I threw up in my mouth a little bit when I learned that former Letters to Cleo members Kay Hanley and Stacy Jones are members of (Hannah Montana) Miley Cyrus’s touring band. I’ll admit that Letters to Cleo wasn’t the hardest rocking female-fronted alt.rock band of the mid-90s and if Cyrus starts drinking, smoking and cursing like a sailor, she may very well grow up to be the mid-90s period Hanley, but it still feels like a punch in the stomach to learn members of a band that I really liked 10 years ago are now earning a paycheck backing Disney’s latest pop queen.
Hanley spoke to The Boston Globe in December about her new job as a backup singer for Cyrus and says that she has agreed to wear long sleeve shirts in order to hide her tattoos. You can also listen to an audio interview with Hanley in which she describes how Jones hooked her up (“It’s the best job I’ve ever had,” Hanley says).
Jones and American Hi-Fi bandmate Jamie Arentzen get some facetime in Cyrus’s Good Morning America performance seen here. (New American Hi-Fi material is now available on the band’s MySpace site).
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And how about Beavis and Butthead talking about Letters to Cleo’s “Here and Now”.
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I took my niece to see the 3D concert movie. I already knew Stacy and Jamie were in the band (as is a previous acquaintance of mine Jaco who’s played w/ Tyler Hilton) but there was a talking head w/ Stacy and I kinda really teeny boppered…