Frank Kogan

Don't fret, I wasn't getting it as a teenpop transformation either, in that I thought of the Pink track more as a transformation in Pink (that nine-year-olds happened to be listening to) than as a transformation in teenpop (and my favorite on Missundaztood is "Dear Diary" which didn't get nearly enough votes in the poptimists poll). And I underrated the Avril and barely noticed the Carlton and I first heard "Everywhere" on the adult contemporary station and had no idea Branch was a teen so my reaction when I first heard "Everywhere" on Disney was, "Huh, Disney's playing an adult contemporary singer-songwriter; well, they do tend to have breadth in what they play." Then I heard Branch interviewed on Disney and even though she sounded like a young woman I still didn't realize she was a teen and thought "Hmmmm, an AC singer-songwriter thinks its useful to market herself through Disney too." When Naomi told me that Lia was paying attention to Michelle's lyrics and of course to Pink's anti-Britney song (which isn't anti-Britney but that's how a lot of people took "Don't Let Me Get Me") maybe I figured out that something was happening but I thought of it as happening with Lia not necessarily with teenpop in general.

Still think "Everywhere" holds up amazingly well in melody and style, and I never did think the lyrics quite meant anything.