Considering that Demi Lovato's debut album Don't Forget appeared in thefall of 2008, just as Miley Cyrus was inching away from Hannah Montanaand into more adult territory, it's hard not to think that Demi isn'tbeing groomed as a replacement for Miley, but a better musicalcomparison for this Radio Disney queen is the Jonas Brothers. Lovatoappeared in the Disney TV movie Rock Camp with the Brothers and touredwith them prior to the release of Don't Forget, but the more crucialconnection between the two camps is revealed in the album's credits:six of the 11 songs here were co-written the Jonas Brothers.

Given this, it shouldn't come as a great surprise that Demi's musicsounds a lot like the Brothers: it's bright, sugary, snappy power pop,fueled by big, fuzzy guitars and big, muscular hooks. Unlike theBrothers' 2008 album A Little Bit Longer, there is no attempt to sellDemi Lovato to an audience broader than tweens, so this is pure,unapologetic bubblegum, a fizzy rush of singalong hooks occasionallypunctuated by a bit of sighing puppy love, which surfaces most stronglyon "On the Line," an actual duet with the Jonas Brothers. This is finefodder for a middle school slow dance, but what's really memorableabout Don't Forget is its parade of urgent, insistent guitar pop -- thekind of pop that feels disposable but winds up sticking around longerthan its more considered cousins. This kind of trashy fun was missingon A Little Bit Longer, so it's nice to find that it surfaces proudlyon Don't Forget.