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Chapter2: Meet The juniorSTARz

chapter2: meet the juniorSTARz
november 10, 2008

 It’s now November. After the meeting with 7STARz, Seth and the Disney Channel executives went straight to work on juniorSTARz. First, they met with producers and songwriters that worked on the music for 7STARz, Jonas Brothers, and Miley Cyrus. They needed a sound, similar to 7STARz’ yet different. 7STARz was a mixture of cheesy dance, urban, and rock: juniorSTARz will be having bubblegum electro-pop/rock.

 Next was setting up the auditions. When they held the auditions for 7STARz, the auditions were only in LA, and it was through numerous agents. For juniorSTARz, they decided to make things more interesting.

 They had 7STARz film an ad for the Disney Channel and Radio Disney announcing nationwide auditions. The stops were LA, New York City, Nashville, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, DC, Seattle, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, and Detroit.

 The age group for 7STARz auditions were 15-19; for juniorSTARz, it’s 13-17. Those auditioning had to sing 7STARz songs, and perform a monologue from an episode of popSTARz. Not only were the auditions taking place in some of the largest cities in America, the Disney Channel set up official YouTube and MySpace auditions for those who can’t make the auditions. The turnout became hugely successful, so much so, there had to be three teams of vocal coaches weeding through the videos. In the end, 200 people made the callbacks in New York City.

 The callbacks where then held in early November. This time, 7STARz, along with one of the executives, were to judge the potential band members. The contestants had to sing, dance, AND act.

 Soon, it was narrowed down to fourteen people; seven guys, and seven girls. They all had to sing and dance to 7STARz’ debut single, Rock Out Loud. After they were done, 7STARz and the executive deliberated who would be in juniorSTARz.

 After about two full days of callbacks, 7STARz and the executive finally made their decision. They chose seven people. But afterwards, they felt like the newly-formed band was missing someone. So they called up two more people to join the band. So now the juniorSTARz are a 9-piece.

 This is the lineup in order of who joined first to last:

 Greg Chavez (age 14; from Miami, Florida)
 Emily Donovan (14; Baltimore, Maryland)
 Madison Steele (16; Brooklyn, NYC, New York)
 Alec Johnson (15; Nashville, Tennessee)
 Hayley Ryder (14; Baltimore, Maryland)
 Sarah Fitzgerald (14; Upper West Side, NYC, New York)
 Vaughn Robb (17; Houston, Texas)
 Ryan Anderson (16; Malibu, California)
 Rylie Hanson (13; Shepherd, Montana)

 When the new band members arrived at LAX in LA, they were driven in individual cars. First to stop was Greg. He arrived at a closed-off, elite coffee-shop. He had long, jet-black emo-ish hair, but wasn’t dressed like an emo. In fact, he was wearing a leather-hooded jacket, and fitted jeans. He had brown eyes. He looked around, not quite familiar with the area.

 Next was Ryan. When he got out of the car, he looked at himself in the reflection on the car window. He had messy, blonde hair. He had blue eyes. He wore a designer somewhat button black shirt, and fitted jeans. He looked up, and saw a billboard advertising Hollister. On the picture was Ryan, shirtless with a well-built six-pack. Ryan gave himself a smug grin, proud of his achievement.

 Now it was Madison. She was complaining to the driver about being driven, saying how she’s not a “privileged girl.” When she got out of the car, she scoffed at the elite area. She had long, straight, black hair with bangs. She had green eyes. She was wearing neutral-colored clothes, yet her outfit was somewhat provocative. She wore a corset with a loose vest over it. She wore a flowy miniskirt, and Converse sneakers. She turned around, and saw the Hollister billboard. She gave a smirk, impressed with Ryan’s abs.