Rounding out the collection are performances from young Disney stars Mitchel Musso ("Welcome to Hollywood") and Jasmine Sagginario ("Make a Movie") that may have nothing to do with the film, if everything to do with the Mouse House’s considerable teen marketing savvy. Its energized, Auto-Tuned simulacrum of modern pop freely mixes a hook-laden grab-bag of R&B (Christoper Wilde’s title track), hip-hop lite (the Stubby-suffused "Shades" and "Party Up"), and rock ballad influences (Wilde’s "What You Mean to Me") that’s as infectious as it is studio burnished - even if the tracks' sexual heat never rises much above an innocent simmer. Starstruck is a song written by Lady Gaga, Space Cowboy, and Martin Kierszenbaum, with a rap verse by Flo Rida. As on most similar Disney efforts in the genre, its score is heavier on hooks and production sheen than artistic identity. Dubbed Cinderella meets Notting Hill in some quarters, Disney’s teen-oriented cable musical centers on the budding romance of a young pop star (Sterling Knight) who literally bumps - hard - into a smarter-than-average-teenybopper Jessica (Danielle Campbell) who’s not particularly smitten by the trappings of his celebrity. Something About the SunshineAnna Margaret, Christopher Wilde 5.
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