Photo: Shore Fire Media No one did a better job at teaching a generation of millennials what it meant to have relationship standards in 2007 than the Disney Channel breakouts Aly & AJ with their hit “Potential Breakup Song.” But the teen music duo, like so many child stars before them, quickly outgrew the Mouse House in a determined hunt for more creative freedom.
The Cut talked to the singer-songwriters about their “timeless California vibe” and their biggest sartorial regrets as high-profile adolescents in the unforgiving mid-aughts.AJ: A quintessential California, alt-rock, fun, timeless album that tells a story and also begins a new chapter for Aly and I. We’d never really spent this kind of time and effort on the lyrics and the arrangements, and I really feel like we have grown.
A touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun is one of the longest album titles since Fiona Apple’s When the Pawn … “Potential Breakup Song” recently experienced a resurgence on TikTok, which led you to release a rerecorded explicit version. How does it feel that it keeps finding new life?
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