Hayden Panettiere’s Perfunctory Pop Single

noah | July 17, 2008 12:00 pm

Even if you’re a big fan of Heroes and/or the type of person who is waaaaay into staring at photos of young girls, is it at all possible to be enthusiastic about Hayden Panettiere’s debut as a recording artist? There’s something depressingly fatalistic about it, as if poor Hayden never really had a choice but to sing a third-rate knock-off of Paris HIlton’s “Stars Are Blind” and put it in some lame Candies television ad. It makes me wonder if there’s actually some contract that young actresses must sign that obligates them to record some half-assed pop songs in order to, you know, have a TV show and get on magazine covers. It’s all so joyless, and it’s hard to imagine that any of this music has been written with human pleasure in mind–if anything, it seems to have been designed to be ignored, then forgotten as quickly as possible. [E!]