (In
"Through Being Cool", for instance, the line
"eliminate the ninnies and the twits" is changed to
"eliminate the time you waste in cliques", and the
innuendo-filled "Girl U Want" is completely re-written
and sanitized as "Boy U Want". The song "Beautiful
World" remains mostly unchanged until the end, where
the line "it's a beautiful world ... for you, but not
for me" becomes "for you, and for me too".)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo_2.0