Devo 2.0
| Devo 2.0 | |
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| Also known as | DEV2.O |
| Origin | United States |
| Genres | Children's music, teen pop, new wave, Synthpop |
| Years active | 2006 - 2007 |
| Labels | Walt Disney Records, Warner Bros. Records |
| Associated acts | Devo |
| Past members | Nicole Stoehr Jacqueline Emerson Nathan Norman Michael Gossard Kane Ritchotte |
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| Studio album by Devo 2.0 | |
| Released | March 14, 2006 |
| Recorded | 2006 |
| Genre | Teen pop |
| Label | Walt Disney |
| Producer | Devo |
Devo 2.0 (also known as DEV2.O) was a quintet, created for Walt Disney Records (with the participation of Devo), of child actors who sing, dance, and (in their music videos and photo shoots) mime playing instruments along to songs re-recorded by some of the original members of Devo. Jerry Casale directed all nine of the videos. Actress Jacqueline Emerson, who later appeared in The Hunger Games, was a member. The band split up in 2007 when lead singer Nicole Stoehr and lead guitarist Nathan Norman quit after their album was a flop.
While the music on the album was written and recorded by DEVO and merely dubbed in over footage in which the four dancing children appear to be performing, some of the members are musicians. Devo 2.0 band member Nathan Norman states they do play their own instruments with mild help from sequencers.Mark Mothersbaugh said that the band re-recorded their own music due to budgetary restraints.
An eponymous DVD and CD combo was released March 14, 2006. Two new songs, "Cyclops" and "The Winner", were written by Devo for the album. In the summer of 2006 the band began a limited series of live performances.
The lyrics to some of the songs they perform have been edited to make them more "family friendly" and remove much of the innuendo and irony typical of Devo songs.
In 2010, Jerry Casale in an interview conducted by the AV Club's Sam Adams, mentioned his amusement by Disney's forced alterations, saying, "You went beyond getting mad to just like going, 'This is proof of devolution. This is it.' We thought it was really funny." In a 2012 interview, Jacqueline Emerson said that she thought the band was "made to prove the point of devolution".
Devo 2.0 covered the title song from the 1965 Disney movie The Monkey's Uncle for the 2006 album Disneymania 4.
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