Jealous

Todd plays "Jealous" on the piano

'NICK JONAS - JEALOUS A pop song review'

Todd: Okay, so uh...we need to talk about this.


 * ''Clip of "Jealous"

Todd (VO): So, you know how there used to be this


 * ''Clips of The Jonas Brothers

Todd (VO): teen boy band, and they were all brothers, and they were disgustingly wholesome, and very outwardly religious, like most people knew that about them before anything else? They were very, very white and very religious? Okay well, what would


 * ''Clip of "Jealous"

Todd (VO): happen if all of a sudden the lead singer of the band became an adult and decided he wanted to be this grown-up, sexy, pop heartthrob, and he actually made himself over like that and put himself out there and against all odds people started actually buying it and made him a hit?

Todd: Imagine that. Well, I can imagine it, because it actually happened. This song exists, and the song I'm talking about is of course the big comeback single from


 * ''Clip of "Soldier of Love"

Todd (VO): Donny Osmond, "Soldier of Love," from 1989.


 * Donny: You heard that I'm a rebel, with a heart made of stone.

Todd: Ha ha, what the hell? People actually bought this?


 * ''Clip of "Soldier of Love"

Todd (VO): People actually bought


 * ''Picture of "DONNY OSMOND - TOO YOUNG"

Todd (VO): all grown up non-child star Donny Osmond as like this


 * ''Clip of "Soldier of Love"

Todd (VO): hot sexy pop star? How the hell did that happen?


 * Donny: I am willing to fight, 'cause I'm a soldier of love.

Todd (VO): I could talk about this weird blip in music history forever, and I wish I could because I know a whole lot about Donny Osmond. And I actually know very little about

Todd: Nick Jonas or the Jonas Brothers, who I'm supposed to be talking about.


 * ''Clips of the Jonas Brothers

Todd (VO): Look, I'm trying to catch up, but the Jonas Brothers were one of those pop culture phenomena that I missed completely. Yeah, they were like a lot of teen pop acts in that they were huge, hot music superstars who were weirdly easy to ignore, even if you listened to a lot of pop music like I did. I knew they were religious, and Disney owned their souls and


 * ''Clip of Mickey Mouse kicking one of the Jonas Brothers in South Park episode "The Ring"

Todd (VO): bodily organs


 * ''Clip of "When You Look Me in the Eyes"

Todd (VO): I guess I heard this song once or twice. I think I thought it was a Shania Twain song. I've gone back and listened to them, they're okay. I would have been fine if they'd stuck around. I mean,


 * ''Clip of "Thinking 'Bout Something"

Todd (VO): Hanson evolved into a pretty good rock band, they could have too.

Todd: But there are many ways to age into adulthood.

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